Hacker News: mattcoles

New comment by mattcoles in "The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them"

mattcoles — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:44:18 +0000

Let’s say you use a “plus” formatted email, I.e foo+github@gmail.com

Then when you receive spam/unsolicited marketing emails, you can see to which email the spam was sent, and therefore which company sold your data.

This suggests the only way to keep this behaviour is to have your own email hosted and use a truly different email per service.

New comment by mattcoles in "The UK is wasting a lot of wind power"

mattcoles — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:57:42 +0000

I understand that curtailment is needed to incentivise private businesses to invest in wind when the output and demand can’t be correlated, but if the government owned the wind farms then it wouldn’t matter if we wasted right? We could just always be overproducing and wouldn’t have to pay for it.

New comment by mattcoles in "Cracking encrypted LastPass vaults"

mattcoles — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 11:17:49 +0000

He didn’t achieve 2MH/s on his MacBook. That was the authors estimate of what you could achieve on a multi-GPU setup, it was only around ~1KH/s on the MacBook.

New comment by mattcoles in "Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client"

mattcoles — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:34:51 +0000

They do have stuff inside them though, so I'm not suggesting they make it heavier but having the required electronics does take up space that can be otherwise utilised.

New comment by mattcoles in "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (2017)"

mattcoles — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:36:23 +0000

iGeneration is a long established term for Gen Z. This author among many others claims to have coined the moniker but has done so since at least 2006.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Generation_Z

New comment by mattcoles in "Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists"

mattcoles — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:41:26 +0000

I don't know if it's just me but hamburger menus that appear/disappear on hover seems very frustrating to use for me, it's especially obvious on this where the font size is so small.

I find it fiddly to delete/mark as completed as the slightest missed movement means I have to start again.

New comment by mattcoles in "How Many Type Parameters Can a Java Method Have?"

mattcoles — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:02:00 +0000

70?

New comment by mattcoles in "Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)"

mattcoles — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:31:55 +0000

What do you like about it?

For general use it seems as if it'll be something that makes no difference to my day-to-day usage of my computer other than a warm fuzzy feeling that the underlying protocol is "right".

New comment by mattcoles in "“Be yourself” is terrible advice"

mattcoles — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:35:27 +0000

Highly recommend the book 'Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts. This article touches on the search for an immutable self but it doesn't quite make the leap that there isn't one and that the advice to "be yourself" is never going to bring any psychological satisfaction.

New comment by mattcoles in "JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google"

mattcoles — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:17:34 +0000

To keep your account secure, turn on Javascript?? If anything is making your web browsing less secure, it's JS.

I don't particularly care that Google isn't letting you sign in without JS, but the message is just plain wrong..

New comment by mattcoles in "Find and list all your Twitter mutuals"

mattcoles — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:04:16 +0000

That's pathetic... it's such a shame Twitter intentionally crippled their API because the platform is so well suited for 3rd party apps

New comment by mattcoles in "Find and list all your Twitter mutuals"

mattcoles — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:54:20 +0000

How can it hit the rate limit error so quickly? From the output in my terminal it is really slow...

New comment by mattcoles in "How to scrape anything on the web and not get caught"

mattcoles — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:11:53 +0000

In what way is the article not scummy as hell? You shouldn't waste Jenkins server time with this...

New comment by mattcoles in "Online flag waver"

mattcoles — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:36:50 +0000

Anyone had any luck with Firefox on any system?

New comment by mattcoles in "Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years"

mattcoles — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:41:19 +0000

Haha, it was just the attitude I'm seeing suggests that we're somehow at the behest of Mozilla engineers and we just have to wait, but that's one of the great benefits of open source, we really aren't.

And I haven't looked but I imagine changing the encryption algo isn't a huge task, I wasn't suggesting that a non-Mozilla worker implement something huge like zaarn's suggestion, which fwiw I think is awesome as I don't use FF built-in password manager and find it just gets in the way.

New comment by mattcoles in "Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years"

mattcoles — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:33:02 +0000

Since Firefox is open source, instead of just waiting for Mozilla engineers to get around to it, couldn't someone just open a pull request?

New comment by mattcoles in "DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time"

mattcoles — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 22:58:37 +0000

From what I can tell they used verbal & numerical reasoning tests, which does to some degree fit a definition of intelligence.

It doesn't measure anything well rounded about a person and it makes me pretty uncomfortable to think this kind of thing could actually be used to divide people.

New comment by mattcoles in "Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages"

mattcoles — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:59:50 +0000

In what way would it noticeably differ from the LLVM IR then?

New comment by mattcoles in "How to write an IRC bot"

mattcoles — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:40:46 +0000

If you have a Mac, Textual is a great IRC client although their upgrade policy is a bit frustrating, in that upgrades don't seem to be free for life, only discounted.

New comment by mattcoles in "Rules for new FPGA designers"

mattcoles — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 20:53:26 +0000

I wouldn't recommend Icarus Verilog, it's not a very good simulator. You're much better off downloading either the free Altera/IntelFPGA copy of Modelsim or using the free version of Xilinx's Vivado.

The DE10 Nano is a great board though, huge FPGA that can hold big designs and the HPS gives you a lot of extra capabilities.