Hacker News: fossislife

New comment by fossislife in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

fossislife — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:10:58 +0000

As a German I fear the only way I can see one of our government agencies to react upon an external pentesting report is if you threatened to release data from it, anyway (this is not a recommendation, please don't raid my home). I just do not see them fixing even a dangerous bug if a stranger came along and told them to.

New comment by fossislife in "Discussing politics at work: Don't, just don't"

fossislife — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:05:47 +0000

What is a BRG?

New comment by fossislife in "I dumped Google for Kagi"

fossislife — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:09:23 +0000

There are browser extensions, like uBlacklist, that can permanently remove sites from results.

I think you can import filter lists similar to how it works with uBlock Origin and import some AI websites list.

New comment by fossislife in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

fossislife — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:39:29 +0000

There are some fish decorated with swastikas floating around

New comment by fossislife in "US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'"

fossislife — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:06:45 +0000

IMO it would be much better to redact names instead of deleting the entire stories. Newspapers in other countries like Germany never write the full names, anyway.

New comment by fossislife in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

fossislife — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:04:42 +0000

The same sources Wikipedia gets its information from. You can not even contribute to Wikipedia without providing outside sources, I think, which are usually websites or books

New comment by fossislife in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

fossislife — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:37:19 +0000

That Dailydot article is from November 14 2024 and says those were fake accounts.

But apparently she really did create an account, yesterday, and says to have been immediately banned, without posting anything: https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1873542021715243076

New comment by fossislife in "Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe"

fossislife — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:13:41 +0000

As long as no police has confiscated (in most countries this involves the police man touching it, I bet) the equipment you can break it or make it inaccessibility however you like. It's your stuff, after all.

Deletion of user account

fossislife — Fri, 03 May 2024 10:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.soflow.com/eu/product/deletion-of-user-account/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40246171

Points: 181

# Comments: 115

New comment by fossislife in "ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves"

fossislife — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:56:21 +0000

Just had a look: 25 of EU countries use ".", and 2 (Malta and Ireland) use ","

FrodoPIR: A new privacy-preserving approach for retrieving data (2022)

fossislife — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:33:14 +0000

Article URL: https://brave.com/frodopir/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915312

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fossislife in "What Is My Screen Resolution"

fossislife — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:34:03 +0000

You do not need to, you can also click 'do not consent'

Nazi UFOs

fossislife — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:38:11 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_UFOs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38366928

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by fossislife in "Now that cars are like smartphones, we don't really own them"

fossislife — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:38:22 +0000

gives me infinite captcha

Restore movemail / Unix mailspool support in Thunderbird

fossislife — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1802145

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198719

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fossislife in "How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet"

fossislife — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:46:39 +0000

> To actually get the full view of these topics that should be in the article, you instead have to refer to the dozens-of-pages-long Talk pages to see all the non-corporate-media viewpoints being squashed and silenced.

This is exactly what I do. When I visit articles about politically discussed topics I often read the Talk pages. I usually find important and (regularly) well-sourced information on there that, for some reason, do not make it into the article.

Dispelling the New SSL Myth (2011)

fossislife — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:29:41 +0000

Article URL: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/2/10/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.html;jsessionid=59DACEE9D4E59BF9E484D889A9A55DFB.v5-web016

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38111446

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fossislife in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

fossislife — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:45:18 +0000

I can not wait to read Google's reasoning why they suddenly have to remove the Do Not Track feature from Google Chrome.

Elon Musk gets a nod as a space pioneer from 'Star Trek: Discovery' (2017)

fossislife — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:07:12 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/elon-musk-gets-a-nod-as-a-space-pioneer-from-star-trek-discovery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38041861

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by fossislife in "How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie"

fossislife — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:57:03 +0000

> Repeated requests for prepayment; anger or aggression when the request is denied.

Why would they ask for prepayment?