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pjjpo commented on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability ifixit.com/News/115827/ne... · Posted by u/wrxd

mceachen · 9 days ago

At the same time, at least to me, the text reads like a transcript from one of their YouTube tear downs.

pjjpo · 9 days ago

There are those times we may be seeing the source of LLM language training. I had the same reaction of sounding like one but agree it's likely not.

pjjpo commented on Boss-CSS: I created another "CSS-in-JS" lib dev.to/wintercounter/boss... · Posted by u/wintercounter

pjjpo · 9 days ago

> I wouldn't be able to count on my 2 hands how many times I've Googled the term tailwind line-height, because of course, it's leading and I keep forgetting that.

Me too! Some being text, others font, is one that constantly trips me up.

pjjpo commented on Reverse engineering the KakaoTalk app so I can build a Beeper Bridge jusung.dev/posts/kakao-ta... · Posted by u/badeeya

badeeya · 14 days ago

This makes sense, I guess encrypting it on top of TLS doesn’t meaningfully improve security. My concern is that you’re trusting the server to immediately salt and hash upon receipt (especially before storing), but if the client at least obfuscated the password, then in the worst case of a leak you have an email and an obfuscated password that can be used to login to the pwned service but nothing else. My specific threat model depends on the average person not adopting password manager hygiene and 2fa across their services, which is fairly common amongst my friends personally.

pjjpo · 12 days ago

Salts are fixed - so if you salt with, i.e. the email address, any attacker will also do that. The key derivation strategy of password managers is already known. Especially in a browser, salting strategy cannot be hidden so it's a known factor. As sad as it is, for those without good hygiene, either they are at risk of compromise, or tie identity to a device and are at risk of losing access entirely. There is currently no magic solution.

pjjpo commented on Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win hollywoodreporter.com/bus... · Posted by u/atombender

pjjpo · 13 days ago

I was looking forward to good UX accessing HBO through Netflix. Too bad, but looking forward to good UX accessing HBO, and paramount (?) some day down the line through Netflix when this converges.

pjjpo commented on Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic nytimes.com/2026/02/26/te... · Posted by u/mikece

protocolture · 14 days ago

>American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't.

How about you articulate the threat from an AI powered China to people outside of AI powered China and discuss potential methods to counter that, instead of insisting capabilities be developed just in case.

>is the US the bad guy

Yes

>I'm trying to ask how to balance personal anti war sentiments with the realities of the world

Insist on open information, never surrender consent willingly and demand justification for everything. As always.

pjjpo · 13 days ago

There is no bad guy in geopolitics, just the other guy.

pjjpo commented on Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic nytimes.com/2026/02/26/te... · Posted by u/mikece

Xeronate · 14 days ago

I understand the vision, but how does this work on a global scale. e.g. American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't.

Edit: I originally ended with "What would have happened if Germany had a nuclear bomb and America didn't?", but I think it distracted from the point I was trying to make so moving this to an edit. I'm not trying to ask "is the US the bad guy". I'm trying to ask how to balance personal anti war sentiments with the realities of the world (specifically in this case keeping up in an arms race).

pjjpo · 13 days ago

Don't need to use China even, Microsoft, or Palantir, etc will continue to support the US military, likely using Google technology in the process (Guava, gRPC maybe?, k8s assuredly? etc).

Sorry but if you truly believe in technology not using in bad context, the only way to avoid it is to change careers. The issue with news like this is it's hard to actually trust the protesters, they probably are happy to clear their conscience personally while continuing to reap the benefits of living in the tech industry. Have your cake and eat it too.

Sometimes people do quit - they're probably the ones you want to hire if you care about ethics. Most don't though.

pjjpo commented on Reverse engineering the KakaoTalk app so I can build a Beeper Bridge jusung.dev/posts/kakao-ta... · Posted by u/badeeya

vsgherzi · 15 days ago

What’s wrong with the plaintext login if it’s https ? What’s the standard for that now ?

pjjpo · 15 days ago

Password managers generally send a hash but for almost all services I would say plain text password is standard, I would definitely go with something like firebase or auth0 vs rolling your own auth in most normal situations. The poster is explicit about not knowing anything about security though so all good.

pjjpo commented on Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail bbc.com/news/articles/c8d... · Posted by u/tartoran

jyscao · a month ago

Because “international law” is a farce, recent U.S. actions against Venezuela is but the latest example of that fact.

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

pjjpo · a month ago

I think the main issue people have with this comment is the word "recent" and to a lesser degree "U.S.". All countries have done anything to further their goals regardless of any common point of agreement, some times framing within that framework, sometimes not. This is not a recent or US-only phenomenon, it's the definition of geopolitics.

I'm all for an alien invasion uniting us but not sure when that will happen.

pjjpo commented on How vibe coding is killing open source hackaday.com/2026/02/02/h... · Posted by u/msolujic

LaurensBER · a month ago

I concur, open-source will be more reputation based and no doubt, in the future, LLMs can also act as a quality gate.

I work a lot with quants (who can program but are more focused on making money than on clean-code) and Opus 4.5 and Kimi 2.5 are extremely good at giving them architecture guidance. They tend to overcomplicate some things but the result is usually miles better than what they produced without LLMs.

pjjpo · a month ago

One issue I found is that for new projects, it is much harder to market now. shownew is flooded and subreddits have turned up their spam filters high so quality projects will have trouble getting eyes without significant social activity before wanting to share. So the bar for introverts writing (not vibing) good OSS feels like it has gone up in an unfortunate way.

pjjpo commented on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28... · Posted by u/croes

pjjpo · a month ago

Ah good reminder to see if I should repatch with revanced. Not that I actually use YouTube on my phone much, I mostly catch up on SmartTube on weekends. But great to be in control.