Hacker News: Forbo

New comment by Forbo in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

Forbo — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:47:12 +0000

By not giving their customers business. Unfortunately I am forced to interact with their customers (i.e. governments, schools, utilities, etc.).

New comment by Forbo in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

Forbo — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:14:24 +0000

Voting with your wallet doesn't exist. Try to boycott Amazon by blocking the AWS IP ranges and see how unusable the internet becomes for everyday tasks. Corporations continue to push the personal responsibility narrative so they can externalize costs of unethical business practices.

Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg

Forbo — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:15:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049129

Points: 1

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New comment by Forbo in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

Forbo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:13:52 +0000

If you don't think lying/tricking/manipulating people is abusive, then you might want to reflect on that.

New comment by Forbo in "alpr.watch"

Forbo — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:07:11 +0000

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -Edward Snowden

New comment by Forbo in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

Forbo — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:20:11 +0000

Reading their about page...

> globohomo

Yeah, no, fuck that bigoted bullshit and the people who made it.

New comment by Forbo in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

Forbo — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:46:13 +0000

They also sell a license with the new hardware. The bulk majority of the public never buy hardware without an OS. So yes, they are making more money with each new hardware sale. Plus the increase of forced advertising means they make more per user, effectively double dipping.

Why do you feel the need to defend a convicted monopolist for engaging in user hostile behavior?

New comment by Forbo in "New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms"

Forbo — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:06:15 +0000

As an American, we deserve the derision. Please, continue shaming us, maybe some day people will get sick enough of it to try to prove them wrong.

That's probably asking too much, though.

New comment by Forbo in "New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms"

Forbo — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:02:41 +0000

ACCount37 expressly left out the coal smoke stacks from their description, so I'm not sure why you chose to focus solely on that and throw it back in?

New comment by Forbo in "SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think"

Forbo — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:31:01 +0000

Reputation laundering?

New comment by Forbo in "Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law"

Forbo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:01:46 +0000

Edit: I mistook the bsky.sh domain, my bad. Can't get strike through to work for the life of me. I give up.

~~Bluesky blocked in Mississippi, try to work around it, only for the resource that tells you how to do this to be hosted on Bluesky, which is blocked. That's... suboptimal~~.

I can't help but feel like Bluesky is just three corporations in a trenchcoat pretending to be an open federated ecosystem.

New comment by Forbo in "Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law"

Forbo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:37:05 +0000

Sounds like a failure to properly build a threat model. Consider relocating your instance and begin using privacy mitigations like VPN.

Much cheaper than an attorney.

New comment by Forbo in "Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law"

Forbo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:29:06 +0000

In theory, but is that actually the case today? I couldn't find any information about the current state of federation for Bluesky.

Contrast this with Mastodon which already has a vibrant federated ecosystem.

New comment by Forbo in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

Forbo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:15:37 +0000

A.K.A. Axon Enterprises. Some OUI databases have the new name, some have the old.

New comment by Forbo in "Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds"

Forbo — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:08:27 +0000

Direct action against manufacturers. You don't have to be a wizard to cast fireball.

New comment by Forbo in "Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem"

Forbo — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:39:52 +0000

One could argue the polish of their UI/UX is worth it, but not to me. I moved to Porkbun and found the difference a bit frustrating when trying to migrate from Gandi, but that was one time pain.

New comment by Forbo in "Japanese scientists use stem cell treatment to restore movement in spinal injury"

Forbo — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:58:03 +0000

I wonder what this would cost to have done. I have a relative that was left paralyzed after a spinal cord injury, would love for them to be able to try something like this.

Edit: looks like it has to be a pretty recent injury... "14-28 days prior"

New comment by Forbo in "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies"

Forbo — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:43:34 +0000

A capitalist externalizing costs?! Why, no, never! /s

New comment by Forbo in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

Forbo — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:43:46 +0000

Care to expound on that?

New comment by Forbo in "What made the Irish famine so deadly"

Forbo — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:50:11 +0000

For either, if the papers don't stand up to peer review and meta-analysis then yes, we should ignore them. Don't often see papers from think tanks engaging in actual science though....