Hacker News: travoc

New comment by travoc in "CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks"

travoc — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:45:35 +0000

CFPB is inherently political, like all government agencies. Of course it ignored the debanking issue. CFPB was just serving its current masters.

New comment by travoc in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

travoc — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:09:30 +0000

ACA literally forced every person in the US to become a customer of health insurance companies.

New comment by travoc in "France's tax agency got hacked (in French)"

travoc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:26:28 +0000

We have a certain degree of financial privacy rights in the rest of the world.

New comment by travoc in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

travoc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:32:05 +0000

It automatically saves and reopens whatever you previously pasted in there. Quite a shock the first few times it happens. It's not a safe temporary holding area anymore.

New comment by travoc in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

travoc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:28:57 +0000

Marketing turds can't just block registrations from all of @icloud.com.

New comment by travoc in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

travoc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:41:25 +0000

Wrong and defamatory. Ouch for your wallet.

New comment by travoc in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

travoc — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0000

If only they could make an engine or transmission that doesn't blow up at 80,000 miles.

New comment by travoc in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

travoc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:46:23 +0000

Increased demand will not drive down energy costs.

New comment by travoc in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

travoc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:48:09 +0000

AdGuard DNS servers are excellent.

New comment by travoc in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

travoc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:55:15 +0000

So nobody can ever hire someone better at particular skills than they are? Oh boy.

New comment by travoc in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

travoc — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:03:25 +0000

"luckily all my projects are now EOL as I am retired."

I doubt that everything you ever worked on is end-of-life. Some of it is still out there...

New comment by travoc in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

travoc — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:22:20 +0000

Your short form comment is in violation of EU Directive 20.29A. Agents have been dispatched to your home to collect your devices.

New comment by travoc in "Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns"

travoc — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:17:13 +0000

Which transit effort did they derail in Nashville? There was nothing on the horizon.

New comment by travoc in "iPhone Pocket"

travoc — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:22:39 +0000

Who is “we?” Why are you preventing women from having pockets? I’m certainly not.

New comment by travoc in "Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban"

travoc — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:49:54 +0000

ASUS routers with Merlin firmware work well in a mesh configuration.

New comment by travoc in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

travoc — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:12:13 +0000

What does that have to do with H1B engineers, who typically end up writing crud apps for banks?.

New comment by travoc in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

travoc — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:40:21 +0000

Who else is going to pretend to rewrite my ancient CRUD apps?

New comment by travoc in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

travoc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:13:10 +0000

Wikipedia eventually failed.

New comment by travoc in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

travoc — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:26:47 +0000

FYI calling something "asinine" is not an argument.

New comment by travoc in "Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]"

travoc — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:33:36 +0000

The middle of the lane is where cars drip years of oil and coolant.