<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: goobatrooba</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=goobatrooba</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:05:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=goobatrooba" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see how that's relevant? Regulation might have limited some innovation in tech, but gdpr does not affect any of the dying industries. That's more from competition with china, companies with too much interest in giving payouts to shareholders than to innovate, and US financial industry buying most of the best players</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780129</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you might have misread the graphs as they clearly support the title. There are two types<p>One type (e.g. chart 1 and 4) showing the holdings by governments and central banks, which are clearly falling. The other shows holdings by foreign entities, which is also explained to include many US offshore funds and foreign subsidiaries, so actually still US entities that are holding these treasuries. Here the picture is more amorphous with overall foreign treasury holdings rising in the past years with a dip basically for a number of countries since last year for most countries.<p>I read it as clearly governments reducing treasuries with investors in some markets still absorbing some.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759901</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would it not be private? Yes data is sent to the servers but the trust that you must have that they don't keep the data is not different from the trust you must have in your password manager or encrypted email or backup storage provider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:10:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732283</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand this negativity. It seems to be a fully optional separate service. No one is losing anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:03:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732189</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well "Europe"  doesn't meddle in the Netherlands. The Netherlands are part of the EU and the Dutch government has to agree with every single important EU decision for it to be adopted.<p>So when there's "meddling" it is about rules that the Dutch government has itself agreed should apply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:43:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729649</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EU has two main legal instruments, regulations and directives. One applies directly, the other needs to be transposed into national law which indeed often ends with gold plating, but the tool is there to give uniform legislation- if all countries agree.<p>In addition there are plenty of technical standards which are agreed in expert committees, and these too apply directly. I'd expect Canada would join at least those technical processes and the two sides align technical standards over time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728426</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems the nuance here would be between association agreement and an associate member which presumably is more integrated. E.g. EU candidate countries are joining many technical meetings and are invited to listen in to some Council meetings, can express views on important legislation, etc. I could imagine a similar status for Canada, but without the candidate label and neither the financial benefits or legal obligations to work towards regulatory alignment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:32:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726801</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems every country in the world has such regimes, either publicly or in the background. You can bet no Chinese or Russian system comes without backdoors, plenty of US systems have been revealed to have backdoors, etc.<p>I disagree with this, but it's still somehow not an aspect uniquely horrible about EU or Canadian policy making, so not sure why this would be relevant here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:29:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726759</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This requires likely an alignment of trade and product standards, so could still be demanding legally to get over the line. But the foundations are similar.<p>Maybe Canada could just join EFTA, that would be easier.</p>
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<p>Even more striking there were some bow and arrow fights again just a few months ago. I would presume they have never stopped, just rarely make the news.<p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/91moJcyiS00?si=EYzspw-B7y_J77Os" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/shorts/91moJcyiS00?si=EYzspw-B7y_J77Os</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:35:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719188</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In fact there could be a direct link - the less reactive cultures were quickly subjugated by the colonialist cultures with advanced tech. Or the cultures that learned to strike back hard rather than welcome/integrate foreigners (see the lost American settler towns) are the ones that survived independently for longer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:32:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719157</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I like to improvise I'd never want to use a cut-off cable anywhere near a toddler. Whatever the savings or practical benefits, they just can't outweigh the risk of the toddler doing something that causes a shock, fire, ... Maybe for the best that you removed that light strip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:52:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654449</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You destroyed the drives by using an incompatible cable (I.e. clear user error) and they still sent you (upgraded) replacements? That is unusual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654410</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That sounds like Nextcloud</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591013</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And i as an average European just want to say - we feel with you and all the others that are suffering through this. I don't know either what I could or would do if my own government went this route. I hope your institutions and the people's resilience will overcome this dark chapter of American history and build a better foundation on top.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:03:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590317</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That pixel seems to just gather standard data one might want to optimise the site display. I think display port size or http/s choice is hardly personal data.<p>Yes such info can be used to track people, but only if you have the database and means to - which a single small provider certainly doesn't. So unless you think this data is being sold for profiling I don't think that their claim is false.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:56:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571577</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I switched to migadu which was not too painful for a single account (basically the advice was to put both accounts in thunderbird and then move everything over, thunderbird does the work). For email very happy with the provider, notably also as it allows infinite domains.<p>But I miss a proper calendar which migadu is strangely mostly lacking (basic caldav only). Is fastmail better in this respect? And can you do wildcard emails and send/receive as whichever name you want with fastmail? E.g. I have it set so every email which comes to <i>xyz</i>@domain.com arrives in my single inbox (so not catchall but all with a certain letter combo) and use this to have custom emails for every site.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566357</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same problem here, but only for a few apps (e.g. signal)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:39:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523443</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Best ist you can directly report the broken tap from the app. So the dates will be fixed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:16:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455248</link><dc:creator>goobatrooba</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by goobatrooba in "France's tax agency got hacked (in French)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, indeed rare that hacks result in real-life visits, and here even specifically to pretend-confiscate weapons. That's a well-plannee (or excellently opportunist) coup.</p>
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