Hacker News: foobarkey

New comment by foobarkey in "Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models"

foobarkey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:23:06 +0000

Like what data, my DNS queries and TCP connects? Ok I guess

New comment by foobarkey in "The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along"

foobarkey — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:09:51 +0000

I kind of remember and Jolla like 5 years ago, but I think this is supposed to be a hype generating post OK. Try buying one though it is not so easy

New comment by foobarkey in "CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields"

foobarkey — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:51:22 +0000

I put the session cookie as http_only, same_site=strict and turned off csrf. Then pentesters came and quoted owasp in the report, while not being able to demonstrate an attack. Some drone added csrf back, everyone congratulated themselves in making things more secure :)

New comment by foobarkey in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

foobarkey — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:26:27 +0000

Not necessarily, CS is just following some AML script here and will not deviate :)

New comment by foobarkey in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

foobarkey — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:02:32 +0000

Just talk to a lawyer, have the lawyer send a letter, there is no need to bang head against CS for escalation

New comment by foobarkey in "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"

foobarkey — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:26:05 +0000

Probably an intern (oh its 2025, maybe LLM?) messed up some spaghetti part and the async job for reindexing your site is failing since then and the on-call is busy taking mojito/the alert is silenced :)

New comment by foobarkey in "Golang optimizations for high‑volume services"

foobarkey — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:12:26 +0000

Interesting tips, looking into Go perf recently also. However making sure postgres wal log does not grow seems like putting an unnecessary constraint on things and then defeating it

New comment by foobarkey in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

foobarkey — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:46:21 +0000

Sorry for the downvotes but this is true many times with some basic HA you get better uptime than the big cloud boys, yes their stack and tech is fancier but we also need to factor in how much CF messes with it vs self hosted, anyway the self hosted wisdom is RIP these days and I mostly just run cf pages / kv :)

New comment by foobarkey in "Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master"

foobarkey — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:01:11 +0000

Making you fee like less of a person for using the word is also censorship but in a more clever mean gaslighting way than a full order :)

New comment by foobarkey in "Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master"

foobarkey — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:49:30 +0000

Saying a word is bad is pretty much the definition of censorship yes. Not the context it is used, not the implications when it is used but uncategorically BAD - it just breaks my somewhat autistic brain on the principle.

PS: I have an african wife and let me tell you she has no beef with the word, she will have more beef with me talking to the cashier in a way that is too friendly

New comment by foobarkey in "Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master"

foobarkey — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:26:19 +0000

I thought this nonsense was about to go away noticed even github starting to default to master or maybe it was the terminal git. Sensoring tech words about things that happened 300 years ago is not OK

New comment by foobarkey in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

foobarkey — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:48:42 +0000

The cheapest (~15 USD bullet, 20 USD dome) PoE cameras on AliExpress (focal length is pretty much the most important parameter to look at, depending on the fov you want) hooked up to a Unifi NVR. Skip all the vendor manuals, setup steps, and apps - adopt them directly to Unifi Protect.

I put them on separate vlan where they get no outbound network connectivity.

For cases where you want things like facial detection or license plate detection (automatic doors/gates) get a Unifi AI though and those things cost, but for normal perimeter/room monitoring the cheap ones are very good

New comment by foobarkey in "You did no fact checking, and I must scream"

foobarkey — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:08:08 +0000

While fact checking seems like a good thing, but the example is bit weird, off by few years errors could easily be explained by errors in memory

New comment by foobarkey in "Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field"

foobarkey — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:25:18 +0000

Since the core is spinning as it always has, then dont think we humans caused this one? :)

Our energy needs are always insatiable so thats why I am not a big fan of geothermal, better not mess with the balance down there

New comment by foobarkey in "Protecting your (my) passport from liquid damage"

foobarkey — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:35:11 +0000

With this many steps might be just easier to not put the passport in water then weekly maintenance jobs :)

New comment by foobarkey in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"

foobarkey — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:10:17 +0000

After having owned many 3D printers I can recommend Bambu Lab X1C with AMS. It will be a bit over budget but does not matter, you will spend time just printing and not messing with settings or bed leveling, it’s a workhorse and just prints what you tell it to reliably, no tuning or tweaking required. When using official filaments it will automatically recognize them, switch them during print etc.

After maybe 10 years of printing this is what I initially imagined it would be, now its finally there for consumer - I want this part in plastic let’s go

Oh and it’s also fast.

Hmm, I wonder if bambu gives me a cut for the sales pitch, but if not it is also ok - i just have to give credit to good engineering when I see it

PS: no prusa or clones, no creality, dont mess with that nonsense

New comment by foobarkey in "KDE launches its own distribution"

foobarkey — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:17:06 +0000

Does it support Gnome?

New comment by foobarkey in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"

foobarkey — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:33:24 +0000

I don’t get coding interview stress, if anything the adrenaline helps me think clearer (faster)

New comment by foobarkey in "Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels"

foobarkey — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:34:16 +0000

If the carbon has been stored 1 million years ago and you burn it the total net amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increases

If the carbon was stored last year and you burn it the net amount of carbon stays about the same YoY

Moving the transport sector over to the latter carbon or electrical would be a good direction in general

Disregarding spidy senses and mental gymnastics about people starving if they dont eat all that corn, I dont understand how we fail to see this as a net benefit and crap articles like that get produced

New comment by foobarkey in "Gut microbes could protect us from toxic 'forever chemicals'"

foobarkey — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:17:37 +0000

Ok so what do we eat to get more of them?