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Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy is a software procurement signal

occam65 — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://northfleet.tech/field-notes/defence-industrial-strategy-software-procurement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279949

Points: 1

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The CLOUD Act gap in Canadian defence infrastructure

occam65 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://northfleet.tech/field-notes/cloud-act-canadian-defence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193383

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by occam65 in "Fifteen Years"

occam65 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:21:49 +0000

Jeeeesus I wasn't ready for that. my wife was diagnosed 11 years ago. we had been trying for kids for 4 years prior and finally had to give up. the drugs they put you on for cancer for 5 years, well, you cannot have kids. and she was already getting up there in age. she finally came off of them in 2020. then a year later, we found out she was pregnant. and because she was pregnant with a girl, my wife got a genetic test and found out she has the BRCA-1 mutation which explained her breast cancer diagnosis from 2014... and also put her on high alert for ovarian cancer. after the preventative surgery, it turns out she had precancerous cells in her fallopian tubes. this little girl of ours had saved her life. just by being born. she's now three. and my wife is healthy, and happier than ever. I'm a lucky, lucky guy.

good on you, Randall. Congratulations.

New comment by occam65 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

occam65 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:48:28 +0000

Battling the cloud that quells my passions.

New comment by occam65 in "Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android"

occam65 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:31:02 +0000

I've been using Aegis for a number of years, and have found nothing I don't like about it. It's a perfectly functional app, and I'm looking forward to trying out the new update!

New comment by occam65 in "Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?"

occam65 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:55:20 +0000

Funny you mention this. I've decided just today to begin a full week of no Twitter or YouTube. To keep myself on top of my addictions, rather than fully succumbed to them. Props to you for deleting your account and going all in.

New comment by occam65 in "Show HN: DocsGPT, open-source documentation assistant, fully aware of libraries"

occam65 — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 19:29:51 +0000

And that's the thing... This page should always be about sharing and encouraging people who build things they're excited about, regardless of whether it meets some technical high bar.

Kudos to you, and I hope you keep that excitement going!

New comment by occam65 in "Ask HN: What are your recommended reads for bootstrapping a business?"

occam65 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 02:00:26 +0000

$100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. Really good at stripping away many of the reasons I had been holding onto to not start something on my own.

The book is agnostic about how you raise capital. It gives you the pros and cons of bootstrapping or raising money, and leaves it to you to decide what's best.

New comment by occam65 in "Hoppscotch – A free, fast API request builder"

occam65 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:52:24 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to answer! Much appreciated.

New comment by occam65 in "Hoppscotch – A free, fast API request builder"

occam65 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:20:11 +0000

Is there a comprehensive comparison between Hoppscotch and Postman?

New comment by occam65 in "Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels"

occam65 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 04:37:58 +0000

"Librarians hate him!"

New comment by occam65 in "Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia"

occam65 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:05:35 +0000

If that's unusual for you, it actually helps prove his point...

New comment by occam65 in "Mozilla Fights On For Net Neutrality"

occam65 — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:03:21 +0000

My biggest beef is with the idea of trying to control something that doesn't need to be controlled for it to work, just because it'll increase profit margins. The web does not need to be regulated or controlled by ISPs for it to work. We've known this for decades. It's unfortunate that it's necessary to have a law in place in the form of net neutrality to keep ISPs from finding and using this as an avenue of revenue generation, but capitalism isn't perfect.

New comment by occam65 in "Anthony Bourdain has died"

occam65 — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:38:15 +0000

Hey, I don't know you and you don't know me, but I'm here if you'd like to chat. Hit me up.

New comment by occam65 in "Acid reflux drug linked to more than doubled risk of stomach cancer"

occam65 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:40:50 +0000

Yeah, I had to try to find it myself as well. I believe this is the one:

http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2017/09/18/gutjnl-2017-3146...

New comment by occam65 in "Google is releasing 20M bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno"

occam65 — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 01:25:14 +0000

Wow, that's a terrible thing to have to go through. I'm so glad for you and your wife that things were figured out in time.

New comment by occam65 in "A vigilante trying to improve IoT security"

occam65 — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:03:34 +0000

To be fair, we don't know that the malware doesn't have a whitelist of devices approved to attack.

New comment by occam65 in "[dead]"

occam65 — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 04:03:05 +0000

> "FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it."

Wow, that seems far more than originally reported, and certainly more damaging. Which foreign entities have confidential information now? How will they use that information?

New comment by occam65 in "Ask HN: What is the business opportunity of climate change for startups?"

occam65 — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:47:39 +0000

As historically cooler climates warm up, opportunities shift. A huge amount of industries where geography plays a crucial role will be affected. Vineyards, for instance, will be entirely changed.

The trick is to find an industry currently tied to a specific climate, and predicting where the change in climate will take the market.

I haven't thought about it a ton myself yet, but that's the line of thinking I've been on...

New comment by occam65 in "Ask HN: Is the “G2 Crowd” business software review website a scam?"

occam65 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 16:11:37 +0000

Yeah, I once got an email from them. Because I use email aliases () I knew exactly where they farmed it from, because they sent it with the + intact.

Definitely didn't provide consent to communication.