Hacker News: flotzam

New comment by flotzam in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

flotzam — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:08:08 +0000

Ok that one looks legit :)

I was thinking more about his experience with e.g. the last one on the page, Roof Garden at The Post Building:

> 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.

New comment by flotzam in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

flotzam — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:39:45 +0000

> more likely to get planning permission if their new skyscraper included a free public roof terrace

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

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.

New comment by flotzam in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

flotzam — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:41:12 +0000

https://kycnot.me/?categories=aggregator

https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange

New comment by flotzam in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

flotzam — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:16:51 +0000

Tor Browser is always quick to rebase on the latest Firefox ESR. They released an update the next day:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15010/

New comment by flotzam in "Keep Android Open"

flotzam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:23:58 +0000

They are not affected (except through second order effects, e.g. some FOSS app developers might give up on development)

New comment by flotzam in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

flotzam — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:32:56 +0000

He posted it at 8:03 AM though... (12:03 PM UTC, and he was in D.C.)

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163519987825...

New comment by flotzam in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

flotzam — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:59:22 +0000

Isn't type 1a circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood, but not other parts) very rare? At least that's what the Wikipedia article claims, referencing a 2008 WHO report.

New comment by flotzam in "New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis"

flotzam — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:32:56 +0000

At the bottom of the page there's a link to the pdfresurrect package, whose description says

"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.

This tool extracts all previous revisions while also producing a summary of changes between revisions."

New comment by flotzam in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

flotzam — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:34:07 +0000

Right, I should have written "IPv4 bridges" (which can be obfuscated and distributed out of band), not "IPv4 entry nodes": https://bridges.torproject.org/

But you can reach the IPv6 internet through those too.

New comment by flotzam in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

flotzam — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:34:12 +0000

Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.

New comment by flotzam in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

flotzam — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:50:06 +0000

> Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way?

It's the latter. You can use an app view that ignores this: https://anartia.kelinci.net/robpike.io

New comment by flotzam in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"

flotzam — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:29:58 +0000

Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases

The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC

New comment by flotzam in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"

flotzam — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:06:02 +0000

What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts?

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.

New comment by flotzam in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

flotzam — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:08:28 +0000

Bandcamp is huge

New comment by flotzam in "Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy"

flotzam — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:54:06 +0000

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.

New comment by flotzam in "Poison, Poison Everywhere"

flotzam — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:43:52 +0000

A dirty intended use case...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...

New comment by flotzam in "Vietnam Airlines Data Breach"

flotzam — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:36:31 +0000

It's inherently a loss of privacy that anyone (given that the dataset is now public) can correlate

> Dates of birth, Email addresses, Loyalty program details, Names, Phone numbers

New comment by flotzam in "Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project)"

flotzam — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:31:07 +0000

"No tags were pushed to AOSP for the July 2025 monthly release of Android. We asked about this on the android-building group but each of our posts was rejected. We emailed people at Google we've previously contacted about mistakes pushing tags but received no response this time."

https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1952413110947430786

"July monthly release was not pushed to AOSP and then neither was the August monthly release. September quarterly release hasn't been pushed yet."

https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1963812920673861981

New comment by flotzam in "Certificates for Onion Services"

flotzam — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:53:49 +0000

The section Benefits (after Introduction) lists 9 reasons why it makes sense. Some of them are about working around a mismatch with existing standards, but not all.

New comment by flotzam in "TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale"

flotzam — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:37:56 +0000

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