Hacker News: RandomBacon

New comment by RandomBacon in "New 3D scan reveals a hidden network of moai carvers on Easter Island"

RandomBacon — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:51:31 +0000

> Much of the so-called "mystery" of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) comes from the lack of openly available, detailed evidence that would allow researchers to evaluate hypotheses and construct explanations.

No, much of the mystery comes from not talking with the locals (the Rapa Nui).

I have been to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and I highly recommend visiting.

Also, some of the mystery comes from podcasts that pretend to be authoritative and spew out falsities.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Fighting the age-gated internet"

RandomBacon — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:10:27 +0000

Cell phone companies like AT&T could offer kid-lines (with filtered Internet access) and Google and Apple could provide kid-modes on their phones that don't allow VPNs or apps to be installed that parents do not approve of.

Maybe there might already be ways to prevent VPNs/apps, but it doesn't seem to be easy and/or publicized.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Fighting the age-gated internet"

RandomBacon — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:07:44 +0000

Identity fraudsters beg to differ.

New comment by RandomBacon in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

RandomBacon — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:40:26 +0000

> what is texting their kid going to do?

Those parents don't realize it's going to get their kid shot when the kid is hiding and the gunman hears the ding or buzz of the notification.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Samsung reveals its tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode"

RandomBacon — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:49:44 +0000

You can carry a small laptop in your pocket?

New comment by RandomBacon in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

RandomBacon — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:47:54 +0000

Source? Considering that not all cars for sale have all of those features, I'm pretty confident in saying that you're wrong.

Back-up cameras are required by law, so that requires a screen, but the law does not require that screen do double-duty as an infotainment screen.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Show HN: I engineered a 2mm micro-bearing D20 ring that free-spin for 20 seconds"

RandomBacon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:30:10 +0000

One problem I see is, people may not want to wait 20 seconds for a dice roll.

There is also the nostalgia of a D20. Just keep in mind that this will be a novelty and not a replacement. Unless people still D&D in steam tunnels and such?

New comment by RandomBacon in "New bill would revive single-room occupancy apartments in NYC"

RandomBacon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:10:31 +0000

The bathrooms at my workplace are fit for purpose too, but that doesn't stop people with bad hygiene from leaving a line of fecal matter at the rear of the seat (where the cheeks meet) and not wiping away sweat, lint, and hairs, or prevent them from missing and peeing on the floor.

I feel like a toilet, shower, and sink could be added to an efficiency apartment for 3m².

If people want to see how small a room could get, see ships, especially crew quarters. I could probably design something with a kitchen, bathroom, washer and dryer, bed, desk, and storage for 15m².

New comment by RandomBacon in "Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"

RandomBacon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:07:07 +0000

I'm looking for the quietest 6 bay NAS possible.

I have a beQuiet case and six 30TB HDDs, and I plan to put the Ubuntu with a Plex server on a NVME SSD and do a ZFS 4+2.

Can anyone point me to a better/quieter set-up? Thank you in advance.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Show HN: I engineered a 2mm micro-bearing D20 ring that free-spin for 20 seconds"

RandomBacon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:00:53 +0000

Looks cool. At first I thought the numbers might have been the dollar amounts from the Price Is Right prize wheel.

If you ever mass produce these and the price is right, I might buy a D20 version.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)"

RandomBacon — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:56:39 +0000

Does any software have a survey for what users want? Instead of immediately pushing AI, they should have pushed a survey where AI was one of the choices/questions.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero"

RandomBacon — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:57:43 +0000

Monero's main "competitor" seems to be Zcash which is run by a VC-backed company. The company gets 20% of all mined Zcash. The incentive is very strong to FUD Monero.

As of this comment, Monero is #26 on CoinGecko's list of crypto by marketcap with Zcash at #27. I'm guessing that's why there's a few of these posts on HN all of a sudden.

New comment by RandomBacon in "How stealth addresses work in Monero"

RandomBacon — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:34:37 +0000

This reply seems like textbook F.U.D.

New comment by RandomBacon in "How stealth addresses work in Monero"

RandomBacon — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:00:55 +0000

Your post seems like F.U.D.

#1: "between 2019 and 2023"

#2: the author wrote "This attack is not realistic. ... This is why everyone needs to run their own node"

#3: "digital forensic approach can still reveal sensitive information by examining off-chain artifacts such as memory and wallet files"

So...

#1 seems to have been mitigated.

#2 seems to not be an issue if you run your own node.

#3 seems to not be an issue if you don't let others do forensic analysis on your own computer (not the Blockchain).

It's good that people do this research to help make Monero better. I am not criticizing the people that published what OP linked to. But of course OP's post is like saying "What makes you think paint is safe? Here's a post about how paint used to include lead."

New comment by RandomBacon in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

RandomBacon — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:49:28 +0000

A forum I manage was DDoSed, but I think it was by (AI) content scrapers as no one expressed any issues or anger towards the forum.

I temporarily got around it by blocking the subnet of their IPs.

I have since put it behind Cloudflare.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Core Devices keeps stealing our work"

RandomBacon — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:57:58 +0000

I wasn't there for the original Pebble, but was that a stretch goal, or the promised specs no matter how many sold? I can understand them not fulfilling a stretch goal even though that's kind of crappy. If it was a promised spec for every watch no matter what, then that is not cool.

New comment by RandomBacon in "Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]"

RandomBacon — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:24:28 +0000

I take down scam bandit signs [0]. Since I noticed the Flock signs in one neighborhood, I no longer enter that neighborhood to take down the scam bandit signs.

[0] "Text us to see if you qaulify for (some non-existent) government program to get free (things)"

I hope that neighborhood enjoys the flock cameras more than the visual blight and their neighbors getting scammed.

New comment by RandomBacon in "A file format uncracked for 20 years"

RandomBacon — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:26:45 +0000

Edit: Thanks!

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Original comment:

Please use old.* when posting reddit links:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/bnsy4o/psa_deactivate...

New comment by RandomBacon in "Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet"

RandomBacon — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:38:38 +0000

Just like it's an option to not use credit cards, cell phones, email, etc.

New comment by RandomBacon in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

RandomBacon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:21:55 +0000

I was once at a place that had a vending machine that accepted U.S. Currency as well as coupons. I wish I saved one of those coupons and reverse-engineered it and see if it worked on other machines, oh well.