Hacker News: termau

New comment by termau in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

termau — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 03:50:11 +0000

What a nonsense idea, you'd need to nationalise news, in the USA, right now this would not go to well, imagine Trump having the only news outlet...

New comment by termau in "The Disappearance of the Ashtray"

termau — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:14:08 +0000

I remember flying to Australia from London as a 9 year old UM (unaccompanied minor) and they plonked me next to a man who Chainsmoked the whole flight there

New comment by termau in "Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive"

termau — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:56:53 +0000

the more obvious advantage is better battery life on my phone having its own on my laptop

New comment by termau in "Apple ends consulting agreement with Jony Ive"

termau — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:21:42 +0000

You can take the cellular modem in my X1 out of my cold dead hands and not a moment before. Open laptop, connected - no matter where you are in the world.

New comment by termau in "Russia's financial meltdown and the global dollar system"

termau — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:45:45 +0000

I grew up in late 70's early 80's UK and remember distinctly as a child the threats the USSR (then Russia) would make in this regard as they were being hammered by Sanctions.

Its a pretty cruel threat to live under that you don't quite understand - but now I'm older and do, cant help but feel the fear inducing threat of this is infinitely more destructive than actually facing people like Putin.

New comment by termau in "Mary Somerville, for whom the word “scientist” was coined"

termau — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:24:45 +0000

There is a all girls school in Brisbane named after her called, fittingly, Somerville house.

New comment by termau in "Where have all the insects gone?"

termau — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:46:39 +0000

crows are super clever, when I drive brisbane to sydney they'll be in the middle of the road eating kangaroos and other dead animals, they dont fly away they just hop to the right of the line so I dont squish them at 100 miles an hour, watch me go by then go back to what they are doing - they actually know which side of the road I'll go past and that they will be safe.

New comment by termau in "Kairos"

termau — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 06:22:59 +0000

Kairos is a NPC in teh timeless Isle in wow too

New comment by termau in "Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet"

termau — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:52:34 +0000

I feel like it just confuses the issue with a bunch of unnecessary babble about DNS, theres better ways to read about how BGP works without confusing a bunch of different things. The only part of the article that was relevant was 'Routes were withdrawn' - the rest being a consequence of that.

New comment by termau in "Something weird is happening on Facebook"

termau — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 21:22:57 +0000

Agreed. I've actively taken steps to combat it, only use my phone in black and white mode, and removed all apps. Stick to my PC for general browsing and my phone use as gone down to 30 minutes a day (mostly calls, messages with the wife, and email).

New comment by termau in "Sir Clive Sinclair has died"

termau — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:59:49 +0000

So the creator of the zx81 dies at 81, my first computer, very sad.

New comment by termau in "Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building"

termau — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:16:09 +0000

Most modern data centres wouldn't have had this issue, at least in in Australia they use Argonite suppression systems, these work by using a gas that is a mixture of argon and nitrogen that suppresses fire by depleting oxygen in the the data hall.

New comment by termau in "How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you"

termau — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 05:32:22 +0000

this sounds exhausting, move dude :)

New comment by termau in "How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you"

termau — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:29:12 +0000

Is this just an American thing? I dont get this real world spam in AU much and defs not targeted.

Amazon refused Aus patent for rolling credits to schedule virtual compute usage

termau — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:10:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crn.com.au/news/amazon-refused-australian-patent-for-rolling-credits-to-schedule-virtual-compute-usage-561263

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234607

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by termau in "The State of the Serverless Art (2020)"

termau — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:53:11 +0000

That was super interesting thanks for posting!

New comment by termau in "I passed 2 AWS Solution Architect exams in a month"

termau — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:25:21 +0000

The new 'cyber security' ones crack me up.

Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness? One Scientist Thinks It Might

termau — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:57:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/can-quantum-physics-explain-consciousness-one-scientist-thinks-it-might

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24648886

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by termau in "Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads"

termau — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:33:01 +0000

Find IP address is connecting to for the ad server, and block it at the router? Its a sad fucking world when I have to suggest this - I flat out wouldn't buy a tv with adware but yeah should work.

New comment by termau in "Linus Torvalds on AVX512"

termau — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:13:44 +0000

wonder if this could be used as a denial of service against a vps host node.