Hacker News: dzmien

New comment by dzmien in "A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression"

dzmien — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:42:15 +0000

From what I can tell from searching for "Comp360", it is simply synthetic psilocybin. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10595939/

New comment by dzmien in "The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021)"

dzmien — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:29:18 +0000

BP stands for Backpage, a now defunct online classifieds site, which was utilized by sex workers of all kinds in its heyday.

New comment by dzmien in "Trap Street"

dzmien — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:35:11 +0000

When I was growing up, someone told me that a printed map is out of date before the ink dries.

New comment by dzmien in "GTA: San Andreas-styled supermarket in Lviv, Ukraine (2020)"

dzmien — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:16:08 +0000

That is very interesting. Do you happen to know if Rockstar Games was onboard with this? Or would this be considered fair use, given the lack of competitive overlap between the supermarket and video game industries?

New comment by dzmien in "Fun with Gentoo: Why don't we just shuffle those ROP gadgets away?"

dzmien — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:22:02 +0000

I do all world updates overnight for this very reason. But on my R5 3600, the longest emerge is, by far, qtwebengine, which takes just under 1.5 hours. Plus, Gentoo provides -bin versions of many packages notorious for protracted build times, such as Rust, Chromium, Firefox, etc...

New comment by dzmien in "The strange and awful path of productivity in the US construction sector"

dzmien — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:58:01 +0000

I would imagine that automation plays a role. And maybe car manufacturers can exercise more control over assembly lines, and don't have to worry about unforeseen environmental factors. Of course, that is just a guess, I don't know enough about construction or car manufacturing to really say.

New comment by dzmien in "The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on"

dzmien — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 08:32:10 +0000

I have always used Pass [1], and while it is certainly less convenient, it doesn't really take too much extra effort to self host your passwords in a PGP encrypted git repo. Self hosting has drawbacks of its own, of course.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org

New comment by dzmien in "What we can deduce from a leaked PDF"

dzmien — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:54:31 +0000

That this was the work of an otherwise uninvolved opportunist is always a possibility (it came to mind while considering that the document was from Feb 10, unmarked, and had been stapled), but I am almost certain it was not done for financial gain. Maybe I am naive, but I do not think news organizations pay their confidential sources very much for their trouble. So it just seems unlikely in this case.

New comment by dzmien in "We lost 54k GitHub stars"

dzmien — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 01:27:47 +0000

Maybe some kind of grace period could be implemented that would allow changes like this to be undone within 24 hours or something.

New comment by dzmien in "Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?"

dzmien — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:11:29 +0000

The teenager making minimum wage would almost certainly summon a manager.

New comment by dzmien in "How big was the Tonga eruption?"

dzmien — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:35:05 +0000

If you are going to call someone out, why not try to make it educational?

New comment by dzmien in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

dzmien — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 04:52:44 +0000

I use qutebrowser[0] which is built on qtwebengine, which is based on Chromium but comes with the caveat that it will likely be blacklisted by Google since it does not follow upstream's release schedule. But it is trivial to get around this by setting the user agent to something not blacklisted.

[0] https://qutebrowser.org/

New comment by dzmien in "Opensubtitles.org breached – Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames"

dzmien — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:58:24 +0000

Gmail [0] ignores dots in your email handle and so you could use a different pattern of dots for each website you register at and record it in a spreadsheet or something. The first and last characters cannot be dots, and I do not think you can have two or more dots in a row, but there is no limit to how many "legal" dots you can use. Not as elegant, but definitely doable.

[0] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en

New comment by dzmien in "Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's"

dzmien — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 03:24:34 +0000

I am reminded of the woman who crafted a "dumb" cell phone with a rotary dialer: https://www.justine-haupt.com/rotarycellphone/

New comment by dzmien in "Coinbase Drops Promise of Token’s Cash Backing That Wasn’t True"

dzmien — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:56:27 +0000

I can't access the article to read it, but according to the USDC[0] page on the Coinbase website:

> "Each USDC is backed by one dollar or asset with equivalent fair value, which is held in accounts with US regulated financial institutions."

Is the part about being backed by USD or "asset[s] with equivalent fair value" the point of contention? Did they originally claim that each USDC was backed by USD (cash) only?

[0] https://www.coinbase.com/usdc/

New comment by dzmien in "The solution of the Zodiac killer’s 340-character cipher"

dzmien — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:59:35 +0000

I can't imagine that the family of the victim would experience any "justice" from the mass consumption of their grief and pain for entertainment.

New comment by dzmien in "Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims"

dzmien — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:54:42 +0000

I am not sure if it is that simple, and I think companies have little choice but to be greedy, because if they choose not to be greedy, another greedier company is all but guaranteed to prevail. I suppose it could be argued that companies the size of Apple and Google are not bound by the same constraints as smaller companies. But if they choose to stop doing business in Pakistan, what would become of all of their existing customers? What about all the people who would be deprived of Apple and Google products/services?

New comment by dzmien in "Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility"

dzmien — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:43:36 +0000

When you discover something like this on a nationally syndicated talk show, it is probably too late for you to get in on the action.

New comment by dzmien in "East Coast Internet Outage"

dzmien — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:07:30 +0000

I am experiencing connectivity issues on Fios outside of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

edit: as of 13:20 (GMT-5) it appears to be resolved.

New comment by dzmien in "I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage)"

dzmien — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:21:26 +0000

You might be able to find some advice/inspiration on the r/DataHoarder subreddit [0]. They also have an IRC channel (#DataHoarder on freenode [1]). The IRC channel is a little more informal, but the subreddit has tons of great info and discussions on not just storing data, but also digitization and organizing/cataloguing data.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/datahoarder

[1] https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat (in case you aren't familiar with IRC but would still like to check it out that should get you started)