Hacker News: kova12

New comment by kova12 in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

kova12 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:55:00 +0000

I'm the one on receiving end of this game, and I'm sick and tired of playing it. I would so much rather pay full price and stop wasting my time looking what credit card to use for what purchase. This game benefits nobody but banks, and the total amount of time it wastes unproductively is staggering.

New comment by kova12 in "Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS"

kova12 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:39:47 +0000

How is it that PayPal is still relevant? What does it even offer these days that other platforms don't do better?

New comment by kova12 in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

kova12 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:37:43 +0000

It is censored

New comment by kova12 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

kova12 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:31:54 +0000

It is censored. They just don't tell you what they censor you for. You need to post, and then your account gets locked for bogus reason, and that's how you know what not no say. Like in Carlin's joke about words you are not supposed to say, NOBODY GIVES YOU A LIST!

New comment by kova12 in "XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp"

kova12 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:31:08 +0000

I recently came to conclusion that x is deliberately used for psyops. After I made a couple of posts questioning the benefits of data centers on X, account was suspended for "inauthentic behaviors", restored, then suspended again, restored, and now X won't let me access it until I install an app on my phone and jump through hoops. In other words, doxx myself, it will not work with app on throwaway phone. X is clearly not a beacon of free speech it pretends to be

New comment by kova12 in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

kova12 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:40:34 +0000

It would be hilarious when some services become unavailable to 55+. The whole age check scam will dissolve in a heartbeat

New comment by kova12 in "NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing"

kova12 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:18:07 +0000

> They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.

there's no such right, never been. Just because one has a right to speak, doesn't make it an obligation for others to listen

New comment by kova12 in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

kova12 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:29:37 +0000

Nearly all UK drivers = "total of 1,850 drivers". Also mind you, in UK you can go to jail for disagreeing with narrative. I hold this article somewhat sus.

With that said, yeah, headlights are kinda bright these days

New comment by kova12 in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

kova12 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:49:19 +0000

aren't we missing the point that co-pilot is there in case pilot gets incapacitated?

New comment by kova12 in "ESP32-Faikin: ESP32 based module to control Daikin aircon units"

kova12 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:01:19 +0000

I'm considering a new heat pump (ducted) and daikin seems to require One+ Smart Thermostat to run it in most efficient way, so - cloud. I don't think this project supports plugging into it, but perhaps it's possible?

New comment by kova12 in "Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe"

kova12 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:23:02 +0000

I constantly see beliefs dubbed as "conspiracy theory" later found to be actual true facts. Does that indicate that truth is sometimes on the fringe, and if yes, then what "fringe" really is?

New comment by kova12 in "Ground control to Major Trial"

kova12 — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:23:00 +0000

I used to work in IT in a large corporation back in the days. Amount of work necessary to procure software was so staggering, that any alternative "creative solution" would be much more preferable. And the worst thing is that the cheap software was the one that suffered most. The gazillion-dollar CISCO upgrade was no problem, it's already gazillion dollars. But to get $10 email shareware license one would spend many work-hours of many people, so who's gonna do it.

New comment by kova12 in "Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian Acquire Digg"

kova12 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:47:28 +0000

Other than nostalgia, why should I sign up for it? I didn't gather from the article what sort of innovations are they planning to bring in than would make it appealing to use

New comment by kova12 in "Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful"

kova12 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:24:59 +0000

It does, doesn't it? I wish there was some sort of compat layer which would allow to natively use python libraries in Javascript

New comment by kova12 in "Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries"

kova12 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:25:32 +0000

Somehow first reaction of everybody here is: "it isn't just me, using wireless for security camera actually is a bad idea!"

New comment by kova12 in "The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam"

kova12 — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:33:17 +0000

I would applaud if FCC goes even further, and bans the robots from use in any business, which is required to accept calls

For example: government forces me to have health insurance, and health insurance is unable to satisfy my needs online - DON'T FORCE ME TALK TO YOUR ROBOTS. These don't typically recognize my voice, and frankly speaking "How can we help you? You can say anything" sounds like an insult to me. Many of the businesses don't even offer touch-tone navigation anymore. It used to be that "Say blablabla, blablabla, or blablabla" meant you could use "1", "2", or "3" respectively, but now even that is no longer working in many cases.

Hire f*ng human, or don't offer phone line at all.

New comment by kova12 in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

kova12 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:44:37 +0000

No P&L, no cost/reward analysis, no numbers at all. Just emotional "omg need more green". Have the author ever torn down a single parking lot? Doesn't look like that to me. Why is this article even on HN at all?

New comment by kova12 in "Show HN: Wren – simple yet extensible task management with CLI, Telegram, HTTP"

kova12 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:39:11 +0000

How do you take notes when computer is not available? Do you just VPN home and connect to the http endpoint, or...

New comment by kova12 in "Linux distributions for beginners in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed"

kova12 — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 05:12:51 +0000

I've been a Linux user for 15 years. This works fine for me and [some of] my family. I still can't fathom regular folks using any flavor of it. Chrome and Android obviously disregarded.

New comment by kova12 in "SpaceX launches first phone service satellites"

kova12 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:05:40 +0000

If T-Mobile provides as much as just SMS in the dead zones, I'd be quite satisfied with the outcome already.