Hacker News: FreezingKeeper

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

FreezingKeeper — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:49:34 +0000

Not really practical to exempt Spain even if they wanted to, with Spain being within the EU and therefore able to freely move goods and services to other EU nations.

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

FreezingKeeper — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:29:45 +0000

What’s with the ‘cock and balls’ emoticon?

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:22:38 +0000

https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Ask HN: UK based blogs on freedom and surveillence?"

FreezingKeeper — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 04:26:42 +0000

The Open Rights Group - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/ - is probably a reasonable place to start.

Curious about what is scaring you btw.

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Did you lose your AirPods?"

FreezingKeeper — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:30:16 +0000

They may have meant AppleCare+ which covers accidental damage

https://www.apple.com/support/products/headphones/

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses"

FreezingKeeper — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 14:44:59 +0000

It's a North-South thing

https://bucolicaholic.com/2016/09/01/on-real-ale-the-sparkle...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio"

FreezingKeeper — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:36:42 +0000

They are available https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/product-group-tests/88304/best...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck"

FreezingKeeper — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:31:03 +0000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-67011369

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide"

FreezingKeeper — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 06:42:08 +0000

Well over a million ordinary people protested against the Second Gulf War and it may zero difference.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/15/politics.politica...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives"

FreezingKeeper — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:12:21 +0000

Some examples:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/monzo/

https://www.avaloq.com/solutions/products/avaloq-core

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:57:49 +0000

Always an amazing read for me

https://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/democratic-republ...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "ThreeUK blocks access to encrypted provider Tutanota due to 'age restriction'"

FreezingKeeper — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:56:03 +0000

They do [0]. You can also do it in their app if you are on a contract and therefore over 18 by definition.

[0] http://ask3.three.co.uk/srvs/cgi-bin/webisapi.dll/,/?new,kb=...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (2011)"

FreezingKeeper — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:49:41 +0000

I remember them publicly demoing the BlackBerry clone from this article https://www.pcworld.com/article/464050/original_android_prot...

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "‘Stunning’ Anglo-Saxon burial site found along HS2 route"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:28:17 +0000

On the Golborne Link, I think they had a fair bit of help from the NIMBYs too

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:58:38 +0000

How about the time when one pay TV company (Sky, owned by News Corp at the time) was said to have hacked a rival and released the hack on the internet for pirates to use?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17522112

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Home Assistant OS Release 8"

FreezingKeeper — Mon, 30 May 2022 05:59:31 +0000

...which is another OSS project from the Home Assistant team :)

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:39:14 +0000

Another long-term Vuescan user here. From memory it was the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X transition and lack of vendor support for the new OS that caused me to seek it out. The only thing I would love for them to add would be a way for the app to self-update.

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London"

FreezingKeeper — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 06:59:36 +0000

Not blocked here on 3. You’re right in that the networks often have the “adult content” filter (porn, gambling etc.) turned on, but you should be able to turn it off pretty easily. I suspect it’s that filtering that’s blocking archive.org for you

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-House Armv9 Server Chip"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:26:36 +0000

And to think they had it in their hands in 1997 with StrongARM

New comment by FreezingKeeper in "Apple Joins Blender Development Fund"

FreezingKeeper — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:46:50 +0000

https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_announces_o... for those that don’t get the reference