Hacker News: wombarly

New comment by wombarly in "Steam Frame"

wombarly — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:47:07 +0000

SteamOS at its base is just Arch with Steam and some additional software installed.

New comment by wombarly in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

wombarly — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:33:59 +0000

Hetzner dedicated servers by default have 1 GBit and free egress. You can opt for 10 GBit, which has 20TB and then €1 / TB overage.

New comment by wombarly in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

wombarly — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:56:45 +0000

How is this in a way related to that or not gaf about creators?

I pay €14/mo to not have ads on YouTube. It's good they have the skip feature for those sponsor segments, since they're just embedded ads.

Creators still benefit as my view has a higher $. Well... not anymore I suppose with the view attribution endpoint being blocked by my adblock.

New comment by wombarly in "Using the Topics API (Chrome Only, Opposed by Firefox/Safari)"

wombarly — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:11:55 +0000

Websites are moving towards providing md5/sha1/sha256 hashes of your normalized email (stripping the + from gmail) or phone number to advertisers.

A basically permanent ID. Unified ID2 is one version of this.

The 3rd party cookie ban and heavy pushback against alternative solutions suggested by Google just pushed advertisers into going an even worse route privacy wise.

New comment by wombarly in "Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed from the Web Platform"

wombarly — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:54:06 +0000

Dumping third-party cookies is going to cause people's privacy to end up in a way worse position.

Almost all of ad tech is moving towards identifiers like hashed normalized emails (e.g. removing +'s from gmail), phone numbers, names, etc. for personalized ads.

New comment by wombarly in "What PWA Can Do Today"

wombarly — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:25:50 +0000

Most calendars have the option for you to subscribe to an ical by pasting in the web address. Which they will then keep in sync.

New comment by wombarly in "IDEs we had 30 years ago"

wombarly — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:58:58 +0000

The equivalent would be WinForms

New comment by wombarly in ".ing TLD now generally available"

wombarly — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:18:10 +0000

They don't have ideal.ing though, waiting for the first scams to start popping up.

iDEAL is the payment system in the Netherlands. And they use ideal.ing.nl for it.

New comment by wombarly in "Lowstorage: JSON-based database for Cloudflare Workers and R2 buckets"

wombarly — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 21:30:06 +0000

If you use etags it's up to R2. I'm assuming R2 is consistent here.

So if you write to the same file twice, one write will succeed before the other and change the etag of the file, which should in theory cause the other request to R2 to fail because the etag you send with as conditional no longer matches.

New comment by wombarly in "Lowstorage: JSON-based database for Cloudflare Workers and R2 buckets"

wombarly — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:34:12 +0000

Couldn't the library implement a conditional operation using the etag, retrying if it fails? That should solve the consistency guarantee.

Ofc its a different matter if you write to the same key in the same file. But that could be solved with special method that allows you to do a setOrUpdate on a key in the json and when retrying the update method is executed again (allowing you to do increments or add a new item to an array) while guaranteeing consistency.

New comment by wombarly in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

wombarly — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:30:38 +0000

They probably already have that staff for GCP, Azure, AWS?

New comment by wombarly in "WhatsApp had a major disruption"

wombarly — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:25:49 +0000

Depends? I remember WhatsApp being bought by Facebook (and subsequent privacy issues) being in the news a lot in the Netherlands.

Most people either don't care or everyone around them only uses WhatsApp for chat making it difficult to switch.

New comment by wombarly in "uBlock Origin 1.50.0"

wombarly — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:04:15 +0000

It is. No point in using any of the others in my opinion.

New comment by wombarly in "Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites"

wombarly — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:08:41 +0000

Your first link is incorrect, it should be:

https://mijn.overheid.nl/.well-known/security.txt

which redirects to the second one.

New comment by wombarly in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

wombarly — Wed, 31 May 2023 21:11:37 +0000

i.reddit.com was great, miss it dearly.

New comment by wombarly in "Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage"

wombarly — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:17:58 +0000

No, I only really know this because it was in the local news a while ago and though it was interesting / related to the OP.

New comment by wombarly in "Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage"

wombarly — Fri, 19 May 2023 14:07:18 +0000

Here in the Netherlands they decided to increase the water level of our lakes by 5cm to handle the drought season this year. Since the amount of snowfall in the Alps was lower than normal.

https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/nieuws/archief/2023/04/hoger-...

New comment by wombarly in "Danish Data Protection Agency concludes Google Analytics cannot be used lawfully"

wombarly — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:49:19 +0000

>There’re lots of other analytics services

Not really. The only actual competitor to GA is Matomo Analytics, the rest are just copies of each other with the same very basic feature set.

New comment by wombarly in "GTA VI Leak [video]"

wombarly — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:03:20 +0000

The GeForce Now leak was pretty big as well, leaked tons of unannounced games.

There was also a leak of one of Ubisoft's games, not sure about source code.

New comment by wombarly in "GTA VI Leak [video]"

wombarly — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 11:58:09 +0000

Basically all AAA games are build using Visual Studio in some way.