Infernal (u/Infernal)

Infernal commented on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide mlive.com/news/2025/12/th... · Posted by u/bikenaga

MarkMarine · 6 days ago

I just read another article about this, but the affected group is military from Camp Legume. The water in Legume was contaminated, and its actually given a control group test for the incidence of Parkinson’s with Camp Pendleton, where the water was not contaminated.

Spoiler: it looks like the farmers are right

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-thought-parkinsons-wa...

Amazing thing is TCE was banned by the Biden EPA in 2024 and Trump’s EPA stopped its ban.

Infernal · 6 days ago

For anyone stopping by looking for more info, it’s Camp Lejeune not Legume.

Infernal commented on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/guiand

whimsicalism · 9 days ago

also cheaper memory bandwidth. where are you claiming that M5 wins?

Infernal · 9 days ago

I'm not sure where else you can get a half TB of 800GB/s memory for < $10k. (Though that's the M3 Ultra, don't know about the M5). Is there something competitive in the nvidia ecosystem?

Infernal commented on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests seattletimes.com/seattle-... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

reactordev · a month ago

Except when it’s all tied into the ECU and you can’t remove it. Ugh…

You’re right. It’s a start. There’s also https://www.deflock.me

Infernal · a month ago

On some vehicles it’s easier than others. Unfortunately it’s a great idea to research before making a purchase decision.

Infernal commented on Synesthesia helps me find four-leaf clovers (2023) matthewjamestaylor.com/sy... · Posted by u/iansteyn

Infernal · a month ago

Oh man, my grandmother was like this with finding four leaf clovers. She would just find them constantly, all the time, on command, or maybe while standing around having a conversation. Her description of it was "it's like they're just jumping up and waving at me" which somewhat fits with the author's description of motion. Never heard of anyone else like this though, neat to see others in the comments.

Infernal commented on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/akyuu

chaps · 2 months ago

I'm not disputing that. :)

Infernal · 2 months ago

Fair, I suppose I've misunderstood. I took "it's been available since 2024" as a dismissal of this new information.

Infernal commented on Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop · Posted by u/threeturn

jetsnoc · 2 months ago

  Models
    gpt-oss-120b, Meta Llama 3.2, or Gemma
    (just depends on what I’m doing)

  Hardware
    - Apple M4 Max (128 GB RAM)
      paired with a GPD Win 4 running Ubuntu 24.04 over USB-C networking

  Software
    - Claude Code
    - RA.Aid
    - llama.cpp

  For CUDA computing, I use an older NVIDIA RTX 2080 in an old System76 workstation.

  Process

    I create a good INSTRUCTIONS.md for Claude/Raid that specifies a task & production process with a task list it maintains. I use Claude Agents with an Agent Organizer that helps determine which agents to use. It creates the architecture, prd and security design, writes the code, and then lints, tests and does a code review.

Infernal · 2 months ago

What does the GPD Win 4 do in this scenario? Is there a step w/ Agent Organizer that decides if a task can go to a smaller model on the Win 4 vs a larger model on your Mac?

Infernal commented on Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/akyuu

chaps · 2 months ago

Here's the full document without the blurriness: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833831-cellebrite-...

(it's been available since 2024 -- found by searching for "android os access support matrix" on documentcloud)

Infernal · 2 months ago

The point here is that the doc you linked is a year and a half old, this (if real) is much newer. Security is a constant arms race between attackers and defenders, nothing is static so updates of this nature are always welcome.

Infernal commented on Bringing Desktop Linux GUIs to Android: The Next Step in Graphical App Support linuxjournal.com/content/... · Posted by u/sipofwater

thewebguyd · 2 months ago

> all you lose out on is the ability to interact with external services that demand attestation.

That's the problem "lose out on the ability to function on modern society unless you use an approved device or an approved OS." Not looking forward to a world where I have to have two phones, one "approved government and bank services phone" and one that's a device I actually own and control.

> This is a much more pro-consumer way of implementing DRM than actually locking down computers

No such thing as pro-consumer DRM, it's an oxymoron.

And Google IS locking down computers, requiring identity verification and Google to sign any app to run on Android, which conveniently they could pull at any time.

What happens when online services stop even doing business via their website and forces the use of a mobile app? Suddenly now all Linux (and Mac and Windows) computers are locked out of interacting with most of the commercial web and you are forced to have a tracking device to simply exist.

Maybe it's a "lesser evil" but it's still evil, and not something we should just settle on and accept.

Infernal · 2 months ago

> one that's a device I actually own and control.

Where do you find such a device today? Pixel with GrapheneOS? Any decent mobile Linux hardware I don’t know about?

Infernal commented on The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10... · Posted by u/CharlesW

chatmasta · 3 months ago

The phone doesn’t have (all of) the keys. That’s the point. I had to save a passphrase somewhere out of band.

Infernal · 3 months ago

But that passphrase you saved is an additional key, in case you lose all your Apple devices for example. You can tell it isn’t required for your phone to decrypt data because you don’t have to type it in to access your data, or even migrate to a new phone.

Infernal commented on The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10... · Posted by u/CharlesW

chatmasta · 3 months ago

What is a “UK user?” Someone with their App Store region set to the UK? (Meaning they have a UK payment method.)

What about US citizens living in the UK? Would they have standing to sue Apple in a US court for breach of contract?

I’m also not clear on how Advanced Data Protection could be turned off without affirmative user consent – by definition, won’t the user need to provide their secret key to decrypt their existing data? Or will the iPhone have a multi-hour update where it decrypts its entire iCloud archive on the client-side, and then reuploads it without encryption?

Infernal · 3 months ago

> Or will the iPhone have a multi-hour update where it decrypts its entire iCloud archive on the client-side, and then reuploads it without encryption?

More likely that the phone just sends the keys to Apple in that case