Hacker News: oremolten

New comment by oremolten in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

oremolten — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:58:13 +0000

It does always seem like a race to the bottom.

New comment by oremolten in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

oremolten — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:01:36 +0000

Wait till you see how M365 does management around iCloud relay makes it real fun troubleshooting suspicious login parameters...

New comment by oremolten in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

oremolten — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:57:48 +0000

Well its primarily because the security vendors for say WAFs and other tools list these IPs in the "Anonymizers" or "VPN" category and most typically these are blocked as seldom do you see legitimate traffic originating to your store front or accounts pages from these. Another vendor we use lists these under "hacking tools" So your option as a security professional is to express to your risk management team we allow "hacking tools" or lose iCloud Relay customers. Which way do you think they steer? In alternative cases a site may use a vendor for their cart/checkout page and don't even have control over these blocks as they are also blocking "hacking tools" or "anonymizers" from hitting their checkout pages.

New comment by oremolten in "The FAA’s Hiring Scandal"

oremolten — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:04:30 +0000

Could you please elaborate how DEI is not discrimination? Is hiring based on someone's RACE ever not discrimination?

New comment by oremolten in "How does fentanyl get into the US?"

oremolten — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:35:35 +0000

How do you know the exact figure of fentanyl smuggled into the US from CAN?

I doubt even the cartels could give you an exact figure as they aren't the only ones smuggling the drugs or the precursors.

Are you saying we only intercepted 19kg? How wouldn't that make sense to you considering the disparity of population density at the borders, as well as the infrastructure and staffing at each border??

Canada already Tariffs many products coming from the USA, many even exceeding 200%. The political theater and kindergarten understanding of geo-politics would explain your take on "100 years of friendship flushed down the toilet" lol.

New comment by oremolten in "Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)"

oremolten — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:54:04 +0000

I bet there is also a large correlation with computer/phone neck and posture

New comment by oremolten in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

oremolten — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:58:46 +0000

unfortunately the entire global system is designed so that more has to be sold than last year. in the US as a publicly traded corporation you are legally liable to make more than the year before... we're lucky cars even last as long as they do now...

New comment by oremolten in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

oremolten — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:56:03 +0000

all car companies do this since around 2011.(in the us) they also immediately sell all this data to car insurance companies. many apps on your phone that use location data for anything are mostly using an APK that includes a couple car insurance companies code that also just directly shares that with them. (they made the location APK for app makers to have an easy to use location data tool)

New comment by oremolten in "TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona"

oremolten — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:12:04 +0000

>As of September 30, 2024, the U.S. Ukraine response funding totals nearly $183 billion >Russia's official 2022 military budget is expected to be 4.7 trillion rubles ($75bn), or higher, and about $84bn for 2023

New comment by oremolten in "U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over TikTok divestment law"

oremolten — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:56:07 +0000

I'd argue its even less blatant today it just appears more blatant because you can see the happenings on the other side of the country in an instant on your personal cell phone. As can anyone else.

New comment by oremolten in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

oremolten — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:44:04 +0000

it's interesting you state "Studies show it just doesn't work." While we are commenting on an article about a drug which makes you feel less hungry, there by "eating less". The drug doesn't make you use more calories, it simply "makes" you EAT LESS. Eating less(calories) than your body uses consistently for duration is literally the only way you can lose weight. (outside of literally losing limbs, or surgery to remove mass) Exercise only augments the process, it all comes back down to EATING LESS(calories).

New comment by oremolten in "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)"

oremolten — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:01:47 +0000

Sierra Online was acquired through fraudulent accounting, and the company that acquired them went under shortly after as their fraud was revealed.

Unfortunately Sierra had to accept the offer.

New comment by oremolten in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

oremolten — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:04:39 +0000

I'd argue that's because until the last few years these forms of gambling have been illegal.

New comment by oremolten in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

oremolten — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:03:12 +0000

all my friends who are into the fantasy are now competing on some sports gambling app/site in the same exact manner. Who's teams win the most money etc. They were practically begging me to join them "Look you get like 700 free dollars man! just make some bets and add money and you can cash it out etc etc" They've already been hooked.

New comment by oremolten in "A $1k Wheelchair"

oremolten — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:49:25 +0000

so out of touch you're using an example of a bike purchase from 6 years ago :^) did she also replace the tires 3 or 4 times? because no way any bike tire is taking 19,000 miles of road use no matter the brand. The average price of a new bike more than doubled from 2015 to 2024.

New comment by oremolten in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

oremolten — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:05:40 +0000

"This model is already profitable (!), but you can expand further."

How many years is the break even point before profit is generated charging riders even 100$ per trip?

Some of these highspeed rail projects proposed across the USA have a 1-2000 year break-even excluding maintenance over 2000 years @ 100$/rider/trip

New comment by oremolten in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

oremolten — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:46:41 +0000

You're not required anything. Nothing is stopping you from walking or riding a bike. You're making a choice of convenience. You're over privileged life has made you believe you need this "deadly vehicle". Go with out? like the 5billion other people that are, or continue to wine about your luxuries and not being able to get groceries 2 minutes faster.

How about this, instead of designing your consumer luxury life around needing to go to a store or restaurant 2-3 times a day... instead maybe shape your habits around not being a mindless consumer.

wahhh it really is awful I have to drive for 30 minutes 1x a month to get groceries.

New comment by oremolten in "Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]"

oremolten — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:41:53 +0000

How do we un-car centric design the ~60million people who live in rural USA? Should we move everyone to urban environments for public transit?

How do you figure someone like me traverse the 40 miles from my 800 population rural town to my work place?

New comment by oremolten in "Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]"

oremolten — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:30:06 +0000

This reminds me of the scene from Mr.Robot.

GM / onstar likely set aside a few million in a "Rainyday" fund from the additional profit they made from this and that money sat in the market/bonds and they probably made 100x off that money what they will be fined/judgment-ed.

New comment by oremolten in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"

oremolten — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:47:35 +0000

This is a big part of why the long lines bunkers/sites were abandoned. Once the accuracy increased to more than 1mi the resilience of the bunkers and sites were folly. (built to withstand multiple mt within 1mi)

Hacker News: oremolten

New comment by oremolten in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

New comment by oremolten in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

New comment by oremolten in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

New comment by oremolten in "The FAA’s Hiring Scandal"

New comment by oremolten in "How does fentanyl get into the US?"

New comment by oremolten in "Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017)"

New comment by oremolten in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

New comment by oremolten in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

New comment by oremolten in "TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona"

New comment by oremolten in "U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over TikTok divestment law"

New comment by oremolten in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

New comment by oremolten in "Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)"

New comment by oremolten in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

New comment by oremolten in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

New comment by oremolten in "A $1k Wheelchair"

New comment by oremolten in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

New comment by oremolten in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

New comment by oremolten in "Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]"

New comment by oremolten in "Texas sues GM for unlaw­ful­ly collecting and selling dri­vers' pri­vate data [pdf]"

New comment by oremolten in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"

New comment by oremolten in "Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]"

New comment by oremolten in "Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]"