Hacker News: DerekBickerton

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Ask HN: How do you name software?"

DerekBickerton — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:14:42 +0000

I use this: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology

DerekBickerton — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:14:06 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39330720

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Tunable Consistency in MongoDB

DerekBickerton — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:11:50 +0000

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/02/tunable-consistency-in-mongodb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39330710

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published"

DerekBickerton — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:26:47 +0000

Erm, there is this: https://github.com/iamcryptoki/snowden-archive/

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Marissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr"

DerekBickerton — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:52:41 +0000

Tumblr is not NSFW content friendly, which is a slippery slope. I don't want my edgy meme taken down or censored, I would much rather run my own server that I control and having it not subject to arbitrary value judgements about what I post.

Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published

DerekBickerton — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:49:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366554957/Why-only-1-of-the-Snowden-Archive-will-ever-be-published

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180197

Points: 121

# Comments: 134

The Guardian digital design style guide

DerekBickerton — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:48:30 +0000

Article URL: https://design.theguardian.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38180171

Points: 65

# Comments: 21

Privacy Toolkits

DerekBickerton — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stopspying.org/toolkits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38178984

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Control Pixel Art Sprites with CSS Scroll-Driven Animations

DerekBickerton — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:34:07 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesbasoo.com/blog/scroll-driven-pixel-art-sprite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38178923

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript"

DerekBickerton — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:05:31 +0000

For syntactic DOM manipulation sugar I use Cash[0]

[0] https://kenwheeler.github.io/cash/

Data-Bouncing – The art of indirect exfiltration

DerekBickerton — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://thecontractor.io/data-bouncing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38165955

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Annoying Apple Fans: The Flipper Zero Bluetooth Prank Revealed

DerekBickerton — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://techryptic.github.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38165936

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apple Warns About 'State-Sponsored' Attacks on iPhones in India

DerekBickerton — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://thewire.in/rights/apple-india-state-sponsored-spyware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38143468

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Ask HN: What should I do with my leftover bandwidth?"

DerekBickerton — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:47:48 +0000

You could be a CDN (Content Delivery Network) and act as a point-of-presence (PoP) for the country you're in. Mirror Linux distro ISOs, offer the ability for netizens to download offline versions of Wikipedia which are over ~50GB sans images.

The Man Behind Biden's Sweeping AI Executive Order

DerekBickerton — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/02/bruce-reed-ai-biden-tech-00124375

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38142730

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Ask HN: What are the best services for sending texts to real numbers?"

DerekBickerton — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:45:48 +0000

There's a list of some services here besides Twilio: https://www.producthunt.com/search?q=SMS

New comment by DerekBickerton in "Ask HN: What are the best services for sending texts to real numbers?"

DerekBickerton — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:03:22 +0000

SMS is a dated technology and I despise services that use SMS, especially for OTP / PINs used to sign in. SIM cards can be 'swapped' by bad actors all too easily. I understand you want to stop abuse, but there's other ways to do this like CAPTCHAs or putting your site on Cloudflare and filtering out rogue/malicious IPs like VPNs/Tor, or doing things like rate-limiting.

Pokémon Cards CSS Holographic Effect

DerekBickerton — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:54:50 +0000

Article URL: https://poke-holo.simey.me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38142198

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness

DerekBickerton — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:41:37 +0000

Article URL: https://open.mozilla.org/letter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117289

Points: 241

# Comments: 155

New comment by DerekBickerton in "The .ing top-level domain"

DerekBickerton — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:00:14 +0000

I've reached generic TLD fatigue. There's a new one each week. I regularly buy domains with OVH since they have a wide array of TLDs at a good price[0]. Over the years I let many of them expire because either 1) I let my dreams die, or 2) I couldn't afford to renew it. Mostly it's because I let my dreams die, not financial shortcomings though.

[0] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/domains/tld/