Hacker News: lstodd

New comment by lstodd in "Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots"

lstodd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:39:43 +0000

> As for journalists, nothing is stopping their legal department

and this is the point.

so people without a 'legal department' are shut off.

New comment by lstodd in "Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked"

lstodd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:42:45 +0000

yes, yes, $PATH is also invisible state then

New comment by lstodd in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

lstodd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:39:53 +0000

Was it not? Grandstanding nonwithstanting, 15 years ago GM (and VW/Benz) were very active shifting assembly to Russia of all places.

New comment by lstodd in "5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion"

lstodd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:27:36 +0000

Hah, yes and no. What we see sober is an illusion, and etheogens just show us other illusions, so that with some effort we can cross-correlate them and hopefully arrive at The Truth. It being that there is no such thing.

Most one can do is accept that one is limited by one's perception and then keep that in mind.

New comment by lstodd in "5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion"

lstodd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:22:14 +0000

It also won't work on DMT. Because when you take DMT, whatever variety, you will not be able to look at a monitor, a picture or anything really. The whole concept of "looking at something" is inapplicable then.

New comment by lstodd in "5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion"

lstodd — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:16:00 +0000

> why isn't my brain upping the dose?

because you are not stressing it in the right way.

PS. idk where you got the idea of 'we're at some kind of evolutionary local minimum'. it was never about that.

New comment by lstodd in "Why birds can fly over Mount Everest (2020)"

lstodd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:39:54 +0000

Imagine forest fires at 43% oxygen.

New comment by lstodd in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

lstodd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:29:34 +0000

And mindful people know that by defeating the dragon you become the dragon, which they do not wish. So everyone else is stuck with the old dragon.

New comment by lstodd in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

lstodd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:09:20 +0000

DC also has issues with arcing, so switches get complicated and expensive.

New comment by lstodd in "Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale"

lstodd — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:12:13 +0000

This is a trivial task for 20 year old ArcGIS release. Or an evening with python 2.4 and some docs on file formats.

Now, back then 1-m resolution DEMs were not widely available, but 10-meters were up for download, freely.

New comment by lstodd in "You can hack your TVs and gadgets with AI for free now – but should you?"

lstodd — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:55:32 +0000

the proxy also dilutes their pii/profiling, so it's kind of benefical

New comment by lstodd in "Native Prometheus Integration with Nginx"

lstodd — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:41:07 +0000

Pff. Nginxs mods exporting metrics were written by the dozens before Prometheus was a thing.

Prom export is also inefficient as fuck. No one serious uses it.

Edit: I wrote two, one in 2009, another in 2013 in case you wonder.

New comment by lstodd in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

lstodd — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:15:27 +0000

Oh believe me I do. (know the type of fraud and abuse they have been seeing).

New comment by lstodd in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

lstodd — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:36:14 +0000

You can not offload fraud and abuse on 'oh well there are so many new domains'. This is bullshit.

I went into internets in 1995. Must I tell you about fraud and abuse in early 2000s?

Blocking domains is a cheap shot. It ticks a box somewhere maybe, but it does not and can not prevent or mitigate.

New comment by lstodd in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

lstodd — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:37:36 +0000

bullshit. you can thank discord and ditch it.

New comment by lstodd in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

lstodd — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:02:59 +0000

As if it did not for all those years.

srsly ppl

New comment by lstodd in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

lstodd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:27:17 +0000

This also. It's a race who's going to find CP where. Or whatever else.

That's politics 101. Read up Mark Twain's Running For Governor.

New comment by lstodd in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

lstodd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:21:37 +0000

Haha. You don't email them, you cut off their funding and smear their public image. This is how you make them move, not with emails. It takes some work though.

New comment by lstodd in "Docker is weird"

lstodd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:32:46 +0000

Do you feel that docker was done for as of about ten years ago and something better should have replaced it?

New comment by lstodd in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

lstodd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:57:05 +0000

actually a probe from cheap shit chinese multimeter, an article from wikipedia and a swift stab kills. with some practice on a friendly stuffed animal.

UK approach is insane.