Hacker News: zoomthrowaway

New comment by zoomthrowaway in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

zoomthrowaway — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:22:36 +0000

> It is the substance the Erin Brockovich case was built around.

more about PG&E contamination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_groundwater_contaminat...

New comment by zoomthrowaway in "US launches new strikes on Iran"

zoomthrowaway — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:28:18 +0000

> And Russia doesn't have veto power over NATO or Ukraine or Georgia. Their warmongering threats don't suddenly mean their neighbors are no longer sovereign.

both can be true at the same time: russia does not have veto power and nobody can stop russia from invading ukraine if russia wants to keep ukraine from nato. unfortunately, being morally right does not protect you from a bully

New comment by zoomthrowaway in "Does the tech industry need so many workers on H-1B visas?"

zoomthrowaway — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:13:51 +0000

2-3 years are no longer true. rest of the world (aka not Indian or Chinese) wait time if starting now is more like 5-6 years and possibly longer

Ask HN: Why empty Safari connects to zoom.us even after zoom app was deleted

zoomthrowaway — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:16:23 +0000

Background. pi-hole reported that my mac laptop requests zoom.us address every few minutes, even when zoom app is not running and no zoom website is open. Some investigation narrowed down the issue:

1. When Safari is closed, connection to zoom.us is closed 2. Once empty safari window (no other windows, no tabs) has been launched, it establishes TCP/443 encrypted connection to zoom.us and keeps it alive 3. Zoom desktop app is not running, also prohibited from running in background in macbook settings. No any zoom plug-ins anywhere, only desktop app is installed. Even when I deleted the app and rebooted, safari still connects to zoom.us 4. Wireshark shows active communication with zoom.us, but because it's TLSv1.3 encrypted, not much could be figured out what's exactly is being sent. See screenshot for details ([https://imgur.com/a/RF0Ygfx](https://imgur.com/a/RF0Ygfx)) 5. Fiddler only shows TLS handshake, not much info there

What I tried: 1. disabled preload top hits in Safari 2. deleted zoom cookies 3. closed all tabs on icloud devices that could have caused connection 4. Deleted Zoom app and cleaned all related files (daemons,agents,settings,etc)

Details 1. TCP 443 port, SSLv1.3 2. process establishing the connection is com.apple.WebKit.Networking (/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/Incoming/OS/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.WebKit.Networking) 3. zoom.us resolves as 170.114.52.2 4. Latest macos

Question: Any idea what I can do to investigate further?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833906

Points: 1

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