Hacker News: janc_

New comment by janc_ in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

janc_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:14:23 +0000

Why would anyone entrust money to a company like eBay if they are this incompetent at something as simple as e-mail?

New comment by janc_ in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

janc_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:59:05 +0000

Should have registered as rei-are-incompetent-idiots@ instead…

New comment by janc_ in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

janc_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:51:08 +0000

Most RBLs are scams. No competent mail admin uses them to block mail ever.

New comment by janc_ in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

janc_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:30:14 +0000

Oh yes, so many websites are incompetent like that.

And of course after registering with foo+bar@example.com they will happily send invoices to bar@example.com

New comment by janc_ in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

janc_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:21:47 +0000

The + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…

New comment by janc_ in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

janc_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:31:36 +0000

It's well-known that all commercial models are based on stolen content. That doesn't mean there is no filtering/censoring, just that the censoring likely depends on where it's happening…

New comment by janc_ in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

janc_ — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:30:09 +0000

In many countries it is mandatory to mark any form of compensated advertising as such. If your claim is true they might be breaking some laws here & there…

New comment by janc_ in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

janc_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:18:59 +0000

Using OCR you could reduce that to seconds.

New comment by janc_ in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

janc_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:28:18 +0000

While I do get a lot of mail, including a lot of spam, it’s not that bad.

And the real problem is that most commercial companies make their legitimate administrative/legal mails look more & more like spam or phishing mails, not the other way around.

New comment by janc_ in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

janc_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0000

I get those too, and I don’t even have any Microsoft accounts. So I assume at least some of them are not real. ;)

New comment by janc_ in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

janc_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:58:18 +0000

And for a company, not having to train people on all new applications at once might be what makes it _practically_ possible at all.

New comment by janc_ in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

janc_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:34:06 +0000

How can you _prove_ (“demonstrate”) that your software doesn’t contain malware or any vulnerabilities?

They can’t do that for any of their own software for sure…

New comment by janc_ in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

janc_ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:05:00 +0000

Not all "hostname lookups" by applications happen over DNS (or the DNS is done by something like systemd-resolved, which is often using encrypted lookups), so in many cases, depending on NSS configuration (e.g. 'file', 'resolve', 'db', 'nis', 'mymachines', 'libvirt', 'winbind', ...) this would never work?

New comment by janc_ in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

janc_ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:28:08 +0000

WiFi works fine if there are drivers for whatever WiFi chip you have.

Unfortunately there are no standards for OS to talk to WiFi devices like exist for many other types of hardware, so it’s not possible to make generic drivers.

New comment by janc_ in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

janc_ — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:23:35 +0000

It seems like this was implemented as a way to insert tips, and then abused to insert ads, so the developers involved might not have been aware of that part until later?

New comment by janc_ in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:01:22 +0000

They reduce accidents in general, but bring us some “entertaining” new ones where a (usually) drunk driver crashes into the statue/fountain/whatever in the middle or uses the little “hill” in the middle as a jump ramp…

New comment by janc_ in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:50:00 +0000

Before people believe the Tesla robot hype they should probably consider that Toyota has been making cars AND robots for longer than Tesla exists.

New comment by janc_ in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:43:45 +0000

More importantly: it seems like Austin is mostly a typical US city grid of wide streets. Nothing comparable with an average old inner city, or narrow countryside roads with a ditch or cliff or quay on one or both sides. Probably not many pedestrians & cyclists roaming the streets either?

New comment by janc_ in "Software Pump and Dump"

janc_ — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:28:24 +0000

“Pump & Dump” has a very specific meaning here, something that is essentially a scam to cheat people out of their money, and not an actual honest attempt to create something new…

New comment by janc_ in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

janc_ — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:57:17 +0000

These AI crawlers already steal residential user connections to do their scraping. They'll happily steal your trust tokens too…