Hacker News: freitasm

New comment by freitasm in "Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned"

freitasm — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:02:03 +0000

So much winning. So much peace. This president should get another FIFA Piss Prize.

New comment by freitasm in "Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'"

freitasm — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:45:57 +0000

Probably because the grift never stops.

New comment by freitasm in "An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk"

freitasm — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:31:59 +0000

Well, a radar-like display, then. But not a radar.

New comment by freitasm in "Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts"

freitasm — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:43:35 +0000

The grift. It never stops.

New comment by freitasm in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

freitasm — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:12:40 +0000

I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...

New comment by freitasm in "UEFA slams FIFA's 'unprecedented, unjustifiable' Balogun decision"

freitasm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:38:49 +0000

The corruption is everywhere, small and large. You can't trust the game is not fixed now and you can't trust the government either.

New comment by freitasm in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

freitasm — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:31:45 +0000

This is the New Zealand model. Multiple ISPs but only a few fibre providers - the largest one is Chorus, with a few that are very localised, but follow the same rules.

The ONT is accessible to all ISPs, and you can provision both available ports with different ISPs if wanted. Usually, a change from one ISP to another happens within the day, like number portability.

New comment by freitasm in "Bring back crappy forums"

freitasm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:20:24 +0000

I run a forum site. It's been going on for 23 years now, and over that time, it has reflected the country's technology adoption history.

We still have new signups every day and a community that helps others when needed - not only online but in real life too.

The structured discussions and the focus on topics make this type of site a lot easier for some people when compared to platforms like Discord.

New comment by freitasm in "Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board"

freitasm — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:57:08 +0000

Sounds cool. Couldn't see it though. "Rate limited" on my first visit. Using a static IPv4 and IPv6.

Unless your host is limiting number of requests, indiscriminately.

New comment by freitasm in "Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets"

freitasm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:30:58 +0000

Meanwhile, the Epstein files continue to be ignored.

New comment by freitasm in "Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow"

freitasm — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:00:50 +0000

So much winning.

New comment by freitasm in "Babel-USB: USB drive with every file"

freitasm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:48:29 +0000

So you get a file. Any file. Not necessarily the file you want, unless you already know its contents and how to traverse the folder hierarchy to get to that specific point.

New comment by freitasm in "Babel-USB: USB drive with every file"

freitasm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:25:00 +0000

So in theory you could have War and Peace somewhere.

Each folder represents the file content so far. So how to find a specific file without knowing its contents - by its title for example?

New comment by freitasm in "Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina"

freitasm — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:54:32 +0000

Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.

New comment by freitasm in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

freitasm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:49:43 +0000

I joined AdSense in 2003. At peak it was generating US$15k a month.

Nowadays it will be a miracle if it passes of US$800 a month.

I think the shift to a more localised audience (NZ), diversion of ad spend to large social networks are responsible. Our traffic is similar in volume but nowhere near as "valuable" apparently.

New comment by freitasm in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

freitasm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:23:16 +0000

Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.

New comment by freitasm in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

freitasm — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:20:47 +0000

Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.

New comment by freitasm in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

freitasm — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:42:40 +0000

Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.

New comment by freitasm in "US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables"

freitasm — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:08:11 +0000

Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.

New comment by freitasm in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

freitasm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:19:23 +0000

"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.