Hacker News: MrOwen

New comment by MrOwen in "Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)"

MrOwen — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:47:17 +0000

I think this is only true if SNI is disabled. Otherwise you really only get the IP of SRC and DEST.

New comment by MrOwen in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"

MrOwen — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:09:46 +0000

How are you coming to the conclusion that it will run dry? For example, in the US, arguably the most prosperous period here was in the first half of the 1900s. It is when Roosevelt's New Deal went into place and the US experienced extraordinary growth and prosperity. Do you know what also coincided with this? The marginal income tax rate. From wikipedia:

> For tax years 1944 through 1951, the highest marginal tax rate for individuals was 91%, increasing to 92% for 1952 and 1953, and reverting to 91% 1954 through 1963.

Since that time, the income tax rate has declined, especially for the higher brackets. From my perspective, it kinda just sounds like wealthy people got greedy and they were able to advocate for income tax changes. Back then, they couldn't pull as much funny business as they do today with high compensation modalities ($1 trillion for Musk?) so they opted for marginal tax rate reduction. But there's no evidence from what I can see that the the money was about to "run dry." Quite the opposite it seems. Even in nordic countries, the money is not "running dry". They have great support systems in large part because of the high marginal tax rates.

New comment by MrOwen in "Starlink User Terminal Teardown"

MrOwen — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:32:38 +0000

Is that normal? I would imagine that if I were managing such a large deployment, I would just use a CA for the keys and then issue CA signed private keys so that I don't need to add a bunch of random ones to authorized_keys

New comment by MrOwen in "Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers"

MrOwen — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:26:14 +0000

I'm nearby this intersection and there are 2 scrambles- this one and one about 2 blocks down closer to the university. There is very clear signage for cars that there are no turns allowed on red. I've crossed both intersections many times and rarely have I seen cars violating that rule. Perhaps they do but in my experience, they generally respect it.

New comment by MrOwen in "Parkinson's may begin in the gut, study says, adding to growing evidence"

MrOwen — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 18:06:19 +0000

It's unfortunate so many people "fight" or argue the importance of this. Anyone, and I mean anyone, who's taken a week to eat clean, locally sourced, minimally processed food will notice a marked difference in behavior, energy level, and whole host of other benefits. It's unfortunate that access to this type of food is often limited, however, and cost or time prevents many from taking advantage of this kind of diet.

Food is such an amazing aspect to human life and I thoroughly enjoy taking full advantage of what good food can provide for my body.

New comment by MrOwen in "Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains"

MrOwen — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:05:03 +0000

I didn't see any hand-waving? It was a legitimate question and one which you offered no evidence for/against. Certainly, we know little to nothing about the total range of side-effects from accumulated plastic. Could be negligible, could cause major issues that we just don't understand yet.

New comment by MrOwen in "FUTO"

MrOwen — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:11:04 +0000

While I don't disagree, what's the solution in today's world? Seems they're doing the best with the existing legal framework we have here, for better or worse. But immich was kept agpl and no cla which is a good thing.

New comment by MrOwen in "Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust"

MrOwen — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:39:57 +0000

I've seen watchtower burn so many people...

Better to put everything in git and run your own renovate bot which will create PRs for you to review and also pull in the changelogs to the PR itself so you can check for breaking changes.

New comment by MrOwen in "Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American"

MrOwen — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:36:38 +0000

It's not that easy when there's 2 or 3 degrees of separation between the source of debt and the collector. And also, what collections agency is going to go through that sort of trouble unless it's for maybe tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars?

New comment by MrOwen in "Vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust"

MrOwen — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:25:16 +0000

One big caveat to this is that it is only used for authorization - you still need your master password to unlock the vault. Kinda pointless imo. There is a component called the key connector which can allow unlocking of the vault with sso but that key connector is not in the PR and it is unknown if vaultwarden will ever implement it.

New comment by MrOwen in "Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown"

MrOwen — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:18:25 +0000

You're aware hosting companies can have locations in multiple countries but still be controlled by a parent company in the US? So if the US parent company doesn't play ball, that has the potential for downstream issues in the other hosting locations. Easier/safer as the company to just play ball. If you're so concerned about this, find a host based and run solely from a safe country and not controlled by a US-based entity.

New comment by MrOwen in "The sinister, shocking rise of dog attacks on postal workers"

MrOwen — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:42:00 +0000

I'm curious- is the Dachshund a rescue or did you raise it from a puppy? And if you raised it from a puppy, when was the first time you first socialized it? Did you begin immediately after weaning at 8 weeks or did a month or two pass before you brought it into the world? Those first couple months after the 8 week mark are critical for to reduce reactivity and encourage proper socialization. So many people I've come across just hear than you can't bring your dog out into the world before all their vaccinations and in doing so, they royally screw over their dog by lack of proper socialization and that's why you see so many poorly behaved dogs.

New comment by MrOwen in "How I overcame my addiction to sugar"

MrOwen — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:35:58 +0000

You unfortunately need to be fairly careful about the kombucha you select. Many of the big/common ones sold at grocery store chains oftentimes anywhere from 10-20mg sugar for a 12/14oz bottle (I've seen them with more than that too!). Better than soda but worse than many smaller brands or even local kombucha you might find at restaurants around town or a farmers market. My favorite kombuchas hover around 5mg per 12oz serving which is perfect.

New comment by MrOwen in "FUTO Keyboard"

MrOwen — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 18:00:10 +0000

What about software you download from a third party yum or apt repo? You would still say you're getting it from yum/apt, albeit not from a red hat or canonical hosted yum/apt repo. Same for f-droid. They're just called f-droid repos and the biggest repo that currently exists is also run by f-droid.

New comment by MrOwen in "FUTO Keyboard"

MrOwen — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:57:14 +0000

?? https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/latinime

Isn't that the whole point of futo? Paid for open source software?

New comment by MrOwen in "OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters"

MrOwen — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:01:04 +0000

I believe so but from what I recall, he still wanted syncing between phone/computer which required the messages be stored at some point, alebeit with an extremely small ttl (minutes? seconds?). This miniscule retention meant the record was created despite a low ttl and so when the record was removed, it became a violation of the court-ordered record retention. Again, this is all just from fuzzy memory but I think that's how it approximately went down.

New comment by MrOwen in "OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters"

MrOwen — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:32:10 +0000

Eh, unless there's current ligation forcing record retention, just having a really short retention period is an easy enough solution.

New comment by MrOwen in "A third of chocolate products are high in heavy metals"

MrOwen — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:19:58 +0000

Nitpick: you probably mean pregnant females. Man/woman is sociological, male/female is biological.

New comment by MrOwen in "A third of chocolate products are high in heavy metals"

MrOwen — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:13:32 +0000

Great point to bring up! I learned of this a while ago and saught out sellers who said they tested their products for contaminants like that and found only 2! Hopefully this is not against guidelines to list but the sellers are Starwest Botanicals and Mountain Rose Herbs. Starwest seems to be a little more strict/upfront about testing than mountain rose but products from either should be significantly safer than what you find in the grocery store (which I now avoid like the plague).

New comment by MrOwen in "Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?"

MrOwen — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:58:31 +0000

Surprise, surprise but a huge chunk (maybe even the majority of?) of drug research is conducted by academic institutions using government funded grants. Then the drug companies come swoop up the research, refine it, mass produce, and market. They shouldn't be able to get such a free ride from all this government funded research imo. The taxpayers already funded the research so why are they getting the short end of the stick?