Hacker News: figgis

New comment by figgis in "Yes, It's Fascism"

figgis — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:51:12 +0000

This is a really rough spot, giving users the tools to remove visibility from a post will eventually get abused. I would genuinely be interested in some form of anonymized stats on the individual accounts and the posts they are flagging but that's a whole deal.

Am I wrong that there used to be a flagged option on the lists page, or am I missing where that is?

New comment by figgis in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

figgis — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:34:24 +0000

Currently the "discussion of leverage" you are talking about is out of the hands of the leaders who run these programs.

The amount of disrespect you have shown for someone that is just telling you 99% of federal workers have absolutely no leverage says a lot.

New comment by figgis in "Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?"

figgis — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:46:45 +0000

I apologize for jumping in this convo with unrelated stuff but I was looking at my history and since I can't message you I just wanted to let you know years later how much your reply here resonates with me now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18475792

New comment by figgis in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

figgis — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:17:25 +0000

Unsure if anyone has made a game specifically for that. But there are plenty of intentionally unsecure servers (no VAC, or other anti-cheat) in games like counter strike for Hacker vs Hacker.

New comment by figgis in "Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B"

figgis — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:34:28 +0000

Just finished rewatching sg1 as well and in a later episode Carter even makes fun of herself for the absurdity of that first episode gonads comment.

New comment by figgis in "Time.gov was upgraded today"

figgis — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 01:37:25 +0000

Worked for me just now. It clicks for a bit than says "US Naval Observatory Master Clock" + the time.

New comment by figgis in "Python Is Eating the World"

figgis — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:14:17 +0000

Not the OP but I am very concerned with telling people to pipe anything from curl straight to your shell.

New comment by figgis in "Microsoft's Linux Kernel"

figgis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 18:47:48 +0000

https://github.com/microsoft/Terminal

New comment by figgis in ""DigitalOcean Killed Our Company""

figgis — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 02:51:58 +0000

I should have been clearer. This is exactly what I meant.

New comment by figgis in ""DigitalOcean Killed Our Company""

figgis — Fri, 31 May 2019 20:29:24 +0000

Not in my experience they don't. I use OVH and nfoservers and I've had an issue like this exactly once on both hosts.

On OVH one of my servers was hacked and running typical scripts that are run once that happens (port checking, common admin credentials, brute force attempts, etc)

They cut off all internet access to and from the server and sent me an alert stating what was happening and that I needed to VNC into the server, resolve the issue, and let them know how/why it happened and how I resolved the issue. Once that was done they just removed all the blocks on the server and we all went on our merry way.

Edit: To clarify the VNC console is on their site, not a remote connection.

New comment by figgis in "World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later"

figgis — Thu, 02 May 2019 03:54:01 +0000

> Epic buys Rocket League publisher, announces Epic Launcher exclusive, and goes silent after backlash

Seems like a better way to put it. They are buying IP left and right and pushing their unfinished, buggy client in a very unhealthy way.

[0] - https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-05-01-epic-acquires-...

Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash

figgis — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landing-beresheet.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638357

Points: 396

# Comments: 184

New comment by figgis in "Low-earth orbit satellites threatened by debris from Indian anti-satellite test"

figgis — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 17:36:14 +0000

Don't know latin in any way shape or form. Just was curious and used this like a small puzzle. Added a bit more context to words that weren't very self explanatory.

    TOTUS - all/whole

    VESTRI - your

    ARCANA - secrets

    NOCTI - night? - 'used in formation of compound words' [0]

    NOBIS - us/we

    EST - to be - "can be translated as 'it is,' 'he/she is,' or simply 'is.' It is the third person singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'" [1]

Sooo my guess would be something along the lines "All the secrets of the night belong to us?"

If someone knows any better I would love to be corrected.

[0] - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nocti- [1] - https://study.com/academy/answer/what-does-est-mean-in-latin...

New comment by figgis in "Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation"

figgis — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:42:32 +0000

> This site seems to manage to avoid it.

If we are going to be reasonable a better comparison would be comparing this site to a single heavily moderated subreddit.

As an extreme you have subreddits like https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ if you look into the comments you will see a lot of "[ Removed ]" threads. https://i.imgur.com/Q7mXkPd.png

Other subreddits are purposefully not moderated as heavily. It's entirely up to whoever runs it to moderate how they see fit.

New comment by figgis in "CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR"

figgis — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:35:42 +0000

>So if a random company gets breached, everyone involved from cloud providers to ISPs are also responsible because they facilitated moving and storing the data and they are just hosting code?

ISP's aren't (supposed to be) "storing" that data. They are transferring bits between computers. You on the other hand are hosting a website with some sort of form that people input PII into. You are accepting that PII, whether or not it gets forwarded or not is irrelevant. You are processing it. So do your due diligence, contact your users and let them know what is going on, and speak with a lawyer for more information.

New comment by figgis in "CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR"

figgis — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:22:24 +0000

> So if I forward all of the data to another company outside of CA, does my company count as processing data?

You are still processing that data. Part of processing that data involves you shipping it off...

> What if the code that forwards that data is written by another company and I'm just hosting it on my site? Everything goes through their code and I'm paid to just setup a website to host their code.

You are as responsible, if not more, in making sure that compliance is met. You are the one hosting the code. The data is moving through your servers.

> Maybe I do collect info in CA but I sell the data for $1, but the company also buys some consulting services for the actual price of that data that I'm selling them?

That's just being a jerk. But better hope you don't pass the 50k mark...

New comment by figgis in "A Harvard Astronomer on the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua"

figgis — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 23:48:42 +0000

"likely", "maybe", "possibly" can all be used differently.. Especially if you take it out of context of the rest of the article.

> Man that food sure looks tasty.

> You haven't even tasted it! Why are you saying it's tasty?

There are absolutely no claims that it's an alien artifact. What he is doing is providing reasons for why checking out similar solar visitors is something we need to do.

New comment by figgis in "Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners"

figgis — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 03:06:57 +0000

You should turn on incognito or use duckduckgo and take a look...

New comment by figgis in "Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners"

figgis — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 18:34:49 +0000

Or, crazy idea, I did my own searching on the guy and came to the conclusion I just posted above.. His twitter alone could be used in a psychology course.

New comment by figgis in "Star Citizen: The Road to Release, Financials and New Partners"

figgis — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 20:55:33 +0000

I never heard about the guy until today and spent a little while searching.. I can say I am absolutely stumped why this guy is getting any attention at all.

All the profiles he's written about himself seem extremely conceited. His posts present hyperbole and opinions as fact. And to top it all off, the exact things he is criticizing SC for he has done himself with his most recent game Line of Defense... https://steamcommunity.com/groups/acpreport/discussions/3/48...

Dude has an entire subreddit where a majority of the users seem to be devoted to "calling his crap out": https://www.reddit.com/r/DerekSmart/

And of course encyclopediadramatica has their own page on the guy (of course nothing there should be taken at face value, just found it amusing after reading up on him): https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Derek_Smart