Hacker News: eznzt

New comment by eznzt in "Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack"

eznzt — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 20:18:03 +0000

> I don't know what it is about gaming that attracts DDoS events more than practically anything else, but there are a lot of server hosts that will not even rent you a server if they know that there will be a game hosted on it due to this.

Like IRC back in the day :P

New comment by eznzt in "Google’s approach to Black schools explains why there's few Black engs in Tech"

eznzt — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 12:45:34 +0000

>The fact is, it's 2021 and people should care about what they do with their themselves, their family and their community first. And stop waiting for [... some other entity ...] to fix their problems.

From the other day:

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/city-student...

>"He didn't fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that's the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn't deserve that."

New comment by eznzt in "Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT"

eznzt — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 22:24:51 +0000

Does that person even have that amount of money? From looking at his timeline it seems unlikely.

New comment by eznzt in "Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (2011)"

eznzt — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:00:23 +0000

That's what virustotal.com is for!

New comment by eznzt in "Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling"

eznzt — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:52:14 +0000

So basically a search engine that is worse than Google and that I will have to pay for. Sign me right up!!

New comment by eznzt in "Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO"

eznzt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:24:47 +0000

I don't understand how someone removing the contents they themselves posted goes against free speech?

New comment by eznzt in "Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City"

eznzt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 11:17:12 +0000

They are producers. Developing a game may take years and you need to pay salaries.

New comment by eznzt in "The Screenplay Format Reference"

eznzt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:49:31 +0000

Anybody knows what software do professional script writers (the ones working for the industry) use? I've seen the screenplay format and I don't believe they do all of that by hand; it would be tedious.

New comment by eznzt in "Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)"

eznzt — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:28:35 +0000

CH is not China but Switzerland.

New comment by eznzt in "Lyra audio codec enables high-quality voice calls at 3 kbps bitrate"

eznzt — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:20:23 +0000

Is it any good for languages other than English?

New comment by eznzt in "Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)"

eznzt — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:00:38 +0000

There is nothing new about the question "why would someone buy cheap phones when they come with spyware". So someone asks a shit question and gets a shit answer.

New comment by eznzt in "Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)"

eznzt — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:37:31 +0000

> I truly don't understand, from a security and privacy perspective, why would anyone outside of China would voluntarily choose to run closed-source software from a company that's subject to domestic laws and regulations in China.

They make cheap phones.

New comment by eznzt in "The Last Message Sent on AIM"

eznzt — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:23:46 +0000

I hate that it is asynchronous now. I liked it back before when you talked to someone who was online and you knew he was engaged in the conversation. Now all of that is gone. As you say "I'll just reply later"—I hate that.

New comment by eznzt in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

eznzt — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:22:09 +0000

The 3D engine is highly optimised.

New comment by eznzt in "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)"

eznzt — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:11:43 +0000

What you are basically saying is that yes, they are much more complex.

New comment by eznzt in "Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)"

eznzt — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:03:10 +0000

Just creating a new user is annoying enough.

Permissions are also much more complex.

What the hell are schemas?

New comment by eznzt in "Think you don’t need a VPN? Here are five times ordinary people might need a VPN"

eznzt — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 09:20:56 +0000

Mozilla is using the official blog of the Firefox browser to spam their VPN service through scaremongering.

New comment by eznzt in "Remain Calm: The fox is still in the Firefox logo"

eznzt — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:11:35 +0000

Next time you consider donating, think of the cost of creating new logos for the sake of it + keeping someone on staff to write this drivel.

New comment by eznzt in "APPL forced to add iPhone, MacBook repairability score to comply with French law"

eznzt — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:53:16 +0000

"APPL"

New comment by eznzt in "Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked"

eznzt — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:45:39 +0000

>By what mechanism could Google prevent themselves from ever being able to do this?

The law.