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New comment by jackweirdy in "I want to live like Costco people"

jackweirdy — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:53:34 +0000

The membership has another impact on the balance sheet. It not only adds revenue, it also cuts loss from shoplifting

New comment by jackweirdy in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

jackweirdy — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:23:02 +0000

Same. I have found it impossible to explain to the uninitiated so I delight in finding others who’ve found it!

New comment by jackweirdy in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

jackweirdy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:34:07 +0000

It’s a nice property of elections that you can measure votes needing more intervention against the margin of victory before you decide your next step

New comment by jackweirdy in "Digitising CDs (a.k.a. using your phone as an image scanner)"

jackweirdy — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:58:42 +0000

Does it have to be one photo? If you reproduced a spinning drive but with the camera positioned to see half of the spinning disc, I wonder if it could capture the "stream" of pixels in one arc of the spinning disc

New comment by jackweirdy in "MI5’s falsehoods in the case of neo-Nazi spy who abused women"

jackweirdy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:45:28 +0000

He didn’t work there. He was a Neo-Nazi and member of Neo-Nazi organisations, divulging secrets.

By keeping him out of jail, Mi5 stood to gain more intelligence

New comment by jackweirdy in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

jackweirdy — Sat, 17 May 2025 09:05:36 +0000

Canadian citizens are exempt but this is the program that allows non-visa travel to nationals of certain countries https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/

New comment by jackweirdy in "Functors: Identity, Composition, and fmap"

jackweirdy — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:44:52 +0000

What a delightful little question!

New comment by jackweirdy in "Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should"

jackweirdy — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:20:59 +0000

In a previous job I worked for a site doing natural language parsing on recipes.

We noticed one of our partner websites had an unusual number of unique ingredients. It turned out every ingredient was a link to another recipe to make that ingredient, along the lines of your idea.

However for some reason (presumably SEO) they took this to the extreme and everything was a recipe. Including apples.

The recipe for “apple” is

1. Take 1 Apple

2. Eat and enjoy

But since Apple is a prerequisite for this recipe, infinite looping is a risk in the kitchen now

New comment by jackweirdy in "Let the network tell you where you are"

jackweirdy — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:13:08 +0000

This couldn’t have been better timed for me.

I sit with a pile of raspberry Pis I throw into different rooms about the house and want to stick assorted tasks on them. My open question was how can I just image them, plug them in and centrally configure what runs on them with no more sd card or Mac detection shenanigans when I change their job.

I’ll be giving this a try!

New comment by jackweirdy in "1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)"

jackweirdy — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:59:18 +0000

I think it’s not a nation state actor thing. In 2018 British airways checkout got popped by a JavaScript being library being changed to eavesdrop credit cards. The same thing could easily happen with password forms

Granted they didn’t break the session in flight, but there is a low bar to achieve the same thing

New comment by jackweirdy in "1Password and 2FA: Is it wrong to store passwords and one-time codes together? (2023)"

jackweirdy — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:54:29 +0000

> - Eavesdropping on you, doesn't happen because you use the password manager's autofill.

I rate this more likely and it’s one reason I still use TOTP stored in the same place as the password for other services.

A lot of sites are susceptible to cdn JavaScript compromises, and at least with TOTP stored in the same place as the password, a password replay attack has a very tight window of usability

New comment by jackweirdy in "Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers"

jackweirdy — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:09:31 +0000

If I am not misunderstanding (sorry if I am) it sounds like you use the http challenge where your cert provider tries to GET your challenge file — if so, could the DNS challenge be better suited? There, you put the challenge in a TXT record value

Lawyer divorces wrong couple through dropdown selection error

jackweirdy — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:21:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/firm-pledges-full-support-to-lawyer-over-online-divorce-mistake/5119365.article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043949

Points: 98

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New comment by jackweirdy in "British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages"

jackweirdy — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:48:44 +0000

Not clear if it was message interception or (maybe more likely) Snapchat have their own moderation that can refer outward. The text is not e2e encrypted

New comment by jackweirdy in "Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation"

jackweirdy — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 09:58:30 +0000

The telegram group has a bunch of people (including myself) willing to mail pre-made ones, or the unsoldered PCBs for self solder.

It has become quite a community around the software and breakout hardware in itself

New comment by jackweirdy in "I discovered caching CDNs were throttling my everyday browsing"

jackweirdy — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:33:51 +0000

I had a problem with Zen recently-ish too. Ultimately was an Openreach thing at the local exchange apparently. The good Zen support was still ultimately there, but it took a little time for things to fall into place. Standard L1 checklist inflation. Thankfully though Zen are one of the few ISPs where I felt like it was worth it to send packet traces because a decent chunk of folks there would know what they are.

On the other hand, I think any ISP at the mercy of openreach is doomed to have limited support.

I have fibre to the property, and was having periods of 1hr-2hr day of my gigabit speeds dropping to 4-5MB. openreach themselves were blindly sending engineers to look for an issue that couldn’t physically be at my house.

Not much you can do there either as an ISP or as a customer besides wait for openreach to figure out they’re wasting their own time

New comment by jackweirdy in "First transatlantic flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel to go ahead"

jackweirdy — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:21:50 +0000

Fertilizer itself isn’t carbon. Are you referring to the fertilizer production line or fertilizer itself

New comment by jackweirdy in "First transatlantic flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel to go ahead"

jackweirdy — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:21:10 +0000

What % of the carbon of the plant is fertilizer production?

New comment by jackweirdy in "First transatlantic flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel to go ahead"

jackweirdy — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:50:33 +0000

The CO2 in plants is 100% from the air, and then goes back into the air when burned

New comment by jackweirdy in "UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity"