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New comment by boomboomsubban in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

boomboomsubban — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:22:52 +0000

3000 fifteen minute clips is 750 hours, or 31 days. A lot, but not five years.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet"

boomboomsubban — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:12:02 +0000

The trackers are part of CCSO’s pretrial house arrest program, so presumably a number of them are attached to people who did no crimes.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:05:30 +0000

They're probably pricing for a long time sales centered strategy, the old games seem to constantly get recommended to me during steam sales. And I doubt they were going to have a massive release at any price, it's too niche of a thing.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:14:24 +0000

I doubt it's that pricy. I believe you print a regular poster with a special image then apply the textured layer on top.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:34:25 +0000

Plus the main point of this code is to have people look at it, the function is secondary to being an easter egg.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:32:49 +0000

Cynically, to make a documentary and get articles written. None of the rules they mention seem that extreme, they're just wording it in an unusual way.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "How to earn a billion dollars"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:25:34 +0000

Aren't shoe companies notoriously scummy in regards to human rights? Nike has quite a lengthy controversies section on Wikipedia, and they're where a lot of his money came from.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "OpenBSD 7.9"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:04:45 +0000

>We can't really export anything to those "rogue states" anyway

Sure, but there are additional laws regarding cryptography, even in publicly available software.

"Rogue states" is a legal designation, we can both dislike it as much as we want but I doubt the US will change it's view

New comment by boomboomsubban in "OpenBSD 7.9"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:53:32 +0000

If I remember, it's still illegal to export to "rogue states," Iran and North Korea being the major two, and terrorist organizations. But I don't think anybody has been charged for it and there's reason to suspect it wouldn't hold up given the pgp ruling.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:03:45 +0000

That was not clear to me. Dunno why people are making such a big deal out of "if you want more info, go here."

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:45:28 +0000

There's a picture of a box with a bunch of playing cards on top of it, then a picture of a building that has one. I found it insufficient and thought others might too.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:17:22 +0000

As I found the article did a poor job of demonstrating what a swift brick is, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_brick

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:29:12 +0000

Huh? IA not doing what they claim seems fairly important to their point.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:31:09 +0000

>about the paywall workarounds that are frequent on HN—I was genuinely shocked to learn they hadn’t heard about it.

Is the Internet Archive regularly used as a paywall workaround? Generally it's archive.is, which has no connection to the IA.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:11:42 +0000

HN search is fantastic, it doesn't look like it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:12:23 +0000

It also makes them appear larger, there's so much in there the bun can't contain it all.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:44:14 +0000

The router ban affects routers made in foreign countries, Netgear's headquarters should be irrelevant. The author's previous article spells this out better https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-20...

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:32:34 +0000

IA makes torrents for basically everything on it's site.

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

boomboomsubban — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:39:50 +0000

Does "report not spam" do anything? A local business will send me a receipt from a gmail address, and every time it's marked as spam despite it telling me future mail from this address will not be tagged as spam.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:34:25 +0000

If you found a dog on the street then you probably don't have any actual dog food. A hot dog seems like one of the best options in an average fridge.