HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

floppydive

-3 karma · joined August 11, 2026

submissionscomments
floppydive··on US Navy sailors try to throw themselves overboard after 250 days at sea
Sure frame it as bad news. The real story is that Kennedy doesn't have to worry about precious American body fluids being compromised by foreign UHT milk. (I don't think you could have synergy like that before DOGE.)
floppydive··on White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations
The great thing about a randomizing proxy is that it has relatively little to secure while delivering the full features of whatever site you want to pull into the escalation next.
floppydive··on Pixel Watch 5
I think that is a general Android setting as for any app that registers notifications: AppInfo -> notifications -> other -> scanning service
floppydive··on Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it
I think its somewhat the opposite of easy to detect patterns in the watermarked text. Regular authors can be statistically fingerprinted and I think we do a rough version of this ourselves. An LLM with dense watermarking may sound less like one author we have a low opinion of and more like an encyclopedia set made by a mix of authors we have low opinions of.
floppydive··on Pixel Watch 5
Gadgetbridge is great and can even recover a pretty good experience from the touch oriented watches/bands that look deceptively like smartphone equivalents.. But I think the actual smart OS level watches would need a replacement firmware first and the an implementation for talking to gadgetbridge.
floppydive··on Incident with Pull Requests and Issues – Resolved
The incident is already superseded.. Or maybe they fixed it by shutting down all web gateways..
floppydive··on Pixel Watch 5
Google is an ad company. They don't actually want to lose any of the phone screen time on something with lower revenue real estate.
floppydive··on Pixel Watch 5
I reluctantly use a pixel with grapheneos, but anything that can only run google or manufacturer provided software without an independent 3rd party is trash, having looked at wearos while trying to refuse Samsungs terms/integration I also consider it a worse grade of trash than a phone since it can intentionally create codependency on other devices for management despite having more processing power than android 2-4 phones had.
floppydive··on FDA report reveals where Taylor Farms sent its lettuce–and it raises questions
I think a lot of small scale organizations don't use human feces for food because of pharma contamination. Not particularly surprised if only .001% of food is done correctly in the US though.