Hacker News: passerby1

New comment by passerby1 in "How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives"

passerby1 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 07:23:44 +0000

Would someone suggest how would hundreds of investigations (and courts? Or there were no courts at all?) were not able to shed any light on the bug? How is it even possible to continue for more than 20 years?

New comment by passerby1 in "System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux"

passerby1 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:13:43 +0000

How many apps do use certificate pinning and so will be broken as a result of this app's MITM?

New comment by passerby1 in "Joint initiative for trustworthy AI"

passerby1 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 23:42:51 +0000

But it's democratic [0], specifically a direct one: "tradition of direct democracy".

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Switzerland

New comment by passerby1 in "Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta's proposals to improve teen mental health"

passerby1 — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:20:18 +0000

It reads as "survived users".

New comment by passerby1 in "Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style"

passerby1 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:22:52 +0000

Does anyone know how to turn it off forever?

New comment by passerby1 in "The Scourge of Airport Noise"

passerby1 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:19:36 +0000

Need to mention the punishments and fines in Germany for making noise. Switzerland has even more strict rules (and very angry neighbours, I assume).

New comment by passerby1 in "Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convictions"

passerby1 — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 02:07:50 +0000

> but just any law enforcement would find such an amount of cash suspicious, and probably trigger an investigation

It feels like it's almost illegal to own cash when I read this. Would someone please tell why? It's OK to live in a debt, probably a very high one, buying expensive things like luxury car in credit. Is it forbidden to save cash? If it's OK, then why is it suspicious to travel in a car with cash?

New comment by passerby1 in "America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in W. Michigan"

passerby1 — Fri, 05 May 2023 04:24:19 +0000

> Privatize the profits, socialize the costs (like toxic cleanup).

Any business would love to do the same, if possible. Because that's the businesss: increase the profits.

Should it then be considered a "natural" way? And where should we draw a line (if any) on what's ok?

New comment by passerby1 in "SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities"

passerby1 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 02:15:35 +0000

Why only now?

New comment by passerby1 in "I got hacked and Facebook banned me"

passerby1 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 07:28:44 +0000

Does it makes sense to push for representatives to discuss a law to forbid a city or state announcements to use any commercial platform for announcements?

New comment by passerby1 in "Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case"

passerby1 — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:12 +0000

Both comments are false. Reality is more complex as _sometimes_ it ignores: [0]

0: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/have-you-seen/2022/04/2...

New comment by passerby1 in "Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps"

passerby1 — Thu, 19 May 2022 14:58:22 +0000

What's the difference between those two?

New comment by passerby1 in "Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke"

passerby1 — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:27:52 +0000

> The promise of Bitcoin is to bring a monetary system politicians and bankers cannot manipulate. Whether that’s a good thing or even realistic is a separate discussion.

Never heard of any politician giving up power voluntarely.

And money is the power: no more printing - need to work hard for money.

Not gonna happen.

New comment by passerby1 in "Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?"

passerby1 — Sat, 14 May 2022 12:05:06 +0000

Google loves to provide support, but for its customers only. Customer is a one who pays them millions of dollars for ads.

New comment by passerby1 in "Ask HN: Why is Google Premium not a thing?"

passerby1 — Sat, 14 May 2022 12:03:07 +0000

Using adblock is indeed very convenient. Enable browser extension and forget about all web annoyances. Calm and peece.

Google Ad Premium disables google ads only (or most of them?), while other ad nets (avg more than 80 cookies on every major news site!) will continue to annoy.

New comment by passerby1 in "No Fixed Address Bank Account"

passerby1 — Mon, 09 May 2022 02:32:19 +0000

> will happily gouge for rent

Making profit is the goal for renting out, right?

New comment by passerby1 in "Chart: Lithium prices are through the roof this year"

passerby1 — Mon, 09 May 2022 02:21:00 +0000

Could you give some examples of coups for resources other that oil?

New comment by passerby1 in "Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)"

passerby1 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 05:11:56 +0000

Bouncing usually requires money

New comment by passerby1 in "Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement"

passerby1 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 03:18:49 +0000

First of all is to come to some kind of an agreement on the definition of ethical.

New comment by passerby1 in "Notable items missing from English Wikipedia"

passerby1 — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:56:03 +0000

Following the logics of requiring an official government-issued docs, is it required for any fact written in Wikipedia, or where they draw the line?

In other words, how exactly is the "common knowledge" separated from the "controversal" one, which requires a proof to present to self-appointed guardians of the True?