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Thanks for the explanation

0xdeadb00fon Now that computers have more than 4MB of memory, can we get seconds on taskbar?

I have seconds in my status bar. It isn't distracting at all. My brain filters it out just the same when I'm focused on other stuff open on my computer

0xdeadb00fon Ceephax Acid Crew

I get an invalid HTTPS cert error when trying to view this page. Anyone else?

0xdeadb00fon Tesla customer has been waiting more than 2 years for a Model X refund

It's delusion. Blind worship almost.

0xdeadb00fon The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet

> I am not clear or see the obvious problem this would solve?

Web3-type projects in a nutshel

0xdeadb00fon OpenSSH now uses hybrid post-quantum streamlined NTRU Prime X25519 by default

I can understand Curve25519, Diffie-Hellman, but lattice-based crypto goes way over my head.

0xdeadb00fon Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat

It's a reasonable request though. Something that definitely shouldn't cost them much to fix.

0xdeadb00fon OpenSSH 9.0

Is there anywhere I can learn (or learn to learn) about NTRU Prime? I have a fairly decent knowledge of x25519 but in know nothing about lattice-based cryptography. I tried reading the NTRUP paper but most of it goes over my head.

0xdeadb00fon Exchange electricity prices in France go through the roof

It's often touted as one in HN comments is what they mean.

0xdeadb00fon Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?

Because gamers are naturally visual creatures. People who create games these days usually are gamers who enjoy games. and so that visual stimulation and visual way of playing, learning probably carries across, at least for the beginners.

0xdeadb00fon Execution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China

The headline of this alone is horrific

0xdeadb00fon Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?

Please talk to a therapist first and foremost, preferably a psychologist or psychiatrist. Antidepressants are not an insant cure - you MUST pair them with actual therapy, always.

The test of this comment will be about my personal experience.

I have/had depression (its hard to say if its well and truly gone). SSRIs did not help me. They're effects were somewhere between doing absolutely nothing, placebo, and just making me extremely irritable.

What did help me? Its hard to say. Therapy definitely helps a lot, getting things off your chest. Therapists won't tell you how to think - they'll teach you how to overcome the way you're feeling. I sometimes feel like I just learned to live with depression, rather than being cured of it. Maybe that's not what you want to hear, but that's my experience.

0xdeadb00fon Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

I was going to say it kinda reminds me of the AI(s) in Neuromancer. In that novel it felt like the AIs were 1000 steps ahead of humans and pretty much just using then as pawns, selecting them carefully from the population, knowing they could either abuse their conditions to control them, or just flat out blackmail them.

0xdeadb00fon Backyard approaching lighting at Adelaide Airport

Funny thought. But I imagine they'd find some way to make a charge stick.

0xdeadb00fon Ask HN: How do people working remotely prevent interruptions from family?

This is a great comment and I have respect for you, random internet person :)

0xdeadb00fon Some interesting malware I found

sigh

Another headstone to add to the Google graveyard

0xdeadb00fon Our smartphones are stuffed with photos. The challenge is finding the good ones

I feel similarly. But to add onto this I also hate my photo being taken. It makes me insanely uncomfortable as I'm posing for the picture. and if its someone else taking it I feel uncomfortable knowing they now have a picture of me they'll probably put online, on Facebook or something.

In this day and age I do look like some kind of nutter avoiding it, so sometimes I just suck it up and let it happen. I'm not sure how to go about telling people - because I fear I'll be shunned as a wierdo, because I have been before.

0xdeadb00fon Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter

Never gonna happen. Mostly because there's no freedom respecting, free-as-in-libre stock exchange that RMS would be okay with using. Not to mention I'm sure he doesn't like the idea of being a twitter shareholder.

0xdeadb00fon The mystifying rise of child suicide

Lockdowns probably but I fail to see why masks would cause such issues if countries like China and Japan were wearing them relatively often before the pandemic.

0xdeadb00fon The mystifying rise of child suicide

7 year old kids bite other kids all the time... I know for sure I did as a 7 yr old.

0xdeadb00fon Some interesting malware I found

> And as the last step after removing the malware, I took the opportunity to install uBlock Origin on my partner's computer. I'm sympathetic to website operators who want to support their free sites using ads, but these ads are often malicious ...

Exactly. this is why I will never side with LTT's "adblock is piracy and hurts creators waaaa waaa" bullshit. Ads are more often than not malicious, using clickbait to get people to.. Click on them.

0xdeadb00fon Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter

He also has never voiced concern for JavaScript bloat, nor noscript

0xdeadb00fon Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter

Of course he sees value in Twitter. He may not like it, but he would be a moron to not see the value in it. Heck, half the reason he has so many fanboys is probably because of his twitter antics.

0xdeadb00fon Ask HN: Does anyone else lie on the internet?

I do this all the time too.

0xdeadb00fon SSH port forwarding explained with sketches (2019)

This is actually fantastic. I finally can actually confidently say I understand the syntax of the port forwarding flags now. Before I was very timid around it. Not really understanding what was going on.

0xdeadb00fon Birth control pill for men could begin human trials later this year

> Not exactly. Women have the power to choose abortion but men don't. Men however are liable for financially supporting the child. The greater risk is with the man.

I find brushing off abortion like this a tad ridiculous. Sure one could say the 'risk' is greater. But abortion carries with it emotional, and physical trauma, not to mention a lot of women are still met with shameful looks in today's society for doing so. It isn't an easy process, and I think comparing it with financial liability like this is a bit.. "Insensitive", I think the word is.

Even still, some women are not comfortable with abortion. And in that case they will be taking a greater risk.

Like I see what you're saying, but I don't think the comparison between abortion and financial liability is something we should be doing.

0xdeadb00fon A return-to-office pain in the ass: Google is taking away its bidets

Indeed. I'm glad others feel this way. I thought I was in the minority for washing my backside after every number two.

0xdeadb00fon The Pied Piper of Psychedelic Toads

I see. I did not know that was the case.

0xdeadb00fon Chess Grandmaster suspended by Twitch for streaming Dr Disrespect playing chess

Indeed. You're pretty spot on with this

0xdeadb00fon Start Self Hosting

So here's the thing, right. You are correct. And I agree.

I'll admit something; I forgot where the service files were (I don't use systemd often). So, in my unix wisdom I used `find` to find the files ending with 'service'. The only ones that came up were in /usr/lib

You're right, I'd typically never edit files in /usr. But I wasn't sure how else to do it at the time.