Hacker News: winthrowe

New comment by winthrowe in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

winthrowe — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:50:06 +0000

Profit at all costs is a political agenda.

New comment by winthrowe in "San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents"

winthrowe — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:35:39 +0000

It was clear and understandable to me, but follows a format I've seen many times. Headlines in English tend to have a style that's widely used, but would not be considered good usage outside of headlines, which I could expect to be troublesome for non-native speakers.

New comment by winthrowe in "Canadian Tire Money"

winthrowe — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:19:43 +0000

In 90’s New Brunswick it was practically legal tender. Accepted at basically every mom and pop store, and even many chains. Not so much since the turn of the century.

New comment by winthrowe in "Show HN: A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins"

winthrowe — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:50:01 +0000

Similar to v4 DHCP guard, configure RA guard on your switches.

New comment by winthrowe in "Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)"

winthrowe — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:27:24 +0000

> As far as I'm aware, the wishlist has no other function.

It's also visible to accounts you've friended, for gift-giving purposes.

New comment by winthrowe in "Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware"

winthrowe — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:23:28 +0000

If you care about this enough to abandon old software, they built that and called it Windows S and few wanted it.

New comment by winthrowe in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

winthrowe — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:57:18 +0000

2. Achron from 2011 is an RTS fully and completely built around time travel as it's core mechanic, perhaps to the detriment of general playability.

Available on steam or direct.

New comment by winthrowe in "Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)"

winthrowe — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:05:24 +0000

That's ancient and perhaps best forgotten.

More important in this day and age is since Firefox 91 there is a checkbox in privacy and security to automagically SSO using the account on the Windows 10/11 Account Settings page that Edge uses.

New comment by winthrowe in "How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers"

winthrowe — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:53:56 +0000

Trace output was easier to read in the days when everybody trusted and there was no security.

Try reading this, with just the tool output, A and NS records, like the old days:

dig +trace jvns.ca | egrep ";|IN\s+A|IN\s+NS\s"

New comment by winthrowe in "The void in Calgary: How office towers emptied in a once bustling downtown"

winthrowe — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:35:54 +0000

I agree with this.

Much of the square footage is devoted to entertainment pursuits that don't have a roof and close for the winter elsewhere in Canada.

New comment by winthrowe in "Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal"

winthrowe — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 13:50:10 +0000

Going so far as to actually smoke it is a hair too far.

Get a quality vaporizer and enjoy the full bouquet without the harmful combustion byproducts.

New comment by winthrowe in "Windows 11 is no longer compatible with Oracle VirtualBox VMs"

winthrowe — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:15:40 +0000

Several reasons, but the biggest I see is Passwordless.

Windows 10 can act as a FIDO2 authenticator like a Yubikey, but needs a TPM to do so. They want this to be something that actually happens for the average user in windows 11.

New comment by winthrowe in "IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ"

winthrowe — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 12:19:48 +0000

Not offering IPv6 is intentional misconfiguration in this day and age, and deserves shame.

New comment by winthrowe in "IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ"

winthrowe — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:26:58 +0000

BellAliant in eastern Canada, the only provider of residential layer 1 fiber in my area, still isn't even assigning a /128 or /64, let alone proper delegation.

New comment by winthrowe in "The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)"

winthrowe — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:03:28 +0000

The traditional 5 dollar analog hygrometer uses a paper/metallic strip coil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCUHDFYdG44

New comment by winthrowe in "The Framework Laptop is now shipping"

winthrowe — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 03:28:13 +0000

What about a hex numpad? IPv6Buddy is a real shipping product, according to their longstanding website.

New comment by winthrowe in "BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited"

winthrowe — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 15:48:02 +0000

My recollection is BitTorrent encryption has mostly nothing to do with real security, and almost everything to do with the cat-and-mouse against ISP middleboxes. Plaintext BitTorrent traffic was highly identifiable and blockable, but even simple obfuscation was enough to avoid them, so simple encryption was adopted.

New comment by winthrowe in "Starting in 2023, Windows 11 will require new laptops to have a front webcam"

winthrowe — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:22:13 +0000

This looks like part of their push to passwordless. Decent camera plus TPM means that FaceID style unphishable FIDO2 credentials can become default moving forward.

New comment by winthrowe in "This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display"

winthrowe — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:52:09 +0000

In my TrackIR config, I move my head left an inch, the projected head moves 6 inches. This is more useful than a even mapping in practice, but solidly breaks the 'looking through a window' illusion.

New comment by winthrowe in "This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display"

winthrowe — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:42:25 +0000

As a TrackIR user, it feels to me like it should be possible to do something like this with the 6dof headtracking data from TrackIR, but basically nobody uses a 1-1 mapping that would produce a camera trick like this.