<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: jdsnape</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jdsnape</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:51:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jdsnape" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jdsnape in "Identify a London Underground Line just by listening to it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can…but, won’t the frequency will be stable across the UK grid and these are all in London. Secondly, pretty sure they all use DC motors, so no hum</p>
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<p>Out of interest, why does that seem a strange methodology?</p>
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<p>Out of interest, why does it sound kind of crazy?<p>Here, pets have always had to be identifiable: historically with a collar, but microchips have been required for some years now as a more effective method.<p>(That applies nationally, not some city thing)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032777</link><dc:creator>jdsnape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jdsnape in "Vim 9.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to work for a large enterprise, and tried to get vim ‘approved’ for internal use. I remember this charityware clause caused our legal department to get tied up in all sorts of arguments about how we could be opening ourselves to liability if we used it without donating. It was my first lesson in navigating large company processes.<p>In the end I just kept quiet about the fact that it ships in all the Linux package repos.<p>(Just to be clear, I fully support what Bram did here)</p>
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<p>I think this is probably quite dependent on what’s normal for ISPs in the region.  In the UK for example, every ISP router I’ve had runs a DNS server and it’s that which is given out via DHCP. It then forwards onto the ISPs DNS platform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:45:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912145</link><dc:creator>jdsnape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jdsnape in "That's not how email works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HTTPS does encrypt query parameters, all of the HTTP request goes inside the encrypted session.<p>The only thing outside is the hostname, if the connection is not using the latest versions</p>
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<p>Owned by Tesla but leased to the public. In the UK it’s common to lease a new car rather than purchasing it, and often the car manufacturer has a financial services arm that manages the lease.</p>
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<p>probably not so useful in practise, but still fun and interesting.<p>Yes, centralised C2 is definitely still a thing in the malware space, for commodity malware it works well enough that there's little real incentive to move to anything more complex.</p>
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<p>Not quite, it talks about configuring your home network to resist those things (as per the title). It’s just that the home network happens to be in China.<p>It’s a useful writeup, I’ve done similar things outside of China to facilitate split tunnelling or bypass geoblocking.</p>
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<p>Maybe not on compsci? but when I did electronic engineering it was covered as part of our embedded systems course.<p>There’s quite a lot of info out there on UEFI, and tiano core is open source. I taught myself enough to implement a small game you had to solve to be able to boot your machine, for example :)</p>
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<p>I have a 12 mini and have also found that 26 has killed my battery life.<p>I also agree that they didn’t test it on smaller screens, there are lots of cases where things don’t quite fit right.<p>I’ve been wanting a better camera for a little while, I guess it’s time to adjust to something bigger :\</p>
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<p>Is it possible? The EU is finding now that it is hard to keep data from the USA, which as a jurisdiction falls as much into that category as China does.<p>I would argue it is not possible to ever consider the internet 'safe' because you happen to flow through country x, and not country y. Instead, we must keep working on the protocols that we use to try to reduce exposure as much as possible.</p>
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<p>It’s a bold assumption that only China is tracking this info though. Mobile operators are some of the worst at selling ‘anonymised’ data on their users</p>
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<p>Your comment made me stop and calculate and I was surprised to find I’m similar. When I really need to focus groove salad has always been my thing. Sometimes I find myself reluctant to putting it on because I know I’ll get sucked into the task and not surface again for a long time.</p>
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<p>I don’t know, I have definitely been approached by someone with that exact statement before. Then I have to figure out what they’re actually trying to achieve to avoid an x-y problem, and figure out the right solution.<p>I would totally expect a good interview candidate to be able to ask questions to establish the context</p>
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<p>I think it's probably from "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue". I think the game was Film Club, there they have to suggest films that would appeal to a certain demographic. The demographic was "Cheese Makers", and the answers were "Cheeses of Nazareth", then others like "Fromage to Eternity", "The Rock Fort" etc.<p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_a_Clue" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_a_Clue</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887897</link><dc:creator>jdsnape</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44887897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jdsnape in "A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how it does work, I remember MS Word having a fairly decent grammar checker when I was using it in school - which predated LLMs by many years!<p>I suspect an LLM wouldn’t be the most optimal choice</p>
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<p>Fare, not fair<p>(I’m sorry, it doesn’t matter but I couldn’t help it in a discussion on quality)</p>
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<p>Yes, I can imagine this for other things. We have exactly that model for TVs, other appliances, and most especially cars. Getting something on a lease is by no means restricted to houses. Sure, it's not always a great idea, but there are definitely circumstances where it is useful.</p>
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<p>I think that might say more about your network connection than the site...</p>
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