Hacker News: allarm

New comment by allarm in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

allarm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:09:41 +0000

> I do recognize the great value the adtech industry provides to society

good one, very funny.

New comment by allarm in "Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027"

allarm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:08:40 +0000

You should read the article. Also you should pay more attention, I wasn't saying that, you're responding to a wrong person.

New comment by allarm in "Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027"

allarm — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:53:02 +0000

You should read the article first.

New comment by allarm in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

allarm — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:54:06 +0000

I have and deeply regret the wasted time.

New comment by allarm in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

allarm — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:37:40 +0000

That's an evil thing to say. No, that's not true.

New comment by allarm in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

allarm — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:25:16 +0000

Stop whining and admit you're wrong.

New comment by allarm in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

allarm — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:29:11 +0000

> Language evolves

That's just another way of saying "words don't have meanings". Yes, it evolves, but to preserve the original meanings, that evolution should be slowed down as much as possible to avoid “black is white” effects.

New comment by allarm in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

allarm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:10:56 +0000

No it's not.

New comment by allarm in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

allarm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:21:12 +0000

What do you mean? P2P is commonplace, for example, in IP telephony, and obviously in many other cases.

New comment by allarm in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

allarm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:55:16 +0000

> should the world not have yachts?

Maybe? Things like super yachts are just offensive.

New comment by allarm in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

allarm — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:12:23 +0000

Well, at least someone understood.

New comment by allarm in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

allarm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:49:58 +0000

https://reolink.com

New comment by allarm in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

allarm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:30:05 +0000

You should read it again.

New comment by allarm in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

allarm — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:23:38 +0000

> execution is no more or less "barbaric" than the alternatives.

You'll need to put more thought into it. Imagine your kid traveling somewhere, smoking pot, flying back to Singapore, getting randomly checked and facing consequences.

New comment by allarm in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

allarm — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:57:48 +0000

Ever heard of creativity?

New comment by allarm in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

allarm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:25:22 +0000

Why not... Just not make a problem out of nothing and wait those 3 seconds?

New comment by allarm in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

allarm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:59:54 +0000

Because of the greed that killed everything good that internet once had.

New comment by allarm in "Docker.how – Docker command cheat sheet"

allarm — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:25:12 +0000

> Because time is the great equalizer. Everyone only gets 86400 seconds in the day. How you spend them is up to you.

It is important to remember that while this is true time is not the ONLY criteria.

New comment by allarm in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

allarm — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:22:34 +0000

> why Europe should start treating us like Russians.

I don't know, maybe because your president is a dangerous lunatic? I really enjoy these "are we the baddies?" moments.

New comment by allarm in "TikTok is now collecting more data about its users"

allarm — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:13:37 +0000

> You're right, it's not heroin. It's worse.

Stop spreading this nonsense. You clearly don't have any idea what heroin addiction is.