Hacker News: joemi

New comment by joemi in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

joemi — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:52:24 +0000

The "ignorance is bliss" approach doesn't work for everyone.

New comment by joemi in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

joemi — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:28:37 +0000

I'm not the person that you're replying to, but:

It can be less intrusive than using a phone, I believe. That makes it a step closer to being present. (I don't know specifics, but I'm assuming that the display can be turned off when not in use.)

Also, if someone already wears glasses, why not have glasses that can do more?

New comment by joemi in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

joemi — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:23:05 +0000

If photo quality is the only concern, a DSLR camera will take a better picture than a modern phone, so you shouldn't use a phone either. But the person you're replying to didn't say it was "better", they said "faster", so that's what's more important to them.

New comment by joemi in "Web Security is Too Hard"

joemi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:03:39 +0000

I assumed that the fact the blog post verified the legitimacy was implied, or that people would look at it before commenting if they didn't think it was implied. My bad.

New comment by joemi in "Web Security is Too Hard"

joemi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:01:29 +0000

I mentioned it because the blog post itself links back to cloudflare.pay. Of course just linking to a blog post is useless.

New comment by joemi in "Web Security is Too Hard"

joemi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:17:26 +0000

It looks like they've updated the cloudflare.pay site to link to the blog post on cloudflare.com that introduces wallets. So they fixed it on the same day they launched. That's not too bad, in my book.

New comment by joemi in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

joemi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:02:02 +0000

> As far as I can see, there are only three proven militaries in the world, the US, Israel and Ukraine

What in your view makes these ones proven and other ones not proven?

New comment by joemi in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

joemi — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:13:39 +0000

No-man's-lands exist (a very obvious one is the DMZ between North Korea and South Korea), but I believe the specific point was that no-man's-lands don't exist at the US borders.

New comment by joemi in "DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it"

joemi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:06:16 +0000

Wish I didn't have to log in to reddit to read that post. RIP useful reddit links.

edit: looks like I had an extension that was redirecting to old.reddit.com, and it was old reddit that required login. Though when I turned that extension off, I got a "blocked by reddit security" error. ugggh.

New comment by joemi in "Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users"

joemi — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:15:55 +0000

I'm not the person you asked, but I don't think where it is matters as much as where it isn't. It isn't at Apples headquarters.

New comment by joemi in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

joemi — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:18:43 +0000

It's a lot smaller of a community than HN, so it will naturally have a smaller range of opinions merely due to the fact that it has a lot fewer users.

That said, I don't believe it's as much of a hivemind as you've portrayed. I've seen dissenting opinions voiced there which weren't downvoted (or at least not noticeably), while the same opinion in a similar thread here on HN would be downvoted and flagged. So I don't think that getting downvoted enough so that you're invited to delete your account is a common occurrence with productive members.

New comment by joemi in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

joemi — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:30:43 +0000

I'm aware of what it means now. It used to have a more specific meaning than just "You die and loose everything than you have a meta upgrade loop". That was part of what it meant but not all. The "Berlin interpretation" is what it used to mean, and most of the stuff that's now called a roguelike was referred to as "roguelite" since it met some of the criteria for roguelike but not all.

New comment by joemi in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

joemi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:55:47 +0000

"Rogue-like" is the most over-used term these days. It now has almost no meaning, compared to what it used to mean.

New comment by joemi in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

joemi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:53:34 +0000

I think those are bishops, and they have different colors based on which color spaces they start on.

New comment by joemi in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

joemi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:51:22 +0000

In this game, I think _some_ of the less general terms (stricter definition) also apply: turn-based movement, grid-based movement.

New comment by joemi in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

joemi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:26:23 +0000

Since when was looking ridiculous a hindrance to being fashionable?

New comment by joemi in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

joemi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:51:37 +0000

Adult websites were never banned on those, as far as I recall.

New comment by joemi in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

joemi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:47:54 +0000

Is Let's Encrypt the only provider of SSL certificates?

Genuine question! Because I assumed there were other places you could get a SSL certificate, but people in this thread seem to be implying that without Let's Encrypt, there's no way for people in those sanctioned territories to get a cert.

New comment by joemi in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

joemi — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:42:01 +0000

A government falls under "entity". So it's about normal people AND governments (and other entities).

Still needs updating if it's supposed to only apply to governments, though.

New comment by joemi in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

joemi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:04:53 +0000

At work, we use Google Workspaces so that we have gmail and google docs and google sheets, and the "features" noted in this post have all shown up for us. That said, we were able to turn them off and haven't been bothered by them since. I don't remember the process being hard at all. That said, it's still something you need to do to have your settings not be the default settings, but is that necessarily any worse than any other setting you like to change away from the default?