Hacker News: tamirzb

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

tamirzb — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:03:05 +0000

This comment makes it seem as if it's the US who striked the Amazon data center.

New comment by tamirzb in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

tamirzb — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:29:09 +0000

Since cloudflare are busy editing this blog post to say something completely different from what it originally said, I feel that this archive link is relevant

https://archive.ph/AbxU5

New comment by tamirzb in "Linux kernel security work"

tamirzb — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:34:18 +0000

> Know this - your kernel is not patched unless you run the absolute latest version.

This is correct for a lot of different software, probably most of it. Why is this a point that needs to be made?

New comment by tamirzb in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

tamirzb — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:28:30 +0000

Not sure why I decided to comment specifically on what you posted given the fact that there are various levels of misinformation going on in this thread, but I guess yours is the most blunt.

Anyway read the article you linked to again, you completely misread it.

New comment by tamirzb in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

tamirzb — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:26:33 +0000

If you are worried about your Google account being banned for using ReVanced (not that I saw any evidence for anything like that so far but I agree that there could be a scenario like this some time in the future), for years now I've been using a separate Google account only for YouTube. This account essentially only contains my YouTube viewing history and nothing more. I have yet to see any disadvantage in this separation

New comment by tamirzb in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

tamirzb — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:06:22 +0000

I run my Framework 13 with 1.4 fractional scaling (on Wayland) and honestly I think it looks pretty good.

New comment by tamirzb in "Don't guess my language"

tamirzb — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:55:51 +0000

This is indeed extremely annoying and I never understood why so many apps are configured to only be available in specific countries. Like what at all do they stand to gain doing this?

Google will then go on to complain about users installing APKs from shady sources but this practice pushes users to do so. I'm sure a decent amount of users ended up with malware on their phones just because they wanted to install an app that wasn't available in their listed country.

New comment by tamirzb in "Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers"

tamirzb — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:40:30 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region

It's really not that rare even for non-Muslim countries, especially in Asia

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

tamirzb — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:05:31 +0000

> We are committed to developing this standard in a way that ensures it will not be abused to segment users based on client hardware. For example, we may consider supporting software keys for all users regardless of hardware capabilities. This would ensure that DBSC will not let servers differentiate between users based on hardware features or device state (i.e. if a device is Play Protect certified or not).

Personally I do not believe this for a second. Yes I do believe that this is what they will do now. But in a few years, if DBSC becomes mainstream? I fully believe Google will start abusing this to strengthen their control. It's the same with the Chrome browser that they eventually used to push MV3 and tried to push WEI.

Honestly? I feel that this could be their way of pushing WEI again through the back door, and I am concerned that unlike WEI, this seems to barely get any buzz or pushback from the community.

New comment by tamirzb in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

tamirzb — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:09:35 +0000

It's a solved problem as in it's one single problem that is solved. I agree that WhatsApp is a really bad solution overall, just compared to iMessage it does solve the cross-platform issue.

I would also by far prefer a more open solution, but between relying on Apple for your country's messaging to relying on Facebook, at least by relying on Facebook you have one less issue.

New comment by tamirzb in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

tamirzb — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:00:57 +0000

> it still just works, albeit with fewer features.

If it doesn't have features I rely on then I don't see how can I treat it as "it still just works".

> iMessage in the US is the closest things to universal modern messaging.

The key part here is "in the US". What if you want to message someone who is outside the US? To be honest I am not sure about carrier prices in the US, but I am sure the person on the other side of the conversation would get extremely high bills for international MMS messages. Personally I don't see how the words "universal solution" can apply to something that works well in only a single country in the entire world.

New comment by tamirzb in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

tamirzb — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:58:51 +0000

Oh I definitely agree with you that I hope WhatsApp is the past. I sure do hope for something open, not sure if RCS is the solution here though.

In any case, iMessage share the exact same issues and also adds the issue of locking you to a single platform, so at least WhatsApp solves one issue that iMessage has.

New comment by tamirzb in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

tamirzb — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:38:27 +0000

> On the other hand, I think the long-term sequalae of the blue-green message is to push people to use stand-alone apps like WhatsApp and FB Messenger

I find it amusing that in 2024 people in the US still talk about WhatsApp as a future step. Where I'm from already 10+ years ago every single person you know would have a WhatsApp account.

With WhatsApp, LINE, WeChat, Telegram etc. I think this is pretty much a solved problem in the rest of the world, really only the US is behind here.

New comment by tamirzb in "Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU"

tamirzb — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:27:14 +0000

People here seem to quickly react by recommending their favorite travel eSIM provider. I'd propose what I find to be a bit more useful, a website that compares a bunch of different travel eSIM providers: https://esimdb.com

No affiliation from my side. I find it nice to know I always have many options.

New comment by tamirzb in "UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B"

tamirzb — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:53:37 +0000

RedBus and many other Indian apps & websites don't accept foreign credit cards. It can become a real headache when traveling in India as a foreigner.

New comment by tamirzb in "YouTube Threatens to Cut Off Ad Blocker Users After Just Three Ad-Less Vids"

tamirzb — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:14:40 +0000

YouTube Premium is not available in some countries in the world. More than that, even just traveling to a country where it's not available is enough to lose the YouTube Premium features.

New comment by tamirzb in "Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts"

tamirzb — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 01:11:21 +0000

I'm a frequent visitor of /r/soccer. The only poll they did[0] had a staggering 88% in favor of the blackout, with 80% in favor of keeping the sub private as long as it takes for reddit to change their mind. I would be surprised if other polls had such different results, as I'm not sure what would make the /r/soccer community so drastically different from the rest of reddit.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1429lkh/meta_thread...

New comment by tamirzb in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

tamirzb — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:01:51 +0000

Why not have each user register their own "client"? Is it that complicated?

New comment by tamirzb in "Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India"

tamirzb — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:24:48 +0000

I agree, India in general has pretty bad bureaucracy against tourists, it feels like the government doesn't care at all about attracting them.

But I recently saw that Wise supports transferring money to India via UPI (also more anecdotally - I am living in Singapore and saw that some local banks have this feature as well). I guess this won't be as comfortable as just scanning a QR, but couldn't this technically work for tourists?

New comment by tamirzb in "Framework Laptop 16"

tamirzb — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:51:41 +0000

I'm not sure what issues in Wayland you're talking about. I've been using sway with fractional scaling for a few years now and never really had any problems.