Hacker News: notfoss

The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter

notfoss — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44604696

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by notfoss in "Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants"

notfoss — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:37:28 +0000

In Japan, even the bees know martial arts.

New comment by notfoss in "Spam accounts in 2022"

notfoss — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:17:30 +0000

They also don't have to pay any taxes for money earned through scamming.

New comment by notfoss in "Redirector – Browser extension to redirect to privacy respecting front-ends"

notfoss — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 16:36:27 +0000

While I like the concept, the title of this article is misleading, as nowhere on the GitHub page or even at https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ does the author highlight the privacy implications of this.

As mentioned in another comment, https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect seems to be more relevant for privacy minded folks.

New comment by notfoss in "Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself"

notfoss — Thu, 21 May 2020 10:02:52 +0000

> Surprisingly a couple of times, I was asked about recognizing birds by their singing. The library can't do it, but it is something I am thinking about exploring one day.

Hopefully, it'll be easier than this: https://xkcd.com/1425/

New comment by notfoss in "A safer and more private browsing experience with Secure DNS"

notfoss — Wed, 20 May 2020 18:28:54 +0000

Android - at least for now - supports DoT. But, who knows, they might switch to DoH in the future.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using#an...

PS: I have been using it for a while and it works fine.

New comment by notfoss in "Perch: a really little CMS"

notfoss — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:09:55 +0000

> people email me now instead.

And then you manually add that to the article or just keep it to yourself?

New comment by notfoss in "Kutt – a modern, open-source URL shortener"

notfoss — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 07:26:48 +0000

Many companies use shortened URLs in SMS messages.

New comment by notfoss in "Tokyo's 2D Cafe"

notfoss — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:29:10 +0000

They should name it Borderlands cafe :P

New comment by notfoss in "Biometric YubiKey"

notfoss — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 05:57:48 +0000

Zoho.

Yubikey 5 Teardown

notfoss — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:36:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.hexview.com/~scl/neo5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21109189

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by notfoss in "NY Payroll Company Vanishes with $35M"

notfoss — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:58:50 +0000

If I was one of their shareholders, I would be happy instead, as they seem to have come out as the real good guys in the whole story (unless they were legally obligated for covering the mess).

New comment by notfoss in "NSA OSS Technologies"

notfoss — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:52:14 +0000

Well, it's generous for non-americans ;)

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

notfoss — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:05:01 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13651146

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by notfoss in "How My 10-Year-Old Learned JavaScript"

notfoss — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:28:57 +0000

Give the kid Emacs, the language doesn't matter :P

Vim 25 presentation by Bram Moolenaar

notfoss — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 06:37:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayc_qpB-93o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13174288

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by notfoss in "A new reason to love OpenDNS: no more ads (2014)"

notfoss — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 09:31:44 +0000

I am not sure why you were downvoted, but that is exactly the reason why many blog posts don't display the post date.

New comment by notfoss in "Analyzing the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in the U.S."

notfoss — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:14:22 +0000

Recently I was watching "The Dictator" in which Sacha Cohen's character told someone that his name was something like "Imumoccupancy120", to which the other one replied "There is a number in your name?".

But, I guess, it isn't impossible in real life ;)

New comment by notfoss in "Curl vs. Wget"

notfoss — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:17:35 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. But generally I have found aria2 to be more reliable in such scenarios.

New comment by notfoss in "Curl vs. Wget"

notfoss — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:48:02 +0000

aria2 is much more reliable when downloading stuff, especially for links which involve redirections.

For example here's a link to download 7zip for windows from filehippo.com.

Results:

* Curl doesn't download it at all.

  curl -O 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'

gives:

  curl: Remote file name has no length!

* Wget manages to download the file, but with the wrong name.

  wget 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'

gives:

  2016-03-03 18:08:21 (75.9 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [1371668/1371668]

* aria2 manages to download the file with the correct name with no additional switches.

  aria2c 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'

gives:

  03/03 18:08:45 [NOTICE] Download complete: /tmp/7z1514-x64.exe