<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: AndyMcConachie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndyMcConachie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:24:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=AndyMcConachie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Why TUIs are back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of my first jobs was working on Telephony User Interfaces (TUIs). Everytime I see the term TUI I can't help but think of that.<p>For people who don't know this version of TUI, it's the ole, "Press 1 for X, Press 2 for Y" kind of interfaces that you use over a phone. Think voicemail text-to-speech and automated speech recognition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010137</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Do_not_track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason the DNT header failed is because there is no way to enforce it. The browser can set the flag, but there's no way to ensure it's actually respected. There are no protocol police.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 09:37:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995201</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What pisses me off the most is that there are companies making billions of dollars off the labor of others and many of them don't even acknowledge it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:50:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984654</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "The Last Quiet Thing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're getting beeped at constantly by the various devices we surround ourselves with. I can't help but comapre it to changing a baby's diapers everytime it needs our attention. So I've started referring to all of these annoyances as 'digital diaper changing'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:01:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672843</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're screwed. This has been the way for a while now. You cannot exist in society without a smart phone and it's only going to get worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647619</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47647619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Migrating to the EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also use mailbox.org and use my own domain for email. Not sure what issue the author ran into.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:03:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488299</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Nobody finishes reading my books"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shorter chapters allow me to have more frequent natural break points. I often have limited time to read, or the time I have is broken up into shorter chunks. So books with shorter chapters are easier to stop and then pick back up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347100</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have a point, but two counters to this:<p>1) You don't need to capture a large part of the market to make a profit. The market for smartphones is large enough that even capturing a small percentage of it can be profitable.<p>2) Privacy is increasingly becoming a differentiator and I predict privacy will be increasingly important as a differentiator. Just because no company has successfully managed to market privacy benefits doesn't mean there is no market for it. There's a lot of marketing potential in terms of privacy that companies like NordVPN, Incogni, and DeleteMe have figured out. People are clearly willing to pay for privacy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218307</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Something I don't think is well understood on HN is how driven by ideals many folks at Anthropic are<p>I don't think you understand how capitalism and corporations work, friend. Even if Anthropic is a public benefit corporation it still exists in the USA and will be placed under extensive pressure to generate a profit and grow. Corporations are designed to be amoral and history has shown that regardless of their specific legal formulation they all eventually revert to amoral growth driven behavior.<p>This is structural and has nothing to do with individuals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:41:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179858</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Never buy a .online domain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint" rel="nofollow">https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155676</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47155676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Cuba's regime is in dire straits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>American empire is a death cult.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:22:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021995</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great site. If you don't mind I have feature requests, but feel free to ignore them because OSS is OSS and you shouldn't feel obligated.<p>1) Include a link to dnsviz.net to check on the DNSSEC status of domains. They've already done all the work and it would be a nice integration.<p>2) Something that I wish more DNS operators understood is the concept of shared fate between authoritative name servers. Shared fate can come in the form of same AS, same upstream, same parent domain, etc. Operators might think they have redundancy when in fact all their servers are located in the same AS, for example. If there is any way you can highlight this or show this it would be useful.<p>3) I didn't try looking up a phishing domain, but displaying whether a domain exists on popular block lists would be awesome.<p>I love your attempt at understanding all the TXT RRs that have spread across the DNS in the last 10 years. What a mess.<p>You're right in that this is a rabbit hole. You could spend the rest of your life building this and never actually completing it, be careful!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:52:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945205</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real trick, and the reason I don't build my own NAS, is standby power usage. How much wattage will a self built Linux box draw when it's not being used? It's not easy to figure out, and it's not easy to build a NAS optimized for this.<p>Whereas Synology or other NAS manufacturers can tell me these numbers exactly and people have reviewed the hardware and tested it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:54:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897850</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I gave you an upvote because you're correct. EU leadership has no ability to think strategically.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702614</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It has everything to do with regulation and almost nothing to do with "car enthusiasts".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:12:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691993</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why can't the EFF tell people to lie? Because if you can get away with it, lying is almost always your best option. Unless there are actual real world consequences to lying like you may anger the police.<p>And maybe consider using a VPN.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:29:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620267</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "I'm just having fun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He's just having fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352838</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "QBasic64 Phoenix 4.3.0 Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But can it still run gorilla?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:54:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352371</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is wonderful. Thank you Thunderbird!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:10:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984474</link><dc:creator>AndyMcConachie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AndyMcConachie in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another good one for this is Localsend.<p><a href="https://localsend.org/" rel="nofollow">https://localsend.org/</a></p>
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