Hacker News: tombrandis

New comment by tombrandis in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

tombrandis — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:42:44 +0000

kind of but others are hard as well... most people don't change their name, date of birth or even email address when they are leaked.

New comment by tombrandis in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

tombrandis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:37:20 +0000

Is it OK for some Israelis to do genocide against Palestinians if some Palestinians tried to do genocide against Israelis? IMO no, there is no justification for anyone to do genocide.

New comment by tombrandis in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

tombrandis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:11:19 +0000

I think that this is overstated, it takes ~15 minutes to set up SPF and DMARC correctly and few people run their own email servers.

https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie/anti-spoofing-dkim-spf...

New comment by tombrandis in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

tombrandis — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:57:15 +0000

There was a plan in ~2016 backed by Zuckerberg, Hawking and some entrepreneur but it didn't really get anywhere (in a literal sense). Research for it stopped in 2022 because of a "lack of funding".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mark-zuckerber...

I don't use AI in 2025

tombrandis — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:57:50 +0000

Article URL: https://tombrandis.uk/posts/Why-I-don%27t-use-AI-in-2025.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889944

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tombrandis in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

tombrandis — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:59:05 +0000

The internet, although I'm not convinced they can tell the difference. The web is of course part of the internet so both.

New comment by tombrandis in "The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is"

tombrandis — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:54:53 +0000

I'm a from england where we don't have mass shootings an this seems so fucked up to me, I'm so sorry for you that must be terrible even to be close to that. I've heard of shootings in america but this description just makes it so real.

New comment by tombrandis in "Ask HN: What's an interesting article you've read recently from your RSS feed"

tombrandis — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 12:35:56 +0000

I found https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/18/why-are-f... interesting. I think that it is a quite popular blog so you might have already heard about it. Here is the feed link: https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/feed