Hacker News: WmWsjA6B29B4nfk

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Never buy a .online domain"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:51:48 +0000

Who said serious use is their business model though.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:52:23 +0000

Google docs are pretty clear (https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/robots-txt/robot...):

> Google's crawlers treat all 4xx errors, except 429, as if a valid robots.txt file didn't exist. This means that Google assumes that there are no crawl restrictions.

This is a better source than a random SEO dude with a channel full of AI-generated videos.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Apple Creator Studio"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:51:16 +0000

There was no morality play. My point is your copy/use of software is equally "illegal" whether you just download a cracked copy or pretend to be an active college student and pay the student price, when you are not in fact an active college student. Either way, you won't have a valid license. So why bother paying?

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Apple Creator Studio"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:35:35 +0000

If you are planning anyway to break the terms of the license and effectively steal the software, why even bother paying something for the privilege? Just get it for free, surely it has to be available cracked

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:32:53 +0000

Samsung already makes a bunch of "smart monitors", putting there the same software they use on TVs. Not sure about other manufacturers, but would be surprised if they don't catch up soon.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:50:23 +0000

You might be confusing Switzerland with something else. Switzerland is low tax, private and expensive healthcare and childcare.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:23:40 +0000

> Imagine one day we wake up after the usual yawn-inducing sham elections in Russia and Putin won as usual but a large chunk of the country, probably a plurality of it, is utterly convinced that it was completely fake and that Navalny won. Without anybody using violence to do it.

Exactly this happened in Belarus in 2020. Government wasn't shy of using its power though, many people got long prison sentences, many people had to run, nothing changed wrt to dictatorship. I don't see anything inspiring in this story honestly.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:36:03 +0000

Not for transitioning, for "struggle to achieve transition".

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:12:17 +0000

Looks like you are indeed getting an older page. Try https://archive.is/8aUdC

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:09:29 +0000

> DS Plus series (DSM 7.3): > HDD > Not Listed > Supported for: > New installation and storage pool creation

This is the main change. Other series (not Plus) are still locked down.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:48:24 +0000

Certainly has nothing to do with "official" drives being crazily overpriced.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 07:37:17 +0000

> Even if they don’t offer it to travelers, it doesn’t mean they themselves do not have Internet connection

It usually does, it requires quite a bit of equipment and it doesn’t make economical sense to install it and not sell it to passengers. Airplanes have other means communicating with the ground and airline offices though.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Sora Update #1"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:35:39 +0000

It’s not like making a video of someone saying a number, given a single photo and any voice sample is a very difficult problem today. We can just fast-forward a few weeks into a world where this „registration“ is already broken.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:41:23 +0000

Blur is boring, but swapping faces or other recognizable features to something similar but AI-generated sounds cool.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "ChatGPT Pulse"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:07:18 +0000

> OpenAI won’t start generating much revenue from free users and other products until next year. In 2029, however, it projects revenue from free users and other products will reach $25 billion, or one-fifth of all revenue.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:16:59 +0000

Is it within their jurisdiction though? "National security threat targeting foreign leaders and the UN" clearly is, but just fighting scammers and fraud is local LEA or FBI job

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:55:12 +0000

> Our monitoring of the interactions with the USB-C monitor shows that the negotiation does not even get to the point of the Vendor Defined Messages(VDM) where the dock would theoretically have to send the correct responses.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Open models by OpenAI"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:15:03 +0000

What's not true? This is a wrong answer

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:01:39 +0000

It’s funny they are talking about low hundreds of emails. This is what a single properly instructed human can create with any provider in a few hours, no bots needed.

New comment by WmWsjA6B29B4nfk in "Why I'm Boycotting AI"

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:08:17 +0000

> I refuse to use them, as the only reason they exist, is to fire cashiers.

That's great, why would I pay someone to do something I absolutely don't mind doing myself, and even save some time while doing it. Do you also still pay someone to pump fuel into your car?