Hacker News: norgie

New comment by norgie in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

norgie — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:02:39 +0000

I've been reasonably happy with Runbox. Decent features, pricing, and servers in Norway. The webmail isn't great, but I don't really use it. If you must have encryption, I think the only option is Tuta.

New comment by norgie in "FFmpeg by Example"

norgie — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:29:22 +0000

Cutting videos with copy can result in some weird playback issues if the cuts aren't on keyframes.

For manually cutting up videos, I use LosslessCut, which I think uses ffmpeg under the hood and is really helpful for finding and cutting on keyframes.

New comment by norgie in "Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)"

norgie — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:14:31 +0000

This was addressed in the accepted answer:

> rapid rewarming from open campfires or other sources of dry heat caused so much devastation.....Dry heat from ....open fires....cannot be controlled. Excessively high temperatures are usually produced, resulting in a combined burn and frostbite, a devasting injury that leads to far greater tissue loss.

Sounds like it was an overreaction to applying excessive heat to the frostbitten tissue.

New comment by norgie in "Spotify's Car Thing, due for bricking, is getting an open source second life"

norgie — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:56:13 +0000

I wonder if open sourcing it might have been a low(er)-level engineering decision, so there wasn't any marketing/PR awareness.

New comment by norgie in "Meta's open AI hardware vision"

norgie — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:48:59 +0000

> I don't want to do the math, so I'll ask Perplexity to look it up

These numbers are totally wrong, and it takes about 30 seconds to look it up. It closed at 589.95 on 2024-10-11 and 172.04 on 2023-02-23. The other numbers appear to be wrong too.

New comment by norgie in "Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years"

norgie — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:48:30 +0000

Come on, I think you're just looking for things to get upset about (and not engaging with the content in any meaningful way).

Assigning specific (and colorful) names to scams/cons has always been a thing. See

- Pig in a poke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke

- Spanish prisoner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner

- Badger game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_game

- Coin smack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin-matching_game

- Pigeon drop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_drop

And anyway, the name seems to come from the scammers themselves in China, so I don't know why the media would be to blame.

New comment by norgie in "Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out"

norgie — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 05:22:45 +0000

How does that math work?

New comment by norgie in "Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage"

norgie — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:52:16 +0000

Is that relevant?

New comment by norgie in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

norgie — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:33:57 +0000

Hardening is absolutely not what crowdstrike sells. They essentially sell OS monitoring and anomaly detection. OS monitoring involves minimizing the attack surface, usually by minimizing the number of services running and limiting the ability to modify the OS

New comment by norgie in "The worst possible way to be rejected for a job"

norgie — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:33:32 +0000

A video call is excessive, but a phone call seems fine, even good. Far better than just being ghosted after many hours of interviewing.

New comment by norgie in "X outage breaks all outgoing links, again"

norgie — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:43:45 +0000

Seems like this may not have been an outage, but intentional while they worked on fixing a longstanding vulnerability. https://threadreaderapp.com/scrolly/1734802168723734764

New comment by norgie in "Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)"

norgie — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:12:29 +0000

I imagine you find yourself running into “left wing” stuff a lot right?

New comment by norgie in "Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)"

norgie — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:21:55 +0000

Just in case anyone else hasn't heard of "Opindia" before (the second link):

> OpIndia is an Indian right-wing news website that frequently publishes misinformation. Founded in December 2014, the website has published fake news and Islamophobic commentary on many occasions. OpIndia is dedicated to criticism of what it considers "liberal media", and to support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hindutva ideology. According to University of Maryland researchers, OpIndia has shamed journalists it deems opposed to the BJP, and has alleged media bias against Hindus and the BJP. In 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) rejected OpIndia's application to be certified as a fact checker. IFCN-certified fact checkers identified 25 fake news stories and 14 misreported stories published by OpIndia from January 2018 to June 2020.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia

New comment by norgie in "Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase"

norgie — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:48:42 +0000

Oh good, we’re not the only ones. The rest of my time is spent saying I can’t help people fix problems with some old microservice my team “supports”

New comment by norgie in "Why are people drinking borax cleaning powder on TikTok?"

norgie — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 21:25:44 +0000

Answer: They aren't. The article doesn't mention a single instance of anyone actually ingesting borax, just "some TikTok users are encouraging viewers to add borax to their water"

New comment by norgie in "Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken"

norgie — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 02:18:42 +0000

I usually do a lot better than the advertised MPG on my Mazda

New comment by norgie in "The Pile: An 800GB dataset of diverse text for language modeling (2020)"

norgie — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:29:28 +0000

I mean everything is copyrighted anyway. It's harder to give up copyright than to keep it, so the main point is despite copyright protections, most companies do not publish their code publicly at all. For code that has to be pushed to clients, most companies even take efforts to obfuscate it.

New comment by norgie in "FastAPI 0.100.0 release notes"

norgie — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 05:38:06 +0000

Seriously, this 0ver nonsense makes it so much harder to deal with upgrading packages. Who cares you bump the major version frequently

New comment by norgie in "Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in"

norgie — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 23:58:13 +0000

I use OpenSUSE a lot for both desktop and servers, and it’s great.

The biggest downside though is that it probably has the least friendly and helpful community of any Linux or BSD distro I’ve ever used. Questions on their forums are frequently met with hostility and derision, mostly from one particularly active user

New comment by norgie in "Former Canonical Dev Is Working on a Script That Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks"

norgie — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 01:19:15 +0000

Fedora (if you’re okay updating frequently), OpenSUSE