Hacker News: Dahoon

New comment by Dahoon in "Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules"

Dahoon — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:00:16 +0000

Incorrect. It protects PII in the EU. It has nothing to do with EU citizenship. It doesn't try to enforce outside the EU either. If you want to move PII out of the EU you have to agree by the rules given. That's not the EU trying to enforce anything outside of the EU but you making an agreement to move data outside the EU on certain terms. It is not the same thing as trying to force EU law on non-EU.

I don't know why people keep repeating this myth. Laws like these are old as dirt. It could as well have been about blood samples from Denmark used in research in the US: the samples are protected by Danish law and to use them in the US you have to agree to certain rules. Again an example of you saying you will follow certain rules to be allowed to transport and use the samples outside Denmark, not Denmark forcing their laws on anything in another country. You are free to not sign anything and not use or move the blood samples or PII anywhere.

New comment by Dahoon in "Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules"

Dahoon — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:39:43 +0000

I disagree that Zuckerberg feels emotions.

New comment by Dahoon in "DRY is a footgun, remember to YAGNI"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:18:09 +0000

Oh my head. The code is everything it shouldn't be. Everything in one big pile mixed together. Ouch!

New comment by Dahoon in "Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:05:50 +0000

Ah, better pixels!

New comment by Dahoon in "Apple’s “Extended Dynamic Range” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:03:48 +0000

Apple is know for taking something others invented and making it better/more user-friendly. That's great but it isn't being bleeding edge. Like the first few iPhones. Smartphones made better, but without simple functions like copy and paste for generations. I find it surprising anyone thinks apple's strength is being bleeding edge innovative. It can be counted on one hand how many times they have been so.

New comment by Dahoon in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:32:54 +0000

>but it cant ignore my router forbidding all external dns communications except for it

DNS over HTTPS says otherwise.

New comment by Dahoon in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:30:29 +0000

>Apple TV

You don't connect your TV but use Apple devices instead. Uhm... okay. You should see the IDS log I'm looking at here. Apple !== no telemetry. All you are doing is putting all your eggs in one basket.

New comment by Dahoon in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:27:44 +0000

That you know of.. Alexa auto-connects to other Alexa networks (like your neighbors). Some TVs have Alexa built-in. Bingo, telemetry.

New comment by Dahoon in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:25:32 +0000

>I'm lucky enough to be able to direct ALL DNS through my router first

Even DNS over HTTPS? Do you do packet inspection? Just blocking ports doesn't do much any more. I run an IDS/IPS and it blocks lots of DoH to Google. Apple devices are even worse.

New comment by Dahoon in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

Dahoon — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:22:02 +0000

To get 5 stars by EuroNCAP (and AFAIK EU law demands it too) the car have to call 911/112 automatically if it detect a crash. I doubt you can remove telemetry without also disabling this. If you do the car is illegal.

New comment by Dahoon in "A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars"

Dahoon — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:44:46 +0000

Thank you. The quality on HN is falling fast. Quality content like this is awesome.

New comment by Dahoon in "Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?"

Dahoon — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:23:17 +0000

>Best thing to do is to never even start connecting it to a WiFi network

That won't stop the issue mentioned here about it connecting by itself (not that I personally believe it will).

New comment by Dahoon in "Ask HN: Has anyone seen smart TVs connect to unsecured WiFi without permission?"

Dahoon — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:19:30 +0000

1) If it is dangerous in his situation is not up to you to decide. Saying he shouldn't get a TV is like saying to someone to not get internet. Please...

2) Being OPT-in would not stop you from using it.

I'm very curious why you feel so strongly that SmartTV's should be allowed to send data without anyone's knowledge?

New comment by Dahoon in "Why do I care the open web is dying?"

Dahoon — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:35:39 +0000

This thread disagrees with you. HN is slowly becoming like Reddit. Down-vote all you like, it doesn't change the facts.

New comment by Dahoon in "PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available"

Dahoon — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:25:00 +0000

I'm guessing it is seen as poor taste to not praise KDE in a thread with lots of people that like KDE since you get downvoted. I have the exact thoughts you did. It is amazing because in my experience KDE was one of -if not the- slowest desktop in Linux when I tried it. I'm guessing it was KDE 4. Gnome was way better and faster back then for me, both in Ubuntu and Debian. Great to hear it has become faster. Not so great that KDE users would downvote someone for speaking the truth.

New comment by Dahoon in "PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available"

Dahoon — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:14:45 +0000

In reality it is likely more realistic to ask where are you as most places still use MMS.

New comment by Dahoon in "PinePhone KDE Community Edition is now available"

Dahoon — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:11:42 +0000

Especially since on PC it doesn't even need 1gb. With 7 add-ons (one being an adblocker) and Firefox having spawned 9 processes in Win10 it still uses less than 1GB RAM for me (even though two tabs are chats, so background-active). Something is clearly either wrong in the Firefox he run, his add-ons or Phinephone.

New comment by Dahoon in "HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms"

Dahoon — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:24:30 +0000

Look at this political map from when the extreme right wing is rolling over Europe and when lots of politicians were very scared of what is to come. Talk of rise of fascism etc. is seen every day in papers. The future looks bleak:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/euchart

Then look at this and see that the scary wave in the EU is close to Biden 2020:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020

Being scared of rise of fascism and extreme right wing parties in Europe == US Democrats 2020.

Americans refuse to see reality. It is as if they are embarrassed by it somehow.

New comment by Dahoon in "HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms"

Dahoon — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:14:06 +0000

Let me answer with a counter question: If a US based HuffPost was good enough why start an Indian based HuffPost in the first place?

New comment by Dahoon in "Goodbye PowerDNS"

Dahoon — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:11:05 +0000

Sorry I should have been more clear. The following link from the article was dead at the time:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/history-of-powerdns-1999-2...