Hacker News: arcza

New comment by arcza in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

arcza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:07:29 +0000

Probably the UK CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) which regulates competition/antitrust, mergers, national security acquisitions and the like.

Or there is a loosely defined locally-run thing called 'Trading Standards' which is done at the council ("municipality") level.

and for the record I am just being difficult and everyone in tech/mildly well read knows what the (U.S.) FTC is. My point is more that one country's rules don't always matter for the operations of domestic commerce in another amongst their own citizens.

We famously mock our own jusrisprudence - "if Parliament passes a law that it is illegal to smoke on the streets of Paris, then it is illegal to smoke on the streets in Paris", so even when hard legislation exists (4chan/Ofcom shitshow?) it is meaningless.

The only power that matters long term in the universe is sheer force and hard power, and it has always been that way.

New comment by arcza in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

arcza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:25:07 +0000

I'm just making a point the whole world doesn't revolve around America.

New comment by arcza in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

arcza — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:49:02 +0000

Maybe the whole world is not in the U.S. What is the FTC? The Royal Air Force Flying Training Command?

New comment by arcza in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

arcza — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:56:13 +0000

So whatever OneUptime is, I now know it has zero integrity and is something I should avoid.

New comment by arcza in "Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was"

arcza — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:32:38 +0000

No, if a website is that obnoxious I just close the tab. It is not worth yet another mental drain on my limited attention span to read slop.

Just give me the boring single .htm page with your thoughts or a Wordpress site with minimal plugins. I'd hate to think the strain the author puts on people with accessible needs making this.

New comment by arcza in "Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was"

arcza — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:28:46 +0000

What a truly unreadable website. As another commenter said I see a few of these get churned out with the same annoying dark patterns.

New comment by arcza in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

arcza — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:14:47 +0000

Doesn't this guy's server just DDoS some dude's blog with your own browser? Didn't click.

New comment by arcza in "I built a free tool to beat ATS after getting auto-rejected 48 times"

arcza — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:47:41 +0000

The testimonials look so fake and remove all credibility in what may be an interesting product.

Nice you want to level the playing field for candidates, but first impressions != authentic

New comment by arcza in "UK has agreed to drop demand for access to Apple user data, says US"

arcza — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:31:52 +0000

https://archive.ph/fHhqz

UK has agreed to drop demand for access to Apple user data, says US

arcza — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/ab0aba27-81e0-4ee5-bcbb-6bce85386e40

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44949512

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by arcza in "Reddit Ads Is a Scam"

arcza — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:32:32 +0000

Good spot lol

New comment by arcza in "Reddit Ads Is a Scam"

arcza — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:32:11 +0000

Your post was very unconvincing to read and riddled with errors. Rage bait to prop up the Userpath thingy?

New comment by arcza in "Show HN: Legal Eyes – Turn casual text into legalese with one click"

arcza — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:56:11 +0000

One further point. In the UK - there's an active campaign to use clear plain English in contracts. I don't think making things harder to understand is a good idea, but not saying you're doing this either.

New comment by arcza in "Show HN: Legal Eyes – Turn casual text into legalese with one click"

arcza — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:08:15 +0000

Hi. Why is a UK website (assuming based on the domain) pricing in USD for a UK viewer? Thanks.

New comment by arcza in "CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019)"

arcza — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:37:42 +0000

"CGNAT providers" is like saying "DHCP providers" or "PPPoE providers". I've never heard of a "WSP". What if I send an email on port 25 (not web) via my "WSP"? LOL.

New comment by arcza in "CGNAT frustrates all IP address-based technologies (2019)"

arcza — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:32:59 +0000

This sounds like incompetence. You can procure IPv4 addresses in days as a monthly rental (go speak to Cogent etc), or even buy outright with little delay. Going rate is currently $34/address at the /24 level and cheaper for larger blocks.

New comment by arcza in "Filtering spam with GPT4o-mini for $0.00008 per email"

arcza — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:29:51 +0000

Highlighting some of the cool work RSpamD has done to integrate OpenAI's API into spam filtering. Makes a lot of the big guys look less relevant esp. at the price points being charged for spam filtering nowadays, typically paid handsomely by large enterprises with on-prem mail.

Filtering spam with GPT4o-mini for $0.00008 per email

arcza — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.abctaylor.com/filtering-spam-cheaply-with-gpt4o-mini/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105548

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by arcza in "[dead]"

arcza — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:01:38 +0000

Be careful with the above. I thought it was unusual when I landed here via DuckDuckGo. This is clearly an attempt at something bad. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this?

New comment by arcza in "TfL Cyber Security Incident"

arcza — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:45:55 +0000

> We are currently dealing with an ongoing cyber security incident. At present, there is no evidence that any customer data has been compromised and there has been no impact on TfL services.

> The security of our systems and customer data is very important to us, and we have taken immediate action to prevent any further access to our systems.

I guess time will tell what this was.