Hacker News: ceinewydd

New comment by ceinewydd in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

ceinewydd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:01:06 +0000

Why should he have to afford heavy security? Why is this behavior normal?

New comment by ceinewydd in "State of Homelab 2026"

ceinewydd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:45:53 +0000

Looking forward to the follow up post, State of Bunker 2029.

New comment by ceinewydd in "Live facial recognition cameras may become 'commonplace' as police use soars"

ceinewydd — Sun, 25 May 2025 00:17:07 +0000

This isn't really surprising from the UK. If you go back 15-20 years, taxing a vehicle to drive on public roads used to involve displaying a "Tax Disc" in your windscreen, on the off-side of the vehicle.

They abolished this system in 2014 [1] because they'd long since reached saturation of permanent Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) readers [2] from >11000 cameras on UK roads, and scanning over 50 million vehicles per day.

It's also common to have 'Average Speed' systems on major roads and even country roads where the accident rate exceeds a threshold defined by the local councils. Those will issue you a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) and points on your licence for a moving violation if you exceed the speed limit. Beyond the 'Average Speed' infrastructure is a giant number of fixed cameras which measure speed and capture imagery of your vehicle, number plate, and the driver and automatically issue the PCN for speeding, and mobile vans operated by the authorities and deployed anywhere they consider a "hotspot".

All of this costs you money immediately to pay the PCN, costs you money over time because insurers hike their rates, and after 2-4 violations in 36 months, can result in you losing your ability to drive and trigger an extended "retake driving test" (after your disqualification period).

This is much more draconian than the United States where in many states a moving violation (like a speeding infraction) will only be processed by a policeman pulling you over for a chat.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-tax-changes

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...

New comment by ceinewydd in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

ceinewydd — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:17:30 +0000

This exists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN

New comment by ceinewydd in "Happy New Year 2025"

ceinewydd — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:31:08 +0000

Happy New Year, HN!

New comment by ceinewydd in "Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)"

ceinewydd — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:40:24 +0000

A fair number of sites hosted and operated outside the European Union reacted to GDPR by instituting blocks of EU users, many returning HTTP 451. Regardless of whether you believe GDPR is a good idea or not (that's beyond the scope of this comment), the disparity in statutory and regulatory approaches plus widely varying (often poor) levels of 'plain language' clarity in obligations, and inconsistent enforcement, it all leads to entirely understandable decisions like this and more of a divided internet.

Thank you to those who have tirelessly run these online communities for decades, I'm sorry we can't collectively elect lawmakers who are more educated about the real challenges online, and thoughtful on real ways to solve them.

Okta fixes a rather embarrassing, but serious, password flaw

ceinewydd — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:48:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/okta-fixes-a-rather-embarrassing-but-very-serious-password-flaw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42043360

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Anonymous Sudan Charged with Seeking to Kill Using Cyberattacks on Hospitals

ceinewydd — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 03:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-us-department-of-justice-cybersecurity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866108

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Microsoft's largest ever security transformation detailed in new report

ceinewydd — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24251945/microsoft-security-report-secure-future-initiative

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635856

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ceinewydd in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

ceinewydd — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:17:28 +0000

https://x.com/filosottile/status/987376021589692416?s=21

I'm not sure that counts as an impeccable track record.

New comment by ceinewydd in "Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time"

ceinewydd — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 01:49:35 +0000

For me, Firefox and without iCloud Private Relay engaged, Maxmind is within about 2km and doesn't get the city correct (but we're right on a border), and IPinfo is about 15km as the crow flies (and gets the city entirely wrong).

New comment by ceinewydd in "Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary"

ceinewydd — Mon, 27 May 2024 14:21:39 +0000

Why does your website just say “ROFLMAO” — pretty hard to take seriously.

New comment by ceinewydd in "AWS CEO Stepping Down"

ceinewydd — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:06:28 +0000

There’s a middle ground:

For cloud-like provisioning experiences and paying by the hour you can use DigitalOcean, Vultr, or alternatives.

Deploying GPUs? Something like CoreWeave may be optimal.

Want inexpensive costs for dedicated hosts? Hetzner, OVH.

There are many, many advantages to using AWS but equally many alternatives that are viable and which aren’t “doing it yourself” in a hardware and network sense.

None of this is to say DIY is a terrible choice either and everyone’s got an opportunity to consider time (initial setup; ongoing maint), costs, and also expertise and ability to do a good job.

New comment by ceinewydd in "2024 iPad Pro benchmarks blow every PC we've tested for past 6 months–except one"

ceinewydd — Tue, 14 May 2024 03:42:14 +0000

I’m hoping that they finally execute an M4 Extreme, oriented towards Mac Pro. There was rumor they’d do this in M2 era but it didn’t come to pass unfortunately.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/10/03/m2-extreme/

New comment by ceinewydd in "Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild"

ceinewydd — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:08:16 +0000

Be aware that discussing anything in the CM5 Forward Guidance document is tricky, the document still says -

"This whitepaper is restricted and covered by the Raspberry Pi Ltd non-disclosure agreement (NDA). It should not be copied, shared, or duplicated without permission."

New comment by ceinewydd in "Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild"

ceinewydd — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:58:36 +0000

They get installed in stuff like the Home Assistant Yellow, or the Timecard Mini.

https://www.home-assistant.io/yellow/

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/time-card-mini-adds-p...

New comment by ceinewydd in "Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild"

ceinewydd — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:57:24 +0000

Eben Upton was refusing to be drawn on specifics when Jeff Geerling and others chatted to him [1] about roadmaps recently. Nevertheless, the rumor is that CM5 will be drop-in compatible with the CM4, the details of that have been available via their NDA portal [2] for a few months now, but I think even this leak on Twitter (just a box with a label) is a breach of an NDA / embargo, so we might not know officially for a little bit yet?

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-compu...

[2] https://pip.raspberrypi.com/categories/945-forward-guidance

Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild

ceinewydd — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:12:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/xoseperez/status/1790031351443341357

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345596

Points: 53

# Comments: 37

New comment by ceinewydd in "Jellyfin 10.9.0"

ceinewydd — Sun, 12 May 2024 04:28:11 +0000

Every 12 months or so because it’s mostly automated with netboot.xyz and Ansible.

New comment by ceinewydd in "Jellyfin 10.9.0"

ceinewydd — Sun, 12 May 2024 03:58:40 +0000

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS went EOL in May 2023 for anyone not paying Canonical for ESM, so their choice to not build for it seems entirely reasonable.