Hacker News: kspacewalk2

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

kspacewalk2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:30:08 +0000

Doing absolutely everything useful with that data is "one extra attack vector". That is not any kind of a persuasive argument in itself.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:11:06 +0000

5 years. What's your point?

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:57:21 +0000

#2 seems like a feature, not a bug. I certainly don't want my 11 year old texting/calling unapproved numbers, way too young for that.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in ""Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?""

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:44:54 +0000

This does such a profound disservice to non-white actors/actresses, because when the whole "can we make the villain a white guy" mode of thinking takes over, they are essentially typecast for less complex and more predictable roles, and therefore cannot showcase the full range of their talents.

"Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://hollywoodgadfly.substack.com/p/can-we-make-the-villain-a-white-guy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831613

Points: 44

# Comments: 40

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all"

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:13:57 +0000

Every time you sign into an app, you get redirected to the auth provider to open a session there. So of course they know your login times.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "OAuth for all"

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:11:11 +0000

Why would I want the headache of securely storing credentials if I'm running a web app? I'd rather offload it onto Google. And yeah, it's probably more secure.

Why would I want the headache of having yet another login/password to remember, if (like most people) I haven't figured out password managers? I'd rather just use my Google identity, especially if I don't really care about this particular web app.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year"

kspacewalk2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:46:30 +0000

In a roundabout way, AI may just eliminate Oracle from my org's dependencies

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

kspacewalk2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:30:09 +0000

Canada is not even a little bit better at the big thing, and it may be worse. Same ailment, basically. Better look to countries like Spain and Japan for inspiration on how to deliver very big projects on time and on budget.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Never Give Them Your Face"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:23:15 +0000

And don't handwaive away the real problem with children on social media. It's not good enough, not gonna cut it, there's strong consensus around fixing this big societal problem. Go ahead and blame the parents all you want - to a critical mass of people nowadays, it reads like the equivalent of blaming them for a 10 year old being let into a casino and getting addicted to slot machines. The debate will then just move on right past you because you're not being serious.

We need privacy-respecting age verification. It's not rocket science, it's just a matter of implementation. The bad actors - which are mostly bad by virtue of being ignorant - will win the debate if we're throwing hissy fits and telling parents to fuck off instead of coming up with constructive criticism of this approach to age verification.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Never Give Them Your Face"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:20:25 +0000

Your comment fills a genuine gap

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

kspacewalk2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:13:33 +0000

Their IPO is coming up soon. It would be interesting if Mythos remained mythical right up until then, wouldn't it?

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:05:42 +0000

Worth noting that the base plane for one of the US-based contenders, the Aeris X by L3Harris, would also be the same Bombardier Global 6500 business jet.

Email – The Perfect Tech for the Jet Set? (1986) [video]

kspacewalk2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ159pngY8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279006

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:44:47 +0000

Now I'm confused whether my observing patterns of behaviour and recurring beliefs clustered among people from my own part of the world are in fact racism or bigotry. Am I being indecent? Am I self-hating? Are others tolerhating? I only wish some white night would unambiguously tut-tut me or else give me a pass.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:41:50 +0000

Re-read my comment as it is written and note that my observation does not generalize.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:42:12 +0000

>As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.

I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:18:09 +0000

I'm all in favour of grassroots experimentation and a search for something to improve upon, and then replace capitalism. This is how capitalism itself came about and spread, though we can argue about how much it was imposed after it ceased being the underdog.

What I am weary of is that such experimentation, and the energy it generates, will eventually be overtaken by the next iteration of people who want to stop nibbling at the margins and break a few eggs already, some sort of anarchist revolutionary vanguard. Much like with communism, skilful opportunists with a thirst for power will be all too happy to take over this energy and direct it toward building the next totalitarian regime, one which will of course claim to be rendering the State obsolete, but will be about as anarchist as North Korea is a people's democratic republic.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:44:39 +0000

The truly interesting question, and the crux of the matter, also hasn't changed much since 1903:

How?

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:57:08 +0000

Claiming 9 year olds don't remember Katrina is quite an abuse of the word "roughly". The percentage of Louisiana's population under 25 is 33%, we can agree they don't "remember". Anything else requires considerable stretching with a hand-waving accompaniment. I can do that part just as well as any other internet person. Let's see, how about the fact that what followed Katrina was years of rebuilding? Someone from New Orleans probably saw its aftermath around them for 4-5 years.