Hacker News: dogecoinbase

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones"

dogecoinbase — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:50:16 +0000

If you'd be willing to scan/post those I'd love to see them!

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?"

dogecoinbase — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:03:29 +0000

Many registrars allow renewal of domain names without authentication (you're unable to change any of the domain settings, however) -- some just let you do it, others it's a process, e.g. https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

New comment by dogecoinbase in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

dogecoinbase — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:00:43 +0000

41 meters is the height of a 13-story building.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Managing time when time doesn't exist"

dogecoinbase — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:56:18 +0000

My favorite read on the subject: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2756

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

dogecoinbase — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 03:01:03 +0000

lmao you posted moments before me! Leaving mine for posterity but everyone upvote this one instead.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests"

dogecoinbase — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 03:00:20 +0000

Satire is already ahead of you: https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-admi...

New comment by dogecoinbase in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

dogecoinbase — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 03:17:46 +0000

it's irksome to see tptacek having his patio11 moment for sure.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)"

dogecoinbase — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:08:36 +0000

> They claim full open source but for several years they did not release the server.

Specifically, they didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2].

0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of that article)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 (comment from founder of MobileCoin)

2: https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users"

dogecoinbase — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:52:51 +0000

Unfortunately no. The entire point of DoH is to bypass the ability of the users to prevent browsers from providing browsing habits to their owners.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator"

dogecoinbase — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:26:54 +0000

I simply park my car on top of papers that I want to keep in place -- one less paperweight to buy.

Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with 25M donation

dogecoinbase — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41114250

Points: 43

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New comment by dogecoinbase in "Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco"

dogecoinbase — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:54:59 +0000

But great news, we're on HN, so maybe jgrahamc or eastdakota can show up and explain why it's totally normal and fine that their product prevents random people from reading about the causes of natural disasters.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode"

dogecoinbase — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:45:28 +0000

They are, but it's self-inflicted: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723

> Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Board Changes at Signal"

dogecoinbase — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:01:54 +0000

Glad to hear Moxie's out. As a reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2].

0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of that article)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 (comment from founder of MobileCoin)

2: https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Terence Tao makes progress on the Collatz conjecture (2019)"

dogecoinbase — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:38:43 +0000

If a computational process could not complete before the heat death of the universe, does it have an output?

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible"

dogecoinbase — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:41:27 +0000

The lesson, then, appears to be that size of privacy organization does not have a correlated effect on effectiveness.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "You don't have to engage with people on the Internet"

dogecoinbase — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 03:52:26 +0000

As the old joke goes, there are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary... and nine others.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Let's Encrypt now supports ACME-CAA: closing the DV loophole"

dogecoinbase — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 05:59:54 +0000

It's to prevent DNS-based ad blocking (e.g. Pi-hole).

New comment by dogecoinbase in "The hotel I booked online became a homeless shelter and no one told me"

dogecoinbase — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 04:14:48 +0000

This is exactly correct. You have to call them.

New comment by dogecoinbase in "Ask HN: Why doesn’t HN have quality discussion around crypto?"

dogecoinbase — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 04:34:13 +0000

What are the uses?