Hacker News: jon_adler

New comment by jon_adler in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

jon_adler — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:18:00 +0000

Jizyah wasn’t at the same rate as zakat and its rate wasn’t uniform. It was often used to humiliate, reminding non Muslims of their subordinate status under Islamic law

New comment by jon_adler in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

jon_adler — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:11:33 +0000

DNA tests aren’t banned in Israel.

New comment by jon_adler in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

jon_adler — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:08:44 +0000

This isn’t accurate. The majority of Jews in Israel are Mizrahi. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

New comment by jon_adler in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

jon_adler — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:58:03 +0000

I deplore the “lunatic” and also support any attempts of liberating the entire Middle East from the deplorable Iranian regime. So many of the problems of this region can be traced back to them.

New comment by jon_adler in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

jon_adler — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:21:30 +0000

I set up a Debian vps, installed Tailscale with ufw and fail2ban. I use this as my exit node. Costing around 2 euros per month. No blocking so far.

New comment by jon_adler in "How to turn anything into a router"

jon_adler — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:03:07 +0000

It doesn’t have to be. I have a proxmox homelab, running x86 openwrt in a VM. It has many other services running including home assistant. It idles at 3% CPU and consumes around 5w. I’m using a Levono thinkcentre.

New comment by jon_adler in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

jon_adler — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:28:56 +0000

Isn’t there separation of the control and data planes? I don’t think Tailscale get to see any of your network traffic.

New comment by jon_adler in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

jon_adler — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:46:56 +0000

As a fellow OpenWRT user who tried many DNS solutions including unbound, also consider NextDNS. They are pretty awesome.

New comment by jon_adler in "The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain"

jon_adler — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:13:57 +0000

Not op but may I suggest looking at Home Assistant, Octopus Energy Addin and Predbat: https://springfall2008.github.io/batpred/energy-rates/

New comment by jon_adler in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

jon_adler — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:59:00 +0000

Unfortunately, all the actual tea bags are usually plastic. The wrapping is probably a small percentage of the plastic in this product.

New comment by jon_adler in "University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test"

jon_adler — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 20:06:37 +0000

A smarter approach would be to run an experiment and look at what the data says. Just because you cannot think of any doesn’t make it so.

New comment by jon_adler in "How we rooted Copilot"

jon_adler — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 21:20:34 +0000

It may depend on what the script is for or the system being used. Segregation of duties is a risk mitigation principle of ISO 27001 to reduce fraud, waste, and error.

New comment by jon_adler in "How We Rooted Copilot"

jon_adler — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 21:14:32 +0000

It may not be a hallucination. Perhaps the Copilot code was generated from the GitHub training set?

New comment by jon_adler in "Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules"

jon_adler — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:23:20 +0000

In Australia it has been illegal for ages. They have also had mobile (cell) phone cameras for years to penalise drivers. They claim that distracted drivers are as dangerous as drunk drivers. Why is LA only doing this now?

https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/fines/cameras

New comment by jon_adler in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

jon_adler — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:53:20 +0000

It is also possible to get the best of both worlds. The ODYSSEY features both a Celeron J4125 and RP2040 co-processor. I have an older model and find this combination very handy. I run Proxmox on it and it works very well.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-X86J4125800-v2-p-5531.ht...

New comment by jon_adler in "Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)"

jon_adler — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:10:15 +0000

The humorous phrase “the S in IoT stands for security” can be applied to the wearable market too. I wonder if this rule applies to any market with fast release cycles, thin margins and low barriers to entry?

New comment by jon_adler in "The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets"

jon_adler — Tue, 27 May 2025 20:59:02 +0000

I think the problem with exporting plastic waste is the poor environmental standards at the destination rather than the shipping. The containers usually come laden with goods from Asia and might otherwise be returned empty (aka repositioning or repatriation).

New comment by jon_adler in "I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks"

jon_adler — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:02:29 +0000

AFAIK, the Australian system doesn’t operate like this for visa overstays. Your friend may be confused with asylum applications for those who arrive by boat (which isn’t often used in practice).

https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/factshee...

New comment by jon_adler in "Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?"

jon_adler — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 16:59:18 +0000

Not at all. There are other solutions around the world that bypass the payment gateways and credit card acquirers. In Holland they have iDEAL, in Thailand they have QR Codes, in Australia they have BPAY and in China they have WeChat Pay. There are tons more around the world. As a merchant, it can be very expensive integrating directly with all the different options, which is where these companies help - for a fee. If you want to maximise sales and minimise abandoned baskets, you’d better make it easy for your customers to pay using the method they prefer!

New comment by jon_adler in "ADSL works over wet string (2017)"

jon_adler — Fri, 17 May 2024 17:04:28 +0000

A small world. I checked out his site and discovered I worked with his wife. He’s the Finch in Coleman Finch. Rachel is you are reading this, Hi! Hope you are well.