Hacker News: bar000n

New comment by bar000n in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

bar000n — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:31:31 +0000

I can understand the frustration but let's face it: you cannot fool huge email providers such as Gmail. They have huge userbases and if their users mark some of your messages as spam then you're screwed.

I am email admin since 2003 and I have real email users, i don't take customers who send any sort of automated messages, and I never had any issues besides the occasional compromised mailbox once in a while, and that was way back in the day...

New comment by bar000n in "Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank"

bar000n — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:16:29 +0000

I wonder why all those articles about video streaming pirates use the term IPTV to describe illegal video streaming services.

IPTV is a term for some clearly standardized and perfectly legal technology to deliver television services. Check the wikipedia page and definitions maybe [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol_television

New comment by bar000n in "Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers"

bar000n — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:39:42 +0000

3) ability to censor(content filter) the opposition also nice to have

New comment by bar000n in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

bar000n — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:50:40 +0000

I think it is obvious that the author just wants to come out as the great hero bounty hunter he is and in fact did reach the HN front page, so good for them.

If he wanted to solve it he would automatically sue them back for breaching his and his clients' personal data and not make any publicity blog post.

New comment by bar000n in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

bar000n — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:05:13 +0000

HN is not the rest, it is not the majority. It's for a specific tech-savvy social category. This category does want skepticism and criticism because they tend to be perfectionists. This is not "negative sentiment" anything but very positive "evrika!" sentiment for members of the aforementioned category.

Would one say: nice attempt trying to tell people how they are supposed to feel around here?

New comment by bar000n in "Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?"

bar000n — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:27:40 +0000

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New comment by bar000n in "How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills?"

bar000n — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:13:07 +0000

This if you do have some critical thinking to start with, for the less gifted ones LLMs only make things worse.

New comment by bar000n in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

bar000n — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:12:11 +0000

When i think about it, I would be absolutely terrified by smartphone cameras. Think laptop accessories that cover the webcam - haven't seen any of those for smartphones. Yet we trust a green dot with all our heart nowadays. Back in the day when cameras started showing up on mobile phones there were even versions of popular business feature phones that lacked the camera (Nokia E51 if i recall correctly), probably triggered by requirements of clients with strict information security standards.

It seems we all learned to stop worrying and love the cameras.

New comment by bar000n in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

bar000n — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:44:17 +0000

Agency is what those people you call trolls don't have. Leave them be, you don't want to end up lynched.

New comment by bar000n in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

bar000n — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:34:57 +0000

maybe the "data sold to" part

New comment by bar000n in "Paged Out"

bar000n — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:48:08 +0000

If I were them I would do that typo on purpose.

New comment by bar000n in "AI World Clocks"

bar000n — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:56:41 +0000

It should be pretty clear already that anything which is based (limited?) to communicating words/text can never grasp conceptual thinking.

We have yet to design a language to cover that, and it might be just a donquijotism we're all diving into.

New comment by bar000n in "Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux"

bar000n — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:33:06 +0000

Ubuntu 22.04 user here. Indeed it hangs when out of memory, never had the time to properly address this but i will try to follow the advice provided here in the thread. My servers that run Centos or Debian just do this thing called OOMkill on a ram hungry process, out of the box.

New comment by bar000n in "New Huawei Headquarters Glass Dome Copyright Infringement Dispute"

bar000n — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:17:43 +0000

Probably the chinese they just asked chatgpt to draw them some glass ceiling

New comment by bar000n in "Building Ultra Long Range Toslink"

bar000n — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:55:15 +0000

i doubt about the 1.5mbps limit as many DAC specs toslink as 24bit 96khz pcm stereo capable, which sums up to almost 5mbps

New comment by bar000n in "I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone"

bar000n — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 01:25:20 +0000

What happens is that you in fact lend part of your brain to all the data that you see on your screen. You don't realize it but your subconscious mind sees senses a lot of stuff your conscious mind is not aware about. Until you see it after you just talked about it thinking it was your idea and panic.

What you actually talk about with people (excluding maybe the proffesional stuff) is mundane stuff you see on your screens, newspapers, billboards, etc.

New comment by bar000n in "Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round"

bar000n — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:36:56 +0000

International law always sanctioned a state's intervention in another state's affairs. In addition to this very well known fact by jurists, there is also recent works in the field contradicting your position.

"International law prohibits states from intervening in the internal and external affairs of other states [...] as coercion-as-control, an action materially depriving the victim state of its ability to control its sovereign choices. This may be done even through acts like cyber operations that the victim state is entirely unaware of." [1]

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

New comment by bar000n in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

bar000n — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:25:08 +0000

If a bicycle hits a pedestrian and the pedestrian was on cycling path in The Netherlands, who's fault is it? If the pedestrian gets a broken arm who pays for medical services?

New comment by bar000n in "Gross Apple Marketing"

bar000n — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:54:23 +0000

They are lovely indeed.

Apple seems to be big enough to make fun of the AI fiasco.

New comment by bar000n in "Understanding Round Robin DNS"

bar000n — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 22:31:54 +0000

hey! so i got a cdn for video made of 4 bare metals and 2 are newer and more powerful so i give them each 2 ip addresses from the 6 addresses replied by dns for the respective a record. but from a very diverse pool of devices (proprietary set top boxes, smart tv sets, mobile clients ios and android, web browsers, etc) i still get ~40% of traffic on the older servers instead of the expected 33% given 2 out of 6 ip addresses resolved as dns a records for these hosts. why?