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chmod775 commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?    · Posted by u/stephenheron
chmod775 · 20 hours ago
> If I open too many tabs in Chrome I can feel the bottom of the laptop getting hot, open a YouTube video and the fans will often spin up.

Change TDP, TDC, etc. and fan curves if you don't like the thermal behavior. Your Ryzen has low enough power draw that you could even just cool it passively. It has a lower power draw ceiling than your M1 Pro while exceeding it in raw performance.

Also comparing chips based on transistor density is mostly pointless if you don't also mention die size (or cost).

chmod775 commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
wvenable · a day ago
I predict Windows will end up going this route before Google backtracks on it.

This is the future; partially fuelled by malware, partially fuelled by the desire for platform control, and partially fuelled by government regulation.

chmod775 · a day ago
> I predict Windows will end up going this route before Google backtracks on it.

It will not happen in the next 10 years. Right now people would just make generic launchers and then use them to manually load and execute any binary they please. Options include just writing your thingy in a scripting language and run it in node.exe, python.exe, or compile it to WASM, use native bindings of a scripting language, abuse a random verified electron app, ship with and use a random vulnerably driver, etc etc.

Even remotely getting to the point where locking Windows down to that degree would be possible is going to take MS a long time, fighting friction from users all the way. The whole ecosystem would have to change drastically for that sort of control to even be possible and make sense.

The holes aren't really there because it would be so hard to close them in a vacuum, they're there because decades of software people use rely things working the old way. People aren't going to switch to a new OS on which almost nothing works anymore.

chmod775 commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?   torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
whatshisface · 3 days ago
If the limitations on conducting A/B tests on people under 13 are enforced, you will need a driver's license to connect to the internet, and you will need to show it to every website.
chmod775 · 2 days ago
Companies don't need A/B tests to tell them that requiring a driver's license is going to hurt conversions more than no more A/B tests.
chmod775 commented on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account   twitter.com/zack_overflow... · Posted by u/helloplanets
Anon1096 · 3 days ago
You can safeguard against this by having a whitelist of commands that can be run, basically cd, ls, find, grep, the build tool, linter, etc that are only informational and local. Mine is set up like that and it works very well.
chmod775 · 3 days ago
find can execute subcommands (-exec arg), and plenty of other shell commands can be used for that as well. Most build tools' configuration can be abused to execute arbitrary commands. And if your LLM can make changes to your codebase + run it, trying to limit the shell commands it can execute is pointless anyways.

Previously you might've been able to say "okay, but that requires the attacker to guess the specifics of my environment" - which is no longer true. An attacker can now simply instruct the LLM to exploit your environment and hope the LLM figures out how to do it on its own.

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chmod775 commented on One person was able to claim 20M IPs   lists.nanog.org/archives/... · Posted by u/speckx
treve · 11 days ago
It's still an interesting post, because if true I'd still be curious how you'd get 20 million people to load anything.

But the title here is totally misleading because it sure sounds like someone took control of 9% of the ipv4 address space but the actual post starts with context.

chmod775 · 5 days ago
If you run some random mid-sized web page with ~2 million monthly "unique" (by IP) visitors you'll get there very quickly.
chmod775 commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
xlbuttplug2 · 6 days ago
The internet would come to a grinding halt as everyone would suddenly become mindful of their browsing. It's not hard to imagine a situation where, say, pornhub sells its access data and the next day you get sacked at your teaching job.
chmod775 · 6 days ago
It doesn't need to. Thanks to asymmetric cryptography governments can in theory provide you with a way to prove you are a human (or of a certain age) without:

1. the government knowing who you are authenticating yourself to

2. or the recipient learning anything but the fact that you are a human

3. or the recipient being able to link you to a previous session if you authenticate yourself again later

The EU is trying to build such a scheme for online age verification (I'm not sure if their scheme also extends to point 3 though. Probably?).

chmod775 commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file   hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u
calebm · 9 days ago
I'm still confused - if it requires a NodeJS server, then it wouldn't be a fully self-contained HTML file would it?
chmod775 · 8 days ago
You probably wouldn't fault another piece of software for calling itself single-file even if it requires an operating system to run. It makes more sense to look at from a (build-)artifact POV - ignoring the foundations the artifact rests on if they're not specific to it.

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chmod775 commented on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity   elliotcsmith.com/linkedin... · Posted by u/smitec
simianwords · 10 days ago
That’s like saying your product is good unless it is bad and there are other alternatives
chmod775 · 10 days ago
What? No, it's obviously not the same statement.

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