Hacker News: synotna

New comment by synotna in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

synotna — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:40:16 +0000

Don't give programs unnecessary access - problem solved

New comment by synotna in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

synotna — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:54:57 +0000

Part of the struggle is that renewables have state aid exceptions, enabling massive taxpayer funded subsidisation of the """industry"""

New comment by synotna in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

synotna — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:48:16 +0000

> are people running energy generators

In Germany's case it's the tax payer, thanks to extremely generous subsidies that are excluded from state aid regulation

New comment by synotna in "The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database"

synotna — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:13:15 +0000

For dmarc purposes it is moving to DNS, with dmarcbis the psd tag and treewalk will replace hoping everybody uses the same file and keeps it up to date

New comment by synotna in "Not all browsers perform revocation checking"

synotna — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:10:02 +0000

OCSP is deprecated for CRLs

Let's encrypt already EOLd OCSP

New comment by synotna in "Show HN: I'm building a Product Hunt alternative, it's 4 days old"

synotna — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:18:43 +0000

Congrats on the launch

Please consider fixing that middle click opens in a new tab

New comment by synotna in "Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe"

synotna — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:24:34 +0000

New/improved rail links are planned/in progress as part of TEN-T which will probably help

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu... https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...

New comment by synotna in "Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?"

synotna — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:15:40 +0000

If both leave, then the predecessor to the Kingdom of Great Britain was the Kingdom of England

Wales was already part of England, as principality / having been conquered

Though "United Kingdom of England" could argue that they kept the Irish crown :)

New comment by synotna in "Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?"

synotna — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:57:00 +0000

The predecessor to the UK before Ireland was the Kingdom of Great Britain, so would be correct to go back to afterwards

Of course to save money (and face) it probably wouldn't

New comment by synotna in "Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?"

synotna — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:55:22 +0000

United Kingdom came from the GB+Ireland, not England & Scotland

England + Scotland were the Kingdom of Great Britain

New comment by synotna in "The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy"

synotna — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 06:00:08 +0000

Doesn't need to be November

Germany is dark and windless plenty of the time during summer: ~8 hours a day

I frequently saw our solar and wind usage below even 5% of their respective capacities

New comment by synotna in "The absurdity of Europe burning wood for energy"

synotna — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 05:56:36 +0000

Because people want heat and electricity when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing enough (or at all) which happens pretty regularly

If you haven't won the geographic lottery then...

You can burn coal like there is no tomorrow (see Poland)

Or gas (see Germany, and most of Europe for heating), and enable Russia and other undesirables

Or nuclear and have energy security without directly and indirectly causing death and suffering for millions

New comment by synotna in "WebSockets in curl"

synotna — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:58:01 +0000

Your question is answered on the page

New comment by synotna in "How safe are nuclear power plants?"

synotna — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:23:46 +0000

Heatwaves caused by other countries burning coal and gas due to people that prefer burning burning coal & gas and causing climate change

Countries like here in Germany, where we have problems delivering coal to our coal plants due to low water levels caused by climate change caused by burning coal, poetic justice

New comment by synotna in "Adtech giant Criteo faces $65M fine in France for GDPR consent breaches"

synotna — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:03:01 +0000

Hopefully followed by Techcrunch for cookie wall without one click reject

New comment by synotna in "EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO"

synotna — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:49:59 +0000

She was proposed by the European Council (made up of more or less democratically elected heads of state/government) and approved by the European Parliament (democratically elected representatives)

That is as "elected" as many heads of government i.e. any prime minister system

Directly electing presidents doesn't necessarily lead to better outcomes

New comment by synotna in "Two types of privacy"

synotna — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:20:12 +0000

I agree, alas legacy in society is even harder to get rid of than legacy in software (:

New comment by synotna in "Two types of privacy"

synotna — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:43:24 +0000

Being a member of a church should be opt-in not opt-out - by the individual, not their parents

e.g. upon reaching adulthood you are sent an opt-in confirmation

If you ignore, you are automatically removed

It is absurd that you have to waste your time & money to make an appointment, go to the appointment and on top of that pay to opt-out

New comment by synotna in "Ask HN: Chrome says I have 83 compromised passwords. How do I fix this?"

synotna — Sun, 08 May 2022 15:03:23 +0000

bitwarden

New comment by synotna in "Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”"

synotna — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:01:02 +0000

I dunno about de-facto, my anecdata is my heating is in the process switching from L-Gas to H-Gas, have not heard any mention of replacing gas in the near future for existing properties

Wonder what the stats are for new builds being with gas heating vs without

Am not optimistic about German electricity handling the switching of heating and transport (cars) on top of existing usage+growth as long as we're antinuke (: