Hacker News: oldkn

New comment by oldkn in "Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director"

oldkn — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:37:07 +0000

> ... for now

It bears repeating explicitly I think: you're not working against today's analysis tools, you're working against whatever analysis tools exist far into the future, since everything is recorded for eternity.

New comment by oldkn in "“I will slaughter you”"

oldkn — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:09:47 +0000

I've seen the theme of "maintainer of popular open source product is threatened by person who doesn't understand it's just a component" show up a few times, but when I think about it most those times have been related to curl specifically. Maybe it's because of the domain haxx.se? Or maybe Daniel just writes about it a lot? Does this kind of thing happen so regularly to others?

New comment by oldkn in "Show HN: A new way to share and collaborate on links"

oldkn — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:05:02 +0000

I think you should clarify what you mean by "links" as it wasn't clear to me. I assume you mean random things people want to share?

New comment by oldkn in "Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews"

oldkn — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:01:18 +0000

Which food delivery apps do you have in mind? In my experience they are heavily engineered towards leaving only positive reviews, and as a result the range of scores is 4.0-5.0 rather than 1-5. Ubereats says things like "this review will be public with your name", and the timing of the review prompt and wording of the question all feels like it's trying to optimize the chance of a positive review.

New comment by oldkn in "No Cookie for You"

oldkn — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:56:24 +0000

Wait, GDPR only applies to third party cookies? Surely companies can just do the same tracking from their own domain.