Hacker News: docflabby

New comment by docflabby in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

docflabby — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:34:09 +0000

Most clothes are manufactured in countries with cheaper labor costs to cut costs - the reality is clothes are cheap to make in terms of raw materials- and dumping unwanted clothes will just destory the local economy

New comment by docflabby in "A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London"

docflabby — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:45:03 +0000

London and the south east is the UK in economic terms. Its the only those 2 regions which are net contributor to taxes

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxe...

New comment by docflabby in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

docflabby — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:04:10 +0000

Falling for the "Embrace" part again...

New comment by docflabby in "In memoriam"

docflabby — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:27:58 +0000

The new rules cover any kind of illegal content that can appear online, but the Act includes a list of specific offences that you should consider. These are:

    terrorism
    child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) offences, including
        grooming
        image-based child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
        CSAM URLs
    hate
    harassment, stalking, threats and abuse
    controlling or coercive behaviour
    intimate image abuse
    extreme pornography
    sexual exploitation of adults
    human trafficking
    unlawful immigration
    fraud and financial offences
    proceeds of crime
    drugs and psychoactive substances
    firearms, knives and other weapons
    encouraging or assisting suicide
    foreign interference
    animal cruelty

New comment by docflabby in "In memoriam"

docflabby — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:24:51 +0000

it's not that simple - illegal and harmful content can include things like hate speech - worth a longer read... https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/online_safety_act/

If I ran a small forum in the UK I would shut it down - not worth risk of jail time for getting it wrong.

New comment by docflabby in "James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity"

docflabby — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:52:29 +0000

Dark matter is just made up bs if you replace "magic" for dark whenever its mentioned its the same difference - theres no tangable evidence it exists at all.

Ask HN: How to get Cloudflare to take phishing reports taken seriously

docflabby — Sun, 19 May 2024 07:38:34 +0000

So I got scammed this site though a verified Facebook advert which is on cloudflares DNS: http://seasaltscornwall.com it is a very convincing clone of http://seasaltcornwall.com

Apparently this has been going on for a while targeting other retailers https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1ae338j/online_shopping_scam/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40405044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by docflabby in "Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024"

docflabby — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:15:41 +0000

Unfortunately for banking apps etc need a android or iPhone will probably make the switch to apple...

New comment by docflabby in "Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024"

docflabby — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:42:06 +0000

Thanks!

Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024

docflabby — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:29:06 +0000

After my play store account being deleted for "inactivity" despite having used it recently and having an app with over 1000 installs removed I've decided it's a sign to finally degoogle - any tips my main challenge is email!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882468

Points: 20

# Comments: 24

New comment by docflabby in "He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price"

docflabby — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:50:27 +0000

Why would you think Jeff would care?

New comment by docflabby in "He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price"

docflabby — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:48:47 +0000

In a world run by sociopaths - whistleblowing is a trap to catch the people who could if instead of reporting the issues, they organised together and then could stop you...

I've yet to see any whistleblowing case not end badly.

New comment by docflabby in "Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost"

docflabby — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:55:28 +0000

The reviewing isn't problem it's mostly because you have to become that asshole that everyone hates - developers who produce bad code also are the worst at taking feedback...

New comment by docflabby in "We always end up with waterfall"

docflabby — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 07:28:39 +0000

I think problem is product managers are very common and probably unavoidable in most organisations.

Can't have product owners without actual ownership - without real equity in the product being developed do they really own anything?

New comment by docflabby in "Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases"

docflabby — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:51:24 +0000

People who avoid the sun more likely to take vitamin D supplements?

New comment by docflabby in "Threads users down by more than a half"

docflabby — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:16:36 +0000

The real question is which is dying quicker Facebook or Twitter?

New comment by docflabby in "Low Code Software Development Is a Lie"

docflabby — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:27:33 +0000

Last one don't even need macros https://www.excel-easy.com/examples/dependent-drop-down-list...

I guess my point is alot of people outside of software development the goto for low/no code is excel

New comment by docflabby in "Low Code Software Development Is a Lie"

docflabby — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 11:54:34 +0000

Find me a non code product that can do something excel can't

New comment by docflabby in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

docflabby — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:38:13 +0000

If only a small size (up to 32ish inches) needed 4k monitor would probably surfice

New comment by docflabby in "Why are developers expected to estimate tasks at all?"

docflabby — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:31:53 +0000

Because the budget is not infinite - there is normally a limit of time or money and it will determine the decision making process.

This doesn't mean the project will finish on time or within budget it just enables that part of the decision making process.