Hacker News: Kesseki

New comment by Kesseki in "Consumers Can Fight the Credit Card Industry"

Kesseki — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:10:10 +0000

No. Absolutely not. The vast majority of such "debt relief" or "debt settlement" offerings are scams, including several of the ones this article promotes. If you're looking at a debt relief plan, you should only consult a licensed non-profit that's a member of a credible organization like the Financial Counseling Association of America or the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

New comment by Kesseki in "ChatGPT creates phisher's paradise by serving the wrong URLs for major companies"

Kesseki — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:42:31 +0000

This is, in turn, making the world of comment and forum spam much worse. Site operators could tag all user-submitted links as "nofollow," making their sites useless for SEO spammers. But spammers have learned that most LLM content scraper bots don't care about "nofollow," so they're back to spamming everywhere.

New comment by Kesseki in "Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API"

Kesseki — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:29:44 +0000

What are you doing to prevent phishing scammers from using your service to create fake login pages en masse? This has plagued similar services to yours.

How can brand owners opt out of your service's infringing their intellectual property rights in their logos?

New comment by Kesseki in "Does my site need HTTPS?"

Kesseki — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 04:14:18 +0000

This is permitted: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/main/docs/BR.md#...

But it hasn't really caught on; a lot of registrars don't seem to want the complexity of being (or integrating with) a CA, and vice versa.

New comment by Kesseki in "Fosstodon"

Kesseki — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:17:03 +0000

Cloudflare offers at least two options that don’t require them to proxy TLS: Spectrum and Magic Transit.

Proton now has mandatory binding arbitration

Kesseki — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:14:30 +0000

Article URL: https://proton.me/legal/terms

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36498075

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Acme.sh runs arbitrary commands from a remote server

Kesseki — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:21:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4659

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36252310

Points: 291

# Comments: 67

Lawyer relied on the legal opinions provided by Chat GPT [pdf]

Kesseki — Sat, 27 May 2023 00:09:40 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.32.1.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36090887

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kesseki in "Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families"

Kesseki — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:49:56 +0000

That's an interesting point about the disincentive. I fear, though, that rules around this wouldn't be feasible to administer; it could open a whole new world of hiding assets, which is already pretty easy to do.

New comment by Kesseki in "Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families"

Kesseki — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:49:15 +0000

Yes, there is usually a floor value. Most states enumerate some types and amounts of property, and some amounts of income, that are exempt from civil judgment collection. It's the same thing for bankruptcy: there are exemptions that allow you to keep a certain amount.

A bankruptcy discharge does usually ensure a clean slate for new ventures. However, some types of debt are "nondischargeable" and can survive a bankruptcy. That includes "intentional torts" like these instances of defamation. So, it's likely that these plaintiffs/creditors will be able to go after his new ventures.

FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign

Kesseki — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/ftc-sues-intuit-its-deceptive-turbotax-free-filing-campaign

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846071

Points: 1552

# Comments: 588

New comment by Kesseki in "Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method"

Kesseki — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:48:30 +0000

The full list of affected certificates and domains is now available: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/170449/

New comment by Kesseki in "Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method"

Kesseki — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:46:56 +0000

It is unfortunate. It's required: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/main/docs/BR.md#...

New comment by Kesseki in "Issue with TLS-ALPN-01 Validation Method"

Kesseki — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:47:02 +0000

There's a plan to make this information available to clients in the future: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-aaron-acme-ari/

New comment by Kesseki in "Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018)"

Kesseki — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 23:06:24 +0000

No. Absolutely do not act as your own patent lawyer - ever - especially in litigation. It is correctly considered an arcane and difficult field even by other lawyers.

New comment by Kesseki in "Debt Collectors Are Transforming the Business of State Courts"

Kesseki — Thu, 07 May 2020 23:01:55 +0000

Rules vary from state to state, and even court to court. It sounds like your experience happened in a jurisdiction with rules that are unusually protective of debtors' rights. Maybe this was New York City?

The vast majority of jurisdictions do not require creditors to provide this information in most cases.

NYC's rules came into place within the last decade, after patterns of serious abuses by creditors.

New comment by Kesseki in "Slack's New Arbitration Policy"

Kesseki — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:18:50 +0000

That only applies to certain types of contracts and/or in certain states. Please don't dispense legal advice when you're not qualified, you're not certain, or your advice is about specific facts and could be misconstrued as more general. You could lead people into making expensive mistakes.

Verizon injecting unique ID in HTTP headers, even if you opt out

Kesseki — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:59:44 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/j4cob/status/525093581418020864

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8496870

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kesseki in "US Sought Permission to Change Historical Record of a Public Court Proceeding"

Kesseki — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:23:37 +0000

That's because it was originally filed when Bush was in office. When you sue a government official in his or her official capacity, the caption (sometimes, but especially on appeal) gets updated when the office changes hands.

Social app invitations: ethical growth hacking or annoying 'app-spam'?

Kesseki — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:45:07 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/14/social-apps-growth-hacking-spam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250792

Points: 1

# Comments: 0