Hacker News: rospaya

New comment by rospaya in "No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard"

rospaya — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:07:16 +0000

In some languages that's the way to go but I have any type of autocorrect or prediction turned off as it doesn't help.

New comment by rospaya in "We have an unusual concern when we use Let's Encrypt"

rospaya — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:50:41 +0000

My concern was that Let's Encrypt didn't have any issues generating certificates for trademarked names, something a lot of commercial providers didn't want to do without extra verification.

New comment by rospaya in "How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia"

rospaya — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:46:54 +0000

> How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

The title simply isn't true. There was no ban on home computers, just a value limit for an import. And as the article shows, homegrown computers were common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_systems_from_...

New comment by rospaya in "Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)"

rospaya — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:36:27 +0000

One of the "spomeniks" is on a former death camp.

New comment by rospaya in "Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs"

rospaya — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:27:17 +0000

Are their cities quieter as a result?

New comment by rospaya in "Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016)"

rospaya — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 15:31:16 +0000

What are the ethics of skateboarding in a death camp or over graves of people that died fighting fascists? What's the skateability of Dachau? Does Treblinka need a half pipe so it's not forgotten?

New comment by rospaya in "2M users but no money in the bank"

rospaya — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:35:38 +0000

> 99% of people using AWS are wasting money like there is now tomorrow

Why do you think that is? Are that many people that dumb or are there other reasons they use managed cloud?

New comment by rospaya in "CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything"

rospaya — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:26:30 +0000

Have you read the article? The CIA doesn't look good and if I got any point across it is that I wouldn't like to be in the situation.

New comment by rospaya in "Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization"

rospaya — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:50:09 +0000

> A quango or QUANGO is an organisation to which a government has devolved power, but which is still partly controlled and/or financed by government bodies.

A quasi NGO. First time I heard this term.

New comment by rospaya in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

rospaya — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 20:42:08 +0000

> Shouldn’t the burden be on them to avoid public spaces if they’re that sensitive?

Depends how emphatic you are to your fellow human being. Peanuts aren't as important in most people's lives as actual people.

New comment by rospaya in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

rospaya — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:11:47 +0000

> All governments, democratic or despotic can only govern with the consent of their subjects.

That's the definition of a despotic government - ruling without consent. Any rule comes from the end of a gun.

New comment by rospaya in "UK startup gets $1B funding for self-driving car tech"

rospaya — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:53:54 +0000

> Also, Wayve AI seems to be split between London, MTV, and Vancouver.

I spent a few minutes but have no idea what MTV means in this context.

New comment by rospaya in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

rospaya — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:51:51 +0000

Why would I dedicate my time to a subreddit that might vanish overnight or might get taken over by the admins? Way back, subreddits were independent forums, and now they're one protest away from being kidnapped.

New comment by rospaya in "Sweden has long opposed nuclear weapons, but once tried to build them"

rospaya — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:38:46 +0000

Those protests were mainly against the Iraq war, I remember, I was there.

There's a big difference between the two wars.

New comment by rospaya in "Pitcairn Island Immigration"

rospaya — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:08:49 +0000

Two songs it seems. Gang of Four - Ether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_HrbO9xfI&pp=ygUSZ2FuZyBvZ...

New comment by rospaya in "TSMC was founded by Morris Chang when he was 55 years old"

rospaya — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:16:46 +0000

Sounds like it would be a cool book to read.

New comment by rospaya in "Ask HN: Non-duopoly smart phone in Sweden?"

rospaya — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:31:06 +0000

Are you Swedish or have you lived there for some time? Do you have a deep understanding of Swedish politics or society? Just asking.

New comment by rospaya in "Microsoft, Amazon suspend access to their cloud products in Russia from March 20"

rospaya — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:12:22 +0000

Do we have non-Russian confirmation? Will it include DNS level or just backends?

New comment by rospaya in "Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list"

rospaya — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:15:19 +0000

Yeah, I'm wondering too.

New comment by rospaya in "In race to make artillery shells, US, EU see different results"

rospaya — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:15:37 +0000

Aren't NK shells notoriously unreliable and have large rates of duds?