Hacker News: _pete_

New comment by _pete_ in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

_pete_ — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:11:10 +0000

on the "$70,000 for DEI musical in Ireland"

"The woke extravaganza in question was actually something called Dignity, a live-streamed set of performances from the US ambassador’s residence in the Phoenix Park in September 2022 that featured, among others, the American folk musician Rhiannon Giddens, the Italian instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, the singer-songwriter Mick Flannery and the fiddler Martin Hayes.

Having examined the evidence on YouTube, I regret to inform you that there is nothing about white fragility, queer theory or any of the other progressive shibboleths that have attained the same status in this White House that the dictatorship of the proletariat had for the un-American activities committee of the US House of Representatives in the late 1940s.

It is certainly true that the accompanying promotional bumf for the gig (which was sponsored by the well-known radical agitators Coca-Cola and PwC, among others) was full of the sort of platitudes that were so in vogue in the faraway days of the early 2020s.

“The Biden administration is committed to principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access,” we were informed. “With this event we aim to highlight and celebrate the work that the embassy, the Irish Government and our partners are doing to advance DEI throughout Irish society. These ideals have long underpinned the strong relationship between both countries.”

Not any more."

https://www.paywallskip.com/article?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ir...

New comment by _pete_ in "Jevons paradox"

_pete_ — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:32:35 +0000

The best Jevons Paradox/induced demand explainer ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCzCJzwrB_c

New comment by _pete_ in "Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain"

_pete_ — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:39:25 +0000

Thankfully, apparently this only affects Americans.

New comment by _pete_ in "Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code"

_pete_ — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:07:28 +0000

The DVL really is in the details.

New comment by _pete_ in "Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app"

_pete_ — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:54:58 +0000

than

New comment by _pete_ in "nic.funet.fi: Serving freely distributable files with FTP since 1990"

_pete_ — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:55:29 +0000

Good times.

New comment by _pete_ in "A summary of my learnings on how to find startup ideas"

_pete_ — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:59:38 +0000

My startup idea is a browser extension that corrects "learnings" to "lessons".

New comment by _pete_ in "Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits"

_pete_ — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:23:17 +0000

it's almost - almost - as bad as 'vinyls'

New comment by _pete_ in "Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use"

_pete_ — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:02:19 +0000

not even their account - it specifically refers to replies to a specific tweet & using that specific hashtag

CVE-2020-0601 – Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability

_pete_ — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:07:58 +0000

Article URL: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-0601#ID0EN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22047445

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by _pete_ in "Ask HN: Which online communities do you hang out most on?"

_pete_ — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:18:06 +0000

my own @ https://thumped.com/bbs

20 years and counting...

New comment by _pete_ in "[dead]"

_pete_ — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:00:47 +0000

I thought this was going to be advice...