Hacker News: keanb

New comment by keanb in "The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users"

keanb — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 22:32:06 +0000

If voting could remove them it wouldn't be allowed.

New comment by keanb in "Employees must wash hands before returning to work"

keanb — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:03:57 +0000

I didn't know "illegal showerheads" existed. I thought the Seinfeld episode was a joke.

New comment by keanb in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

keanb — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:40:19 +0000

Hard disagree.

New comment by keanb in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

keanb — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:09:09 +0000

You make those networks illegal to use. Just using them would be illegal, regardless of the contents of your communications.

New comment by keanb in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

keanb — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:29:38 +0000

An Android smartphone would have the same usability problems for geezers.

New comment by keanb in "Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

keanb — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:10:10 +0000

I don’t think anybody remembers this since that code never shipped in retail.

New comment by keanb in "Meta's Teen Accounts Are Sugar Pills for Parents, Not Safety for Kids"

keanb — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:00:45 +0000

This is a bit one-sided innit. It doesn’t include the explanation given by Meta, just their rejection of the claims.

New comment by keanb in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

keanb — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:42:47 +0000

Of course.

New comment by keanb in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

keanb — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:31:03 +0000

When you receive a request to your website (or any service), that request comes from an IP address. There are databases that can tell you what country an IP address is from. It's not perfect, but it works well enough 99.99% of the time. Then, if the country is blacklisted, you do not allow access.

New comment by keanb in "How I block all 26M of your curl requests"

keanb — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:44:52 +0000

Those bots would be really naive not to use curl-impersonate. I basically use it for any request I make even if I don’t expect to be blocked because why wouldn’t I.

New comment by keanb in "Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio]"

keanb — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:09:30 +0000

So since “big tech” told kids to code now they have to hire them and keep them in an office twiddling their thumbs?

New comment by keanb in "Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording"

keanb — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:58:24 +0000

What others have been doing thus far has not been helping either. The problem just gets worse every passing day. How many have to be killed using American money until this problem is eradicated?

New comment by keanb in "Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++"

keanb — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:37:28 +0000

I suppose because it will start writing in memory that is handled by other parts of the code and corrupting it.

New comment by keanb in "Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer"

keanb — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:53:01 +0000

Maybe they should stop the massive increase in population if it cannot be sustained by the resources in the island.

New comment by keanb in "Ed Zitron is mad as hell"

keanb — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:16:56 +0000

A lot of pessimistic and angry predictions about IA that never materialise. That's his shtick.

New comment by keanb in "Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing"

keanb — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:31:49 +0000

You can add as much multi threading as you want, but if you need to wait until all threads are done, the entire window will stall to show you that context menu you requested.

New comment by keanb in "The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy"

keanb — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:24:01 +0000

Where in the message did he claim that pirating the books compensated the writers?

New comment by keanb in "Eric S. Raymond to the OSS community on codes of conduct: Refuse to have one"

keanb — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:22:52 +0000

Utterly unpresentable because some don’t like his politics? That’s bizarre.

New comment by keanb in "'Independent' auditors overvalue credits of carbon projects, study finds"

keanb — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:12:55 +0000

Carbon credits are nothing but a scam. Their prices are completely made-up since we don’t have the technology to remove carbon and therefore don’t have the faintest idea what the actual cost should be. It’s nothing but a way of hamstringing our industry to make us poorer.

New comment by keanb in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

keanb — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:53:53 +0000

What do you think is happening to those markets?