Hacker News: tty2300

New comment by tty2300 in "Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68"

tty2300 — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:50:31 +0000

Why? That is just an ordinary domain name that someone pointed at local host. I don't see why it should get any security exemptions.

New comment by tty2300 in "Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce"

tty2300 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:02:23 +0000

The robots could probably work almost 24/7

New comment by tty2300 in "Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of (2018)"

tty2300 — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:13:13 +0000

Is it sandboxed from the host system?

New comment by tty2300 in "ISP Association Nominates Mozilla as “Internet Villain”"

tty2300 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:57:52 +0000

Or just intercept and redirect requests to googles DNS.

New comment by tty2300 in "Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers"

tty2300 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 09:28:50 +0000

If you enable the resist fingerprinting setting on Firefox every website will slam you with captchas and random errors.

New comment by tty2300 in "Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers"

tty2300 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 09:27:19 +0000

It already exists, Its called ad nauseam. Its an adblocker that opens every ad in the background. Google has banned it from the chrome store so that says something.

New comment by tty2300 in "I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Wasn't Easy"

tty2300 — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 08:59:31 +0000

This may be true but the end game for governments is to have facial recognition everywhere. They start at the airport because "it doesn't matter, you are already giving your info out" and then we become OK with the idea so they start rolling it out for public transport and "it doesn't matter, you already do this every time you fly"

It seems to me that the only way to resist is to take a very hard rejection of facial recognition entirely in any situation.

New comment by tty2300 in "Welcome to the Old Internet Again"

tty2300 — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 23:25:11 +0000

The front window defrost has always been an option on the air con dial and the rear is a button

New comment by tty2300 in "A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices"

tty2300 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 08:14:59 +0000

I see like a food safety inspector going around shutting down unsafe restaurants. These IoT devices are a danger to society and should be shut down.

New comment by tty2300 in "A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices"

tty2300 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:46:27 +0000

Having a known security bug unpatched for longer than x days should be grounds for a warrenty refund. That should get companies moving when there is a real world cost for not dealing with security bugs.

New comment by tty2300 in "Getting people to buy imperfect produce"

tty2300 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 01:04:40 +0000

The farmers reported throwing out almost 40% of their produce because it was too long, too short, too curvy, not curvy enough. As well as rediculous rules about which veriaty of bananas should be curved or not even though they all grow curved and not curved.

New comment by tty2300 in "Getting people to buy imperfect produce"

tty2300 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:07:11 +0000

I don't think most people have a problem with eating imperfect fruit. If I picked an apple from my tree and half of it was bad I would cut it in half and eat the other half. But if I see a half ruined apple at a supermarket I will pick a good one because they are both the same price.

New comment by tty2300 in "Getting people to buy imperfect produce"

tty2300 — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:05:15 +0000

This goes against the reports I have seen with photos of farmers dumping mountains of bananas that didn't fit supermarket guidelines.

New comment by tty2300 in "Show HN: A point-and-click game engine"

tty2300 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:03:13 +0000

IE is many many years behind other browsers. I have to support it at work and many many hours are spent reimplementing things that exist in modern browsers because IE doesn't support it.

New comment by tty2300 in "Show HN: A point-and-click game engine"

tty2300 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:01:43 +0000

Most likely they just read the docs and used the first feature that did the job and never bothered to test in IE because its a waste of time.

New comment by tty2300 in "Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?"

tty2300 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:55:35 +0000

Make it a legal requirement to mark paid promotions and anyone found to be doing paid promotions without marking it is at risk of huge fines.

I recall that in the UK, TV programs are already required to do this.

New comment by tty2300 in "Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?"

tty2300 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:52:08 +0000

Declining tracking cookies is a requirement of the gdpr

New comment by tty2300 in "Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?"

tty2300 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:50:26 +0000

One interesting thing I have seen is when I search for a product review, google suggests I add "reddit" to the end of my search. And this conststantly gives me better results but its not long until reddit is completely full of shills which it partly already is.

New comment by tty2300 in "Instagram Advertising: Do you know it when you see it?"

tty2300 — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:48:32 +0000

Sort of. Unfortunately most of them moved to unsearchable Facebook groups.

New comment by tty2300 in "Show HN: A point-and-click game engine"

tty2300 — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:56:08 +0000

You can't exactly expect websites to work in an ancient compatibility tool.