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Booking.com warns customers of possible data and security breach

volongoto — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:23:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-13/booking-com-data-security-breach-personal-details/106557630

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750061

Points: 4

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New comment by volongoto in "iPhone 17e"

volongoto — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:04:03 +0000

I believe at least some versions of Google Pixel don't have a camera bump (if you don't mind using a Google phone).

Ask HN: Are there any good weekly news channels dedicated to a given technology?

volongoto — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:00:03 +0000

I feel the need for good tech journalism dedicated to specific technologies so that I can get a summary of what happened in a certain field within that week (or month). A good example of this is The Linux Experiment channel on YouTube. 10-20 minute videos about the latest highlights in the Linux world. No influencer BS. I wonder if there are other channels dedicated to other technologies. I'm especially interested in AI (something that's not hype-driven and provides a good overview in 15 minutes every week), Azure and .NET. I'm not interested in a "general tech news" channel since I find them too broad to be useful (and I already have a few RSS feeds in my reader).

I prefer videos since they are easier to digest (listen while driving etc.).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070047

Points: 3

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New comment by volongoto in "Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods"

volongoto — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:31:16 +0000

My personal experience is the opposite. There is no control on the produce on grandma's backyard and therefore we have no idea how much chemicals she is using. Probably she doesn't know either. But I'm sure of one thing: she definitely uses chemicals if she wants to eat (or sell) those apples. Chemical-free agriculture is more demanding and the grandma doesn't have an incentive to invest in it. After all, using chemicals is what she learned growing up and therefore is the "traditional" way.

Best Books of the 21st Century

volongoto — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42518297

Points: 3

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New comment by volongoto in "Praise My GitHub Profile"

volongoto — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:58:50 +0000

I tried it with "torvalds". Here is the response:

> Nah, I'm good, I don't want to roast torvalds

Why single vendor is the new proprietary

volongoto — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:58:20 +0000

Article URL: https://opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-proprietary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908030

Points: 2

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New comment by volongoto in "Redis adopts dual source-available licensing"

volongoto — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:20:28 +0000

Microsoft introduced an almost drop in replacement 3 days ago[1]. It is claimed to work with most Redis clients. I believe this will change things quite a bit a least for Azure users.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-ga...

Disabled at 22 million commits

volongoto — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 21:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://programming.dev/post/355447

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36565842

Points: 120

# Comments: 130

New comment by volongoto in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

volongoto — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:35:13 +0000

I think these instances that serve a "family" of topics has a great chance of shining within fediverse. I'm rooting for programming.dev to bring together the programming community.

New comment by volongoto in "Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated"

volongoto — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:09:12 +0000

I tried to search with the full URL and it didn't show up. That's why I thought it wasn't the way to do it. But I can now see it when I search for it. So, you are right, it takes some time.

New comment by volongoto in "Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated"

volongoto — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:29:22 +0000

Is there a guide to do this for dummies? Subscribing is one thing, but is it possible to "comment" on another instance's community?

Edit: Figured out myself. It wasn't that difficult :) I agree with others that this needs to be mentioned more often. But, when I searched for "dotnet" in lemmy.world, it didn't return "https://kbin.social/m/dotnet" as one of the search results. Is this due to defederation? Is there a way to add a community using a unique identifier instead of searching for it?

New comment by volongoto in "Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated"

volongoto — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:25:51 +0000

Even though it's possible to subscribe across instances, I think it would make the most sense if there was a single UI that the user can configure like an RSS reader that would bring relevant content from those the user has subscribed to. The user could then read and comment from within the tool (using whichever account they choose).

New comment by volongoto in "Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace"

volongoto — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:42:38 +0000

I wonder if there are people out there playing Google Graveyard Bingo.

New comment by volongoto in "Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none"

volongoto — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:16:52 +0000

I'm a happy Bitwarden user. I use the free tier and it works well for me. But people have different needs/requirements, so your mileage may vary

New comment by volongoto in "Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final"

volongoto — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:46:19 +0000

That's one of the few F1 races I remember. (it wasn't Alonso, though, it was Barrichello). That was dramatic. If I remember correctly, Schumacher gave the trophy to Barrichello at the podium as a gesture to show that he was the one who deserved it and Barrichello couldn't hold back the tears.

New comment by volongoto in "Slack Price Increase beginning Sep 2022"

volongoto — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:45:13 +0000

Probably it's easier to argue this on a small company, where the developers have a bigger impact. But I think in most companies, nobody asks the developers about these things. If the company is already invested in Office, then it's a no brainer to use Teams. It's free and supposedly does everything Slack does. It's well integrated with Outlook/Calendar, etc. When you already have a free solution it's very difficult to ask for a paid service with similar functionality. I don't like using Teams, but that's not a hill I'm willing to die on.

To be honest, the only complain I have about Teams is how resource hungry and unresponsive the application is. But I think it does (or should I say "attempts to do") some things better than Slack. I like the way Teams displays the chat threads as conversations instead of a long, narrow and claustrophobic column on the right, for example. But, again, nobody asks me :)

New comment by volongoto in "Slack Price Increase beginning Sep 2022"

volongoto — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:29:09 +0000

I believe, their history of messaging apps, makes it very difficult to rely on Google in this area. Organizations that are already in Google's ecosystem will probably use it, but I doubt it will have any significance otherwise. As long as you don't have a need to use it towards other organizations it should work (but don't ever expect Google to implement a feature that is requested by their customers).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... [2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/so-nice-they-killed-...

New comment by volongoto in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

volongoto — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:06:49 +0000

I use Firefox an uBlock origin and definitely don't see ads on YouTube. I don't have any other ad blocking extension installed.

New comment by volongoto in "PhD student in Switzerland expelled after criticizing the CCP in Twitter"

volongoto — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 20:54:25 +0000

After reading the English version of the article [0] shared by others in this thread, this look like the adviser has (rightfully or not) panicked and distanced herself from the PhD student (Gerber). The adviser, in her first email, mentions «angry emails from China», but then, when the journalist contacts her, she only refers to a single email from a Chinese doctoral student from Canada.

> The writer [of the email] accuses Gerber of a «racist attack on the Chinese people.» He was referring to a specific tweet: a cartoon that Gerber had posted in response to another user's tweet. It depicted a comic character that had been altered and had stereotyped Chinese features, with yellow skin tone and slit eyes.

> The professor's first email clearly shows that she feared she would no longer be able to obtain a Chinese visa because of Gerber's tweets.

> In the early summer of 2020, Gerber decided to abandon the legal effort. He said he didn't complete the enrollment application because he couldn't find a new adviser: «There was no other professor in the same department with whom I could have finished my work. Changing topics would have meant starting from scratch again after three and a half years. That was out of the question for me.»

The article clearly sides with Gerber on the issue, but I don't think an adviser can be forced to work with a specific PhD candidate. On the other hand, I think this is an important debate:

> [...] Gerber's case demonstrates that China's aggressive foreign policy can in fact influence how academics in Switzerland publicly express themselves, and how they deal with critical comments from their students. It shows that some researchers are willing to restrict their own and others’ activities in order to avoid upsetting China.

[0] https://www.nzz.ch/english/swiss-phd-students-dismissal-spot...