Hacker News: veeti

New comment by veeti in "EA Advertising will let brands 'integrate' ads into games"

veeti — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:55:50 +0000

> EA takes in-game advertising too far with Battlefield 2142 (Oct 18th, 2006)

> A while ago, EA told everyone how they could keep prices down by putting in-game advertising in their games. When the advertisements are subtle, with things such as billboards, then there is really no issue. However, BattleField 2142 takes in-game advertising to the next level. EA notifies anyone who bought the full retail version of their latest game on the package that "When you use the software while connected to the Internet, the advertising technology may record your IP address and other anonymous information." This means that the advertising delivers in game advertising according to your tastes, not unlike spyware.

https://www.techpowerup.com/18764/ea-takes-in-game-advertisi...

New comment by veeti in "Leaving Mozilla"

veeti — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:11:15 +0000

Incidentally, I have recently come across some Mozilla job postings with salary ranges I would consider to be at a considerable "discount to market". For example, here is a senior role at 59 000 euro per year: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/7843229

New comment by veeti in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

veeti — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:13:55 +0000

I've been doing some light reverse engineering with Chinese models on Opencode and have found they are already far less reluctant. Just don't ask about Taiwan..

New comment by veeti in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"

veeti — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:31:09 +0000

Why don't you just subscribe to these newspapers and give them a read instead of demanding other tax payers subsidize their business?

New comment by veeti in "Operation: Epic Furious"

veeti — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:17:21 +0000

Unleash your chains: https://news.ycombinator.com/active

New comment by veeti in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

veeti — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:07:34 +0000

Sorting is not an algorithm?

New comment by veeti in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

veeti — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:23:47 +0000

Anyone dealing with notarization will also recognize the classic "Apple Is Holding My CI Pipeline Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service".

New comment by veeti in "People Hate AI Art"

veeti — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:05:48 +0000

Euphoric reddit dwellers like the OP could step outside and immediately observe how ChatGPT slop art is already everywhere, and no one gives a damn. Actually, I would pay good money to see this kind of """socially literate""" internet dweller chastising the hard working guys of my local sushi buffet for daring to generate a sign with AI or something.

New comment by veeti in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

veeti — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:46:13 +0000

Thank you for the interjection.

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

veeti — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030964

Points: 340

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New comment by veeti in "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"

veeti — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:15 +0000

ncdu is a lifesaver, RIP.

New comment by veeti in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

veeti — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:41:29 +0000

OVH has dedicated in USA and Canada

New comment by veeti in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

veeti — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:20:15 +0000

Just the "screeching voices of the minority".

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/06/internal-memo-at-...

New comment by veeti in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

veeti — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:36:00 +0000

Sounds like the marketing team finally won.

EU is following the far-right Heritage Foundation's agenda on age verification

veeti — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1r3pyqn/eu_is_following_the_farright_heritage_foundations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006330

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by veeti in "Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification"

veeti — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:20:38 +0000

This can be done easily with Cloudflare security rules, where you can match against country and block all requests.

New comment by veeti in "Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification"

veeti — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:01:38 +0000

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

New comment by veeti in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

veeti — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:57:34 +0000

Age of Empires II anyone?

New comment by veeti in "More Mac malware from Google search"

veeti — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:09:40 +0000

Hasn't AdSense been known to be a malware delivery vector for over a decade by now?

https://www.securityweek.com/malvertising-campaign-abuses-go...

New comment by veeti in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

veeti — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:21:54 +0000

> To add insult to injury the new Element X app on mobile is in some ways a downgrade because they integrated the cloud vendor push notification services into the app, so even though you have "sovereign" and "self-hosted" infrastructure you're still, on a good day, leaking meta-data about your chats back through to the people you were trying to decouple yourself from anyway. You can run your own push notification services for this mostly if you want and all your mobile clients are Android but like, why.

Probably because this is literally the only way to make notifications work reliably on mass market Android and iOS devices? It is no different from Signal or any other secure messenger on the market. Decoupling from these platforms is a story for another day.