Hacker News: betaby

New comment by betaby in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

betaby — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:12:19 +0000

Comments are locked on reddit and brigades are downvoting the articles about it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1rrxqje/liberal_gov...

New comment by betaby in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

betaby — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:20:22 +0000

Aged like a milk.

New comment by betaby in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

betaby — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:11:18 +0000

Not sure if that sarcasm or you are serious. But yes, people have issues with access to banking in EU all the time.

New comment by betaby in "98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing""

betaby — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:27:54 +0000

> We don't hear about "acid rain" anymore

Because of the de-industrialization of the West.

New comment by betaby in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

betaby — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:57:54 +0000

> Government has telcos track people

Yes

> and that data ends up available on the black market for anyone to purchase, for a fairly modest fee

Probably not. Those DBs are fake most ( all ? ) the time.

New comment by betaby in "The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)"

betaby — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:22:21 +0000

Most people browse Facebook/Youtube over IPv6 as a matter of fact and that work perfectly.

New comment by betaby in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

betaby — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:57:52 +0000

Nobody is demanding IPv4 either. Or Ethernet. People buy "Wi-Fi", literally "Wi-Fi", not Internet access.

New comment by betaby in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

betaby — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:30:59 +0000

That's why one company should not be allowed being an ISPs and a media company.

New comment by betaby in "Layoff Thinking"

betaby — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:38:40 +0000

> There are a lot of people who retire and die not long after because

Because they are old. Retirement age is close to the death, especially for men. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

New comment by betaby in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

betaby — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:04:46 +0000

Because the West no longer competes with USSR.

New comment by betaby in "Is BGP safe yet?"

betaby — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:12:15 +0000

Path validation is handled by ASPA https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/resource-management...

New comment by betaby in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

betaby — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:56:11 +0000

Money printing and expensive bonds?

New comment by betaby in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

betaby — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:45:05 +0000

Yes. Opens just fine from in NYC and SF.

New comment by betaby in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

betaby — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:32:28 +0000

ISPs just ignored that order.

New comment by betaby in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

betaby — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:30:36 +0000

The article above is about US ISP ordered to block sites for US customer. Not 'globally' enforced. Important difference.

Ofcourse, everybody ( well, outside the UK ) are OK if UK orders UK ISPs blocks sites for their customers.

New comment by betaby in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

betaby — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:49:06 +0000

IP is often enough to correlate things. LittleSnich or whatever is no help - oftentimes data is collected by the app/site directly, and then funneled to various systems via kafka-like brokers. In this case you always have only cobbections to something like cool-application-domain.au

New comment by betaby in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

betaby — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:33:29 +0000

Unlikely. Also it doesn't work well where it needed in the EU.

New comment by betaby in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

betaby — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:27:46 +0000

VK loads just fine from Canada. Rogers and Bell mobile phones to be more specific.

New comment by betaby in "Elite Overproduction"

betaby — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:28:34 +0000

> But when this happens to the educated professional class, all hell breaks loose.

If the programmers fall into the "educated professional class", then no, not in Canada. I personally know people with engineering/science degrees who became "warehouse sorters", baristas, metal workers, parcel deliverers, cooks in cafeteria. Some of them eventually found programming jobs again, others are still employed in blue collar/service jobs after 3+ years.

New comment by betaby in "Google Workspace CLI"

betaby — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:13:29 +0000

I'm curious why `npm` is used to install a `rust` binary?