Hacker News: dfc

New comment by dfc in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

dfc — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:46:19 +0000

One of my favorite readings from undergrad and grad school was "The Problem of Social Costs" by R. Coase. I'm sorry you think externalities are glossed over by economics, but Im excited to tell you that this is certainly not the case. Coase won the Nobel Prize in economics in large part for his work on externalities. They don't hand out Nobel prizes for glossed over topics. It's definitely worth a read of you wish economics paid more attention to externalities:

https://www.law.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/file/coase-...

New comment by dfc in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

dfc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:16:52 +0000

I get a 404 when I try and view the CitizenLab report:

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exp...

New comment by dfc in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

dfc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:33:05 +0000

There is a "How to opt out" section in TFA.

New comment by dfc in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

dfc — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:26:54 +0000

The three months difference must be based on a wild corner case. What cities are you basing that statement on?

I played around with weatherspark and all the places I tried looked like this :

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/1705~8813/Comparison-of-t...

New comment by dfc in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

dfc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:13:05 +0000

It looks like it probably won't matter. The site says you can preorder a DevKit "Shipping between June and September 2025."

The fact that they haven't updated that webpage with new information since October 1st 2025 seems to indicate bad news...

New comment by dfc in "Urea prices"

dfc — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:05:21 +0000

What is a WITCH or AFS?

New comment by dfc in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

dfc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:57:04 +0000

If you think Hollywood content is worthless why bother pirating it at all? It seems like you would just not consume it.

New comment by dfc in "The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database"

dfc — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:32:53 +0000

If you like this there has been a interesting discussion on the tzdb mailing list about how to handle the Vancouver change and the next releases of the tzdb and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/IE...

New comment by dfc in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

dfc — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:33:37 +0000

I was with you until you said California. You think that Californians are understand Southern or Midwestern culture?

New comment by dfc in "GNU Texmacs"

dfc — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:45:53 +0000

What is toast? I have not heard of it. I thought you wrote pandoc at first.

New comment by dfc in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

dfc — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:21:38 +0000

How many games did you have to throw away because stockfish wanted to castle? Or did you force stockfish to not castle? Castling seems like such a frequent move it is hard to draw any conclusions about the strength of an engine that does not support it.

New comment by dfc in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

dfc — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:01:27 +0000

You have worked for the same company for >55 years? That's wild. Can you share the industry?

New comment by dfc in "Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland"

dfc — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:48:17 +0000

At first I thought "desktop shell" was supposed to be compositor, but that's not the case, a wayland compositor like sway is a requirement. I've been using sway for years I have no idea what a "shell" is? It's somewhere in between a desktop environment and a theme?

New comment by dfc in "Flameshot"

dfc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:22:36 +0000

Thank you. I tried that. Having the interface run under Xwayland caused a ton of problems with my monitors. I also don't use a lot of QT apps so not being able to paste was a problem.

New comment by dfc in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

dfc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:16:24 +0000

Yes I saw that and also took it to mean the person didn't read the article. A text to your phone number? The article never mentions SMS. Heck I think the 2g/3g "feature" does not even require the phone to even have a SIM installed. This next sentence also seems to have been written without reading the article: "This can be turned off, since implementation."

New comment by dfc in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

dfc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:04:17 +0000

What law requires carriers to keep Cell Site Location Information for 2 years?

New comment by dfc in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

dfc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:57:15 +0000

> It must have a tamper-resistant identifier (IMEI number ... kind of).

What is the tamper resistant number that is kind of the IMEI?

New comment by dfc in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

dfc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:45:19 +0000

Did you read the article or are you merely responding to the title? The article begins by acknowledging triangulation and then moving on to the point of the article. The article is about commands built into the UMTS and LTE specs for requesting GPS from the device. Your comment seems to be about everything but the main point of the article.

New comment by dfc in "Flameshot"

dfc — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:01:20 +0000

Thank you so much. This has been such a pain for me when I write documentation.

New comment by dfc in "Flameshot"

dfc — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:13:54 +0000

Flameshot with sway has been a nightmare for me. I have tried a couple of times but i have never gotten it to work. I have settled with grimshot. The biggest missed feature is the number annotator. It was so easy with flameshot to annotate a screenshot with 1-9 and then refer to each number in a document. I really miss flameshot:(