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New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

lategloriousgnu — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:31:09 +0000

In Australia, which has mandatory voting, they literally just check your name off the voter roll when you arrive at the polling station. Each polling station has a list (digital or paper) of people registered to vote in that electorate.

After your name is checked off, you then proceed to a booth where you mark a piece of paper before folding and placing that paper into a plastic collection box on the way out.

It's very analog and the electoral commission have no way to know if you actually voted or who you voted for. They only know that you turned up to the polling station and gave them your name.

I assume the number of people who turn up at the polling station, only to walk away without voting is so small that it's not seen as a problem to solve.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

lategloriousgnu — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:24:07 +0000

https://protonvpn.com/blog/spain-laliga

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

lategloriousgnu — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:19:41 +0000

Cloudflare works with the UK government to facilitate blocks within their infra, I assume in exchange for being allowed to access UK network infrastructure.

In the case that a blocked site resolved to a Cloudflare IP, it would likely be kicked off of Cloudflare, or geo-blocked for UK users (by Cloudflare).

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/07/cloudflare-blo...

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

lategloriousgnu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:26:16 +0000

The ISP's blackhole the IP for some blocked domains. So changing your DNS to 8.8.8.8 will resolve the domain, but the IP won't work. A VPN avoids this, since the traffic goes via the VPN IP.

DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice

lategloriousgnu — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:45:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dhl.com/au-en/home/important-information/2025/shipments-to-the-united-states-with-a-customs-value-exceeding-usd-800.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724123

Points: 155

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New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one"

lategloriousgnu — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:56:21 +0000

Bear Blog meets every one of your requirements.

https://bearblog.dev

You can see examples on the discover page.

https://bearblog.dev/discover

It has a small collection of simple pre-built themes, while also supporting custom CSS.

https://docs.bearblog.dev/styling

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "When Dark Mode for YN?"

lategloriousgnu — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:58:02 +0000

I have been using Dark Reader for years and years. Sometimes I forget that some websites don't natively support dark mode until I accidentally turn it off for some reason.

I recommend setting it to disabled by default, and manually enable it for websites which need it using the "Invert listed only" button.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Building Node.js applications without dependencies"

lategloriousgnu — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:18:58 +0000

We patch our dependencies.

This adds a diff to your repo, not an entire fork of the dependency.

A package manager like pnpm will install the package as usual, then apply your patch over the top.

https://pnpm.io/cli/patch

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that generate $200M per year"

lategloriousgnu — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:47:01 +0000

39% all goods exported from Australia in 2019-20 were to China. Of that 39%, over half of that was iron ore. Australian iron ore production is valued at $136 billion a year to the economy.

Unfortunately, Australia really doesn't have much leverage in this space, and forcibly re-nationalizing an asset like that, would cause major diplomatic problems, like the harsh trade sanctions imposed by China over the last few years due to Australia backing a COVID inquiry.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Fosshost Is Shutting Down"

lategloriousgnu — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:18:15 +0000

Parent means IP as in Internet Protocol, not Intellectual property. The DNS for gnome.org resolves to 8.43.85.5, which lists Red Hat Inc. as the ISP. Indicating it's unlikely to be hosted by Fosshost.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "9M Australians affected by Optus data breach"

lategloriousgnu — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:35:28 +0000

ING only requires a customer number, and a four digit PIN for online banking access. The customer number is printed on the back of the cards and at the top of letters. There is no MFA. I wish I was joking.

https://www.ing.com.au/securebanking

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?"

lategloriousgnu — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 01:31:03 +0000

If they were to make the copy available for everyone through their own syndicator then sure, but they don't. The "copy" is only available for the original reader, who had legitimate access to the original anyway.

Under copyright, you're allowed to make full copies of works which you have legitimate access to, as long as you don't distribute them to others.

https://copyright.unimelb.edu.au/shared/using-copyright-mate...

To me, what Pocket is offering is like a warehouse where you can take books which you already own, and they're charging you for the warehouse space.

Doesn't sound like anything to do with copyright to me.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist"

lategloriousgnu — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:34:04 +0000

Ah, on further reading it looks like there are a couple parts to it.

I have only used the "Sign in with Apple" feature directly in apps, which only ever lets you create one for that app.

However, apparently with an iCloud+ subscription, you can generate arbitrary email addresses from within iCloud itself, and then use those wherever you like.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT210425

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist"

lategloriousgnu — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:26:43 +0000

You can only create a small number of gmail accounts, since ever account needs to be linked to a valid phone number. Google actively work to prevent using their platform in this way.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist"

lategloriousgnu — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:25:04 +0000

You need a valid phone number to create a gmail account, and you can only have a few accounts attached to the same number. Google is "trusted" because they actively try to prevent spammers from joining their platform. Disposable email platforms don't, they let you create as many as you like.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist"

lategloriousgnu — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 22:21:15 +0000

The difference with Apple's hide my address feature, is that it will only give you one per site. So even though it's an address generated specifically for that website, it's still your "primary" email for that domain.

If you signup for Netflix using the feature, you can't cancel your account and then signup with a new Apple email, it will only allow you to login with your original one.

This negates the primary reason for blacklists like in OP, in that users generate multiple disposable addresses, within the one domain, for their single identity, usually to circumvent account limits, user blocks etc.

This whole thread is going on about spam but most have misunderstood what "spam" the blocklist is trying to tackle. It's there to tackle people signing up with a disposable address, spamming or abusing the platform, getting blocked and then creating a new account to do the same thing again.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"

lategloriousgnu — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:30:05 +0000

What PII are you putting on a forum? All I can think of is email and password. Your password should be unique to the forum, and I would hardly say that an email address is PII. If you're super worried about email, just use an alias.

New comment by lategloriousgnu in "I'm the guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 yesterday (2011)"

lategloriousgnu — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 03:59:39 +0000

Are you including the increasing value of the BTC in that calculation? I imagine if all goes well, it would be worth a lot more than what it is today in 19 years. It might be impossible to ever withdraw the whole thing at that rate.