Hacker News: cuu508

New comment by cuu508 in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

cuu508 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:43:33 +0000

It values your privacy in the sense that "it is absolutely worth something so I'mma take it thanks"

New comment by cuu508 in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

cuu508 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:07:36 +0000

But with Cloudflare tunnel (and similar tools), there are no open ports on the origin server.

New comment by cuu508 in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

cuu508 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:39:16 +0000

Do you mean by getting the information from Cloudflare, or some other way? With DynDNS though, finding out my IP is trivial and does not require any special powers or skills, it is just a DNS lookup.

PS. Just re-watched your matrix LED pendant video. It is so well done, both the project, and the accompanying video!

New comment by cuu508 in "Minimal Phone 2"

cuu508 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:28:33 +0000

This and Clicks Communicator seem eerily similar.

New comment by cuu508 in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

cuu508 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:23:05 +0000

If somebody learns that such-and-such DynDNS URL is mine, they can always do a DNS lookup to find my current IP address. They can:

- find my approximate physical location

- regularly scan ports on my IP and wait for me to accidentally expose a service I didn't mean to

- track me in any access logs they have access to

New comment by cuu508 in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

cuu508 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:26:10 +0000

Yeah, but then you are always exposing your public IP.

New comment by cuu508 in "Don't Make Job Referrals Public"

cuu508 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:11:42 +0000

Perhaps this is not their entire defense strategy, just the first layer?

New comment by cuu508 in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

cuu508 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:19:26 +0000

I don't have and don't want to have an agent

New comment by cuu508 in "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"

cuu508 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:36:01 +0000

Very cool, I like the conceptual simplicity of it. Even I can understand it, at least at a surface level :-)

Is there a safe way to make backups of the index.lmdb and data0 files without stopping the server?

New comment by cuu508 in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

cuu508 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:55:27 +0000

*scraping

New comment by cuu508 in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

cuu508 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:53:34 +0000

It's a good time to reduce the reliance on technology.

Throw out the IoT and "smart" stuff from your home. Remove apps from your phone and leave the absolute basics. Go through the password manager and close accounts for sites you are no longer using. Start migrating off Google. Print out your most precious photos on paper. And so on :-)

New comment by cuu508 in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

cuu508 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:25:51 +0000

> 8. I understand that LGE will retain the collected Voice Information for 6 months to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, and after this period, it will be deleted or anonymized, depending on the case.

Somehow feels like it might be used for more than just wake word detection.

New comment by cuu508 in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

cuu508 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:17:55 +0000

If you are wealthy, it does not matter if they are expensive. If they have any impact, why not?

New comment by cuu508 in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

cuu508 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:50:22 +0000

> 125 miles. That’s less than two hours of driving.

Assuming you have a straight road in that direction with a speed limit that allows an average speed of more than 100km/h.

New comment by cuu508 in "Playa Phone"

cuu508 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:18:39 +0000

"You already have impressive event experience going, but do you know if AIs are recommending it? I will set up llms.txt for free for you, no pressure, not trying to pitch anything. If not interested, just reply 'not interested'".

New comment by cuu508 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

cuu508 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:01:26 +0000

Yeah, that's a very good counter-argument. I recently talked to a potter exactly like that, they said Instagram is their primary sales channel. Unlike for me, for them leaving would have significant financial consequences. The majority of users are not in this situation though.

New comment by cuu508 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

cuu508 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:58:15 +0000

The utility is not of existential importance. Yes, you can uninstall Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and the sky will not fall, life will just go on.

New comment by cuu508 in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell"

cuu508 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:35:42 +0000

I recently got one of those emails, interestingly leading with "I came across your profile on Hacker News".

Once I understood the proposal, I thought this would be horror job cognitive dissonance-wise. So unethical.

I also had a conspiracy theory – perhaps the "we can't pass interviews, so you do the interviews, and we do the job, win-win" is just a cover for the real play – shady anonymous orgs getting access to infrastructure and data of various western businesses, using you as a facade.

New comment by cuu508 in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

cuu508 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:35:19 +0000

> I don’t think either of us is going to change the other’s mind, so I’ll leave it here.

So so so disappointing.

New comment by cuu508 in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

cuu508 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:21:24 +0000

Uninstall them.