<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: peblos</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peblos</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:47:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=peblos" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I left in 2010 and the consensus is very much the same among my friends, or at least some of them anyway.<p>I’m no longer eligible to have an opinion UK or local conversations. “how would you know”, “the city’s changed a lot since you left”, “why are people who chose to leave so interested in X”, statements specific to ex-pats.<p>For those from outside the UK,  ex-pat (expatriate) as a singular term is almost always derogatory regardless of context or publisher.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:23:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715848</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I realise I’m judging the book (and possibly the authors) by the cover but Nielsen’s book cover is objectively more readable.<p>It’s also probably the only one that would still look new, or current, if it was released today</p>
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<p>Still doesn't. I recently moved my vault to Dropbox and had to rename a bunch of filenames</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027787</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "I bought a Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Capacitors can hold charge for a long time, so no touchy. It probably wouldn’t kill you, because capacitors don’t actually store that much energy9, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t kill you, so, no touchy!<p>I'm recalling the time I was trying to load a "backed up" game on my original Playstation using the disc swap [0] method while the chassis was open.<p>Since I had the top lid off, I had to hold the disc tray closed button for it to spin up. While looking away to pick up the other disc my pinky moved and touched a capacitor and had me on the receiving end of a massive zap.<p>I've never touched a capacitor since, thank goodness.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDopEevII3o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDopEevII3o</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:57:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678456</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started using testssl after first using slabs.com.<p>As the other commenter mentioned, testssl.sh lets you can websites that aren’t public yet e.g. test environments or other private networks. As well as testing against starttls if you need to test encryption on a mail gateway.<p>It’s also configurable, meaning you can have it test tls protocols alone, or ciphers alone, client renegotiation alone making it quicker and easier to read if you are looking at specific areas</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:44:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563131</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "SSLyze – SSL configuration scanning library and CLI tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tend to use testssl.sh (<a href="https://testssl.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://testssl.sh/</a>), are there any major benefits to sslyze?<p>I’ve just tried running it a moment ago to compare. The output isn’t as organised/readable and it includes several tracebacks for failed checks (tlsv1.1, tlsv1.2, tlsv1.3, and compliance against Mozilla TLS configuration).<p>Always open to different tools but it seems testssl.sh is currently more complete</p>
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<p>Requirements are strict in other countries as well. It comes with the nature of the job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:13:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42875941</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42875941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42875941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I hate the whole cyber"security" community.<p>Why do you hate the whole community?</p>
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<p>At least on the surface laptop 2 in my last role, I didn’t find the battery life to be all that great. Wasn’t terrible, just average</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 02:56:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542520</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40542520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "All of Microsoft's MacBook Air-beating benchmarks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and fan is both loud and regularly running</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 04:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40531451</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40531451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40531451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Selling 6 planes is nothing. It wouldn’t even cover the standby aircraft of many fleets. You need large orders to make it feasible, and you need a strong product to secure those orders. FedEx, UPS and co. aren’t going to fund you long term unless you have a product and you need good teams and good funding to even get you to that starting block.<p>Boom is probably the closest thing to what is suggested but many still doubt they will make it to production. That’s minimal investment though and mostly around options on orders, so they still need massive funding to get there. Rolls Royce and others have said it’s not viable to design an engine for them so now they have to design the airframe and the engine.<p>Bombardier is an example of why new entrants should be concerned. As soon as you become a close threat, you don’t really trigger competition you trigger massive protectionism which forces them to sell the design to airbus, further consolidating the market<p>I think the incumbents would have to be broken up to seed any new competition that is remotely viable. The Boeing story has some way to go yet though, who knows</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859399</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39859399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Focus”. Looks like paring back of everything that doesn’t generate profit<p><a href="https://www.cxtoday.com/data-analytics/the-purge-continues-twilio-to-shutter-authys-desktop-app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cxtoday.com/data-analytics/the-purge-continues-t...</a></p>
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<p>Didn't want to delve into it in the original comment but what you mention is correct and is one of the reasons I mentioned how far back this was.<p>I haven't read Herman Pontzer's recent research, I'd equate to becoming a more efficient runner; as efficiency increases energy demands are reduced.<p>Some of today's research just didn't exist when this was written. Of course, some of the advice was already debatable by the time I got to read it in the mid-late 00's, but that can be said for a lot of health and fitness advice even today.<p>I didn't follow it proscriptively. What it did do was give me a different approach to tackling it as a problem and was the first resource I had read that helped in that regard. Everything else was very much eat less of this and more of that<p>Like thread's asking which book/resource to use when learning to code, there are many good examples out there. Not all are perfect, and some are occasionally wrong but like that example, this was the one that stuck with me.</p>
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<p>His Hacker’s Diet really helped me out 15 years ago or so. Cheers John<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker%27s_Diet" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker%27s_Diet</a></p>
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<p>Ryanair as well. Although they softened their statement, it still spoke to reduced confidence</p>
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<p>Interesting! What kind of animal? Everything I had read suggested it wasn’t strong enough to read these and I couldn’t read my small dog’s chip</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 05:14:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086500</link><dc:creator>peblos</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by peblos in "Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Extra ceiling fan remote was my favourite use.<p>Couldn’t find a ceiling fan remote one time ( I have 3 with the exact same remote ) and used it to manage fan speeds<p>Still doesn’t justify the cost but I guess it’s like my leatherman. Hardly use it but handy when I do.<p>I actually bought it when seeing the pwnagotchi comparison and expected functionality from the wifi/marauder dev boards to be included. Meaning I got my flipper in the first batch for my country but couldn’t get a dev board even months later</p>
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<p>I did the same. Apologies to the poor poster who got rejected and then reported for posting the rejection</p>
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<p>I don’t think this comment is disputing any of that.<p>It did mention the financial and public sector industries, which you call out, and only being able to speak for the UK however.<p>While it didn’t include HFT,  that doesn’t employee the same number of heads as the others</p>
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<p>In A, the publisher is repeating the claim without validation or substantiation that the passenger was actually kicked of and reason Y is asserted by the passenger. Basically A is hearsay<p>In B, the publisher is stating as factual that the passenger was indeed kicked off (as opposed to getting off for any other reason) and that it was in fact for reason Y.<p>B puts the weight of the writer/publisher behind the claim with a higher bar for verification of events<p>Also, I think the passenger is trying to be helpful but surely he knows that he can’t manage the infotainment system as a passenger. There has to be some detail or interaction not reported here</p>
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