Hacker News: jmcs

New comment by jmcs in "Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape"

jmcs — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:07:26 +0000

The "interesting" part is that the mine closing will significantly reduce the water supply to Berlin on its own, and filling the pit will probably raise the issue to possibly catastrophic levels: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/spr...

New comment by jmcs in "Google says iMessage is too powerful"

jmcs — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:45:56 +0000

And with iMessage you need to have an Apple account, at least for carriers you have choices.

New comment by jmcs in "Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?"

jmcs — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:05:38 +0000

He got an exemption the Victoria state rules, this is the same as you getting a paper from Florida saying you can travel freely there and trying to enter the US based on that paper.

New comment by jmcs in "TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS"

jmcs — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:25:50 +0000

It would depend if Tiktok Editor is legally considered a derivative application or not. If it is, then it's in breach of GPLv2.

New comment by jmcs in "Using a VPN could become a criminal offence under new CFAA interpretation"

jmcs — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:02:20 +0000

The UK already deported one of their citizens to the US over hacking (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/jul/07/news.usne...), so it depends on how much of a backbone your country has.

New comment by jmcs in "Show HN: Combining UTC and local times (time zones) in one new clock"

jmcs — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:21:00 +0000

It's like UTC but worse. If people need to learn something new, it's better to teach the basics of ISO 8601 to everyone.

New comment by jmcs in "Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites"

jmcs — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:21:13 +0000

Can you imagine if retail stores where made in a way that 3% of customers couldn't use them?

New comment by jmcs in "Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users"

jmcs — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:44:43 +0000

"The Services are offered from the United States of America and, regardless of your place of residence or access location, your use of them is governed by the laws of the United State of America. Right Dao makes no representations that the Sites are appropriate for use in other locations or are legal in all jurisdictions. Those who access the Sites from other locations do so at their own risk and consent to the transfer and processing of their data in the United States of America and any other jurisdiction throughout the world."

That's half the reason I don't use Google right there and they pretend to follow European laws. So, yeah, right, no thanks.

New comment by jmcs in "Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps"

jmcs — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 07:46:16 +0000

There's no such thing as your Windows PC, at least for home users. There are only Microsoft's Windows PCs and they are very open about it.

New comment by jmcs in "Systemd Home Directories"

jmcs — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:59:10 +0000

> It’s particularly popular in the web communities, which hopefully should make it easy to link user credential data from the web and from local systems more closely together.

Was this written by a CSI or NCIS screenwriter?

New comment by jmcs in "Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string"

jmcs — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:57:13 +0000

Maybe after people stop using the user agent for stupid reasons it can be made useful again. User agents should be stuff like "Firefox 71.0" or "Chrome 79.0.3945", not "Mozilla but really AppleWebKit disguised as KHTML, but no really I'm Chrome but maybe I'm Safari"

New comment by jmcs in "Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case"

jmcs — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 09:24:18 +0000

That goes without saying, content providers are shooting themselves in the foot with an atomic shotgun with the current fragmentation and lots of content is not legally available anywhere.

New comment by jmcs in "No to Chrome"

jmcs — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:23:24 +0000

I've used Here WeGo in several European countries and it didn't fail me yet. I would use OpenStreetMaps but I couldn't find any OSM app with public transport included as an option.

New comment by jmcs in "Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods"

jmcs — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 13:36:14 +0000

There are places with Beyond Burger in Berlin and it's one of the best patties I tried, to the point were some non-vegetarians friends choose it when available.

New comment by jmcs in "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers"

jmcs — Sat, 26 May 2018 05:59:26 +0000

The european union provides a FAQ for the GDPR so you don't need a lawyer if you have a small business: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

The "best practice" you mention was already illegal if you have European users, the right to be forgotten was already a consequence of existing laws and directives (just ask Google).

As for startups the GDPR already takes company size into account, so unless their business is literally being a private NSA/Stasi/etc. they don't have much burocracy to deal with (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...)

New comment by jmcs in "Stop Calling it ‘Identity Theft’"

jmcs — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:10:48 +0000

You don't need national ID if every state issues a real ID document. There's no European wide ID but national IDs of all EU countries are accepted everywhere by law and it works.

New comment by jmcs in "Why I left"

jmcs — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:00:31 +0000

Aeternety website says they are based in Lichenstein, even if their police was corrupt (which I seriously doubt) you could literally run to Switzerland or Austria. The way he talks about his allergies and they would be handled makes it seem he was in a 3rd world country which makes me question the veracity of the whole thing.