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New comment by bouncycastle in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

bouncycastle — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:58:52 +0000

freshwater lakes have shellfish too, so it doesn't automatically mean that place was a sea.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

bouncycastle — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:25:01 +0000

Meanwhile, I cannot ask ChatGTP how to pick my own lock. Even though this information is available in a book in the library.

New comment by bouncycastle in "CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers"

bouncycastle — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:10:01 +0000

Cpanel is Perl, not PHP. Probably the grayest of the gray beards. Perhaps not enough Perl Wizards left to maintain it nowadays.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Getting arrested in Japan"

bouncycastle — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:24:04 +0000

Similar, but not the same. Japan is more strict. There is also no Castle Doctrine, so you have to retreat even if you are in your home.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Getting arrested in Japan"

bouncycastle — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:50:46 +0000

another thing in Japan is that you can get arrested for self defence. Say if someone starts attacking you on the street, and eg. you punch back causing an injury, when you could have simply ran away and escaped, then you can get arrested and held for 23 days as a suspect.

So say if someone shoves you on a subway in Tokyo, do not ever shove back or do anything worse. Move away, get witnesses / evidence if you can, then report. (I've also witnessed an attacker try to exploit this rule, where they would intentionally injure themselves during the conflict and then claim that the defendant did it, so be aware of that)

Oh, and other things that can get you arrested:

- Not promptly returning someone's lost property such as a wallet. There was a case here in the newspapers recently.

- A review about a business that damaged their reputation, even if it was true (but you don't have 100% evidence). eg. "I got food poisoning from here". Be very careful what you post and say online as defamation laws are very different.

oh, and maybe not arrested, but get in trouble for: if you place your household rubbish into not your designated collection point, even though the point is the closest to your home. (Also don't get me started on the topic of sorting trash...)

New comment by bouncycastle in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h"

bouncycastle — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:55:21 +0000

Seems reasonable to assume it's something to do with the recently publicized exploits. More likely, this could be an extortion attempt by criminals rather than a competitor.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

bouncycastle — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:51:30 +0000

This is a new space race. From a geopolitical level, a nation that has a better presence on the moon will have a better strategic advantage.

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

bouncycastle — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:14:20 +0000

It has profound foundational influence that continues to this day.

Also, England doesn't need to do anything to ensure that influence of English culture is maintained in the US either.

For as long as we still speak the English language, English culture will continue to live "rent free" in our heads, and that's not going away anytime soon.

This is often cited as a "soft power".

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

bouncycastle — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:07:24 +0000

it's ironic though, that you wrote your comment in English.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

bouncycastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:32:57 +0000

I'd imagine that a transpiler for Perl with this idea would make one-liners even more potent.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Tony Hoare has died"

bouncycastle — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:22:27 +0000

ACEEE IN PRST

New comment by bouncycastle in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

bouncycastle — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:01:07 +0000

drones with mirrors?

New comment by bouncycastle in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

bouncycastle — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:14:40 +0000

Look at books: You can go to your local public library and borrow any book for free, yet new books are still made under that system.

New comment by bouncycastle in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

bouncycastle — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:24:21 +0000

For now you may need a warrant. However, after just a simple law change, it will all be available without a warrant. I'm not saying there will be a law change, only saying that it brings us one step closer to data.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

bouncycastle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 05:22:25 +0000

Recently the USA blew out some some boats in international waters and came back to finish off the survivors, despite thin evidence and no due process, while maintaining that it was legal. If those data centers on ships ever become declared as a 'threat to national security' then they might get the same treatment.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Don't Download Apps"

bouncycastle — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:01:53 +0000

Why wouldn't this physical sign be the same? "If you step your foot over this stone, you agree to the following terms:"

New comment by bouncycastle in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

bouncycastle — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:12:12 +0000

Also, the Indonesia that most Australians only ever visit is Bali, which is mostly Hindu.

New comment by bouncycastle in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

bouncycastle — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:16:37 +0000

back in my day, we had these buildings called 'libraries' which were filled wall-to-wall with many different types of copyright material. Mainly books, but also comics, newspapers and magazines, that you could legally read and also borrow and take home for a few days, for FREE!!

New comment by bouncycastle in "How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS"

bouncycastle — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:39:47 +0000

different provinces have different demographics and therefore slightly different sentiment?

New comment by bouncycastle in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

bouncycastle — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:47:34 +0000

sometimes swap seems to accumulate even though there is plenty of ram. It is too "greedy" by default, probably set for desktops not servers in mind.

Therefore it is better to always tune "vm.swappiness" to 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf

You can also configure your web server / TCP stack buffers / file limits so they never allocate memory over the physical ram available. (eg. in nginx you can setup worker/connection limits and buffer sizes.)