Hacker News: Lostidentity

New comment by Lostidentity in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

Lostidentity — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:12:33 +0000

Counterpoint here, I'm 32 and would have to disagree on the complimentary piece.

In my group of friends, the reels/shorts crowd have eased off on keeping up with the latest fads/memes. Its similar to the old meme cycle of them starting on 4chan and some filtering down to Digg/Reddit, you end up with them being watered down or receive them extremely late in the fad cycle.

Reels have a few problems, the biggest one is randomly getting served gore/death videos. This has never happened to me on tiktok. I feel like (cant substantiate this) reels pushes sex/thirst content more than tiktok does. The final one is the actual social aspect of tiktok vs reels, the comments and interactions on reels are very abusive and spammy compared to tiktok.

I do agree with you about RedNote being a fad, its artificially inflated but its possible the astroturfing of "interaction" will lead to a sustainable level of organic/real interaction with the app. IG is not great for communities.

New comment by Lostidentity in "Ask HN: Why haven't we heard of data centers being affected by ransomware?"

Lostidentity — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:46:40 +0000

A lot of people seem to be saying they don't get hit, I think its just a lack of publicity. Heres a few that actually were reported.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cyrusone/cyrusone-confir...

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/equinix/data-center-gian...

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/manage/ransomware-grows-...

There was another vendor, that didn't publicize their attack. I can confirm it hit Konica Minolta. Vector was through one of their data center providers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/business-tech...

New comment by Lostidentity in "A bird feeder that accepts bottle caps for food"

Lostidentity — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 20:49:01 +0000

Cool article, but it may be worth linking to the original write up with more technical details. https://www.hackster.io/hfor62/training-wild-birds-to-trade-...

Either way, great read for a Sunday.

New comment by Lostidentity in "Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt"

Lostidentity — Sat, 20 May 2017 07:13:33 +0000

I went on deferred payments when I lost my job 2 years ago, after missing the first payment they called me and set me up on a 0 payment deferment plan. After I got my job and made my first payment they called me again and set me up on an income based repayment plan.

Both times they called me, emailed me the forms, and helped me set everything up. I think they people who are defaulting are the ones trying to ignore everything and ducking calls.

Parent loans leave the parent on the hook, not the student so I don't know why youre bringing that into the fold.

Things aren't that complicated, you have multiple (usually 8, one for each semester) loans at different interest rates and you need to repay them. Not that hard.