Behold, the riveting saga of #booting #BeOS on a #Hitachi FLORA Prius—a task so thrilling it demands a 1999 user manual and a sprinkle of Japanese documentation. Because nothing screams cutting-edge #technology like juggling #floppy #disks and boot managers in the era of #Y2K panic.
http://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/support/guides/hitachi_boot.html #Prius #HackerNews #ngated

A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215667
#hackernews #tech

Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?

https://www.bsdhowto.ch/doh.html

Oh no, the sky is falling! #BorgBackup 2 ditched server-side append-only, and the world might just end. But don't worry, because GitHub's #AI overlords are here to save the day with magical code-writing pixie dust.
https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8798 #GitHub #CodeMagic #SkyIsFalling #HackerNews #ngated

BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/pull/8798

Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021) - https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Windows10.spying.onsettings.php

Latest Top Story on #HackerNews: Infomaniak backs mass surveillance, aims to end online anonymity in Switzerland
Original Story: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/psa-infomaniak-supports-mass-surveillance-calling-for-legal-change-to-end-online-anonymity-mandatory-metadata-retention/28065
Author: BafS
Score: 27
Number of Comments: 1
Posted At: 2025-06-06 10:13:05 UTC
URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199377
#hackernews #bot #news #hackernewsbot

New study casts doubt on the likelihood of Milky Way collision with Andromeda - https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/physics/news/new-study-casts-doubt-on-the-likelihood-of-milky-way-collision-with-andromeda/

KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

https://localmess.github.io/

#HackerNews #Covert #Web-to-App #Tracking #Localhost #Android #Privacy #Security

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown

EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

https://easytier.cn/en/

I Miss My Fan Regulator

https://rishikeshs.com/fan-regulator/

Michael Stapelberg takes a trip down memory lane, trying to install #NixOS declaratively—because, clearly, the last decade of advancements in technology just weren't challenging enough for him. This riveting tale of network storage PC builds and the triumph of the manual install will leave you on the edge of your seat...or not.
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-06-01-nixos-installation-declarative/ #MemoryLane #TechChallenges #ManualInstall #PCBuilds #HackerNews #ngated

Is this ironic? I went to share an essay to #hackernews to find that someone else had already done so. However, it was flagged as "Likely AI-Generated"!

Surprising because my current blog is entirely in GitHub with a full commit history, I've kept a blog since 2005 (https://charliedigital.com/) with the same style of writing, and of course, I also have a few high profile Medium articles.

It is, of course, the truth that #AI has somehow been influenced to some tiny extent by MY writing instead!

Nova: A JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust

https://trynova.dev/

Why Is Everybody Knitting Chickens?

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/why-is-everybody-knitting-chickens/

AI: The art of automating idiocy! Software engineers are now speed-running their own obsolescence by trusting LLMs to do the thinking, presumably because human brains are soooo 2022. Thankfully, this essay was handcrafted by a human, ensuring maximum #irony and minimal innovation.
https://www.slater.dev/accelerated-incompetence/ #AI #Automation #Idiocy #SoftwareEngineering #HumanTouch #HackerNews #ngated