Hacker News: boring_twenties

New comment by boring_twenties in "How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends"

boring_twenties — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:18:42 +0000

Well the obvious answer there is that port scans shouldn't be considered abuse absent other factors like rising to the level of a DoS.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Syncthing: Open-Source Continuous File Sync with Privacy in Mind"

boring_twenties — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:59:59 +0000

That isn't going to handle possibly conflicting changes from more than one source.

New comment by boring_twenties in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

boring_twenties — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:57:18 +0000

Whatever you may think of what OP's buddies were doing, there is no way to apply any reasonable meaning of the word "stealing" to it.

There is indeed plenty murky here, and it is mostly coming from you in an attempt to incorrectly use an emotionally-loaded word in order to deceive people into supporting your position.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux"

boring_twenties — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:54:11 +0000

> Plus, if you don’t like it, reconfigure it. It’s only the default, after all.

Or -- and I know this is crazy but hear me out here -- if you don't like it, and it brings nothing but problems to the table, just don't use it at all.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Linux: We need tiling desktop environments"

boring_twenties — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:29:57 +0000

Xmonad integrates nicely with xfce and MATE, at least. Probably KDE as well.

New comment by boring_twenties in "DEF CON's response to the badge controversy"

boring_twenties — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:18:06 +0000

Here's not only the IC but an entire development board for $0.95: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805283269799.html

New comment by boring_twenties in "Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right"

boring_twenties — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:30:35 +0000

Android supports this but as usual with Android, it's shoddy and broken.

For example, if you log out of a secondary profile and log back in, all your widgets will be gone. I don't have the bug link handy but IIRC, it's been open since 2021.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Show HN: I created an app for you to be a more unpredictable romantic partner"

boring_twenties — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:01:24 +0000

I am having a hard time understanding how you could even ask for all this personal information with a straight face for an app like this. In fact why would any kind of account at all be required?

Given the apparent simplicity of the app I don't see any other conclusion than this is a pure and shameless gimmick to collect this information from people.

As far as I can tell this can be replaced by a plain text file of suggestions and a random number generator. Of course I'm not sure about this since I am never going to never going to submit to the requirements to find out.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Meta outage"

boring_twenties — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:31:57 +0000

Well you can't expect to hire engineers with half a brain for the pitiful compensation Meta offers, can you?

New comment by boring_twenties in "Meta outage"

boring_twenties — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:22:45 +0000

Beyond unbelievable that going on an hour later, they're still showing "incorrect password" errors. How many hundreds of millions of people have wasted time frantically trying (in vain) to reset their passwords and pointlessly freaking out that their account might be compromised? What a bunch of careless, incompetent excuses for engineers.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Startup Culture Runs on Bullshit"

boring_twenties — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:57:02 +0000

I don't see any suggestions for improvement in your critique of this article, either. Which would make your comment whining by your own definition

New comment by boring_twenties in "Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD"

boring_twenties — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:45:01 +0000

Why would you bother with the second CPU just for irssi? You would probably notice the energy savings from removing it

New comment by boring_twenties in "A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that"

boring_twenties — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:19:14 +0000

Oh wow, another reason to be terrified to go to Florida :)

New comment by boring_twenties in "A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that"

boring_twenties — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:43:15 +0000

Yeah, I went to a Korean place serving "live octopus." They bring it out and cut it up with scissors in front of you. The individual pieces of tentacle continue to move and flex. If you don't chew them real good they will try to suction to your throat (and possibly choke you to death). Turnabout is fair play, I guess

New comment by boring_twenties in "A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that"

boring_twenties — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:40:59 +0000

I'm pretty sure there are no crocodiles in Florida, only alligators.

New comment by boring_twenties in "“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement"

boring_twenties — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:22:10 +0000

I use AntennaPod from F-Droid, and it has the following search options, in this order: Apple, fyyd, gpodder, Podcast Index.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet"

boring_twenties — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:09:59 +0000

You have yet to give a single reason why it needs to be public

If you need to sue me for dumping chemicals, you can pretty well be bothered to go down to the clerk and show your own ID. It's not a problem. There is no need for my home address to be searchable by the whole Internet

New comment by boring_twenties in "Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet"

boring_twenties — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:45:42 +0000

You have it exactly backwards. Why should anyone on the whole Internet have access to my physical address? I reject someone's pull request on github and now I have to worry they might show up at my door? Fuck everything about that.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet"

boring_twenties — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:16:41 +0000

What benefit is there to society or really, anyone to public records for private property ownership?

In my city, you can go to a website, type the first three characters of a name, and instantly get the full names and addresses of anyone who matches and owns a home.

To my mind, this is beyond absurd. This is a major safety risk with no benefits whatsoever. It's also the #1 reason I continue to rent.

New comment by boring_twenties in "Plastic bag bans work"

boring_twenties — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:21:52 +0000

That sounds like a lot more effort than just avoiding places that give you shitty paper straws instead of proper plastic ones