Hacker News: gavaw

New comment by gavaw in "Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp"

gavaw — Sun, 28 May 2023 06:50:31 +0000

Literally all we did all day in efnet was call every new, suspicious user a fed. (You can tell I'm old because we used the word "fed" instead of "glowie")

New comment by gavaw in "Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora"

gavaw — Sat, 27 May 2023 23:39:35 +0000

I have no idea, but I guess it doesn't really matter. If you start sending massive amounts of spam through gmail, does it matter if you did it after logging into the site with your user/password or through oauth api access or through smtp?

New comment by gavaw in "Show HN: Hacker News user experience enhancement browser extension"

gavaw — Fri, 26 May 2023 15:47:29 +0000

When you open a comment thread, the upper part of the scrollbar is hidden behind the header. You have to scroll down a bit to be able to see and drag the scrollbar thumb. This on Chrome on Windows.

New comment by gavaw in "Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page"

gavaw — Fri, 26 May 2023 11:32:45 +0000

Precisely why I abandoned Tor and shut down my relays. It went from a technical project that solved an interesting problem to a "human rights" project that wanted to shape the world in a liberal Western fashion. That's a no-no from me.

New comment by gavaw in "Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet"

gavaw — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:58:06 +0000

Why use 1.2/1.2 when you can use 2.4/1.2 ? It makes no sense whatsoever. Reducing download so you can say your connection is symmetric?

In any case GPON is already in its way out, new deployments use XGS-PON which is 10/10

New comment by gavaw in "Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet"

gavaw — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:55:08 +0000

Because technologies like GPON or HFC were designed with asymmetry in place because most users download much, much more than they upload. In the case of HFC the asymmetry can be particularly egregious.

New comment by gavaw in "Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet"

gavaw — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:53:11 +0000

GPON is limited to 2.4 gbps down, 1.2 gbps up. It's asymmetric.

New comment by gavaw in "Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode"

gavaw — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:35:12 +0000

Everything is performance-critical. I buy new hardware so it runs my software as fast as it can. Why would I upgrade my CPU if I knew my programs would start running slower?

New comment by gavaw in "Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode"

gavaw — Thu, 25 May 2023 21:33:35 +0000

I'm sure those options will be dog slow and unreliable.

I buy wintel so I can run my software from 15 years ago without interference. Literally the only reason I don't buy a mac. If they want to take that away, well, good luck to them

New comment by gavaw in "Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google"

gavaw — Thu, 25 May 2023 21:28:58 +0000

I was talking about Apple, sorry.

New comment by gavaw in "Aurora Store Accounts Blocked by Google"

gavaw — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:51:53 +0000

You can change your account's country by opening the store and tapping on your avatar. It's a bit convoluted (requires you to make up an address) but it's not the end of the world.

New comment by gavaw in "Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights"

gavaw — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:32:06 +0000

Imagine how much you could brag about your attention span if the video was 8 hours long!

New comment by gavaw in "Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights"

gavaw — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:30:02 +0000

In manual cars, it's always felt wrong how much and how fast the car can decelerate by changing to lower gears without the brake light turning on - even if you are not technically using the brake, you can lower the speed so much as to create a dangerous situation with the guy coming behind, and therefore turning on the brake light would be appropriate.

New comment by gavaw in "A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress"

gavaw — Wed, 24 May 2023 13:48:04 +0000

Is that the truth, what they say they do, or what they would like to do?

New comment by gavaw in "Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip"

gavaw — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:45:20 +0000

Knowing Microsoft it's going to be one of those ugly, slow UWP apps. So I assume I will keep having to install 7zip

New comment by gavaw in "Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinuation"

gavaw — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:56:15 +0000

They didn't update the firmware "to block Bannerbomb3", they fixed a bug in the Settings app.

New comment by gavaw in "Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North America"

gavaw — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:34:45 +0000

>Many african countries are extremely resource rich. They do have money, but also corruption sapping a lot of it away.

Which is why they need their leaders replaced by Western puppets, which will divert all the riches to the West and leave some crumbs to the citizens. Since the current power structure doesn't leave anything to the citizens, leaving crumbs would be an improvement. See India for example.

New comment by gavaw in "Europe’s CEOs Eye Shift in Spending Plans Toward North America"

gavaw — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:42:07 +0000

You forget the part wher African countries have terrible political stability and no money. The only way of making this work would be neocolonialism, which is ok imo (in the end it benefits both parties), but it's frowned upon by some political circles.

New comment by gavaw in "The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)"

gavaw — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:26:53 +0000

Is it shipped if it cannot execute under any conditions? Philosophical question I'm afraid.

New comment by gavaw in "The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)"

gavaw — Tue, 23 May 2023 10:53:47 +0000

This article is about the AARD code, which was present in a beta release of Windows but was never shipped.