Hacker News: dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dingleberry420Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:08:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Goat Rental – Hire Goats"]]>You don't rent a goat, you lease that surly bastard

]]>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 12:58:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437840dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437840https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32437840<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Gmail Dynamic Email (a.k.a. AMP for Email)"]]>For what it's worth, I'm a google workspace administrator and we've had issues with legitimate business emails going to our spam folders. We used various tools in the workspace admin console to whitelist the sender, but their mails kept going to our spam. We contacted google support, they verified our settings were correct, then kind of shrugged and said they can't explain why gmail flags things as spam. They clarified that it wasn't just that they weren't allowed to tell me, but that it was literally impossible for them to know.

So I'm not sure if there is such a thing as a "quality score", but there certainly is a machine learning black box.

]]>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:06:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412173dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412173https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412173<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Gmail Dynamic Email (a.k.a. AMP for Email)"]]>Lots of mail hosters, like gmail, have been proxying and caching image requests for a while now.

]]>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:02:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412098dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32412098<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Gmail Dynamic Email (a.k.a. AMP for Email)"]]>Native apps don't produce referer headers when opening a link in a browser.

]]>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:53:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411968dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411968https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411968<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Gmail Dynamic Email (a.k.a. AMP for Email)"]]>Oh no, the user has to press a button. Let's completely destroy privacy and complicate EVERYTHING just to save them that one click. Worth it.

]]>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 13:52:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411945dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411945https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411945<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>So you're saying that microsoft has more money to work with? Everything I know about the legal system shows that the more money you have, the easier it is to get your way.

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:43:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32404732dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32404732https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32404732<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>Writing software isn't illegal. Timeline goes like this:

1. Developers write open source software

2. Open source software is deployed for money laundering purposes by other people

3. Developers who wrote software at point (1) are now being punished for something they did before the US deemed it to be illegal.

Let's say the speed limit is being decreased. Would it be fair to jail everyone who went over the speed limit in the past, before this decrease was even announced?

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:29:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400153dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400153<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>Okay, how does that relate to open source contributors? Can you retroactively read their minds and determine their intent? Why does their intent even matter? What they were doing was not illegal at the time, and now they are being punished by the US.

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:35:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397637dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397637https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397637<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>Not sure, thoughtcrime is a thing now in modern America?

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:15:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397377dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397377https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397377<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>Nice, what's next? Jailing everyone who ever had an abortion? Why aren't y'all americans doing that yet, if it's apparently acceptable to punish people for things they did before the supposed crime was made illegal?

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:00:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397182dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397182<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>Turns out privacy now is illegal in the US of A.

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:48:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397070dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397070<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>> The argument probably is that they assisted a sanctioned entity by providing a contribution i.e. service to it.

And what if they did so before the sanctions? Is the US so happy to retroactively punish people who literally did nothing wrong?

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:46:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397057dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397057<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"]]>So making a PR to some project the US government might decide to sanction means github is going to delete my account?

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:43:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397035dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397035<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Microsoft Windows is prohibited at Gitlab"]]>You clearly haven't been paying attention, then. It's easy to spend decades making crappy software.

]]>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:47:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357822dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357822https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357822<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"]]>Can't post a meme on facebook - oh no!

Can't access facebook marketplace - legitimately annoying!

Can't access your mail archive going back a decade - could be a huge problem for some people

Sure, it's not as bad as getting sent to the gulag. But the problem with most of these tech companies is far bigger than not being able to post a meme.

]]>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:13:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344810dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344810<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"]]>So you don't believe in guilty until proven innocent? Or do you? How do you justify banning innocent users?

]]>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:57:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342237dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342237<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"]]>Go on, tell us more so we can do better.

]]>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 12:24:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341911dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341911https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341911<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Ask HN: Is my software stack choice sound?"]]>how to sync access control rules between couchdb and the rest of the business logic? do you just not care about security/privacy, or do you duplicate all the logic?

]]>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:11:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331922dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331922https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331922<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Ask HN: Which coordinate system is better for a beginners programming language?"]]>Top left always seemed more intuitive to me, but I don't have any reasoning. When using photoshop, I usually also draw squares starting at their top left corner.

]]>Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:05:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331829dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331829https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331829<![CDATA[New comment by dingleberry420 in "Oracle Suspended My Account"]]>HN has a rich history of shadowbanning unwanted users. Everyone should turn on "showdead" on their profile, which, to be fair, is at least an option.

]]>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:30:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320846dingleberry420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320846https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320846