<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: flotzam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=flotzam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:53:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=flotzam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The malicious compliance aspect is that they're not offering a choice between "tracking" and "no tracking", but bundling "no tracking" + "painfully degraded functionality" (like repeating the question on every page) = "strictly necessary cookies only"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:01:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068369</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Memory Safe Inline Assembly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They acknowledge that it's odd, and give this justification:<p>"Using runtime panics has the nice property that inline assembly in dead code doesn't get in the way of porting software to Fil-C. Also, it's consistent with how Fil-C usually reports errors."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:11:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630391</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah. That makes sense. Maybe the polite fiction would clash too obviously with accounting standards once the (de facto) lowered rent payments roll in: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567769">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567769</a><p>Could the situation be improved then if financial regulators started treating both versions ("temporary" vacancy / "temporarily" lowered rent) equally? Tolerate both or crack down on both.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:19:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567814</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How come this obvious workaround isn't used much more often:<p>>> If the system allows you to pretend that the vacancy is temporary, why doesn’t it allow you to lower rents on the pretense that lower rents are also temporary?<p>> This does happen sometimes: it’s packaged as “incentive offers,” like 50% off the first 12 or 24 months rent, or 6 months without rent, etc, that lower the average rent over the life of the lease without lowering the “list price.” That’s common in residential leases, and I know it happens sometimes in commercial leases, but I don’t know how prevalent it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:57:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567653</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "London's Free Roof Terraces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok that one looks legit :)<p>I was thinking more about his experience with e.g. the last one on the page, Roof Garden at The Post Building:<p>> I still don't understand why it's here nor why it's open daily, nor why they insist on Photo ID "and a full written name" before they'll let you up. However I didn't get the chance to test this out yesterday because when I arrived the roof terrace was "closed due to essential maintenance work", inconveniencing probably nobody but myself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 11:08:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344777</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "London's Free Roof Terraces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> more likely to get planning permission if their new skyscraper included a free public roof terrace<p>If that's the deal, it's crazy that some of those places are getting away with then discouraging the public from actually going there. Book your visit in advance! Present ID! Photography forbidden! This grumpy security guard will be hovering nearby <3<p>It's like Nathan For You S03E01 where a store advertises a $1 TV, then tells the drawn in would-be customers to please respect the black tie dress code, crawl through a tiny door, and squeeze past the alligator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 10:39:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344617</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "How Monero’s proof of work works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:41:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014678</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tor Browser is always quick to rebase on the latest Firefox ESR. They released an update the next day:<p><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15010/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15010/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867991</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Keep Android Open"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are not affected (except through second order effects, e.g. some FOSS app developers might give up on development)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:23:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779419</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He posted it at 8:03 AM though... (12:03 PM UTC, and he was in D.C.)<p><a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414" rel="nofollow">https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163519987825...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659558</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't type 1<i>a</i> circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood, but <i>not</i> other parts) very rare? At least that's what the Wikipedia article claims, referencing a 2008 WHO report.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566035</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At the bottom of the page there's a link to the pdfresurrect package, whose description says<p>"The PDF format allows for previous changes to be retained in a revised version of the document, thereby keeping a running history of revisions to the document.<p>This tool extracts all previous revisions while also producing a summary of changes between revisions."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565610</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46565610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right, I should have written "IPv4 bridges" (which can be obfuscated and distributed out of band), not "IPv4 entry nodes": <a href="https://bridges.torproject.org/" rel="nofollow">https://bridges.torproject.org/</a><p>But you can reach the IPv6 internet through those too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:34:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546064</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545389</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way?<p>It's the latter. You can use an app view that ignores this: <a href="https://anartia.kelinci.net/robpike.io" rel="nofollow">https://anartia.kelinci.net/robpike.io</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392509</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases<p>The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:29:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217473</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts?<p>There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of the applicants just don't have any social media profiles. Maybe some of them are reading this. I'm curious about their experiences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:06:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217233</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bandcamp is huge</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:08:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199538</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No part of hosting or visiting onion services involves exit nodes. Onion service traffic stays within the Tor network instead of exiting to the clearnet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:54:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759507</link><dc:creator>flotzam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by flotzam in "Poison, Poison Everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A dirty intended use case...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desiccants_(glyphosate)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...</a></p>
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