Hacker News: egberts

New comment by egberts in "Merlin Bird ID"

egberts — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:26:44 +0000

great for identifying drone sounds.

New comment by egberts in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

egberts — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:46:23 +0000

What is amazing about my spinal-meningitis-induced-by-high-body-temperature partial hearing loss is tinnitus is more there.

Decades later, after taking one pill of Zyban (to help quit smoking, Wellburtin-class), I lost the rest of my hearing in less than 30 minutes … permanently, but tinnitus went like mind-deafening.

7 years later, I opted for cochlear implants: and what do you know, tinnitus is barely there, almost gone.

not sure how to explain this, but it is largely gone, this tinnitus. I suspected that natural background noise is keeping this feedback loops (tinnitus) from mainfesting in my auditorial part of the brain.

Hearing largely restored in terms of jumpy crescendo yet fuller-spectrum, but dang, I hear farther than ever did before, like in Jamie Sommers of Bionic Woman.

I still operate in a high-stress environment of frontline cybersecurity, yet am more calmer and more responsive.

Highly recommended, unless you value your musical skill over tinnitus.

New comment by egberts in "The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters"

egberts — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:49:10 +0000

I do enjoy dual-PK-certificate authentication in my homelab: one by equipment, and one by user/group.

Only misgiving is that the key management issues have worsen only for the key administrator(s). But it is a viable and sustainable AA model because there is the most important security component: instant denial of a user and/or a equupment.

New comment by egberts in "New in Gmail: Making E2E encrypted emails easy to use for all organizations"

egberts — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:12:41 +0000

Ummmmm, E2E on a JavaScript-infested website?

No thanks. Just, no.

New comment by egberts in "CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep"

egberts — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:10:38 +0000

I've been had. Good one.

New comment by egberts in "Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says"

egberts — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 22:07:21 +0000

Interesting that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree to kick the Jews out ot Spain shortly after Christopher Columbus, a Sephardic Jew, reached the Americas.

This was even after the Jews heavily funded the Spaniard military in the conquest of Gibraltar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree

New comment by egberts in "CORS Is Stupid"

egberts — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:50:05 +0000

Still a bug in Firefox.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644503

New comment by egberts in "CORS Is Stupid"

egberts — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:47:33 +0000

I know that CORS is stupid.

It took a CORS expert from W3C to answer this convoluted CORS question.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62289103/same-origin-req...

New comment by egberts in "“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”"

egberts — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:52:40 +0000

And Ingo probably had the greatest heads up over the rest of us by having his new kernel perform the fastest iterative kernel rebuilds, probably using all permutation of kernel option settings for rebuildings.

New comment by egberts in "“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”"

egberts — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:47:54 +0000

How can We respond if We are allbusy building his branch before we can meaningfully respond in kind.

New comment by egberts in "“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”"

egberts — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:44:13 +0000

I’ve embarked down this same path with GCC 2.7.4 from a … while … back.

Ingo is on the right track.

I’ve always thought that this stuff should have been dealt with by the GCC (in form of pre-cached header files).

So sad that it is a thorny issue to this day (for large scale projects); so glad that this issue is now alive so it can be dealt with once and for all.

I envision some type of *.ho filetype to hold these quasi-compiled headers for the next build iteration.

New comment by egberts in "Ask HN: How to Move on from Google?"

egberts — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:25:12 +0000

These folks got a precise alternatives of many non-big tech choices plus their recommendations.

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives

New comment by egberts in "No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)"

egberts — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:29:10 +0000

I’ve always thought that the Roman dodecahedrons were like a badge of government finance ministry activity and were carried exclusively by tax collectors traveling far from Rome.

New comment by egberts in "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2"

egberts — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:37:19 +0000

Found it

https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021...

New comment by egberts in "SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2"

egberts — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:35:06 +0000

Original link

https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021...

New comment by egberts in "[dead]"

egberts — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:27:17 +0000

Someone is going to have to be brave enough to login and see if their private repositories got cloned as well.

I have no private repo. It would suck if that too got cloned.

New comment by egberts in "World’s Top Beef Supplier Approves Methane-Busting Cow Feed"

egberts — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:58:56 +0000

With the lesser methane production of the largest cattle pen, this Kettleman City, California, the land of millions of shit, can smell a bit better and that its nearby city of Los Banos (The Toilet) will be less of a wry joke.

New comment by egberts in "What Is the Most Free TLD?"

egberts — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:28:01 +0000

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/239535273909285486/

New comment by egberts in "Ask HN: Why does Zoom Desktop examine all processes and arguments?"

egberts — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:39:17 +0000

Polling for all processes is the technique used by some educators’ quiz/test/exam program.

Zoom is probably footholding their place as to be able to inform its educator whether their students’ behavior are acceptable or are cheating.

Most probably.

New comment by egberts in "Has the Drug-Based Approach to Mental Illness Failed?"

egberts — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:37:34 +0000

Lost my hearing totally within 2 hours of taking Zyban.

Tinnitus is all that I hear nowadays.