Hacker News: intellirogue

New comment by intellirogue in "ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule"

intellirogue — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:20:34 +0000

They're European (Deutsche Telekom), which might be part of why they prefer to work that way.

New comment by intellirogue in "Ask HN: Anyone else receiving unsolicited Datadog marketing spam?"

intellirogue — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:35:01 +0000

Yup. I did a trial and their product came out on top, but their sales tactics were so aggressive that I went elsewhere. They were trying to call me 6+ times a day.

New comment by intellirogue in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

intellirogue — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:14:26 +0000

I'm getting about 10 hours on my M1 16" MBP running a JetBrains IDE and 8 Docker containers.

New comment by intellirogue in "What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?"

intellirogue — Mon, 16 May 2022 08:48:31 +0000

Your registrar isn't doing the necessary due diligence then - mine made me send them a scan of either passport/ID or residency permit.

https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/

New comment by intellirogue in "Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”"

intellirogue — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 06:30:26 +0000

As far as I can tell, that feedback goes into a black hole. I've sent many corrections there, not a single one has been adopted, including ones where entire streets didn't exist (i.e. they exist on Maps but have never existed IRL).

In the city I used to live, they had to put signs up at the entrance to a street, warning people to ignore Google Maps. It tried to route people the wrong way up a one-way street, and the government had failed to get Google to fix it.

New comment by intellirogue in "Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls"

intellirogue — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 09:12:23 +0000

Yeah, the company I work for recently got acquired by a US corporate. I went from one ~15min stand-up call a day to 3-4 hours of meetings per day, all mandated by the US VPs. Our company has had to double our number of developers just to get the same amount of work done that we did pre-acquisition.

New comment by intellirogue in "Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance"

intellirogue — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:24:50 +0000

Qwant.

New comment by intellirogue in "Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences"

intellirogue — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 14:23:02 +0000

It's just a proposal by an academic. Probably intended to spark a conversation, as NZ is reviewing its privacy and data sovereignty law.

New comment by intellirogue in "Sky News Australia has been suspended from YouTube after a review of old videos"

intellirogue — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 08:34:48 +0000

In case anyone doesn't know, Sky News Australia is their Fox News (same owner).

New comment by intellirogue in "The Lightness of Windows"

intellirogue — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:44:35 +0000

It really was off-putting the way the main guy was saying words like "this is so exciting" while having zero facial emotion and a dead look in his eyes. Felt like somebody was holding a gun to his head and making him read off a prompter.

New comment by intellirogue in "Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status"

intellirogue — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:47:45 +0000

Reading the suit, it is interesting that it is very much based around the fact that Quad9 already blocks resolution for "malicious" domains, and therefore already has a censorship process in place. Basically "you're already censoring, one more domain won't hurt."

New comment by intellirogue in "Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status"

intellirogue — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:46:08 +0000

Switzerland isn't in the EU. In this case it is a separate treaty which allows it.

New comment by intellirogue in "Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status"

intellirogue — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:36:36 +0000

The "almost-EU" countries (Switzerland, Norway and Iceland) have a treaty with the EU covering cross-border civil disputes, called the Lugano Convention. That gives the Hamburg court jurisdiction in this matter.

New comment by intellirogue in "What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?"

intellirogue — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:11:36 +0000

Does the Danish one not contain name etc? The idea was that you'd be comparing that against photo ID.

New comment by intellirogue in "What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?"

intellirogue — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:09:23 +0000

It is cryptographically signed, so creating your own QR code that would be accepted by the apps would be difficult without the signing key.

Even ignoring that though: including both the ID and detail allows it to work both ways. In official situations (e.g. at a country border) you might be able to validate against a server, but the local nightclub probably doesn't have access to a validation server.

New comment by intellirogue in "Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge"

intellirogue — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:29:23 +0000

It's part of the Play Store. You'd need to install a non-Google build of Android (e.g. LineageOS) which doesn't include Play Store/Services, which also means you can't download apps etc from there.

New comment by intellirogue in "UK Rail services to come under unified state control"

intellirogue — Thu, 20 May 2021 16:30:19 +0000

Half as Interesting. It's more short form, humerous content. Wendover is the longer form, more serious stuff.

New comment by intellirogue in "Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke"

intellirogue — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:17:42 +0000

Exactly. I can't even imagine how the US system is meant to work with something like Apple Pay. I don't carry my physical card, there's no need to when it is in my phone.

New comment by intellirogue in "Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer"

intellirogue — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:04:25 +0000

Correct, you need to have enough money to get by while the work permit is processed. If you get a job via remote interviews, and book the work permit appointment in advance of coming, you can turn it around pretty fast though - I had my work permit appointment the week I arrived, and then went straight to work.

New comment by intellirogue in "Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer"

intellirogue — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:01:26 +0000

Oh absolutely, not relevant for OP, just pointing out that "There’s no such thing as Green Card in Europe" isn't quite true as a Blue Card is pretty similar.