Hacker News: randunel

New comment by randunel in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

randunel — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:27:52 +0000

I stopped using facebook around 2015-ish, when they stopped allowing sorting by date. Prior to this, hi5 and the likes also allwoed sorting by date. So no, not every online platform ever.

New comment by randunel in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

randunel — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:17:58 +0000

Everything other than sorting the list of entities by a standard measurement unit (time, length, mass, temperature, amount) needs to be covered by this law.

The moment you add other entities to the list (e.g. ads inbetween posts), then it's also subject to the same restrictions.

New comment by randunel in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

randunel — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:44:17 +0000

Crimping implies RJ45, so 1Gbps. You can't crimp SFP+.

New comment by randunel in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

randunel — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:40:05 +0000

I can install 1Gbps using copper cables + RJ45 and household tools. I can't install 10Gbps using a $10 crimper.

Therefore, I have 1Gbps all through my house and 10Gbps between equipment next to the access point.

New comment by randunel in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

randunel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:55:08 +0000

I have a really simple algorithm to reporting something as spam:

> Was this email solicited by me?

The author describes unsolicited emails and somehow misses the point that spam is a term for unsolicited emails.

The reminder email in your list sounds unsolicited, so I'd probably report that one as spam as well. I wasn't aware it was mandatory, probably because it's not where I live.

My transactional inboxes are mostly clean as a result. My "spam" inbox, however, is full of crap (the email I use to sign up to freemium services).

New comment by randunel in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

randunel — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:02:49 +0000

Americans sure love their war crimes! Indiscriminately killing civilians is how they've gotten past, present and future terrorist attacks. I can't imagine the parents of the children they keep on killing (or maiming, or otherwise) standing by and watching. People wouldn't necessarily need to wait for their country's army to do something when they've got nothing significant left to lose.

New comment by randunel in "Automatically generate all 3D print files for organizing a drawer"

randunel — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:25:18 +0000

I find the sum of all 3d printing tools and consumables required to build something useful (i.e. drawer inserts) a lot cheaper than the sum of all wood tools and consumables.

New comment by randunel in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

randunel — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:48:11 +0000

Sounds a lot like nagging [0] with some trick wording [1] in the nag.

I think the website is missing a dark pattern here, spray-and-pray, which is throwing as many reincarnations of the same thing as possible, hoping one eventually sticks.

[0] https://www.deceptive.design/types/nagging

[1] https://www.deceptive.design/types/trick-wording

New comment by randunel in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

randunel — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:23:56 +0000

The commenter you replied to seems to be oblivious to the fact that this act, described in the article, is merely a consequence of the war they started.

New comment by randunel in "Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc"

randunel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:59:57 +0000

Most people would get a "Making sure you're not a bot" anime girl with that link.

New comment by randunel in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

randunel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:49:50 +0000

Quid pro quo? Whoever requests that of others must do the same.

New comment by randunel in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

randunel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:23:41 +0000

> trying to impact the general US feeling of invulnerability

Or, perhaps, trying to defend themselves? They are being attacked, after all.

New comment by randunel in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

randunel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:33:53 +0000

You are a us citizen and comment against the right of countries to defend themselves against the us. How come?

New comment by randunel in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

randunel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:32:47 +0000

Such as the Paris Agreement, right?

New comment by randunel in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

randunel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:08:12 +0000

So US citizens like you actually expect other countries to accept being attacked by you without as little as defending themselves?

New comment by randunel in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

randunel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:07:20 +0000

You applaud anthropic's choice to enhance mass surveillance of non-US people? If anthropic want mass surveillance, they should limit it to their own country, not to all other countries IMO.

New comment by randunel in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

randunel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:28:53 +0000

Zero knowledge in such a system requires a minimum of 3 independent parties. There are quite a few solutions out there, I think the most developed ones are online voting systems, because tracking and de duplication is essential.

New comment by randunel in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

randunel — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:50:14 +0000

Is MJ Rathbun here a human or a bot?

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by randunel in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

randunel — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:33:29 +0000

How do you check that the open sourced code is the same one that you are installing from the extension repository and actually running?

New comment by randunel in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

randunel — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:57:29 +0000

All banks in the EU are part of their respective national pay schemes. They need to figure out a way for the national pay schemes to add wero compatibility.