Hacker News: Nyr

New comment by Nyr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

Nyr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:17:53 +0000

Colo scams are pretty common. Some percentage of people will offer to send expensive laptops, and the scammers can discard the rest of "interested customers".

It is inviable to colo old laptops, a regulatory nightmare - Hetzner would NEVER accept those in their datacenters. It is also absurd to think they are partnering with Hetzner to begin with.

It makes no sense to believe they will even EXPORT laptops from Europe to the US if you choose the US location. It just makes no sense, so I don't get why I am getting downvoted.

New comment by Nyr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

Nyr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:03:42 +0000

This is CLEARLY a scam.

There is no way they are partnering with Hetzner, or charging just 7€/month flat rate... they specifically want to know the model of the laptop, and offer to send send a courrier to your door...

New comment by Nyr in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

Nyr — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:11:12 +0000

Session is not similar to Signal.

Session aims to provide anonymity, Signal aims to provide privacy.

New comment by Nyr in "My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on"

Nyr — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:24:36 +0000

Internet mostly works in Spain when there is a match: one can see traffic figures from the mayor exchange points: they are unaffected.

Big businesses are unaffected, since LaLiga will quickly reverse any block that impacts popular websites and risks triggering significant public outcry.

Most people in Spain don’t care — and many aren’t even aware of the overly broad blocks.

Cloudflare and RootedCON are challenging this in court, but it may take many years before a final outcome is reached.

New comment by Nyr in "iPhone Air"

Nyr — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:14:07 +0000

Well, I can tell you that in my country, a significant portion of the population sees it as a status symbol.

New comment by Nyr in "iPhone Air"

Nyr — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:58:19 +0000

Uh? I live in a first world country (Spain) and the minimum wage is lower than the base iPhone Air price.

Of course a lot of people can not afford it.

New comment by Nyr in "iPhone Air"

Nyr — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:48:26 +0000

You are in a bubble: the anglosphere. In most of the world, the iPhone does not dominate the market.

New comment by Nyr in "IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation and ASN details"

Nyr — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:06:43 +0000

I have no doubt that other providers use latency from probes as a data point. But IPinfo allows way more weight from this in their calculations, probably because they have developed their own reliable network, unlike most competitors.

Your service, like many others, accepts as valid most intentionally fake geolocation data provided by networks. I am sure you know this anyway, so no need to mislead saying "we do the same".

New comment by Nyr in "IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation and ASN details"

Nyr — Thu, 08 May 2025 22:00:40 +0000

They are not the cheapest, but most often will be one of the most accurate thanks to their latency triangulation.

New comment by Nyr in "Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud"

Nyr — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:36:42 +0000

They sell an alternative to AWS, but their website is hosted at AWS.

Also, pointing the MX record to smtp.google.com will not help with receiving email.

New comment by Nyr in "Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise"

Nyr — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:35 +0000

Governments do not even need any of the providers to comply, they can access global NetFlow data. This is conveniently not discussed by any commercial VPN provider.

New comment by Nyr in "5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows"

Nyr — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:26:45 +0000

3G (which nowadays is 3.5G) is sufficient for you only because everyone else is on 4G or 5G.

New comment by Nyr in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"

Nyr — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:47:59 +0000

You are using present tense, but there is not an opt-out option right now, and zero reasonably accesible documentation about it exists.

Rolling out such a significant change with just a few days advance notification shows an incredible level of incompetence.

New comment by Nyr in "DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls"

Nyr — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:26:19 +0000

This article is assuming that they are being truthful and indeed had access to limited hardware resources, which is doubtful to say the least.

New comment by Nyr in "Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links"

Nyr — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:43:37 +0000

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the most obvious alternative: Bing Cache.

It is not as complete as Google's, but it is usually good enough.

New comment by Nyr in "Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset"

Nyr — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:14:18 +0000

You change the MX records to point to the new provider. No downtime.

You also need to take care of SPF / DKIM / DMARC, but those records are for outbound mail.

New comment by Nyr in "A Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave"

Nyr — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:12:38 +0000

This was the conclusion I reached after reading how it all developed back in the day. There was no independent monitoring/verification during the time this woman was supposedly in the cave, and it was confirmed afterwards by her own team that she went outside for for eight days "so technicians could repair a router". She also had a computer "without a clock", and was in great shape, did not even need sunglasses after all those days in a cave.

Here is a source in Spanish with some photos of her just after getting out of the cave: https://www.elmundo.es/deportes/mas-deporte/2023/04/15/64398...

New comment by Nyr in "A Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave"

Nyr — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:41:24 +0000

This story made the rounds in Spain when it first happened and was most likely false and staged.

New comment by Nyr in "June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)"

Nyr — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:58:28 +0000

CentOS 8 already reached its EOL in December 31st, 2021.

New comment by Nyr in "BYD Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular EV Maker"

Nyr — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 17:35:52 +0000

https://archive.ph/Okks7