Hacker News: qwaxys

New comment by qwaxys in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

qwaxys — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 09:26:10 +0000

Nothing wrong with putting a link to a zip bomb in your robots.txt and disallowing them.

Also, just put a limit on requests per IP? https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.htm...

New comment by qwaxys in "FOSDEM 2025"

qwaxys — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:13:16 +0000

There's still plenty of different beers available at the bar in FOSDEM itself.

There's no longer an official beer event. Lots of alternative beer events and social popped up on Friday evening.

On Saturday evening there's quite some community dinners and also a nice party at the hackerspace HSBXL.

It's probably not online yet but the event is called bytenight.

New comment by qwaxys in "Berlin's indoor pools"

qwaxys — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:17:41 +0000

Ghent, Belgium

New comment by qwaxys in "A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open"

qwaxys — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:01:36 +0000

In Belgium, one supermarket did exactly this.

You can even use your e-ID card to buy products with a minimum age.

Article in Dutch: https://www.colruytgroup.com/nl/over-ons/ondersteunende-acti...

New comment by qwaxys in "Border checks back in several European countries"

qwaxys — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:20:29 +0000

They never stopped.

Here's the always up to date list and the reason per country:

https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-...

New comment by qwaxys in "Show HN: Backname.io – every IP address gets its own domain"

qwaxys — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:23:10 +0000

Well, there's no reason they can't run it locally: https://github.com/Twixes/backname

New comment by qwaxys in "BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops"

qwaxys — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:10:58 +0000

It's easier then you think.

For anything with more than one socket, you just plug in a second cable into a free socket, once the phases are synced up unplug the extension cord or cut the socket free.

For singular sockets straight into the wall, unscrew, clip on connectors with a V shaped knife and same as above.

Although when I was working we usually would take images onsite before even considering moving the devices.

It's definitely not bullet proof but I've set up my laptop to lock when Ethernet or the monitor is unplugged or any new USB device is plugged in. This stops most but not all live imaging.

New comment by qwaxys in "What should a time traveler introduce to modernise Rome as fast as possible?"

qwaxys — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:44:45 +0000

Sustainability.

Back then there was a bit more time before we screwed over humanity.

(The planet will be fine long after we've made ourselves extinct)

New comment by qwaxys in "Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July"

qwaxys — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:47:23 +0000

Stress reduces weight, so that could be a factor.

Enjoying life with a partner includes fine dining and relaxing more (less sport).

New comment by qwaxys in "Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones"

qwaxys — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:27:04 +0000

Go to settings, app, stop now

New comment by qwaxys in "How does BBC iPlayer know I'm not in UK despite logging into UK server via VPN?"

qwaxys — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:28:21 +0000

You'll want to turn of Webrtc and check again.

There are many ways out there to check if you're in the country you say you are but this is one of the "easy" ones.

New comment by qwaxys in "Hey World: Blogging Platform from Hey"

qwaxys — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 16:49:25 +0000

Anyone know of a self hosted version of this?

New comment by qwaxys in "Error 418 – I'm a Teapot"

qwaxys — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:32:45 +0000

But what if it IS an actual IoT teapot? https://templates.blakadder.com/proficook_PC-WKS_1167.html

New comment by qwaxys in "Ask HN: How are you separate your personal vs. work laptop?"

qwaxys — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:17:12 +0000

Work laptop came with an M.2 SSD and had a sata connector as well. Due to size both wouldn't fit buy you can fix it using an mSata disk and an adapter. https://imgur.com/ax7epyg

It's easy now to keep work and private separate since I need to shutdown one to boot in the other.

The disk in encrypted so my data is safe if they would ever take the laptop back without asking. But pulling out a disk is going to be way faster then copying or erasing.