Hacker News: gazby

New comment by gazby in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

gazby — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:16:36 +0000

> I suppose the heyday is over, it's time to migrate to something else. Oh, I won't be able to POP push gmail to my new email address, nice. > > There is an opportunity for someone to make a low-friction service which does server-side forwarding via IMAP with decent anti-spam. If done right, you could soak up a significant chunk of the Internet email biz.

New comment by gazby in "LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen"

gazby — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:20:08 +0000

Depends where you are. LinkedIn is absolutely the only place to go for tech jobs in Australia for example.

New comment by gazby in "NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition"

gazby — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:31:16 +0000

They've been working on just this bit for the better part of a decade. It'll happen (passkeys I imagine), just slower than most of us would like.

New comment by gazby in "WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System"

gazby — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:01 +0000

Ah Syncany. Good times <3

New comment by gazby in "Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech"

gazby — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:46:10 +0000

I've often wondered why Discord is the only major platform client that provides an option to play gifs only on mouseover. It's incredibly effective at solving for the problem you describe.

New comment by gazby in "Google Drive scans files for copyright infringement"

gazby — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:05:36 +0000

Are you using this technique successfully? I'd assumed they were using phashes or similar.

New comment by gazby in "There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux"

gazby — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:58:50 +0000

Thanks for the reply :)

New comment by gazby in "There Has Never Been a Better Time to Switch to Linux"

gazby — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:43:36 +0000

You didn't mention your distro, which I think is very relevant when discussing upgrade failures and GPU issues.

New comment by gazby in "Redis Renamed to Redict"

gazby — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 03:42:21 +0000

Two reasons I can think of: 1) It involves Drew DeVault who isn't well liked on HN, and 2) the title implies Redis changed its name which it didn't.

New comment by gazby in "Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web?"

gazby — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:37:30 +0000

Hey, you dropped this: /s

But more seriously, given this is HN, I honestly can't tell anymore.

New comment by gazby in "23andMe risks public relations disaster as it blames customers for data breach"

gazby — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:13:43 +0000

Pharmacies in the US have just recently been caught giving law enforcement warrantless access to their records, and it's not even illegal. This plan would need some stronger guarantees IMO.

New comment by gazby in "Ask HN: What is a quote that permanently changed the way you think?"

gazby — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:32:54 +0000

Such a good character is Thrawn, love this.

New comment by gazby in "Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?"

gazby — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:27:34 +0000

Because the transfer will happen faster if you're copying more than one file at a time.

New comment by gazby in "Midjourney v6"

gazby — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:46:03 +0000

I'm desperate for another player to outdo them so I can take my money elsewhere. It feels like I'm being treated like an infant using this absurd Discord UI.

New comment by gazby in "Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?"

gazby — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:24:43 +0000

RCX is approaching abandonware status (last release 2y ago). Round Sync is worth a look.

New comment by gazby in "Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?"

gazby — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:23:22 +0000

I'd argue the opposite. Rclone's parallelization options are unmatched.

New comment by gazby in "OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model"

gazby — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:40:18 +0000

There are stories all over the web of content houses locking down their stuff after they found out OAI was benefitting commercially from harvesting it. This hasn't been true for at least a year. See Reddit.

New comment by gazby in "Leaving F-Droid"

gazby — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:41:14 +0000

Yeah that makes sense. One of those things I'd love to see play out both ways and watch what happens lol.

New comment by gazby in "Leaving F-Droid"

gazby — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:13:28 +0000

I would indeed expect a community-run project to have been better (at evaluating the trade-offs of access logging [which occurs on every other web property F-Droid users utilize]). If only because there would have been more than one voice that mattered, and thus consensus would be required rather than unilateral dictation.

Is the confusion a result of disagreement, or of my explaining my perspective poorly?

New comment by gazby in "Leaving F-Droid"

gazby — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:32:54 +0000

I'm talking literally just access logging though. Expecting even an individual, let alone a business, to run a publicly accessible web service without any form of access logging is just absurd IMO.

I'd expect privacy-inclined people to care vastly more about detecting and tracing indicators of compromise or similar over avoiding access logging on the open internet.

Edit: Use actual English.