Hacker News: jerryzh

New comment by jerryzh in "Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider"

jerryzh — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:22:20 +0000

There is actually a Chinese solution to this which you wouldn't prefer at all. Legally every place who provide free wifi will need you to do sms verification with your smartphone, and record your ip with your smartphone number (which in China is connected to your identity). Then they need not worry about liability, because if anything goes wrong, they can tell the police exactly who you are.

If you want both privacy and liability, it seems indeed only you can do is to be harsh on larger entities like cafe shops who provide free wifi.

New comment by jerryzh in "D.C.'s ban on cashless businesses takes effect"

jerryzh — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:10:44 +0000

Typical bs when legacy is replaced. Same reason can also argue that cavalry and archer should remain in army

New comment by jerryzh in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"

jerryzh — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:42:57 +0000

Actually you cannot use your present Mullvad account to do so. Instead, Mullvad provided exclusive API for tailscale as partner account to do so, which you can only get from Tailsacle if you choose their service. Mullvad only allows those data to go through its server.

Given that Tailscale is a ridiculous company that advertises on privacy while force user to login via SSO by tech giants or OIDC which is shit in privacy, I will stick to my current origin Mullvad account and keep away from this service.

New comment by jerryzh in "Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?"

jerryzh — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:11:34 +0000

There has been a perfect simulator of Casio fx series on android for several years.

New comment by jerryzh in "Show HN: Linkwarden – An open source collaborative bookmark manager"

jerryzh — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:22:41 +0000

I am always curious why don't people use zotero directly for archiving everything

New comment by jerryzh in "The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide"

jerryzh — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 13:53:16 +0000

Read the book Just Law published by your own people

New comment by jerryzh in "Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website"

jerryzh — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 23:42:48 +0000

It is really fascinating that the first website I went to is exactly named "Why bkuhn's Website Looks Like Crap", where someone explains why he is sticking to Web 1.0.

http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/why-crap.html

These are the times that make me consider to believe in fortune.

New comment by jerryzh in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

jerryzh — Sat, 20 May 2023 11:02:49 +0000

One thing that stopped me from using it is unable to sync history.

Is someone familiar with how hard it would be to use the hook system to allow it to sync with e.g. firefox android?

New comment by jerryzh in "Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams"

jerryzh — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:25:22 +0000

> You dont like it, dont use the feature! Its not like Google is forcing you to use this.

And why only Sony have 3.5mm headphone jack now? I guess Apple did not force us right?

New comment by jerryzh in "Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst"

jerryzh — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:17:14 +0000

Yet app store itself is violating the app store rule and being sued in California for this.

So the walled garden didn't work that well right?

New comment by jerryzh in "Deploying key transparency at WhatsApp"

jerryzh — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:10:32 +0000

I haven't use the app you mentioned but KDE connect and a notification log app I use both can do this.

I think maybe you forget that they need to first get the accessibility permit before it can read notification, which is a very high level permission in Android. You cannot even grant it directly in normal permission menu and there will be pop up warnings. (Well then there is the question of how many 0day on earth are there in android)

New comment by jerryzh in "YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship"

jerryzh — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:05:12 +0000

Traffic accident is causing so much death. Let's kill every car manufacturer thus there will be no traffic accident anymore.

New comment by jerryzh in "TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4"

jerryzh — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:54:09 +0000

There was a fascinating (but sadly discontinued) app called Shortcat for MacOS. It basically let you control your entire MacOS with keyboard typing texts.

Thus, this can actually be done at larger scale for over 10 years.

Update: It turns out the development is resumed again, but I don't use mac anymore.

New comment by jerryzh in "Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools"

jerryzh — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:49:27 +0000

This is so hilarious.

It only detects if there is a block in the browser that does not serve as website rendering. Since I use Tree Tab on side panel of Firefox, this plugin will believe I have opened devtools all the time.

Edit: it will think I closed devtools when I really open devtools. I start to wonder how shitty the code is.

New comment by jerryzh in "Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey"

jerryzh — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:25:08 +0000

You can enable in about:config and install all plugin with Firefox Nightly

New comment by jerryzh in "Multi-Account Containers"

jerryzh — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:25:05 +0000

the container is definitely synced at least for over a year. since I bought my laptop last year and everything is synced

New comment by jerryzh in "StarFighter 16 inch: 4K Coreboot/Ryzen Linux laptop"

jerryzh — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:44:11 +0000

>To this day, we still haven't found a competitors laptop that performs faster with the same hardware.

I am quite curious how on earth "a laptop specially made for linux" will enable to have more performance on same hardware? More thermal pipe or you write your own drive?

New comment by jerryzh in "Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun"

jerryzh — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 10:54:28 +0000

because most garbage now are all ready produced by script. chatgpt will actually improve them

New comment by jerryzh in "Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?"

jerryzh — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:26:35 +0000

Even easier, at login window you can select, and then it will remember your choice.

New comment by jerryzh in "Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?"

jerryzh — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:25:22 +0000

Hear your words.

How is that different from I don't like relativity theory at a fundamental level. It feels abundant, bloated, and not very physical. I'd rather have my Newton's law with a handful of augmentation.