Hacker News: gkoz

New comment by gkoz in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

gkoz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:01:41 +0000

Are you pairing computers by copying certificates to visit this site?

New comment by gkoz in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

gkoz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:40:43 +0000

What a blast from the past, this word. Exactly right. It was a spectrum from a sort of mutual aid to regular corruption to outright mafia.

New comment by gkoz in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

gkoz — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:50:47 +0000

This passionate apologia of nihilism is not consistent with not caring what other people do or want. If "virtue signalling" elicits such reaction, perhaps it's actually working. Besides, voting with your wallet, an actual tangible action, is not virtue signalling.

New comment by gkoz in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

gkoz — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:47:01 +0000

The only people who thrive in a dictatorship are its enforcers. And by the way a dictatorship needs quite a lot of them. That's how, decades after its fall, you get voices saying it wasn't all that bad, there were some nice things actually, or we should do it again.

And also your neighbors absolutely will sell you out.

New comment by gkoz in "Keep Android Open"

gkoz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:16:58 +0000

Are we still talking about massive companies with power to arbitrarily decide how billions of people use the personal computers they bought? Who's doing the feeling? Why would we presume all of their conduct to be moral?

New comment by gkoz in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

gkoz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:28:39 +0000

After an album ends Spotify keeps playing some related music. It's expected to include some tracks that are new to you. Then suddenly you notice "artists" you've never heard of with empty descriptions and "albums" from 2025 only.

New comment by gkoz in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

gkoz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:19:46 +0000

A person praising Vance and Musk obviously doesn't value due process, judicial oversight and ultimately decency.

New comment by gkoz in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

gkoz — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:20:05 +0000

There's no indication of any failures of the industrial layer in this story. The train was working, it didn't crash into anything, everyone was safe.

New comment by gkoz in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

gkoz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:29:37 +0000

Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about.

> I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions

There weren't meaningful restrictions. A large number of Ukrainians still speak Russian a lot. Instead this sounds like "forcing" a number of people to speak to you in a particular language in order for you to not feel "restricted".

New comment by gkoz in "Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds"

gkoz — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:06:09 +0000

It's plain to see that it's the racists who aren't integrated and properly socialized, not the people "with a background".

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

gkoz — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:54:41 +0000

I sometimes feel we'd be better off without all the paternalistic kitchensink features. The solid, properly engineered features used intentionally aren't causing these outages.

New comment by gkoz in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

gkoz — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:28:44 +0000

Isn't the purpose of many regulations to stop people who are wrong from harming themselves and others? That is, the experience of being wrong also teaches respect for rules one doesn't understand.

New comment by gkoz in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

gkoz — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:47:44 +0000

Given this was triggered by an old school configuration change across multiple servers, there's too little discussion of that particular process.

It sounds like the change could've been rolled out more slowly, halted when the incident started and perhaps rolled back just in case.

New comment by gkoz in "Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal?"

gkoz — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:20:09 +0000

When you get dedicated servers from them that's exactly what you get: you're renting physical servers, which you manage yourself. And they've been in this business for decades. The VMs offering is much more recent.

New comment by gkoz in "Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes"

gkoz — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:04:55 +0000

> What happens if I lose my smartphone or tablet?

> If you have already checked-in online and your smartphone or tablet is lost, you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport.

Seems pretty clear what we need to do to stop this nonsense.

New comment by gkoz in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

gkoz — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:17:50 +0000

How your friend enjoys coffee does not predict how you'll enjoy music? Getting wider ranges of experiences often is fun and worthwhile. Avoiding that to save a couple hundred bucks doesn't seem rational.

New comment by gkoz in "T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal–judges disagree"

gkoz — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:03:21 +0000

How are the economics supposed to work here? Is the data so cheap they can get everyone's location several times a day despite having no need for it? What's in it for the carrier then?

New comment by gkoz in "How I Use Kagi"

gkoz — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:15:18 +0000

An upstream search index is not exactly a source and boy is that one politically biased. Given Russia's efforts towards destruction of civic society everywhere and replacing it with post-truth one, you very much risk compromising integrity by touching their products.

New comment by gkoz in "How I Use Kagi"

gkoz — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:34:30 +0000

A leader who on principle legitimizes and pays companies that are literal tools of oppression will inevitably burn his customers. And isn't it funny how as a paying customer one still has as much say in this as with Google?

New comment by gkoz in "Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own"

gkoz — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:40:19 +0000

It's all managed by the car's computers, the complications are already there. You just don't get to control them how you like, for no good reason.