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theK··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Man, 90s hope was really peak!
theK··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
So whats the going rate nowadays for running your own apps in your own device? 100$ a year?
theK··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
I know a bunch of people that would use iPhones if iPhones had first class private backup options (the de-iclouding, like the de-googling of androids). Having root on the device would make this an option.
theK··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Fair point. The megacorps probably are able to outspend pretty much any grassroots mmovement bar maybe a government led one.
theK··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Which country does this vote happen in?

Last I heard even EU policy was ways off of that target.

Also: EU policy is very shcceptible to political tides. Sure now we love to scream sovereignty from the rooftops but that is guaranteed to change eventually.

theK··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
Isn't this the perfect classical capitalist advertisement? Every number goes up.

- code? up - build budget? Up - developer output? Up - developer oprrational costs? Waaay up!

Why is this Bad? Every one involved profits somehow.

theK··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
Accurate but manageable. Just like a pm works with properties an engineer also does. The Product person wants to deliver the right product properties so they model their process around identifying the ones they want and then creating the right framework to get them. On the engineering side its the same thing. Define what you want, give agents an environment they can succeed in, iterate.
theK··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
That is correct. I think the alleged "dumbess" comes most from voting for the people that won't do the things you mentioned in your second paragraph.

But as I always say, it is not a property exclusive to US citizens. currently it looks like there is a drinking contest on which country will do the most ridiculous election result. The US started it but Germany said "halt meine Leberwurscht" and whent straigt to the top.

theK··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
Well, to be fair we Europeans kinda topped that by doing everything right and then in months killing all regulations that drove those things. #TechnologyOpenness
theK··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
> The way these past few years have shown the absolute precarity of fossil fuel systems

I agree with you but wasn't the primary takeaway of these past years that there is so much corruption anywhere even remotely related to burnable fuel that one needs not one but two actual wars (key to the fossil rich world) to provide a somewhat level playing field?

theK··on Pirating the Pirates
> to record the nature of the world around you for the future

That's cool.

> The future needs it, kinda.

Agreed but we seem to be in the minority seeing that most people nowadays seem to be speed running to make Asimov's Foundation into a documentary.

theK··on .name Termination
Never heard of DNTLS, thanks for sharing. I skimmed the Website and am a bit uncertain what the ai angle is. Shouldnt naming be, well, just naming?
theK··on Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone
> CVE-2026-64012: net/sched: sch_sfb: Replace direct dequeue call with peek and qdisc_dequeue_peeked.

You are right, its over.

On a more serious note. Yes and no. The kernel is secure. It is probably the most scrutinized piece of software in existence. LLMs will find things but most probably they just will help contributors fix bugs.

theK··on Kimi Work
I think it can safely be argued that (only) good UX but also great marketing are the reason of that.
theK··on TLS certificates for internal services done right
I never understood the issue with DNS-01. if you have a process that you trust to maintain a zone's TLS identity what is the big deal about letting it control a record in that zone?
theK··on Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
> Json as a common language for human in visualization has been around for a while

Plant, Mermaid, Graphviz are all declarative textual representations designed for human authoring, JSON is made for tools. Its not a criticism just a statement that if interop across agent and human was intended this is not the simplest option.

theK··on Chatto is now open source
Yeah, there are definitely valid contexts for hosting chat like this. E2EE has the benefit of not needing to trust the host, which I personally like but I can see this being fine or even wanted for lots of cases.
theK··on Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents
> requiring them to explicitly make visual decisions that are supposed to be handled by a good compiler

Isnt graphviz there for the same reason?

Edit: I see it is using JSON as the declaration language, I am OK with llms being "good at json" but a syntax also consumable by humans it is not!

theK··on Chatto is now open source
So encrypted at rest but no E2EE, did I read that right?
theK··on Podman v6.0.0
> for years

Don't know about that. I did a ddg search "using docker compose (v2) plugin with podman" I do get some tutorials but they all are from 2026. This also aligns with my experience from late 2024 where you where typical advised to use `podman compose` or the compose script.

theK··on Podman v6.0.0
The CLI plugin or the script? Last time I checked the podman CLI did not support docker CLI plugins and the script is EOL since years.
theK··on Podman v6.0.0
I spent about a week last year trying to move from docker+compose plugin to a podman hosted variant. It has issues on multiple stages of the lifecycle as I mentioned in my original comment. Mac users lose fs events, a lot of compose.yml features are flaky (post start events), buggy (reset and import), or just not implemented (don't remember the exact features).

If you use podman and have no issues that is awesome but your use case is probably quite narrow, you are most probably on a non fedora based Linux and keep compose usage to a minimum.

theK··on Podman v6.0.0
Last time I checked podman compose was only a superficial docker compose equivalent. Also stuff like inotify seems to randomly break a lot on the podman side.

I'd love to be able to recommend people use podman but not having a good docker compose compatibility and missing inotify on volumes makes the DX just too problematic.

theK··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Don't requirements like online server based verification and advancing crypto make it almost impossible to pirate these games?
theK··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
I don't know how this works nowadays but when I got taught to write (the pencil and paper kind) and specifically when I got taught syntax, it was "if you want to introduce a clause that explains or expands upon something that precedes it, you draw a small horizontal line" no mention of special chars, Unicode or whatsoever. So why is it so special other than being authors fancy?
theK··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
I understand the sentiment with the tradesman example. I would argue that there are a multitude of ways to care about or take pride in one's trade and emdashing the floor is just one of them.
theK··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Leaving out apostrophes isn't the same though, is it? If you leave out apostrophes you have syntactic effects while a (sortof)dash is still sort of a dash?
theK··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
What is the typical motivation to start using em-dashes?

Why go the extra way to have a slightly elongated dash when a normal one would just as well do the job?

I might be conpletely off here but I've never seen a situation where using a normal dash where a long one should be causes any sort of syntactic trouble.

theK··on Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server
Cool project! I had mistral vibecode me something similar (split into two services and run via docker compose) just a few weeks ago! I still have dome nitpicks with the result, maybe I'll switch my stack over to your solution!
theK··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
That's definitely a thing in the corporate world. It doesn't even have to be the project lead, sometimes it comes via stakeholders, some times its even well meaning devs. It is a difficult balance to strike if you want to "only be reasonably safe" whereas cargo culting all security features might take a bit of time but you now can say "hey we did everything"

[]: everything may very well not be a thing but people like to pretend it is

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