Hacker News: outloudvi

New comment by outloudvi in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

outloudvi — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:19:47 +0000

The article speaks well but the situation for coding is more severe.

Shells are not needed once they are not in needed. Code does not: customer need is always there.

Before forgotting how to code, The West will first get round up by their own Monsanto, voluntarily.

New comment by outloudvi in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

outloudvi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:44:33 +0000

These companys don't care about the reputation of their domains anymore at the moment they start to send spams. However, email senders (SendGrid, Mailgun etc.) care about the reputation of their IP addresses.

New comment by outloudvi in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

outloudvi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:36:17 +0000

I usually check the "Received" header and report to the email service provider. Once in a while I receive a response saying the case is properly handled.

These providers are the only ones that care about their reputation and thus may take some action. Investors? Nope.

New comment by outloudvi in "I cannot curl https://example.com (on some distros)"

outloudvi — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:34:00 +0000

> Is there good public discussion on root expiration?

Haven't seen a specific one but I guess the most relavant public discussion on root CA-led device bricking issues might have occurred around the time when DST Root CA X3 (naturally) expired - that's around September '24: https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.htm...

I personally believe most issues blocking old device reuse can be solved by manufacturers returning the root permission back to users, so that users can install modded systems with up-to-date stuffs. However, it's a pity that manufacturers aren't willing to do it, as it hurts their interest on selling new devices. Will laws on "right to repair" work? Time will tell.

I cannot curl https://example.com (on some distros)

outloudvi — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:54:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.outv.im/2026/i-cannot-curl-example-com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024169

Points: 15

# Comments: 2

New comment by outloudvi in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

outloudvi — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:53:53 +0000

While the style and headline seems like Hacker News, the usernames seem increasingly alike Slashdot.

Email spammer forgets to BCC, triggering reply-all storm (mainly from UBC)

outloudvi — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:36:17 +0000

Article URL: https://mk.outv.im/notes/aewt4g3sxhgh01ex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876427

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by outloudvi in "Dark patterns: Buying a Bahncard at Deutsche Bahn"

outloudvi — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:55:52 +0000

I'm worried about the situation when Dark Patterns are not widely recognized enough as a malicious practice for users.

Half a month ago I see someone on Twitter defending its own product design as "transparent and nothing hidden" - the "$0 now, then $15/month in 14 days" description where all text after "$0" are small and in grey. I don't think it maintains trust between the product and users, and thus it doesn't seem like a good thing.

New comment by outloudvi in "The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing"

outloudvi — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:33:53 +0000

Vercel has a fairly generous free quota and a non-negligible high pricing scheme - I think people still remember https://service-markup.vercel.app/ .

For the crawl problem, I want to wait and see whether robots.txt is proved enough to stop GenAI bots from crawling since I confidently believe these GenAI companies are too "well-behaved" to respect robots.txt.

New comment by outloudvi in "I hacked macOS"

outloudvi — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 14:31:29 +0000

The reveal.js slide itself probably isn't the best way for readers. The reveal.js project actually provides a PDF export feature which can be more helpful.

Anyway, it's an asahilina.net page, not a cve.mitre.org page. That domain is for the Virtual YouTuber Lina-chan, so I would not expect it to be the most friendly for developers.

As a VTuber follower, I do really like the style :D

Reddit is working on adopting the Matrix standard for Chats

outloudvi — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 04:44:31 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1604127242657103872

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035118

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by outloudvi in "Tell HN: Stop sending unsolicited emails to developers GitHub email"

outloudvi — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:46:00 +0000

Isn't it against at least the law somewhere?

New comment by outloudvi in "Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous"

outloudvi — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:33:03 +0000

1. Anything beyond control may cause problems. For the security part: add SRI to whatever you care about, please. 2. Could we, in 2022, get rid of the troublesome Referer?

New comment by outloudvi in "Confess your love with zero-knowledge"

outloudvi — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 05:25:49 +0000

Would a double SHA256 hash make it securer?

Firefox Nightly is now auto-filling URLs in addition to origins

outloudvi — Sun, 15 May 2022 02:09:42 +0000

Article URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597791

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384637

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by outloudvi in "The next Google"

outloudvi — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:46:15 +0000

Have tried Kagi for a while as a beta user. It generally works fine, but I am just reminded every time when I try to do a search via Private Browsing - and Kagi, a subscription service, will apparently ask me to login - that each of my search history will be able to be linked to an individual.

Then it's definitely not what I want.

Sectigo Restriction for Russia/Belarus

outloudvi — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gogetssl.com/news/27.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30626412

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by outloudvi in "Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please?"

outloudvi — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:34:53 +0000

Unfortunately Twitter still remains as a major information source.

Since Twitter does not care about UX for unregistered users (so do Facebook, Instagram, Medium, Reddit on mobile and so on), users can switch to Nitter instances or using some extensions to block it.

It would be also somehow helpful to disable Cookie on twitter.com.

New comment by outloudvi in "Everything we're told about website identity assurance is wrong"

outloudvi — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:55:25 +0000

I guess the same idea also applies to QWAC.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/what-duck-why-eu-propo...

New comment by outloudvi in "UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE"

outloudvi — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:42:48 +0000

Sure. No place to hide. Everyone. Probably several careless criminals and definitely every well-being citizen.