<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: TkTech</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TkTech</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:48:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TkTech" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TkTech in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> intersting take, I'm not Canadian but wasn't there some pretty draconian bills that were passed where you could be reported for voicing or sharing your opinions on some things ?<p>Not a thing. You can't post hate speech or threats of violence.<p>> That already seems like a hard barrier for any sort of Canadian social network especially when you require your users to dox themselves and open themselves to all sorts of scrutiny.<p>Also not a thing. I was pretty clear all they get is a  is_a_human".<p>> The problem with all of this is that it creates a sterilized politically correct environment that won't have the same pull as a public square that upholds freedom of speech like American ones.<p>Also not a thing. American platforms practice widespread self-censorship and have no protection under the law except from the state.</p>
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<p>From their FAQ[1] the plan is to allow other countries eventually but for now it's read-only for non-Canadians. I imagine they have no interest in private KYC like Persona and integrating with national identity providers can be a real pain, if that country even <i>has</i> a unified service.<p>[1]: <a href="https://gandersocial.ca/faq/" rel="nofollow">https://gandersocial.ca/faq/</a></p>
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<p>Oh thank you for this, that's fantastic. Still some edge cases (thread expansion seems odd?) but just having it as an option is great.</p>
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<p>An interesting new one for Canadians (that's built on AT and interops with bsky) is <a href="https://gandersocial.ca/" rel="nofollow">https://gandersocial.ca/</a>. It uses our national postal service's identity validation, so it dramatically reduces foreign actors and bots, and without handing PII to shady private companies like Persona. They collect no PII either, they just get an "is_a_human" response back from Canada Post.<p>You can still do read-only things like see threads and follow users as an anonymous user. Just can't post or comment. Only thing I don't like is that it's app-only for now.</p>
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<p>> Not enough software engineers converting to farming? Shocking.<p>I kinda have to disagree with this. Sure, there's not a lot of software engineers grabbing a hoe and moving to a quiet rural farming village. But oh boy is there a lot of money being a software engineer working on farming.<p>I'd have to say more software engineers are working in agriculture today than ever before - it's one of the reasons why the rural areas <i>can</i> shrink. State programs for mechanization and increasingly advanced and hyper-specific machines are allowing crops that were labour intensive just a decade ago to be done by a team of 2-4. We went apple picking last year and the field next to us was having its apples harvested by flying drones (which was a real "we're living in the future" moment for us) while a worker sat in a lawn chair nearby reading a book.<p>Then there's the pushes to remove transport costs and grow closer to the cities. All of our family's lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber come year round from greenhouses on the roof Walmarts, warehouses and other big block stores, just a few blocks away - <a href="https://montreal.lufa.com/en/farms" rel="nofollow">https://montreal.lufa.com/en/farms</a>. 100% "touch-free" automated greenhouses are being built and have entered full productivity - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRts-KOkuM&t=44s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRts-KOkuM&t=44s</a>. Cheap electricity and thousands of overbuilt (snow load) flat roofs are a good combination for city greenhouses. These "farms" employee directly and indirectly plenty of engineers of all kinds.</p>
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<p>For many companies (country-dependent) that's not really why they use cloud services vs purchasing. It's tax shenanigans and business process overhead. OpEx vs CapEx, and a small (%) bump in the huge AWS bill no one will even notice or a $30k+ invoice for hardware that has to go through rigorous review and 3 departments.<p>Same reason people pay for things through the AWS marketplace (like Vanta) instead of having to go through their invoicing process.</p>
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<p>This continuing trend is going to do a fantastic job of ensuring fewer and fewer individuals can launch casual projects and gating (non-VC) startups to those who already have the means.</p>
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<p>No, those search engines will simply stop being used by people that care. Google's "AI results" have already wrongly accused people of being sex offenders and make up gibberish constantly. They are a blight and a scourge. There are already many lawsuits against the garbage it invents.<p>The "quality" of your prompt is irrelevant when you're feeding it to something that just imagines things.</p>
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<p>Webalayzer! I'm not sure there were really any other options at the time other than writing your own. Parsed the apache logs and gave you pretty detailed results and you could see the usage (in kb, which tells you how long ago this was!) broken down by date and IP.<p>Once you added a redirect rule for the IP to apache you'd just check your log and see the IP that was hitting you every couple of minutes <i>poofed</i> for a good few hours.</p>
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<p>I used to just start giving any IP downloading way too much a redirect to multi-tb NASA images. This was a long time ago but it was surprisingly how many would follow redirects and never time out. Wouldn't see a request again for hours and then its right back to downloading a new part of the sky.<p>Those images also used to crash all the early GUI irc and chat clients that showed inline images without size checks...</p>
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<p>sorentwo is the author of Oban. He's not using CockroachDB, he's supporting it as a valid Oban target.</p>
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<p>pg_timescale can take you pretty far for metrics and would be Good Enough for almost all users. Totally agree on raw, high-volume logs though.</p>
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<p>In pg19 <a href="https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=282b1cde9" rel="nofollow">https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit...</a> will land, which significantly improves NOTIFY performance. Right now LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't scale to very busy instances because a `NOTIFY` within a transaction takes a <i>global lock</i>.</p>
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<p>No, not usually. Few ISPs are willing to risk blacklisting.<p>Just like scrapers (and a lot of VPNs are quietly using their custom VPN clients to sell your own IP [and data] to scrapers) it's mostly a "don't ask don't tell" situation for IP sourcing. You use a multitude of IP providers and if a scandal happens you just say "We didn't know!" and move on to the next. Almost always grey-market, very rarely through legitimate providers.</p>
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<p>It's very unfortunate but a significant amount of the most damaging stuff in this is from the underprivileged and those with minimal means who were trying to find help they could afford. Non-profits trying to get website help, confidential reports for charities trying to get translations, children seeking therapy (fiverr has a therapy category!?) for some truly dark stuff.<p>Utterly inexcusable that this is still up after so many hours.</p>
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<p>Personally, this is the funniest one to me. It turns out Fiverr uses cloudinary for their internal documents as well. (Note: this one is not confidential and is public information)<p><a href="https://fiverr-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_pdf,q_auto/v1/attachments-dev/generic_asset/asset/e43a09ebf5ec0954b2ff2b83f67b1964-1673810461528/FIVERR%20INTERNATIONAL%20LTD.%2027001.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://fiverr-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_pdf,q_auto/...</a></p>
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<p>Which has never worked. Korea had a system to prevent kids from gaming after midnight for something like 15 years. All it did was make Korean kids very good at memorizing their parents ID.</p>
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<p>Is this not just Windows LTSB/LTSC? Which has been a thing forever.</p>
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<p>I kinda have my own <a href="https://github.com/tktech/chancy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tktech/chancy</a> :P</p>
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<p>> Support only options aren't going to cut it in our experience; but maybe that'll be different with Python.<p>That's totally fair, and I can only speak from the sidelines. I haven't had a chance to review the architecture - would it possibly make sense to swap from async as a free feature to the process pool, and make async a pro feature? This would help with adoption from other OSS projects, if that's a goal, as the transition from Celery would then be moving from a process pool to a process pool (for most users). The vast, vast majority of Python libraries are not async-friendly and most still rely on the GIL. On the other hand, Celery has absolutely no asyncio support at all, which sets the pro feature apart.<p>On the other hand, already released and as you said it's much harder to take a free feature and make it paid.<p>Thanks again for Oban - I used it for a project in Elixir and it was painless. Missing Oban was why I made Chancy in the first place.</p>
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