Hacker News: clsec

New comment by clsec in "2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map"

clsec — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:18:06 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out! It turns out that the latest update to qBittorrent started binding to all available adapters. I just set it to only use my VPN's adapter and all seems to be fine now. Thanks again!

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/14bzdct/psa_qb...

New comment by clsec in "NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF"

clsec — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:43:03 +0000

I know I'm late on this, but..

"That means residents and visitors to San Francisco will be able to pay a fare to ride in a driverless taxi, ushering in new automated competition to cab and ridehail drivers." [1]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/tech/robotaxi-vote-san-franci...

btw - are they going to check ID's??

New comment by clsec in "2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map"

clsec — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:37:50 +0000

I'm surprised that no one has said anything about the fact that this is put out by a VPN company!

I also could not find their name on the map. It doesn't mean that it's not there, I just couldn't find them. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

The only thing I find a VPN useful for is torrenting w/o your ISP knowing. In my case, I use Surfshark for torrenting so that Comcast can't send me any of those pesky letters.

New comment by clsec in "Chronic Pain: Finding Relief with the Benefits of Cannabis"

clsec — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:43:29 +0000

While I differ from others responding, in the fact that I do find pain relief from cannabis, this is not the place to get your information from [1].

[1] https://spinfuel.com/legal/ "Spinfuel eMagazine is a professional e-cigarette news and review website, staffed and operated by people that purchase, use, and enjoy electronic cigarettes. As such, we receive sample products for the purpose of review, though more than 50% of the products reviewed are purchased by Spinfuel. We do not receive any sort of compensation from vendors, manufacturers, or anyone else for writing reviews, commentary, or guides."

New comment by clsec in "The new science of meditation"

clsec — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:20:20 +0000

Citation please!

New comment by clsec in "NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF"

clsec — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:41:31 +0000

Why is that? It's a fully public taxi service that will probably be heavily marketed in Fisherman's Wharf/Pier 39.

New comment by clsec in "NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF"

clsec — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:34:27 +0000

No, the California Public Utilities Commission just approved them to take fares. Unfortunately San Franciscans have had very little, if anything, to say in any of this.

New comment by clsec in "Living Wage Calculator"

clsec — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 19:58:58 +0000

A yearly food cost of $4,686 for a single adult w/o children in San Francisco County? Not quite, more like $6,000-7,200 per year or $500-$600/mo.

New comment by clsec in "Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company"

clsec — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:24:49 +0000

I can't even count the number of times Taylor Swift and her concert tour have been on the news in the past two weeks.

New comment by clsec in "Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp"

clsec — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 18:19:20 +0000

Yep. I've been WF free since the mid-late 90's. They've been at this as long as I've been using a bank (1980).

Credit Unions FTW!

New comment by clsec in "Blocked by Cloudflare"

clsec — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 16:38:26 +0000

It happens to me all the time. And it has been going on for years, but it's getting noticeably worse over time. One way or another you have to pay to use the web, be it costing you loss of access because of your strict privacy settings or paying by giving away your privacy. There's no win here..

New comment by clsec in "Write your passwords down (2010)"

clsec — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:32:26 +0000

My laptop, phone, ISP, banking, medical & KeePass passwords are written on paper in a fireproof safe.. I also keep offline backups of my KeePass database.

New comment by clsec in "Remembering the Slip: the Manhattan street that birthed a generation of artists"

clsec — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:16:23 +0000

San Francisco was like that until the first tech boom in the late 90's. After that most of the artists moved to the East Bay and Portland.

New comment by clsec in "Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis"

clsec — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:18:01 +0000

Seeing lots of comments about over scheduling children's free time.

I took music lessons, did Cub Scouts Weeblos & Boy Scouts, played little league, played Pop Warner & high school football and ran track. All after school activities.

As for freedom.. I took SF MUNI, BART, Ferries and Golden Gate Transit starting at 7 year old. Any free time I had was spent playing with friends. And I had to be home by the time the street lights came on.

So it is possible to have a lot of after school activities and plenty of time to play with friends and explore the world.

New comment by clsec in "Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools"

clsec — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:03:30 +0000

I took SF MUNI to & from school in second grade. I took GG Transit to the city from 9-14 y/o and then MUNI when I got there. I also took the ferries and BART fairly regularly as well. All by myself.

New comment by clsec in "Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?"

clsec — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:15:42 +0000

Yeah, if the article posted had been accurate the headline would have been: "Why did it take psychedelics, other than LSD, so long to become popular?"

Here's the outline of the study* from UoM: https://news.umich.edu/hallucinogen-use-other-than-lsd-on-th...

*the actual study link is in the UoM outline

New comment by clsec in "A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)"

clsec — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:06:18 +0000

As someone who lives along a very busy thoroughfare in San Francisco (where there are a lot of Porches & other supercars) I can say that they are the quietest of all the gas powered supercars.

New comment by clsec in "Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website"

clsec — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:27:37 +0000

Love it, this did not trigger any of my security add-ons!

New comment by clsec in "S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’"

clsec — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 23:05:28 +0000

I guess we hang in different circles because I don't know anyone who supports them.

New comment by clsec in "S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’"

clsec — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:51:42 +0000

You are absolutely correct.