Hacker News: bar000n

New comment by bar000n in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

bar000n — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:53:59 +0000

Sorry, I am new here, but who funds that bot farm? i don't get it

New comment by bar000n in "Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest"

bar000n — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:05:17 +0000

Your dream is most likely coming from a video game you played or are still playing sometimes.

I was having the free fall "nightmare" once in a while and i was on my bike falling free. But. Every time i touched the ground i kept going on them wheels no problem. Then it hit me, once in a while i had been playing this game on my phone Hill Climb, where i found myself with the motorbike on the moon which is a great way to farm gold coins. There is a lot of falling down on that map.

Since i had this revelation many years ago i started to "decipher" most of my dreams.

Makes me feel life is now a bit more boring though.

New comment by bar000n in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

bar000n — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:37:40 +0000

i have daily backup instances to cold standby qemu-kvm VMs with snapshots of qcow2 storage which are kept for 10 days and i skip deleting every weekly Monday backup until space becomes a problem (usually months). sometimes the qcow2 storage backend becomes too slow with so many snapshots and that's when i qemu-img convert it which basically fixes it but removes the snapshots, so i keep both of them for a while.

New comment by bar000n in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

bar000n — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:57:55 +0000

lots of hallucination or should i say misinformation in this article

New comment by bar000n in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

bar000n — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:37:22 +0000

could it be that those people don't actually believe him and just appreciate the genuine shit-show he puts up enabling them to laugh at people who get sad about what he says, and their eagerness to believe

New comment by bar000n in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

bar000n — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:44:49 +0000

i say technofeudalism, not sure i know what i'm writing about though

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