Hacker News: chgs

New comment by chgs in "Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down"

chgs — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:16:23 +0000

HN loves cloudflare. The majority here aren’t of the ethos of the distributed internet of days of old, it’s the “how can I monetise this hustle” ethos. Sad really.

New comment by chgs in "Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down"

chgs — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:15:09 +0000

I have 6 upstream, but that’s for each of two dns serves in home (one on my pi, one on the jellyfin), so I guess that’s 12 upstream together.

New comment by chgs in "Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE"

chgs — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:30:51 +0000

People voluntarily used loyalty cards well before then.

New comment by chgs in "Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any"

chgs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:35:05 +0000

How many years did it take to take out bin laden?

New comment by chgs in "Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any"

chgs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:18:53 +0000

China killing millions of Americans as they cook in their batteries is different to a nuclear bomb or a biological weapon?

Hell it’s more attributable.

New comment by chgs in "Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any"

chgs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:35:52 +0000

You think that wouldn’t escalate to nuclear exchange in days?

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:01:12 +0000

They key would be hashed with the user’s details (ip address, value in a session cookie etc) so someone else can’t reuse it. Hell there are things like elliptic curves and DH which still seem magic to me.

Now sure if the identity provider and the site work together they could negate the anonymity, but given that for the identity provider anonymisation would be the key selling feature they wouldn’t want to risk that. Mullvad I’m sure would be trustworthy enough.

New comment by chgs in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

chgs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:46:55 +0000

bbc news is full of tracking despite not showing adverts.

New comment by chgs in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

chgs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:34:36 +0000

Almost all content I consume is not funded by adverts, it’s funded by passion or subscription or donation.

Adverts have no positive effects for anyone other than the advertising firm. They cost the viewer more than the provide the advertiser

New comment by chgs in "Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:33:46 +0000

I have no doubt China would offer a far better location somewhere like Shanghai. The intelligence benefits of so many foreign diplomats and spies walking your street, drinking in your bars, paying your hookers, is incalculable.

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:29:44 +0000

Doesn’t really matter surely, you only need to trust the identity provider not to leak your identity and your porn provider not to have a key that your identity provider can link to.

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:44:17 +0000

When it comes to nudity and sex America has always been puritanical.

Blood and guns, sure. Freedumb

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:40:01 +0000

If the Supreme Court agrees they are constitutional then they clearly are constitutional, unless you think the constitution doesn’t apply

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:36:20 +0000

Site generates random key

Key and verification passed to verifier

Verified list is published

Site pulls list and checks its number has been verified

Site doesn’t know who it is, and verifier doesn’t know which site was verified against

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:34:40 +0000

We can’t do it because our priority as an industry is to get data to monetise. Anonymity is a bug, not a feature.

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:23:56 +0000

> but that’s way beyond the technical capability of probably 95% of people.

It really isn’t, and even if it were an ISP could offer it. Indeed I believe most ISPs do (I chose one which is unfiltered, I do my own filtering at a router and dns level, the biggest threat is DoH)

New comment by chgs in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:22:08 +0000

Us techbros like it when Bezos and Zuck and Musk have all the information, because you can “vote with your dollar” and avoid them.

New comment by chgs in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

chgs — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:28:09 +0000

If the time was :11 and :12 there’s between 0.01 and 2 seconds between. If they were both at :11 then it’s between 0.01 and 1 second.

New comment by chgs in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

chgs — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:13:26 +0000

How is that related to the method of selecting the government of Israel?

New comment by chgs in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

chgs — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:31:42 +0000

It’s Facebook that causes genocide, not Twitter. Funny how the left gives sick a far easier pass.