Hacker News: RandomDistort

New comment by RandomDistort in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

RandomDistort — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:20:04 +0000

I get loads of them when I'm on a Netsweeper filtered network... pretty much any time any asset a page loads is from a blocked site (social media pixels normally).

New comment by RandomDistort in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

RandomDistort — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:25:49 +0000

On the new Windows 365 Link thin client I think it is, not sure about normal builds of Windows though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAKg-Z6m8nM - 6:50

New comment by RandomDistort in "Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions"

RandomDistort — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:07:02 +0000

I'd hazard a guess that it's based on what the LLM can "design" without actually being able to see it or have taste and it still reliably look fine to humans.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

RandomDistort — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:14:48 +0000

Are you sure the kids aren't learning to delete the messages?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

RandomDistort — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:09:12 +0000

Works until someone can afford a better and more expensive AI tool, or can afford to pay a knowledgeable human to help them answer.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust"

RandomDistort — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:51:24 +0000

When you have a simple tool you have written for yourself, that you need to be reliable and accessible but also that you don't use frequently enough that it's worth the bother of running on your own server with all of that setup and ongoing maintenance.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

RandomDistort — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:48:07 +0000

Is this open source?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app"

RandomDistort — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:13:12 +0000

To add to this, if you use Zoho's free plan this can cost you literally nothing.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Urban Dead is shutting down"

RandomDistort — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:14:17 +0000

Has someone got a guide they can link that is easy enough to understand for service administrators that aren't doing anything complicated?

Also, can I request these risk assessments off companies myself?

New comment by RandomDistort in "James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, has died"

RandomDistort — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:47:02 +0000

By the sounds of it, if there was a painless way of doing it, he would probably be fine with this.

If he consented when he was alive, I don't see how it could be moral to ignore his wishes and let more people die as a result.

I guess laws will get in the way of this kind of thing though.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Let me GPT that for you"

RandomDistort — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:02:35 +0000

There's not even a privacy notice on the website, is that legal?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS?"

RandomDistort — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:15:25 +0000

Is there some document somewhere that lists all the potential ways of doing stuff like this?

New comment by RandomDistort in "GPT-4.5"

RandomDistort — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:59:37 +0000

AIs don't behave. They are a lot of fancy maths. Their creators can behave in ethical or moral ways though when they create these models.

= not to say that the people that work on AI are not incredibly talented, but more that it's not human

New comment by RandomDistort in "MathB.in Is Shutting Down"

RandomDistort — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:06:19 +0000

I know the law is often behind the trend because of the rate tech develops, but surely the old analogy for all technology is postal mail.

Last time I checked, the postal service had no responsibility or requirement that they don't distribute certain messages or ideas? In some cases the government can ask to intercept them, but there's no regulation requiring them to scan letters for banned content.

Why don't these same rules apply to online technology?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators"

RandomDistort — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:02:57 +0000

I doubt the cert issue is on your end, it appears whenever OpenDNS (Cisco Umbrella) tries to intercept any site when it blocks it.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Hyperspace"

RandomDistort — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:32:20 +0000

Someone more experienced that me could probably comment on this more, but theoretically is it possible for Electron production builds to become more efficient by having a much longer build process and stripping out all the unnecessary parts of Chromium?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Pi-hole v6"

RandomDistort — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:28:13 +0000

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I've got a semi-obscure DNS question.

I'd like to use Cloudflare's Zero Trust DNS filtering with DoH by running a DNS proxy on my network.

I can get this to work great with github.com/adguardTeam/dnsproxy (running on a Pi 4B) but what I would really like is to have different devices (based on their IP on the network) get their queries forwarded onto a different DoH upstream.

Is this possible in a simple way?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Pi-hole v6"

RandomDistort — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:04:13 +0000

Isn't a TV that permanently shows HDMI input a big monitor?

Weirdly they always seem to be more expensive than a TV though.

New comment by RandomDistort in "Beautiful Free Math – Desmos Animated Graphing Calculator"

RandomDistort — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:26:35 +0000

Have you looked at some of the alternative firmwares for older Numworks models?

New comment by RandomDistort in "Don't pay $800 for Apple's 2TB SSD upgrade"

RandomDistort — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:23:38 +0000

Not a mac user, but is there really not a bootable USB at the very least that you can use for this rather than needing another Mac?