Hacker News: jwkerr

New comment by jwkerr in "Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door"

jwkerr — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:55:20 +0000

This is very interesting to me, would most of these bots be running on servers that have already been compromised? If that's the case, is the Netherlands/Digital Ocean the most common combo as it's what most normal people use, or is there some other reason bots favour it?

New comment by jwkerr in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

jwkerr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:08:42 +0000

Most people don’t really care that their privacy is violated, at least not any more than a superficial “oh well it’s obvious they’re doing that, but what can you do about it!”, no point switching platform if there’s no one there to talk to.

New comment by jwkerr in "Fuck You, I Won't Use Tailwind"

jwkerr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:15:10 +0000

I’m pretty tired of posts like this stating opinions as though they are objective truth, and using expletives to “get their point across”, seemingly because they can’t write a convincing argument for that opinion.

I know it’s intended to be funny (at least most of the time), but there’s usually truth under the expletives, I believe that humour factor has been lost.

New comment by jwkerr in "Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf"

jwkerr — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:31:55 +0000

There’s an embedded TikTok showing it off.

New comment by jwkerr in "Become unbannable from your email"

jwkerr — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:09:14 +0000

Over the past few weeks I've been systematically migrating every one of my accounts to a domain under my control.

During the process I've been marking them in a spreadsheet with their 2FA status (no 2FA, TOTP, security key, etc.) and adding their passwords to a password manager.

This is all in case I ever need to go through the migration process again for whatever reason, or if I lose/break a Yubikey, I will know what I'm signed up for, and will know where to enrol my new Yubikey(s).

It really is a massive hinge for many people that isn't even really considered, most people's entire digital lives would be uprooted if they lost access to their email for whatever reason.

Thankfully that doesn't really ever happen to most "normal" people to my knowledge, since most just use Gmail, but I know it can and has happened through account bans or such.

New comment by jwkerr in "Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme"

jwkerr — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:47:52 +0000

Is this a reputable source? Is it a coincidence that the subject shares the name Mads Mikkelsen, or is this just bad reporting?

New comment by jwkerr in "Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a"

jwkerr — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 13:12:00 +0000

They rebranded because it brings bad connotations of being "just a Minecraft clone"

https://blog.luanti.org/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/