Hacker News: bennyp101

New comment by bennyp101 in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

bennyp101 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:27:09 +0000

"don't know about the secret shortcut way to do that, it is very annoying to get one"

Is that a US thing? Because in the UK you just get one for free - Companies House sends the info over to them, and a couple of days later it is available to search

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

bennyp101 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:05:19 +0000

I remember when I first started out in a job that I should have a green poster nearby to look at to "relax your eyes" every now and then.

New comment by bennyp101 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

bennyp101 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:41:05 +0000

And then how does public wifi work? Stand outside a Weatherspoons, or just walk down a highstreet with free internet, back to square one

New comment by bennyp101 in "That's not how email works"

bennyp101 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:03:13 +0000

I noticed this a couple of years ago too, I just ignored the letters, continued to receive the emails, and they stopped sending me letters about it /shrug

New comment by bennyp101 in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

bennyp101 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:38:03 +0000

Nice one - thanks :)

New comment by bennyp101 in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

bennyp101 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:06:57 +0000

Heads up, your privacy policy[0] does not work in dark mode - I was going to comment saying it made no sense, then I highlighted the page and more text appeared :)

[0] https://lemonslice.com/privacy

New comment by bennyp101 in "Snow Simulation Toy"

bennyp101 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:13:17 +0000

I did something similar[0] in JS on a Christmas eve eve a while back - needs to run via a server now as Web Workers cannot be loaded from file:// anymore.

python3 -m http.server 8080

[0] https://github.com/benperiton/SnowCam

New comment by bennyp101 in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

bennyp101 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:05:15 +0000

"then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament" - that's the bit that probably set it in motion

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?"

bennyp101 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:23:45 +0000

100% - They are only allowed on certain games, no chat, and I have a couple of private servers so they can do this steal a brain rot thing

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?"

bennyp101 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:57:54 +0000

Whilst I do kinda agree, I was just replying to the parent about what the punishment would probably be :)

But the problem is that people are NOT managing their own kids' shit, and now we have to have things put in place to try and counter that - and end up overreaching.

I'm more than happy to educate mine on how to be safe online, and to come and talk to us about stuff, other aren't, or are not aware they need to.

Perhaps buying internet means you have to sign a waiver saying that if anything happens because of the internet then that is on the parent(s)...

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?"

bennyp101 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:44:58 +0000

There's a giant difference between stopping kids having full reign on what is now essentially the whole world of information - and instant access to strangers, than there is making sure they eat healthy, help out, and don't have bad teeth .... but I'm sure you know that :)

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?"

bennyp101 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:41:16 +0000

Yea, I think anyone who grew up at the start of the internet in homes realises just how different it is now, and that teaching your kids about how to be safe online etc is an important part of parenting. But we are at the point where we have some parents who always had access to what it is now, and don't see it as a bad place.

"Stranger Danger" is no longer don't get into a van with someone who promises you sweets kinda thing.

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?"

bennyp101 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:36:33 +0000

Yep, I bought a separate all-in-one computer that is in the living room, in full view of everyone else, so we can keep an eye on what is going on when they are using it.

We also have pi-hole running that blocks a lot of things, and can turn on and off certain domains (so they can play roblox etc for a short while, then its blocked again) and their devices are pretty locked down

New comment by bennyp101 in "Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person?"

bennyp101 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:33:24 +0000

They get blacklisted from being able to have internet

New comment by bennyp101 in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

bennyp101 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:32:37 +0000

A service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things

New comment by bennyp101 in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

bennyp101 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:49:58 +0000

"Is this overkill for viewing the occasional Imgur image? Probably."

From the last couple of weeks of researching some stuff, it makes perfect sense - I keep stumbling across blogs and documentation that uses Imgur, and it's really quite annoying that I can't see the screenshot or image that is being referenced. It hasn't /quite/ hit the point to put something in place, but this is super helpful for the final straw - when it comes!

New comment by bennyp101 in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

bennyp101 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:26:07 +0000

How does OpenRA[0] do it? Is it just a X has expired thing?

Edit: Oh maybe you do have to have the assets now? I swear last time I used it, it was all online :/

[0] https://www.openra.net

New comment by bennyp101 in "UK to announce plans for digital ID scheme"

bennyp101 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:37:54 +0000

Ah so /that's/ why Trump was over...

New comment by bennyp101 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

bennyp101 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:12:02 +0000

Sounds a /bit/ like the Agent Arthur[0] books that I loved as a kid!

Def interested in these! Thanks for posting!

[0] https://usborne.com/gb/agent-arthur-s-arctic-adventure-97818...

New comment by bennyp101 in "Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL"

bennyp101 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 09:23:21 +0000

Not a fan of soft deleting, but as I sit here I wonder if using an RLS policy to limit to anything without a deleted field would make the whole “forgetting a where” a bit easier? I’m not sure the performance would be great though