Hacker News: dariosalvi78

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

dariosalvi78 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:40:06 +0000

Digital single market, digital sovereignty and all those nice words...

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Stop Using JWTs"

dariosalvi78 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:24:53 +0000

with cookies you can restrict them to HttpOnly so that they are not exposed to client-side scripts. This reduces the chances of XSS to access the long-lived access tokens (JWT or session ids).

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

dariosalvi78 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:53:41 +0000

was going to say this.. open sourcing Chinese models will enforce Chinese dominance instead of reducing it. When an open Chinese model becomes the best alternative to inaccessible closed US models guess what everybody will start to use. And that same open model may embed certain narratives and values that please the Chinese government.

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

dariosalvi78 — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:58:14 +0000

I wrote a short University essay on Freenet in 1998 I think it was... I may still have the document somewhere. Good stuff, very pioneer!

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

dariosalvi78 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:33:23 +0000

it's La Liga, what do you expect?

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

dariosalvi78 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:55:33 +0000

it's not the choice, it's the argument: OP seems to be happy to give up freedom (he or she initially cherished) because everything now is crap anyways, so let's just bathe in shit and celebrate it...

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

dariosalvi78 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:53:13 +0000

I used to own a house, I could decorate it the way I wanted. It was hard work, but it was mine!

Then they locked it, so I went to live in a luxury hotel, it's more expensive, I can't decide how I want it and I don't own anything, but it's such a superior experience!

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub"

dariosalvi78 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:20:08 +0000

the issue is with jupyter notebooks because they keep some of the data in the output (typically a few rows, but still). They should strongly recommend to use regular python scripts, and keep the jupyter books just for verification, which is a very sane thing to do also from a SW engineering perspective.

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

dariosalvi78 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:49:04 +0000

No heart rate sensor

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

dariosalvi78 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0000

you think that a few deaths would stop this? optimistic...

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

dariosalvi78 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:56:55 +0000

> In the Summer of 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council released a non-binding resolution condemning intentional disruption of internet access by governments. The resolution reaffirmed that "the same rights people have offline must also be protected online." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

dariosalvi78 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:55:14 +0000

it's institutional corruption at all levels, legislative, executive and judicial. A systemic failure that favour abnormous private profits over basic rights of the citizens.

The effort required to change the situation is massive.

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

dariosalvi78 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:45:44 +0000

these things need to be brought to an international court who would require the government to act. Otherwise nothing happens, because institutions are completely corrupt.

It takes time, money and a strong legal team, but maybe IT companies maybe can put this together?

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

dariosalvi78 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:41:09 +0000

maybe China is right: one app to rule them all

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

dariosalvi78 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:39:39 +0000

it's not complicated at all, it's how operating systems present them to the users.

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

dariosalvi78 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:39:35 +0000

not even the older generations. My parents save files on the Whatsapp chat, and my father is one who bought the first IBM PC when it came out, so someone who has touched these things for decades (tho very superficially).

I think that the software industry, especially operating systems, have completely failed to provide a balanced product between the overly bloated and messed up (Windows), the overly complicated (Linux) and the overly simplified (Android/iOS).

Maybe some Linux distros are now at the right spot, I was positively surprised by PopOS to give an example, but it's too late. With AI this is only going to get worse.

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

dariosalvi78 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:33:01 +0000

> While Louis Mosley, the executive vice-chair of Palantir in the UK, maintains that such campaigns are ideologically motivated and could harm patient care,

this is EXACTLY why it is of outmost importance to own those critical systems, and not delegate them to foreign companies, especially if from a country explicitly hostile towards Europe

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products"

dariosalvi78 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:53:01 +0000

biohacking? it's snus and it's dangerous: https://www.fhi.no/en/publ/2019/health-risks-from-snus-use2/

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

dariosalvi78 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:39:09 +0000

in Italy it was WinZozz (zozzo = dirty)

New comment by dariosalvi78 in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

dariosalvi78 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:18:31 +0000

passkeys are a great idea, but poorly implemented