Hacker News: spicykraken

New comment by spicykraken in "House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program"

spicykraken — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:13:07 +0000

> > and heavy handed punishment is the best way to deter it.

> That sounds like an empirical statement. Evidence?

Singapore and Japan.

New comment by spicykraken in "House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program"

spicykraken — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:24:25 +0000

Being strungout and shitting on the streets is a crime though, so I'd take it if they enforced that one...

New comment by spicykraken in "House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program"

spicykraken — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:13:24 +0000

How did we get here? I don't know any sane citizen that would want this.

New comment by spicykraken in "House Votes to Extend–and Expand–A Major US Spy Program"

spicykraken — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:11:38 +0000

We could also, ya know... enforce our drug laws and punish folks in possession of fentanyl. But no, lets enable warrant-less spying on American citizens instead.

New comment by spicykraken in "Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions"

spicykraken — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:04:07 +0000

Not all applications provide users with the option to log out of all sessions.

Web Applications today, could do several things without the help of Google to make cookies more difficult to be stolen but they don't.

New comment by spicykraken in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

spicykraken — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:45:34 +0000

Graphic novels and short comics are a finite medium, they have a beginning and an end. There's not a very practical way to doom scroll away your entire weekend with comic books. You will eventually run out of comic books or run out of places to put them.

New comment by spicykraken in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

spicykraken — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:45:33 +0000

Children aren't allowed to play slot machines either and that's what TikTok (and Youtube Shorts, etc) sure feels like to me.

New comment by spicykraken in "Ask HN: What to do about random email sign-up attacks?"

spicykraken — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:03:19 +0000

I hear ya. We hold similar sentiments and also don't use CAPTCHA, we find MaxMind (and a few custom heuristics) to do good enough of a job at filtering out bad actors. A few get in every great once in a while but we have secondary controls that limit the money they can cost us.

New comment by spicykraken in "Deej: An open-source hardware volume mixer for Windows and Linux"

spicykraken — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:26:39 +0000

New comment by spicykraken in "Ask HN: What to do about random email sign-up attacks?"

spicykraken — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:58:52 +0000

A captcha might add enough friction to at least slow them down if they're doing this at scale.

Also adding some fraud detection on top might help (e.g. MaxMind) you can tell if the requests are coming from a proxy, hosting service, etc and block those requests or present them with additional challenges.

New comment by spicykraken in "Ask HN: Using Git for all internal company documents"

spicykraken — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:54:47 +0000

You can use separate repos for sensitive documents instead of one big repo.

The biggest challenges will be:

- Teaching git to non-technical folks, the HR lady doesn't know how to resolve a merge conflict and probably doesn't want to

- They also don't want to learn markdown or latex

With a small enough company though, this could work.

New comment by spicykraken in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

spicykraken — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:43:27 +0000

Gotta pay the bills somehow

New comment by spicykraken in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

spicykraken — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:41:13 +0000

I've actually seen CVEs like that before, I agree that's bonkers but I have seen it...

New comment by spicykraken in "Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?"

spicykraken — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:31:46 +0000

Unfortunately so, native modules for Node are starting to be written more and more in rust rollup and parcel are two examples. Unlike previous modules written in C++ if there's no prebuilt binary for your platform, they won't even try to build locally, just flat-out wont install despite building fine if you do it all manually.

New comment by spicykraken in "OpenIndiana Illumos Distro"

spicykraken — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:18:10 +0000

SmartOS is still going strong with bi-weekly releases: https://us-central.manta.mnx.io/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/sm...

New comment by spicykraken in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

spicykraken — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:40:20 +0000

I use Firefox across Windows, Mac, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu. I've not seen any specific issues with Google sites at all. I only really use Docs, Maps, and Youtube with any regularity but I've not really seen any of these issues.

New comment by spicykraken in "Cloudflare API Down"

spicykraken — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:17:12 +0000

> Cloudflare is assessing a loss of power impacting data centres while simultaneously failing over services.

Oh, no! The lava lamps are off, there's not enough entropy!

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption...

New comment by spicykraken in "Future versions of macOS won't include scripting language runtimes by default"

spicykraken — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:58:08 +0000

Seems reasonable

New comment by spicykraken in "Goodbye, Node.js Buffer"

spicykraken — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:56:28 +0000

Ah thanks, I thought "realms" sounded familiar and that helps clear things up a bit. Also Lavamoat and SES look really interesting thanks for the link.

New comment by spicykraken in "Car Owners Fall Behind on Payments at Highest Rate on Record"

spicykraken — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:56:25 +0000

I think it's fair to say a lot of people bought "too much car" but I completely agree we need better public infrastructure and not be forced to pay the US car tax.

Having experienced the public transit systems in Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and the midwest US. It's entirely obvious who is failing.

Though, despite our short comings, in a lot of cities it _is_ possible to use public transit, I did for years and it sucked and I had to compensate with Uber more often then I would have liked but at least I didn't have a car payment (in hindsight I should have just bought a car, but it was a humbling experience that I don't regret.)