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New comment by onei in "Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump"

onei — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:09:08 +0000

It's a tracking tool. You have a bunch of sites embed an image, and requests to those sites also make requests to said image, which you can use to start tracking a client. A single pixel is merely the cheapest image.

I recall Facebook doing it years ago, I imagine they still do.

New comment by onei in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

onei — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:54:35 +0000

It's no joke for some.

It was some time ago that I read about it, and I'm struggling to find a source now, but there are instances in India of people being declared dead to allow their next of kin to steal their land. In doing so, the 'dead' unsurprisingly lose access to various public resources, health care, etc.

Edit: found a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...

New comment by onei in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

onei — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:21:02 +0000

There's more info about the outcome in [1]. Long story short, the US government passed a law (whilst this case was being litigated) that let AT&T off the hook.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT%26T

New comment by onei in "My adventure in designing API keys"

onei — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:49:31 +0000

Hex is 0-9, a-f. P and q are outside that character set.

New comment by onei in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

onei — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:39:01 +0000

It's not that the article is inherently unsafe, it's that the UK law imposes a liability the author is unwilling to shoulder.

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

onei — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:54:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-time-women-pelvic-surgery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564245

Points: 324

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New comment by onei in "Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages"

onei — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:00:05 +0000

I read that line and thought "so, the solution is code review?". What has to happen to your processes that code review is not only missing, but unironically claimed to be the solution?

I know there are some companies that never did code review, but this is Amazon. They should know better.

New comment by onei in "A Decade of Docker Containers"

onei — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:39:14 +0000

Assuming I've found the right process-compose [1], it struck me as having much overlap with the features of systemd. Or at least, I would tend to reach for systemd if I wanted something to run arbitrary processes. Is there something additional/better that process-compose does for you?

[1]: https://github.com/F1bonacc1/process-compose

New comment by onei in "Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout"

onei — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:43:32 +0000

It's the Isle of Man to the best of my knowledge, but the people, and language, are called Manx. Like the English are from England.

New comment by onei in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

onei — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:04:43 +0000

I've used localstack in the past which worked pretty well.

https://github.com/localstack/localstack

New comment by onei in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"

onei — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:11:42 +0000

That's what MISRA C [1] is sort of meant to be.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C

New comment by onei in "From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you.""

onei — Fri, 09 May 2025 20:02:36 +0000

If you want emails from some random internal machine, you can use one of the HPE SMTP servers. There was one for internal email, another for external iirc although I'm not sure there was a difference in practice. Those SMTP servers would do a DNS lookup before accepting the email.

When I set this sort of thing up, I'd get myself a hostname on an internal subdomain. But that was a truly miserable experience. It was a multi-stage form submission on a server I imagine to be the closest possible relation to an actual potato. It was soul-destroyingly slow. Alternatively, you could just pretend your machine was hpe.com - the hostname was valid, even if the IP was totally wrong, and the SMTP server would accept it.

My guess is that there was a bunch of stuff that pre-dated the HP/HPE split and they took the quick and dirty option whenever the old internal domain name got yanked during the changeover. And if your process runs as root, you get root@hpe.com and hope there's something in the subject/body to identify the specific machine.

New comment by onei in "MacBook Air M4"

onei — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:18:37 +0000

I can't speak to the Airs, but I went from an Intel Pro to a M3 Pro in a previous job and the battery life improved massively. I used to be able to heat my study by running a linter, but after the switch I remained chilly. I'm now on a M2 and have broadly observed the same.

New comment by onei in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

onei — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:33:21 +0000

I'm not sure if you've misunderstood, so apologies if this is old news. US companies may have teams of engineers in various other countries. But they almost always pay local market rate. In much the same way US companies will pay teams in India their local market rate (which is less again).

My last company paid 2-2.5x a UK salary for a US engineer. Perhaps the ratio for a company like Meta is closer, but I doubt it's equal. For startups you may find random roles that have equal pay globally, but they're relatively uncommon.

New comment by onei in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

onei — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:39:30 +0000

The UK monarch's power is largely based on convention more than active decision making. For example, a government is formed at the invitation of the monarch, but that's long reflected the results of an election. Getting rid of a PM generally happens when they run out of luck. That sometimes coincides with the ruling party/coalition imploding. The next PM is then shortlisted by MPs and selected by a minority of the electorate.

I guess the US equivalent is the leader of the house being unable to hold their majority together. In some ways the presidential election feels more democratic if a relative outsider (like Trump was) can win. But a 2 year lead up is crazy.

New comment by onei in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

onei — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:40:09 +0000

To clarify a bit further, the UK head of state is King Charles III, as he is for a bunch of other countries in the Commonwealth.

Head of state in the UK is a bit weird compared to countries that abolished or never had a monarchy.

New comment by onei in "AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services"

onei — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:02 +0000

It's not even just your users. I work on a S3-compatible service where a good chunk of the test suite is built on the AWS SDK.

In reality, AWS are the reference S3 implementation. Every other implementation I've seen has a compatibility page somewhere stating which features they don't support. This is just another to add to the list.

New comment by onei in "It's Time to Switch to OpenTofu"

onei — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:01:25 +0000

HCL is Hashicorp Configuration Language: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl.

It's basically a DSL used by a bunch of Hashicorp products.

It's sort of a programming language. Someone I worked with implemented 1 or 2 advent of code exercises with it a couple of years ago, but it's far from a general purpose language.

New comment by onei in "EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban"

onei — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:17:01 +0000

Is Tiktok genuinely manipulated by the CCP? I could never quite tell if that was merely scaremongering and hypothesising by American politicians, or based on evidence of past transgressions.

New comment by onei in "Analysis of supply-chain attack on Ultralytics"

onei — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:19:20 +0000

That seems like short-sighted advice. My company probably isn't paying me to write crypto, web frameworks, database drivers, etc. If it's not where I'm adding business value, I would generally try to use a third-party solution, assuming there's no stdlib equivalent. That likely means my code is an overwhelming minority of what gets executed.

If C dominates your codebase or you're squeezing out every inch of performance, then sure, you may well have written everything libc is missing. In Python, or another language that had a thriving ecosystem of third-party packages, it seems wasteful to write it all in-house.