Hacker News: netflixandkill

New comment by netflixandkill in "Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy"

netflixandkill — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:11:19 +0000

Yes but how many football fields can that throw a beer can?!

New comment by netflixandkill in "Cryptoland [video]"

netflixandkill — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:42:07 +0000

The best place to get STDs in the great lakes.

New comment by netflixandkill in "Computers as I used to love them"

netflixandkill — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 21:20:38 +0000

Can already do that with rclone, although a one button setup for syncthing would likely get some play.

New comment by netflixandkill in "This Year in Matrix"

netflixandkill — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 21:33:51 +0000

If communications are generally encrypted then that absolutely is surprising. In that example all the clients could be counting the emoji bs or whatever individually without any server even being aware of the message content.

New comment by netflixandkill in "“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs"

netflixandkill — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:31:12 +0000

I understand what NFTs are, but torrents are ephemeral and recreatable and frequently replaced even for the same source data, more akin to indices. Proving you had a copy in the past or traded for said proof conveys nothing if no seeders exist anymore, and abandonment rates are huge outside of archival communities.

Other than the mystery and the joke what's the meaning of a NFT for the URL of a deleted tweet?

New comment by netflixandkill in "“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs"

netflixandkill — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 08:10:13 +0000

What does a NFT of a torrent even mean after we stop laughing at the absurdity?

New comment by netflixandkill in "The IPv4 Cleanup Project"

netflixandkill — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:44:11 +0000

If you participate in facebook etc apps and services at all they have far more insidious and effective tracking and NAT isn't hiding you at all. Additionally the idea that it is granting you any measure of privacy is only true if you're behind a giant translation block with tens of thousands of unrelated people and a broad enough public range that connection correlation becomes impractical, compressing a single family or roommates behind a single public IP that changes maybe every few weeks accomplishes very little if anything.

If you need anonymity that much for whatever purpose, depending on v4 NAT is dangerous at best and you should be looking into anonymous proxies or VPN providers (that also mask ipv6), Onion routing, etc.

New comment by netflixandkill in "The case of the 500-mile email (2002)"

netflixandkill — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 23:02:28 +0000

There's no reason you couldn't, but distance is not the only source of latency, so you're unlikely to find an existing case of someone doing that intentionally.

Easy enough to whitelist geo-ip matches or large net block ranges for a similar result.

New comment by netflixandkill in "The Breeder's Equation"

netflixandkill — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:57:38 +0000

When affluent and educated societies worldwide show declining birthrates and increasing age at reproduction, it can be taken as a strong indicator of women's and family's preferences for fulfilling lives at demographic scale.

New comment by netflixandkill in "Software company SAP: World-leading through intellectual property theft?"

netflixandkill — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 20:38:31 +0000

Taiwan was, and is to a lesser degree these days, also highly patronistic in terms of you needing to know people to get that kind of government support. That kind of corruption was why the locals were protesting and organizing against the KMT in 1947 and still echoes today in a wide investment gap between northern and southern Taiwan.

Morris Chang may be a great guy but he was directly recruited by an authoritarian government that was still operating under martial law, and that absolutely was not an option available to most Taiwanese.

New comment by netflixandkill in "Tokyo says long goodbye to beloved floppy disks"

netflixandkill — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 14:12:58 +0000

hey now let's calm down with that crazy talk.

They only stopped using floppies because it was getting (napkin math) 20 million times more expensive per data volume than modern data storage.

New comment by netflixandkill in "AMD Short Interest Has Grown by 234% in Nine Months Reveals Data"

netflixandkill — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 23:29:59 +0000

A war over Taiwan would have global economic consequences that made whatever AMD's stock price did the most minor of footnotes. The amount of trade that goes through that area of the Pacific is staggering.

New comment by netflixandkill in "China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization"

netflixandkill — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:40:08 +0000

The core of the problems is the KMT, who have been the roadblock to resolving this the whole time. Yes, they really were not willing to give anything, and it's black comedy at this point how many of them are in the PRC's pocket under the delusion the CCP will have any use for them at all if unification ever occurs (magic 8 ball says odds not good).

New comment by netflixandkill in "Real-world data show that filters clean Covid-causing virus from air"

netflixandkill — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:14:47 +0000

It seems to be a problem with older east Asian construction, I claim no specific expertise on the issue but I've observed poor p/u bend water barriers in even fairly nice buildings from the 70s and 80s in Taipei.

New comment by netflixandkill in "Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked"

netflixandkill — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:58 +0000

Outside of the same authentication domain with bad auth token practices (windows) the hash almost always is useless elsewhere. Salting increases the complexity and thus size of hash tables or hash comparison (rainbow tables), but if your manage to break or brute force the entries, salted or not, the secret often is reused by many users.

New comment by netflixandkill in "πfs – A data-free filesystem"

netflixandkill — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:03:44 +0000

that's way worse than 1:1 unless all integers between 0 and 255 occur in the first 256 digits of pi, which I'm 99.pi% sure is not the case.

New comment by netflixandkill in "πfs – A data-free filesystem"

netflixandkill — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:15:02 +0000

I love that they ran with this far enough to get it working. We need a graph of the average number of bits to store an offset into pi versus size of stored data.

New comment by netflixandkill in "ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company"

netflixandkill — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:52:38 +0000

As a frequent international traveler, using VPNs as a method to change routing absolutely can improve the results. Routing is not always done to get your specific packets someplace as fast as possible, particularly when submarine cables are involved.

New comment by netflixandkill in "America has a drinking problem"

netflixandkill — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:45:24 +0000

That's a bizarre way to read two independent sentences. I don't know if any given eastern European nations counts as developed in your terms, but pretty much all of them with similar HDI or whatever other metric to the United States have their own problems, but not to anything like the degree seen in the US.

New comment by netflixandkill in "America has a drinking problem"

netflixandkill — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:52:39 +0000

America has problems with drinking, opioids, meth, prescription abuse, vaping bizarre things, health care, mental health, domestic violence, domestic terrorism and violent crime, school shootings and suicides because America has a misery problem.

A few decades of bootstrap vs welfare paint don't fix the rotted and failing structure of a culture, if it can even be called that anymore, that had replaced well being with consumption and personal growth with work and public goods with privatized profits.

There is a pretty international audience here that can probably relate to seeing the difference between cases like the hard drinking work culture in many east Asian nations or the near constant casual drinking of much of Europe with the abject despair visible in the poorer parts of the US.

Naturally people have been crying for a social welfare system for basically the last 140 years with occasional fits and starts but mostly characterized by a complete failure to crib off the results of developed nations across the world that simply don't have constant ongoing crises about everything.