<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: didntcheck</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=didntcheck</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:09:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=didntcheck" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by didntcheck in "Privilege is bad grammar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep<p>> If I had sent out an email with even a quarter of the typos they had, I probably would've lost my job.<p>I don't know their life, and they may be right, but I think they may well just be imagining it. I also went from excessive formality to short conversational tone as I became more experienced. But it wasn't due to any promotions, but because I realized nobody had ever cared<p>I mean this is a standard cliché even in fictional works: the young new worker who keeps falling over themselves to perform what they think is necessary formality, only to be shown that they can just chill out and act like a human</p>
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<p>A wedding is a social event with friends and family. I am going there to see the people. A flight is a functional form of transport which is shared out of necessity. I am going there to pay as little mind to the other people as possible</p>
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<p>How well does Zulip protect users' privacy against snooping admins? I.e., does it have E2EE DMs? Unfortunately, this is a legitimate threat to be concerned about</p>
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<p>> It's worth pointing out that in France and the UK, the authorities involved are arms length independent of the political bodies<p>As someone who has lived in (and followed current affairs) in both of these countries, this is a very idealistic and naïve view. There can be a big gap between theory and practice<p>> There are statutory instruments (in France, constitutional clauses), that determine the independence of these authorities.<p>> They are tasked - and held to account by respective legislative bodies -<p>It's worth nothing here that the UK doesn't have separation of powers or a supreme court (in the US sense)</p>
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<p>> Patreon gives creators the option to either increase their prices in the iOS app only, or absorb the fee themselves, keeping prices the same across platforms.<p>I'm curious what percentage of creators chose which</p>
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<p>Yes. It's improved now, but the mobile web was <i>bad</i> for a long time. The early days of Android experienced a "web-first" ecosystem by force, as lazy businesses just threw a webview around their site, and it was awful</p>
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<p>It's not users who are pushing this. It started off with just superfluous but optional apps of websites. Now every year I find there is something I used to be able to do, which I now <i>must</i> own a smartphone to do. And it's not just getting discounts at coffee chains, it's increasingly stuff like accessing healthcare plan benefits, or verifying my identity for banking<p>A few sites throw up a blocking screen to download the app, which disappears once you spoof a desktop UA. But the big problem is businesses now having no web interface <i>at all</i></p>
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<p>On the contrary, this thread seems to have a large number of users who can't handle criticism of Wikipedia without responding with unfounded assumptions and insinuations about the critic</p>
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<p>Sure, and you're free to<p>1. Save $14 for retirement and not watch Youtube<p>2. Save $14 for retirement and watch Youtube with ads<p>3. Pay $14 a month for Youtube without ads<p>The only option that's not fair is expecting private companies and creators to give you entertainment and its delivery with nothing in return</p>
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<p>That's true, but the same may already be true of your browser's cookie file. I believe Chrome on MacOS and Windows (unsure about Linux) now does use OS features to prevent it being read from other executables, but Firefox doesn't (yet)<p>But protecting specific directories is just whack-a-mole. The real fix is to properly sandbox code - an access whitelist rather than endlessly updating a patchy blacklist</p>
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<p>I believe Quartz is the go-to solution for this. It's not part of Spring but it offers a similar annotation-driven interface, but with distributed locking via a database</p>
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<p>> This was the very first time I heard anyone even suggest that storing data in Postgres was a concern in terms of reliability<p>You seem to be reading "reliability" as "durability", when I believe the parent post meant "availability" in this context<p>> Do you actually have any concrete scenario in mind? Because anyone can make any system "considerably degrading", even Redis<p>And even Postgres. It can also happen due to seemingly random events like unusual load or network issues. What do you find outlandish about the scenario of a database server being unavailable/degraded and the cache service not being?</p>
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<p>Presumably there's no legal reason why the ISPs couldn't write to all their customers giving "notice of upcoming partial internet service outage, due to the actions of La Liga". It would be factually true<p>Of course, LL could still give them hell in court even on false grounds (and maybe even win anyway, given the case detailed in the root comment). And in any case there's simply no commercial reason why they would stick their neck out in the first place</p>
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<p>Same experience here. Their ads repeatedly hijack the tab<p>Try this instead <a href="https://archive.is/zv17z" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/zv17z</a> . Not perfect, but the text can still be read behind the popover</p>
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<p>I suppose in theory you could have a device which doesn't have the storage or bandwidth to record/transmit full audio, but does some heuristics on the device and then transmits a small payload of flags. But in any case I wouldn't want to stay anywhere with an unaccountable black box ready to unfalsifiably charge me<p>The other commenter is absolutely right that partyers in AirBnBs cause nuisances for local residents, but the owners will have to find another way to sort that out or close up shop</p>
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<p>The web browser is just following direct commands. The auto discovery and logic is implemented by my human brain</p>
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<p>If anything I'm worried that corporate security people will hear of "attacks" like this and blindly add "must use attestation with passkeys" to their checklists, and desktop computing will end up in the same state as mobile, where you have to have an unmodified OS install from one of a handful of authorized fiefdoms to log into your bank. It's a long way off, due to the amount of old laptops with no TPM about, but a plausible future<p>Edit: I may be misunderstanding the scope of attestation in a FIDO/Webauthn context. Is it a legitimate concern that it would lock out other OSes, or would you simply need a hardware key (or perhaps a TPM), but could run what you want above it?</p>
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<p>> the same standard of professionalism that they expect when their employees write or utter spoken language in the workplace for the same reasons.<p>Depends a lot on the culture. In the countries I've worked in, anyone trying to forbid profanity in the workplace would be laughed out of the room. The laughter would likely turn to anger if it turned out to be Americans trying to impose puritanism on another country's project</p>
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<p>I also live in the UK, and I in fact care about <i>both</i> of these. "Things are worse in America" is a tired and harmful cliché frequently used to deflect valid complaints about affairs here. Is the Trump administration really the low bar we're happy with?<p>And I'm afraid we're long past the point of dismissing police and state overreach into freedom of expression as an "American/right-wing myth". The Julian Foulkes case [1] is just one recent example - and no, the fact that they apologised in this one case, featuring an important person, that received substantial media attention, is not enough to reassure me that it was an error<p>[1] <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j718we6njo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j718we6njo</a></p>
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<p>I don't see how that follows at all. "War with x" is a factual statement with no implications of moral culpability in either direction</p>
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