Hacker News: puppycodes

New comment by puppycodes in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"

puppycodes — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:47:41 +0000

Thats a good explination. It does seem extremely noisy and not at all practical for fingerprinting a user compared to other methods. If you have javascript enabled assume you can be fingerprinted.

New comment by puppycodes in "A digital billboard company has the technology to make 3D ads on moving trucks"

puppycodes — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:06:52 +0000

The crash lawsuit writes itself

New comment by puppycodes in "ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App"

puppycodes — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:55:39 +0000

This was my thought as well, a good excuse for a slush fund.

New comment by puppycodes in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

puppycodes — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:29:09 +0000

Both systems can be bad for different reasons. I'm not making any comparisons.

New comment by puppycodes in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

puppycodes — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:59:41 +0000

Personally I enjoy the basic human rights of privacy and freedom of speech which are deeply lacking in the UK system.

New comment by puppycodes in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

puppycodes — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:10:34 +0000

another feature of UK dystopia

New comment by puppycodes in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

puppycodes — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:40:54 +0000

All i'm saying is its very very difficult to maintain over time as email is largely monopolized. If you send a lot of emails to a lot of different addresses its notoriously difficult to maintain a good server reputation.

New comment by puppycodes in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

puppycodes — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:08:04 +0000

- anti-social behaviour orders (ASBO)

- Public Order Act 1986

- John William Gott / Blasphemy Laws

- Public Order Offences: Using "threatening, abusive or insulting" words in public

- Lèse-majesté laws / Seditious Libel

The list is very very long.

New comment by puppycodes in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

puppycodes — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:59:49 +0000

The UK gets more absurd by the day.

Unfortunately this is a well established part of their history to criminalize speech they find distasteful.

New comment by puppycodes in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

puppycodes — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:03:23 +0000

unfortunately hosting your own email server is nearly impossible if you want reliable delivery. If you don't care about being put in the spam box then it can work.

New comment by puppycodes in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

puppycodes — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:17:16 +0000

Yeah same 100%

New comment by puppycodes in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

puppycodes — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:12:48 +0000

I'm not suprised Raycast is involved in this marketing scheme. They pollute their own product with ads where they shouldn't be. Whoever is running their marketing team needs a lesson in not pissing off your userbase.

New comment by puppycodes in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

puppycodes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:27:34 +0000

Yeah for sure.

My point is just that fairness in the Olympics is fake and always has been.

Someones Chromosomes are such a poor way to measure their physical abilities especially when the bar is so high for top athletes in the field.

New comment by puppycodes in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

puppycodes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:12:25 +0000

Boxing is often the example given because its someone getting hurt, but when you actually break it down it also falls apart for boxing.

If we measured everyones strength, bone density, etc... in order to stop people from risking injury that would be one thing But basing it on your Chromosomes is lazy and inaccurate.

The point is that "fairness" being tied to whether your Cis or Trans is a hilarious hill to die on when we have advanced medical technology to actually test what we deem "fair".

New comment by puppycodes in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

puppycodes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:54:40 +0000

The differences between cisgender bodies are already so varied that the logic falls apart almost immediately.

For that matter why not restrict rich athletes who have access to training and equipment that poor athletes do not?

The point at where the line is drawn is entirely arbitrary. Gattaca vibes.

New comment by puppycodes in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

puppycodes — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:08:45 +0000

Sure, but any test that requires something painful like a spinal tap requires someone to already be in a dire state. What I mean is if it could be done through a blood test prevention would be much easier to test for without needing to have a severe episode first.

New comment by puppycodes in "Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice"

puppycodes — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:17:36 +0000

Interesting... too bad it requires a spinal tap, not a super fun test to get.

New comment by puppycodes in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

puppycodes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:26:24 +0000

None of it is enforcable, its basically meaningless.

Great job politics!

Like lots of laws that are being written nowadays by octogenarians, aimed at strong arming bigger tech companies into designing things differently at the expense of everyone smaller which ironically ends up curtailing our basic freedoms, privacy, etc... even when the intent was otherwise.

Then again I have yet to meet a politician that actually cares as long as: "this looks good for my campaign".

Regulating big platforms that affect billions of people is one thing but I really wish they would write laws actually discriminating between those platforms and everyone else.

New comment by puppycodes in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

puppycodes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:11:55 +0000

They do not care.

End qualified immunity and see how fast cops start to do their jobs with care.

Winning a lawsuit literally ends in your own community members (not the cops) paying the bill.

New comment by puppycodes in "Illinois introduces OS-level age verification law"

puppycodes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:03:56 +0000

I think part of the problem is that we decided at some point that 18 is an age where you become an adult, which for some things in life is honestly way too young and for some things maybe too old but nuance is hard.

It seems to me that giving young kids devices is a bad idea in general?

I'm not sure what the age is when not having one becomes a greater liability for them than having one but I really feel strongly that creating laws around this is clumsy and the issue is still generally poorly understood.

Let's not create laws around stuff we don't really understand well yet?

I'm not a parent so I wish I didn't have a dog in this fight but legislation like this forces me too.