Hacker News: DuckyC

New comment by DuckyC in "Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say"

DuckyC — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:57:21 +0000

but surely you can show up at your bank with identification and get the email changed?

New comment by DuckyC in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"

DuckyC — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:58:29 +0000

"past several quaters". The DMA entered force November 1. 2022.

New comment by DuckyC in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

DuckyC — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:28:02 +0000

"Notarization involves a combination of automated checks and human review." From the article. Human review means apple staff reviews it.

New comment by DuckyC in "Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease"

DuckyC — Wed, 17 May 2023 07:29:12 +0000

I would argue that the end consumer of the device and emulator cares... Which i guess is the point of the previous comment.

New comment by DuckyC in "TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business"

DuckyC — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:31:05 +0000

I think the fact that a company vehicle was sold for the $3300 hardly matters.

New comment by DuckyC in "$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII"

DuckyC — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:15:33 +0000

Deportation is a war crime?

New comment by DuckyC in "I heat my home by mining crypto currencies"

DuckyC — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:43:56 +0000

The article says he only mines when the price is high enough and the house needs heating.

New comment by DuckyC in "Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output"

DuckyC — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 13:42:53 +0000

My name contains Ø, and im guessing i would not be able to enter that with your method. I would consider that mangling my name if i had to write o or oe.

New comment by DuckyC in "Facebook wants up to 30% of fan subscriptions vs Patreon’s 5%"

DuckyC — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:03:08 +0000

Are you saying that there isn't free speech in the EU? What are you basing this statement on?

New comment by DuckyC in "The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet"

DuckyC — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:26:39 +0000

This is exactly what android does when it uses WiFi for location tracking

New comment by DuckyC in "Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub"

DuckyC — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:44:16 +0000

No, Alphabet is the parent company to Google. There's a slight difference.

New comment by DuckyC in "Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption"

DuckyC — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:01:14 +0000

Keybase is clearly stating that it is infact not a bug, but an intentionally not implemented feature.

New comment by DuckyC in "Pushing the Limits of Extreme Breath-Holding"

DuckyC — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:50:37 +0000

Didn't you read the part where they compare it to any other sport? “Apnea is not different from many other sports, in the sense that practice at a high level often leads to deleterious impacts on human physiology,” he said. “Think about alpinists going to Mount Everest, climbers, gymnastics, marathon runners—every sport has its drawbacks when performed at the élite level.”

New comment by DuckyC in "5G Network end-to-end demonstration by Ericsson"

DuckyC — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:52:30 +0000

In Denmark data caps are rising a lot. It's not unusual to have 30 or even 50 GBs of data. I don't know the reason why, but it's most likely not capacity since we are probably using the same system.

New comment by DuckyC in "Out of date Chrome results in ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED"

DuckyC — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:03:49 +0000

it could also have been built-in build-time time-bomb.

New comment by DuckyC in "Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]"

DuckyC — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:10:13 +0000

there's a legend at the bottom of the video

New comment by DuckyC in "FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking"

DuckyC — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:26:57 +0000

How does your phone protect other people from pressing your volume buttons, or using your touchscreen? Security is pretty irrelevant for a HID.

New comment by DuckyC in "Show HN: Browsertime, bringing popcorntime to your browser with webtorrent"

DuckyC — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:59:28 +0000

Someone finally did it. I had this idea when WebTorrent first came out. This is great!

New comment by DuckyC in "Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft"

DuckyC — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:05:00 +0000

Redstone has no means of communication to the outside, so even if you created an entire computer with redstone(very unlikely) you would have no means of communication outside of minecraft.