Hacker News: prajaybasu

New comment by prajaybasu in "The Goose Programming Language"

prajaybasu — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:21:12 +0000

Sounds like a skill issue.

New comment by prajaybasu in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

prajaybasu — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:04:46 +0000

> This is yet another reason people in the US needs to get out and vote. People need to come out in mass to take back their country.

Like what happened in 2024?

New comment by prajaybasu in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

prajaybasu — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:04:18 +0000

Reddit astroturfing seems to have spread here

Oh well. I've heard this on Reddit for years: "̶̶̶̶̶̶̶ Meta can ban whoever they want, they are a private company". Just a hint of schadenfreude.

New comment by prajaybasu in "'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)"

prajaybasu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:41:09 +0000

I rarely leave movies midway through, but this one was too much for whatever the payoff was supposed to be. I'd rather sit through Cats (2020).

New comment by prajaybasu in "Say No to Palantir in the NHS"

prajaybasu — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:22:01 +0000

Had to scroll way too much for the truth.

New comment by prajaybasu in "We are discontinuing the dark web report"

prajaybasu — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:04:37 +0000

Bitwarden's web vaults has a reports feature which allows you to check this in bulk.

New comment by prajaybasu in "UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification"

prajaybasu — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:00:07 +0000

Where are all the Europeans gloating about privacy and their "regulations" while their governments are basically erasing actual privacy and free speech?

New comment by prajaybasu in "Starlink User Terminal Teardown"

prajaybasu — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:47:43 +0000

As far as I'm aware, they are only required to allow you to use your own router.

DSL tech is far simpler and it's always a combo unit so I could see a case where you would be allowed to bring your own DSL modem.

But it just doesn't work like that for DOCSIS or GPON where the cable modems or ONTs these days do much more than just media conversion - SIP, PPPoE, IGMP, etc. even if they don't do Wi-Fi (so ISPs don't call them "routers" - except SingTel, which uses "ONR" to distinguish these units because they are in fact routers for IPTV and SIP).

For all of those modems/ONTs, the firmware updates and the configuration for telephony/SIP and PPPoE are controlled by the ISP and also tested to work with their OLT or CMTS so it's just not possible for the ISP to guarantee support for any random modem or ONT.

And to support the advanced configuration required these days for VoIP, IPTV, etc. on the "modem" or "ONT", ISPs basically have a backdoor called TR-069 which is really not too dissimilar to what Starlink has access to with their SSH keys.

Even if you get "true" dumb modems or ONTs which do not do any routing whatsoever, the device on the other side still has full control over your dumb device via the DOCSIS provisioning process or GPON's OMCI. Starlink seems to be using SSH instead of building a whole protocol - because satellite tech is proprietary and doesn't need to work on other hardware.

So, I find that it's highly unlikely that the ISP is officially required to support a user supplied modem, although I haven't consulted the EU laws on this.

At most, I think using your own router would require the EU ISPs to provide bridge mode support, but that's not special to EU. However, the TR-069 backdoor is still active even with bridge mode.

It can be fairly easy to stop TR-069 with a "dumb" ONT (usually SFP) but ISPs can and will notice that. Whether they allow it is up to them.

New comment by prajaybasu in "Email obfuscation: What still works in 2023?"

prajaybasu — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:59:08 +0000

Tip: Almost none of the scrapers and bots run WebAssembly :)

New comment by prajaybasu in "Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch"

prajaybasu — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:38:09 +0000

I hope AMP is also killed off like ActiveX, Silverlight and Flash.

New comment by prajaybasu in "Microsoft Joins the Open Invention Network"

prajaybasu — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:22:18 +0000

TomTom is a member of the OIN, and it probably will not be required to pay the FAT32 IP licensing fees now that Microsoft has joined them.

It seems like Microsoft can do nothing to please you. But this is huge for the OIN and its members.

New comment by prajaybasu in "Editing my blog's HTTP headers with Cloudflare Workers"

prajaybasu — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 22:07:24 +0000

$5 a month is not cheap for static sites like hers.

I have been hosting my minimal static website on GH Pages for a long time (and I've used it for testing many static websites) for free.

And I've been browsing blogs/websites hosted on it with no issues.

It's probably her host using a wonky server.