pmlnr

Joined 12 years ago

Karma
11,704
Submissions
3,100
Member since
Oct 13
Junior web dinosaur.
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 6 minutes ago
Comment · 32 minutes ago
A Benq gaming monitor with an android box, chromecast tv, nvidia shield, etc, with a soundbar.
Comment · 14 hours ago
> Ring cameras are privately owned, installed on private property, by the choice of the property owner.

... recording the street, meaning https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-u... applies in the UK:

---

If your CCTV system captures images of people outside the boundary of your private domestic property – for example, from neighbours’ homes or gardens, shared spaces, or from public areas – then the GDPR and the DPA will apply to you. You will need to ensure your use of CCTV complies with these laws. If you do not comply with your data protection obligations you may be subject to appropriate regulatory action by the ICO, as well as potential legal action by affected individuals.

---

However, as with anything in the UK, it's virtually impossible to enforce it on sh*thead neighbours recording you with their Chinese cloud enabled devices 24/7.

Comment · 6 days ago
Oh, wow, that's one naive print.css

Missing things like resizing media to not occupy everything, blocking certain elements from getting broken up, and so on, wrap when needed, printing links (sic), etc

The latter is why I moved links into footnotes instead of inline linking - also to prevent breaking up the reading flow.

Also: adding page counters is virtually impossible.

Anyhow, I do think it's a good idea, but mostly for archival reasons: if you really want an archival copy, you'll need to print it.

Comment · 7 days ago
WhatsApp has little to do with doomscrolling. I really wish I could afford to not use it, but it seems to be impossible.

Scenario 1: video calls

I live abroad. The family, including a 80+ grandmother, has Androids, iPhones, computers. If I were to run something, maintenance would be limited to a few times per year, and I couldn't be there when they get a new device. Besides, remote support on android is virtually impossible.

I'm a veteran sysadmin and I have an XMPP ecosystem working with video calls & all, but that is not common. It needs a secured TURN/STUN server beyond a well configured XMPP one, DNS service entries, etc. For someone less experienced I can clearly see that being a nightmare.

Scenario 2: mailing lists

I'd absolutely run to communicate with the group of people I run classes for on mailing lists, except mailing lists are essentially dead since DKIM/DMARC. DKIMv2 might address this, but if you ask people, especially young ones, they'll look at you as if you're from Mars.

Summary

I'd absolutely love to have a non-profit, cross-platform video call app that comes pre-installed everywhere, just as the phone (aka voice) "app" is there, but there's zero incentive from the current ecosystem for such thing. I'm aware of carrier-level video calls, but I seriously doubt it's used a lot.

Comment · 8 days ago
xkcd 2347 again, what a surprise. Oh, wait, there's at least one paid person, that should be something /s
Comment · 8 days ago
Right. The article basically says you need AI to fight AI, and it's barely about the vulnerabilities.

So why responding only to the vulnerabilities?

Comment · 8 days ago
Network behaviour anomaly detection has been a thing for decades by now. But it's not AI, because it's mere neural networks and machine learning.
Comment · 8 days ago
"To stop our all powerful AI that will go rogue you need to buy our all powerful AI"

This is the textbook definition of racketeering.

Comment · 19 days ago
> 3000 concurrent crawlers

I gave up on tarpits when it got to 130k "waiting" connections.

Comment · 19 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
These days complicated and/or complex == hard == bad.
Comment · 1 month ago
This.

Jail the C levels. They are the legally responsible ones.

Comment · 1 month ago
Everything so far is pointing to the conclusion that you can only set ONE goal. Exactly one.

But let's assume not. If you want things like "do not break out of sandbox" - have you defined what the sandbox is? Eg. "never, ever leave the IP range 10.0.0.0/8" would be a bit more precise, but technically using a proxy bypasses that limitation as the system itself never left 10.0.0.0/8.

See, it's a tad bit hard to define the rules properly.

Which is why Wish, the spell, should really be avoided in D&D. It's the same problem: it's up to creative interpretation.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton