Hacker News: 1over137

New comment by 1over137 in "China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley"

1over137 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:51:01 +0000

https://archive.ph/j81he

New comment by 1over137 in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

1over137 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:33:42 +0000

Something like 99% of email is now done over TLS.

New comment by 1over137 in "iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine"

1over137 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:41:38 +0000

Would this allow installing apps without needing an AppleID?

New comment by 1over137 in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

1over137 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:52:34 +0000

Meanwhile Canada added 75,000 new jobs in July. Perhaps Trump's tariff scheme is not working so well after all.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7299225

New comment by 1over137 in "Waymo in Dallas"

1over137 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:15:39 +0000

Requires an app store though, no? And thus agreeing to the app store's terms.

New comment by 1over137 in "Waymo in Dallas"

1over137 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:57:11 +0000

And presumably their app?, which requires either an Apple or Google account.

New comment by 1over137 in "What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not"

1over137 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:02:41 +0000

Indeed opendmarc seems practically abandonware.

rspamd is what I use.

New comment by 1over137 in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

1over137 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:55:24 +0000

From years of experience with all software, I'm never installing any y.0

New comment by 1over137 in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

1over137 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:40:41 +0000

Correct. And yes I consider it 'not long ago', it was only 4 parliaments ago.

New comment by 1over137 in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

1over137 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:10:25 +0000

>dominance of the Bloq Quebecois has over Quebec

It's "Bloc". The NDP did well in Québec not long ago, when they had a candidate that the electorate liked.

New comment by 1over137 in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

1over137 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:06:12 +0000

>given you have a multiparty system [... why you struggle so hard to...

Multiparty yes, but also first-past-the-post, which favours 2 dominant parties.

New comment by 1over137 in "DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it"

1over137 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:40 +0000

What do you mean “fork”? Just buy a domain and install an email server.

New comment by 1over137 in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

1over137 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:02:35 +0000

The cost of code has collapsed? Have programmer salaries gone down?

New comment by 1over137 in "The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon"

1over137 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:36:37 +0000

"they" including this same publication, ex: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/25/ai-could-...

New comment by 1over137 in "The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon"

1over137 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:34:37 +0000

>So jobs suck more

Be careful not to generalize from your job. The programmers I know do not have jobs that sound like yours.

New comment by 1over137 in "Canadian legislator's speech features telltale signs of LLM prompting"

1over137 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:20:02 +0000

I get your sentiment, but it's not so easy 'dismiss' an elected official.

New comment by 1over137 in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

1over137 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:44:27 +0000

Who is 'we'?

New comment by 1over137 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

1over137 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:53:37 +0000

Also me, as someone who lives in Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, etc. China is not threatening to invade, USA is.

New comment by 1over137 in "Qwen 3.8"

1over137 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:41:39 +0000

Uber costs more than regular taxi? In what country/region? Not where I am.

New comment by 1over137 in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

1over137 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:38:53 +0000

I’ve been very happy with Mikrotik.

Chose them partly to reduce dependence on US tech too.