Hacker News: ebilgenius

New comment by ebilgenius in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ebilgenius — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:53:32 +0000

Update: hmm seems like they're involved in this whole thing too somehow, how strange:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629646

New comment by ebilgenius in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ebilgenius — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:44:37 +0000

Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghostarchive.org/

New comment by ebilgenius in "A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener"

ebilgenius — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:12:57 +0000

You can tell it's a scam call immediately because Google has no such thing as "support", let alone an actual "support engineer"

New comment by ebilgenius in "The Shepherd 1.0.0 released"

ebilgenius — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:32:44 +0000

While I agree it's hard to claim one is outright better than the other and there are a lot of factors that go into it, I do feel it's important to toss my chip in as someone who's not familiar with Lisp, Scheme, or any other functional language that I find it's syntax and layout particularly difficult to parse, let alone get started with compared to say, the INI-inspired systemd conf files. I can detail why but the mere fact that I'd have to learn an entire functional programming language (no matter how "easy/simple" it's claimed to be) to be able to competently edit a service file is a huge immediate turn-off for me.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

ebilgenius — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:45:16 +0000

Incredible website design, I hope they keep the theme. With so many AI startups going with advanced WebGL/ThreeJS wacky overwhelming animated website designs, the simplicity here is a stark contrast.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider"

ebilgenius — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:01:01 +0000

I'm seeing this already with how they're handling the new right-click contextual Search feature being moved to open the results in the new "Search sidebar" rather than a new tab. This was supposedly able to be disabled with the flag "Search web in side panel" (there's no option for it in the preferences), however if the completely undocumented "CSC" flag was left at it's default then it overrides any other flag to force enable the feature. You can see the consequences of this decision to this very day in places like /r/chrome with users complaining that disabling the feature flags isn't working.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Ohio vinyl chloride accident summary"

ebilgenius — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:59:43 +0000

I don't think we necessarily need a more reliable source to point out that this one is wildly unreliable

New comment by ebilgenius in "Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)"

ebilgenius — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 04:31:38 +0000

Can you also look at adding the time/date's timezone on the end? Thanks, I love the site's layout/design

New comment by ebilgenius in "Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage"

ebilgenius — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:13:56 +0000

That's quite the final conclusion to be drawing based on the aimless wanderings of a fidgeting police helicopter camera operator.

Perhaps declaring that the algorithmically condensed footage of a police helicopter camera equates to a supposed general mindset of the law enforcement profession in general might be just a bit reductive.

New comment by ebilgenius in "What went wrong with the Texas power grid?"

ebilgenius — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:59:30 +0000

From what I understand the average low temperature in Texas around this time usually doesn't go below 30-35 degrees. Meanwhile the average high temperature around this time doesn't get above 20-35 degrees in Minnesota.

To demand every state spend the same resources that Minnesota does to winterize their infrastructure is completely unrealistic.

>This type of weather isn't some 1,000 year storm.

Not according to this professor of meteorology:

>“We’re living through a really historic event going on right now,” said Jason Furtado, a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, pointing to all of Texas under a winter storm warning and the extent of the freezing temperatures.

https://apnews.com/article/2-dead-texas-subfreezing-winter-w...

New comment by ebilgenius in "German police take down 'world's largest darknet marketplace'"

ebilgenius — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:03:35 +0000

Looks like the FBI and DEA were involved as well as several other country's police agencies, with Europol acting as coordinator. Lots of money moving across countries means lots of taxes probably not being paid, hence the IRS.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler"

ebilgenius — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 04:15:12 +0000

And yet Amazon managed to get a plan out of Parler that promised to increase moderation of violent content manually with the help of volunteers. Whether or not that plan was workable is moot now, it seems.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

ebilgenius — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:48:08 +0000

All valid points. At the very least this mess provides a case study of the potential consequences of reducing law enforcement presence in favor of optics

New comment by ebilgenius in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

ebilgenius — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:40:38 +0000

It's true that terrorism & sedition is not protected speech, but it's also true that the logic Twitter is invoking here to connect the tweets to terrorism & sedition is questionable at best. Regardless, why should we accept Twitter banning people for the "wrong" reasons?

New comment by ebilgenius in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

ebilgenius — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:37:45 +0000

True. All the more important we can't let attacks on our important national symbols cloud our judgement and allow vague claims and anger to steer our decisions.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store"

ebilgenius — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:10:52 +0000

Free market principles, at least. But regardless of the political orientation of the view, it always seems to last only as long as they happen to agree with the political implications of the company's decisions

New comment by ebilgenius in "Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump"

ebilgenius — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:04:55 +0000

The outrage it's generated from all corners of American society seem to run against that idea. Just because a relatively small mob of determined extremists can raid a building for an afternoon does not indicate some kind of earth-shattering, society-changing transformative event. Popular social media platforms using shaky, uneven, and arguably unjustifiable logic to ban both speech and people from their respective shares of the public sphere is, however, indicative of an ever-growing attack by monopolized social platforms on exactly those traditionally liberal ideas that makes such amazingly diverse and open-minded communities to begin with.

New comment by ebilgenius in "Uninstall Nano Defender"

ebilgenius — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:57:19 +0000

The Dev version of uBlock Origin has been updated recently to fix that

New comment by ebilgenius in "The 2016 Election"

ebilgenius — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:32:26 +0000

It's hard to have moderate, rational discussions in 255 characters

New comment by ebilgenius in "Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account"

ebilgenius — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 05:11:25 +0000

Milo didn't tell his fans to attack her. In fact she had been tweeting with various other people long beforehand and drawing a lot of ire through her comments.

It sets a terrible precedent as far as what Twitter is willing to take a hard stance on.