Hacker News: offmycloud

New comment by offmycloud in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

offmycloud — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:55:14 +0000

California is not anywhere near 83% renewable for total electricity generation. [1] Are you just adding up nameplace capacities without capacity factors?

1. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66704

New comment by offmycloud in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

offmycloud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:28:21 +0000

I can't believe that it has been over 15 years ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982489

New comment by offmycloud in "What’s on HTTP?"

offmycloud — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:24:24 +0000

Cox Communications used to do it in California to inject JS into sites. I remember seeing little Cox popup/toast messages in the corner of other sites.

New comment by offmycloud in "FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers"

offmycloud — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:34:36 +0000

How does this differ in performance from rffmpeg?

https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

New comment by offmycloud in "Your device identity is probably a liability"

offmycloud — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:09:14 +0000

I've said it before, but Zero Trust is such a misnomer. It implies less trust in firewalls, VPNs, and other network controls, but much more trust in the ability of end-user devices to securely store and use private keys. Also, the server side has has to trust all incoming connections from the Internet enough to verify the certificates, and run a complicated TLS implementation, which can be a huge attack surface. We're sticking with WireGuard for all our internal users.

New comment by offmycloud in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

offmycloud — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:04:27 +0000

Link to report PDF: https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CR...

New comment by offmycloud in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

offmycloud — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:49:11 +0000

A big part of the job losses were driven by Amazon and the end of their UPS contract.

New comment by offmycloud in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"

offmycloud — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:00:18 +0000

How did the word "suddenly" get into the title?

New comment by offmycloud in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

offmycloud — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:44:45 +0000

I'm using Firefox on a Linux workstation (without Tor) and I still got the CAPTCHA. The statement "blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding" is misleading at best. Shame on Cloudflare, this kind of dishonesty makes me not want to trust your RCA marketing pieces.

New comment by offmycloud in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

offmycloud — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:49:25 +0000

Reddit used to be free for anyone to view without logging in, but now I get "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy." Sorry, but I'm not turning my ad blocker off.

New comment by offmycloud in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

offmycloud — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:59:17 +0000

Would it be possible to write an addon to use Perl's Finance::Quote [1] like GnuCash does? It supports scraping many financial websites, as well as paid AlphaVantage quotes.

1. https://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/

New comment by offmycloud in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

offmycloud — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:32:56 +0000

"Your request has been blocked due to a network policy"

Is Reddit going login-required now?

New comment by offmycloud in "A friendly tour of process memory on Linux"

offmycloud — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:02:17 +0000

What browser blocked it?

New comment by offmycloud in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

offmycloud — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:19:26 +0000

How does this impact reproducible builds in Debian? Does Rust have a good bootstrap story now?

New comment by offmycloud in "Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region"

offmycloud — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:01:04 +0000

I think it's time for AWS to pull the curtain back a bit and release a JSON document that shows a list of all internal service dependencies for each AWS service.

New comment by offmycloud in "Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything"

offmycloud — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:09:02 +0000

I believe the MRE Orange Drink powder is fortified with Vitamin C, so that should help a bit.

New comment by offmycloud in "June 2025 Security Bulletin"

offmycloud — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:11:47 +0000

Is "micronode" a new GPU concept, or did they mean "microcode" in the bulletin?

New comment by offmycloud in "Precision Clock Mk IV"

offmycloud — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:47:53 +0000

If you have a special project need, you might be able to get one-way IRIG time signal on fiber with guard boxes at both ends. There's really no technical reason why you couldn't do analog GPS baseband over fiber, but you do need approved equipment at both ends for policy reasons. (certified for no backflow)

New comment by offmycloud in "Precision Clock Mk IV"

offmycloud — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 03:58:43 +0000

Yes, on newer networks, the 5G NR System Information Block 9 (SIB9) provides UTC time.

New comment by offmycloud in "Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI"

offmycloud — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:41:52 +0000

It looks like it might be the blur effect in a VM with no Firefox video acceleration. Also, email to support@tinfoil.sh (from "contact" link) just bounced back to me.