Hacker News: phantom_oracle

Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS

phantom_oracle — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.duckdns.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30539059

Points: 174

# Comments: 100

Build your own e-ink display from scratch

phantom_oracle — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/can-you-build-an-e-ink-display-from-scratch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30513556

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet"

phantom_oracle — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:52:18 +0000

I wanted to build my own e-ink tablet as I prefer OSS. The issue that makes e-ink tablets not worth building?

The expensive displays that cost between $150-$300 for 7-8 inch screens, excluding shipping.

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia"

phantom_oracle — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:06:49 +0000

It is disturbing how the moderators of HN are condoning the comments in this thread (the top comment by 'neonsunset' provides tools that enable DDoSing a foreign government website) that are encouraging cyber warfare against a nation-state that is considered an 'enemy' of their state (the USA).

Had a Russian/enemy state website had a similar thread that condoned cyber-attacks against the USA critical infrastructure, they would be flagged as terrorists and 'empire' publications like major US newspapers would be all over it as "war against the USA".

All this bluster from capitalists merely reflects hypocrisy.

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study"

phantom_oracle — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:45:00 +0000

Perhaps Westerners view all non-western science as pseudoscience or made up, but it is a well-known fact in many Eastern cultures (and their medicinal practices) that the stomach is a primary source of disease (and not just depression, but all kinds) when abused through bad eating habits.

Then the wheel is re-invented with intermittent fasting, a diet with less processed foods, more veg/fruit, less meat, etc.

Whenever I see articles about health on HN, I no longer take them too seriously because the reductionist approach to medicine is why people get mistreated for symptoms instead of the disease.

Even the ancient Greeks (the so-called birthplace of "western knowledge") took a more holistic approach than what the sketchy for-profit medical/pharmaceutical cabal does.

But of course, we need to take it seriously because "the scientists say so", even though their own research system is so badly broken that a for-profit cabal runs the publishing arm of research.

Strange times we live in.

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Bolt founder on Stripe/YC"

phantom_oracle — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:49:13 +0000

784 upvotes at the time of writing this comment. I see a lot of links/threads bashing Google for their shitty AI and non-existent human support on HN all the time but ...

I think the same resentment is slowly brewing for YC too. Whether it is misinformation or weak arguments, it won't matter too much. People generally don't like monopolies at all and YC does have a monopoly on the SV startup scene at the moment (from an outsiders view, every startup with even an idea knows that YC is the springboard for unlocking more opportunity/capital/network).

I wonder if the end result is YC ending up being innovated out of the startup scene itself. I don't think so because they are in the money game, not the tech game (see JPMorgan, Goldman).

As for the content, I can't be arsed. Capitalists will be capitalists.

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Nerd-dictation, hackable speech to text on Linux"

phantom_oracle — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:00:43 +0000

This is such an amazing technology for the many tech people who are having to deal with hand/finger/elbow issues after extensive usage for years on their keyboards.

I was looking for this type of tech for at least 2 years and I am glad it now exists.

FOSS is amazing!

Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments

phantom_oracle — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 22:25:18 +0000

Article URL: http://donw.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29913593

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

Project Naptha: highlight, copy, and translate text from any image(Chrome-only)

phantom_oracle — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 14:14:18 +0000

Article URL: https://projectnaptha.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863371

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Netherlands: Gambling ads have doubled since online casinos were legalized

phantom_oracle — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:35:03 +0000

Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2021/12/20/gambling-ads-doubled-since-online-casinos-legalized

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794502

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol

phantom_oracle — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 15:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://icannwiki.org/.meme

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29769511

Points: 96

# Comments: 89

The Problem with Vanity TLDs (2011)

phantom_oracle — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:33:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.templetons.com/brad/dns/vanity-tld.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760583

Points: 42

# Comments: 66

New comment by phantom_oracle in "I started a paper website business"

phantom_oracle — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:09:31 +0000

I like this idea for the very simple fact that I now know its plausible to write blog content with a pen and paper and then some GPT-3 AI will scan those words and make it into digital text for me.

Sparing my hands from using a keyboard!

Brilliant idea!

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Terms of Service: Monitoring and Anti-Cheat"

phantom_oracle — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:37:51 +0000

Counter-intuitively, I wonder what gaming would be like if everyone ran the same cheats/mods? Would it be the same as "if everyone is rich, then nobody is" or would it devolve into such a state where cheating/modding gets so boring that people just go back to casual play ...

On the other hand, gaming is now a big commercial entity, including 'pros' and 'streamers'. With money involved, fraud and cheating ain't far behind.

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's"

phantom_oracle — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:24:45 +0000

Every few days, articles like these keep cropping up with click-bait headlines about preventing all types of diseases in old age. The headlines almost always never match up to the content or even the reality of trying to treat or prevent these many diseases.

Another reality is that death, old age(and sickness with it) strikes such fear into people's hearts that they are willing to walk around with perpetual erections to prevent Alzheimer's disease(and the absurdity of my comment is linked to the absurdity of the click-bait title)

New comment by phantom_oracle in "On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World"

phantom_oracle — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 12:33:19 +0000

This must be a PR nightmare for Israel, which brings me to my related topic of Israel's other major weapon in its cyber arsenal.

I think this falls under a type of disinformation. I don't know of any other state that has effectively weaponized any/all criticism against it as religious discrimination: antisemitism

Here is a basic example:

> (in no way am I promoting antisemitism or encouraging racial stigmas but this example is so common and the least harmless I can think of) "all Jews are greedy" - clearly antisemitic

> Israel is guilty of murdering non-combatant children in Gaza - has nothing to do with Judaism. Involves the very sensitive problem of murdering innocent children. Is part of the complex Israel/Palestine political issue. Yet this could also end up being spun as an attack on Jews and being antisemitic.

I think getting labelled an 'antisemite' in a country like the USA is career-suicide. It does play into the conspiracies about Israel's influence, but my theory goes that criticism of Israel in a country like the USA is just wrong-think/wrong-speak. Getting to this level of disinformation is incredible. Hopefully the dictators in the Middle-East(and customers of NSO) don't catch on and start weaponizing criticism of them as Islamophobic ...

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Questioning the Already Questionable State of Global Demand"

phantom_oracle — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:21:21 +0000

I was hoping to see some link between labor and demand. Wouldn't more employed people or higher salaries translate to increased demand? By that inverse, if demand is decreasing, does that mean less employed people or stagnating/lower wages?

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine"

phantom_oracle — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:11:57 +0000

I should have added that my comment implied as much to do with DDG as it does with cheap-VPN-provider-35 with a shell company in Belize.

The original comment was in reference to DDG proudly making claims of not getting requests from .gov and marketing themselves as a company who "cannot see what you search for".

New comment by phantom_oracle in "Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine"

phantom_oracle — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:26:47 +0000

I will add add a disclaimer to this comment that it is tinfoil-hat and just speculation(bordering on conspiracy) but many of these "we are a privacy-first company" might actually just be honeypots and fronts for 3-letter agencies.

The comment is not wholly conspiratorial, considering the CIA owned Swiss crypto company: Crypto AG [1]

It's within the realm of possibility that most of these privacy services could be owned by 3-letter agencies or small enough to be coerced into cooperation.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3050193/crypt...

New comment by phantom_oracle in "A 29-year-oldused a weird resume to get 30k interviews in a week"

phantom_oracle — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:49:24 +0000

This article is poorly written. It says the bot was used by more than 30,000 people. Does this imply 30,000 people looking for jobs used his bot or that 30,000 recruiters used his bot to screen candidates or 30,000 job applications were sent by him or (more than likely) a substantial portion of bots make up that 30,000?