Hacker News: specto

New comment by specto in "23andMe Sells Gene-Testing Business to DNA Drug Maker Regeneron"

specto — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:52:47 +0000

That's exactly why I never used it. Unfortunately I have family members who did so it doesn't matter that I avoided it.

New comment by specto in "Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server"

specto — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:03:07 +0000

I agree, focus on the audiobooks. That being said, I would love an app that can detect and skip the awful built in ads they've added to podcasts...

New comment by specto in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

specto — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:27:29 +0000

I've had a personal subscription to Claude for a while now. I would love if that also gave me access to some amount of API calls.

New comment by specto in "AMD Introduces Next-Generation AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Processor"

specto — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:46:00 +0000

Current rumor is that the 9950x3d will be released early next year. Personally I'll take less tdp, but I'm only using this system for gaming.

New comment by specto in "Understanding Round Robin DNS"

specto — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:33:31 +0000

Chrome and Firefox use the OS dns server by default, which in most OS' have caching as well.

New comment by specto in "Infineon's CO2 Sensor Monitors Indoor Air Quality"

specto — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:56:06 +0000

It seems like ozone is the missing piece. The only ones that measure outdoor ozone are governments, and the numbers keep increasing.

Vulnerabilities in VPNs

specto — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:23:00 +0000

Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/2024/07/vulnerabilities-in-vpns-paper-presented-at-the-privacy-enhancing-technologies-symposium-2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978423

Points: 1

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New comment by specto in "Ask HN: How close is too close to live to a large fracking operation?"

specto — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:28:01 +0000

The thing is, your drinking water in Aurora already comes from reservoirs in other parts of the state that have been fracking for years. Basically if you don't like fracking, you can't live in Colorado.

New comment by specto in "Which Electric Cars Have Bidirectional Charging (V2L, V2G, V2H)"

specto — Tue, 21 May 2024 12:19:17 +0000

I use home assistant to charge automatically when I want, to the level I want. Though to make it work both my charger and car are somewhat supported by hacs repos.

New comment by specto in "Internet Service Providers Plan to Subvert Net Neutrality. Don't Let Them"

specto — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:25:20 +0000

Reading the article might help with understanding the current state.

New comment by specto in "Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites"

specto — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:00:20 +0000

VPN companies are next I'm sure.

New comment by specto in "Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1"

specto — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:19:55 +0000

Still waiting for some hardware support and hardware video decoding.

New comment by specto in "Kroger's Digital Struggle"

specto — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:08:08 +0000

Yeah you're paying so much over actual MSRP on everything it's sad

New comment by specto in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

specto — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:48:05 +0000

Owning a house is a ton easier without kids.

New comment by specto in "2TB microSD card is on the way early next year"

specto — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 05:44:18 +0000

I really wish they enabled h265

New comment by specto in "Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine"

specto — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:28:00 +0000

Believe it or not, there's a 3.0 beta now

New comment by specto in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

specto — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:38:48 +0000

I think their point still stands, you can't trust the cloud companies for anything important.

New comment by specto in "A decade of Have I Been Pwned"

specto — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:08:04 +0000

Hrm, a free service that helps millions of people vs a company that requires a subscription for any use. I don't think you're comparing apples to apples, and the latter is not useful at all for most people.

New comment by specto in "Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making"

specto — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:21:52 +0000

Interesting, I never had any euphoria. I wonder if the 10mg xr isn't enough for me, but it makes my blood pressure spike so I can't try higher

New comment by specto in "Smart drugs reduce quality of effort, and slow decision-making"

specto — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:17:53 +0000

Same here, it makes me super relaxed and tired feeling