Hacker News: er0k

New comment by er0k in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

er0k — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:57:25 +0000

Include pattern:

  ^https?://x.com/(.*)

Redirect to:

  https://xxcancel.com/$1

New comment by er0k in "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"

er0k — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:27:15 +0000

> There’s no quid pro quo here.

This actually sounds like the literal definition of quid pro quo.

GitHub Online Services SLA

er0k — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/customer-terms/github-online-services-sla

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336589

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by er0k in "Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?"

er0k — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:58:38 +0000

or just use a yubikey... it costs ~$50

The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world

er0k — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/06/vertical-blinds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839853

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

er0k — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:36:19 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-future-for-JS.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281086

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by er0k in "WiFi signals can measure heart rate"

er0k — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:24:51 +0000

This is nothing new. Wifi signals have been used to detect objects, people and animals, gait analysis[1], read keystrokes[2], monitor breathing and heart rates[3], "hear" conversations[4], etc for at least a decade now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353605

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi...

https://archive.is/XnHUV

1: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7457075

2: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2789168.2790109

3: https://archive.is/mFSDq

4: https://archive.is/sNVcM

New comment by er0k in "How to rig elections [video]"

er0k — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:21:07 +0000

https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-217-quantum-cryptography-and-...

New comment by er0k in "Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase"

er0k — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:47:49 +0000

congrats guys, this new feature looks really cool :)

New comment by er0k in "Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?"

er0k — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:59:49 +0000

sourcebot https://www.sourcebot.dev/

New comment by er0k in "I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives"

er0k — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:26:04 +0000

here is the script I use https://gist.github.com/er0k/86843b62fedc2f533068f04c689be97...

New comment by er0k in "I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives"

er0k — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:45:30 +0000

I just use rsync, works great

New comment by er0k in ""Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work""

er0k — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:27:31 +0000

remember when RMS said "cloud computing is a trap" and we all laughed and laughed...

New comment by er0k in "Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet"

er0k — Thu, 29 May 2025 19:47:58 +0000

If you read the article, he talks about this in this fourth constraint, labor:

> The final constraint, which did hold back platform decay for quite some time, is labor. Tech workers have historically been respected and well-paid, without unions. The power of tech workers did not come from solidarity, but from scarcity, Doctorow said. The minute bosses ordered tech workers to enshittify the product they were loyally working on, perhaps missing various important social and family events to ship it on time, those workers could say no—perhaps in a much more coarse way. Tech workers could simply walk across the street ""and have a new job by the end of the day"" if the boss persisted.

> So labor held off enshittification after competition, regulation, and interoperability were all systematically undermined and did so for quite some time—until the mass tech layoffs. There have been half a million tech workers laid off since 2023, more are announced regularly, sometimes in conjunction with raises for executive salaries and bonuses. Now, workers cannot turn their bosses down because there are ten others out there just waiting to take their job.

New comment by er0k in "The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)"

er0k — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:34:04 +0000

My own experience matches yours almost exactly. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by er0k in "National Airspace System Status"

er0k — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:54:12 +0000

FlightAware's MiseryMap is pretty cool too https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

New comment by er0k in "Porkbun partners with Proton"

er0k — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:15:57 +0000

fastmail is awesome

New comment by er0k in "Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite"

er0k — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:20:40 +0000

litestream is great. Dead simple and rock solid IME.

New comment by er0k in "Surveillance Pricing"

er0k — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:58:03 +0000

> Plexure boasts that it can predict what day a given customer is getting paid on and use that information to raise prices on all the goods the customer shops for on that day, on the assumption that you're willing to pay more when you've got a healthy bank balance.

wow that is so gross

New comment by er0k in "De-googling, so far"

er0k — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:42:20 +0000

Is there any good alternative to google voice? It's the only google service I haven't been able to replace yet.