Hacker News: Ohn0

New comment by Ohn0 in "AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system"

Ohn0 — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 01:18:32 +0000

This too confuses me. Why that name?

New comment by Ohn0 in "Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year"

Ohn0 — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 04:04:56 +0000

True. Don't want to give anyone monkey virus or anything.

New comment by Ohn0 in "SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns"

Ohn0 — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:39:01 +0000

It was clear from Zoom's security vulnerability last year that they value ease-of-use over security, so it seems obvious to me they wouldn't care about privacy.

New comment by Ohn0 in "GitHub for mobile is now available"

Ohn0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:33:37 +0000

This is why I use GitLab

New comment by Ohn0 in "GitHub for mobile is now available"

Ohn0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:31:33 +0000

This is literally why I hate native apps... they will always take resources away from the website which is an absolute necessity. Unless the service is app only (rare), now you have 3 separate teams working to build the same solution.

New comment by Ohn0 in "Firefox 74"

Ohn0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:23:19 +0000

Good question

New comment by Ohn0 in "Firefox 74"

Ohn0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:21:31 +0000

At first glance, this seems to be pretty opinionated, with a hip 30 second commercial

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/facebookcontainer/

New comment by Ohn0 in "Firefox 74"

Ohn0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:16:21 +0000

I used to be a fan of FF until chrome. I understand it's bad - but how about chromium?

Btw, I'm not against looking at FF again, but looking at this changelog and recent product direction, they honestly feel lost.

New comment by Ohn0 in "Firefox 74"

Ohn0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:13:43 +0000

> When a video is uploaded with a batch of photos on Instagram ...

Features just for insta? I thought this was a web browser not an instagram browser. I guess same goes for the facebook container... what's up with building browser features for facebook? Why no reddit container, or google container, or amazon container?

New comment by Ohn0 in "Firefox 74"

Ohn0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:07:19 +0000

First item listed under New:

> Your login management has improved with the ability to reverse alpha sort (Name Z-A)

Cool!

New comment by Ohn0 in "How We Acquired HEY.com"

Ohn0 — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:27:49 +0000

Who want's to take a wild guess at the purchase price?!

New comment by Ohn0 in "AB2712 – California Universal Basic Income"

Ohn0 — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:09:25 +0000

Do any other hackers wonder what the overhead is for collecting / enforcing a new tax (VAT)?

Like others have mentioned, it seemed like the benefits of UBI were to eliminate some redundancy from similar programs that require more administration. Creating a new tax seems non-trivial, but on the other hand would be easy to ratchet up down the road.

New comment by Ohn0 in "Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome"

Ohn0 — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:28:39 +0000

I guess I picked the wrong horse - lol

New comment by Ohn0 in "Google resists demands from states in digital-ad probe"

Ohn0 — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:27:57 +0000

Is it just me or is it kind of ironic that another headline today involves Google's sort of fast and loose behavior related to being the dominant browser on the market?

New comment by Ohn0 in "Google Just Gave Millions of Users a Reason to Quit Chrome"

Ohn0 — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:52:50 +0000

This appears to be a dupe on the homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383910

New comment by Ohn0 in "How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller"

Ohn0 — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:50:54 +0000

> The people on the coasts don't get any benefit out of rural broadband initiatives

Don't they though? Those are new potential customers and users. ie. market growth?

New comment by Ohn0 in "How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller"

Ohn0 — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:48:26 +0000

That's like, your opinion man.

With "All of the private wealth sloshing around needs a home" there are lots of homeless who needs a home?

New comment by Ohn0 in "How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller"

Ohn0 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:23:35 +0000

Wow I missed that. Does the author profit from sales of the book in addition to being paid to write it?

New comment by Ohn0 in "How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller"

Ohn0 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:38:26 +0000

Is it really the governments job to fund culture? I think there are plenty of folks willing to contribute without the need for tax dollars.

New comment by Ohn0 in "How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”: The Rise and Fall of Perry Miller"

Ohn0 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:35:08 +0000

It appears this is only a reproduction from the original source:

> From City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism by Abram C. Van Engen. Published by Yale University Press in February 2020. Reproduced by permission.