Hacker News: woofcat

New comment by woofcat in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

woofcat — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:28:20 +0000

No, as the request headers would be different for things like time.

New comment by woofcat in "He suddenly couldn't speak in space"

woofcat — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:20:23 +0000

Yes there is air inside the space station, no you're not going to have a random vacuum in one person's body.

New comment by woofcat in "MH370 vanished in 2014.New search aims to find answers families desperately want"

woofcat — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:27:45 +0000

Yes that's what they do.

New comment by woofcat in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

woofcat — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:40:50 +0000

Because the modern system is that the parenting has been offloaded onto the school. The reason we have sex-ed is because we can't trust parents to do that.

The notion that the school board would simply ask a parent, then deal with the parents from kid A complaining that they read a book checked out by kid B is out there.

We run our schools to a lowest common denominator system.

New comment by woofcat in "Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?"

woofcat — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:37:28 +0000

screen readers / text based browsers / etc.

New comment by woofcat in "Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]"

woofcat — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:00:05 +0000

I'm presuming they were trying to say "Doomed from the start of the digital revolution"

New comment by woofcat in "Ask HN: What's to prevent someone from spoofing a website?"

woofcat — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:26:42 +0000

Goofy question, I also got this email and am trying to go through the process. However no emailed ever make it to my inbox.

Is Blackblaze getting flooded with these requests? I'm also a bit confused at the decision here. :)

New comment by woofcat in "Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise"

woofcat — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:54 +0000

Mixnet would be a solution. Like what you described, have inbound packets held for some period of time and released as a group so that you cannot as easily correlate the inbound and outbound traffic.

The downside is that it gets much slower, and feels 'bad' as an end user. Each packet takes longer.

New comment by woofcat in "Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise"

woofcat — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:20:07 +0000

That whole comment is "With a way harder method than going to the ATM".

I understand that it's possible to get crypto through obscure methods. However if you're selling a privacy focused solution, ideally you shouldn't have to spend 3-4 weeks to acquire the funds to purchase it.

New comment by woofcat in "Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise"

woofcat — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:48:24 +0000

Why do all of these new VPN solutions want some form of Crypto payment that has to go through KYC regulations to acquire... doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose?

Mullvad with cash seems like a super ideal way to go. Why can't I just mail you $20 and call it a day?

New comment by woofcat in "1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds"

woofcat — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:06:53 +0000

You mean Aha! isn't hiring 100 people in 100 locations world wide at all times?

New comment by woofcat in "A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com"

woofcat — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 01:51:15 +0000

Whomever has this fake certificate can run a server and say it's google.com and windows will say "yep you are" with the little green lock.

New comment by woofcat in "Cyph – A cryptographically secure messaging and social networking service"

woofcat — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:53:50 +0000

How is this any different than the other 1,000 "encrypted chat" solutions?

Secure Messaging (and current attacks against it) [video]

woofcat — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/secure-messaging-and-current-attacks-against-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41459383

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by woofcat in "Make your electronics tamper-evident"

woofcat — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:56:46 +0000

Ideally for transit you vaccum seal it. Then they can't 100% predict how the beans will shift undergoing the compression.

New comment by woofcat in "How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)"

woofcat — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:05:11 +0000

It is true, games were present but it wasn't in the objectives of the hardware manufacturers to have "better game support" at this time.

New comment by woofcat in "[dead]"

woofcat — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:14:38 +0000

Extreme claims require extreme evidence. The claim they have is that they were targeted directly, and signals encryption was broken (or signal elected to steal the data?)

I've never heard of these people or their "legacy chat application" that would be worthy of compromising signal. And they are trying to sell their chat application bundled on a VPN as "airgapped" from the internet.

Kinda feeling BS on this one.

New comment by woofcat in "YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads"

woofcat — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:28:47 +0000

So you want their free hosting, but don't want to pay for it either directly, or indirectly?

New comment by woofcat in "YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads"

woofcat — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:26:07 +0000

Why not just stop using YouTube?

New comment by woofcat in "Personal VPN services are snake oil"

woofcat — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:35:32 +0000

ECH is not starting soon. CloudFlare haven't rolled it out to everyone and good luck finding a constant setup for it.

There are some experimental servers for it, but basically not supported anywhere.