Hacker News: offmycloud

New comment by offmycloud in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

offmycloud — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:49:17 +0000

Trampling on citizens rights is a luxury of the rich, but in this case it's an echo-chamber government ran by technocrats.

New comment by offmycloud in "Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB"

offmycloud — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:22:33 +0000

The GET request method is supposed to be safe.

"Request methods are considered 'safe' if their defined semantics are essentially read-only; i.e., the client does not request, and does not expect, any state change on the origin server as a result of applying a safe method to a target resource." -RFC 9110 section 9.2.1

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-safe-method...

New comment by offmycloud in "Discord Incident"

offmycloud — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:09:04 +0000

I'm getting Access Denied - You don't have permission to access "http://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fandue..." on this server. (with an Edgesuite error code)

New comment by offmycloud in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

offmycloud — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:53:25 +0000

I'm still surprised by the number of web developers who do not understand that, once you include someone else's Javascript on your site, they have full access to everything on your site, including all submitted customer data.

New comment by offmycloud in "California ISO Symposium Sponsorship Opportunities"

offmycloud — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:27:56 +0000

"We are also excited to make our 2026 sponsorship packages available in May for organizations interested in enhancing their visibility with event attendees."

California ISO Symposium Sponsorship Opportunities

offmycloud — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.caiso.com/about/news/energy-matters-blog/stakeholder-symposium-registration-and-sponsorship-opportunities-opening-in-may

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798289

Points: 1

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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?