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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dpifke; my proof: https://keybase.io/dpifke/sigs/KuMWBJfGH_TWY1BWLB4luWLnVqnG6BZbXR5Y427QR4o ]
Let me introduce you to California's way of doing things: https://guncad.substack.com/p/special-issue-state-of-califor...
They're suing Florida residents with no ties to California for linking to pictures of guns on the internet.
They will likely lose, but the goal is not to win, it's to score points with their political base and maybe bankrupt the defendants with legal fees.
In the U.S., requiring a login (or any information other than your email address) to opt out is against the law. Additionally, you cannot require any steps other than "sending a reply electronic mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page."
I once wrote to the FTC for guidance as to whether or not this included requiring unsubscribers to solve a CAPTCHA or disable adblockers or enable Javascript, but did not get a response. I believe the law is plain with regards to this, but a lot of companies seem to be willing to risk it.
See: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C...
In this case, "null MX record" means MX exists, but does not specify a valid server:
$ host -t mx example.com
example.com mail is handled by 0 .
I use uBlock Origin for this, something like:
news.ycombinator.com##:matches-path(/^/item\?id=/) tr a.hnuser:has-text(/^dpifke$/):upward(tr)
The very first subheading is entitled "What to Submit." I quoted it in my initial reply as rationale for why the people flagging this submission as off-topic were justified.
This seems similar to the "Is Github Down?" submission problem, where the submitter simply links to github.com.
That's a poor submission, because by the time most people click on it, Github will no longer be down.
There might be an interesting discussion to be had about outages at Github, but the better submission would be an article or blog post about the outage, not just a link to the site and a three-word title.
If someone wants to write an article or blog post about this news broadcast, which links to "hard facts and analysis not available through popular channels," that seems like it might be a worthwhile submission. But just a link to the broadcast by itself is not leading to interesting or on-topic conversation—the top comment right now is an ad hominem attack against Larry Ellison, without any supporting facts or analysis that he had anything to do with this story at all.
Lots of hackers find porn very interesting. In fact, my first "real job" as a hacker was for a company with ties to the 1-900 industry that had decided to expand out onto the internet (not just to sell porn). Stories about porn would be interesting, submissions of nothing but pornography itself ("because it's censored!") are not.
I would be more sympathetic to the argument that this is relevant if the submission was an article about media censorship, or CBS's audience or leadership, and how said censorship, audience, or leadership relates to technology or emerging trends in media.
But this is literally just a controversial TV news broadcast, that people of one political persuasion say was "censored" and people of another political persuasion say was held off the air "temporarily" until it met network fact-checking standards. That sort of political bickering is most uninteresting, and is most definitely not why I've been reading HN for the past few decades.
Strong disagree.
Gay porn is censored in a lot of Muslim countries, that doesn't make it on-topic for HN.
It's off-topic, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:
If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This submission is literally a TV news broadcast.
There are lots of other places on the internet where this is on-topic, I wish people would have their debates there instead.
As someone who has moderated online communities in the past, I recognize the value in having a page like this, to which you can point people if they want to enumerate such trifles instead of discussing the episodes or series themselves. Rather than just say such discussion is off-topic, you give them a separate, on-topic place to discuss it.
(I don't actually know if that is how this page came about, but it seems similar to other wiki pages I've seen used for such a purpose.)
At an untowered field, saying the airport name at the beginning and end of each transmission is standard phraseology.
If it causes more than $5k in damage. Otherwise, it's a misdemeanor.
But you probably don't want to be investigated for either.
https://unpoly.com touts "progressive enhancement."
Third link on the page ("read the long story") points to https://triskweline.de/unpoly-rugb/, which renders as a blank page with NoScript enabled.
Sigh.
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
Shouldn't you be out protesting your local chess club instead of posting on HN right now?
We do use gyroscopic power storage, see e.g.
https://h-cpc.cat.com/cmms/v2?f=subfamily&it=group&cid=402&l...
...and probably others.
(A couple of decades ago I worked for a company that was a tenant at a datacenter that used these instead of batteries; it's not new or particularly exotic technology.)
Related: https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/subtle#WithDataIndependentTiming (added in 1.25)
And an in-progress proposal to make these various "bubble" functions have consistent semantics: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76477
(As an aside, the linked blog series is great, but if you're interested in new Go features, I've found it really helpful to also subscribe to https://go.dev/issue/33502 to get the weekly proposal updates straight from the source. Reading the debates on some of these proposals provides a huge level of insight into the evolution of Go.)
I recently logged onto LinkedIn for the first time in a while, and found an old job posting from when I was hiring at a startup ~2 decades ago. It's amazing how much it sounds like LLM output—I would have absolutely flagged it as AI-generated if I saw it today.
My first car (hand-me-down from my Dad) was a 1980s Datsun, that I managed to total within a few weeks of getting my license, much to the consternation of my younger brother and sister who expected it to eventually be handed down to them as well.
The "left door is open" voice alert will forever be ingrained in my memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJBko3-oV4 It seemed so futuristic when the car was new.
If you're in the U.S., you might check if your local fire department has a CERT[0] training course. (I did it many years ago in San Francisco; they call it NERT for some reason.)
It'll give you a chance to practice putting out an actual fire, refresh first aid skills, learn the incident command system, learn basic search and rescue, and other preparedness skills to help yourself, your family, and neighbors in an emergency (in that order).
[0] https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/individuals-communit...
Spamhaus has been sued—multiple times, I believe—for publishing DNS-based lists used to block email from known spammers.
For instance: https://reason.com/volokh/2020/07/27/injunction-in-libel-cas... (That was a default judgment, though, which means Spamhaus didn't show up, probably due to jurisdictional questions.)
The first step in filing a libel lawsuit is demanding a retraction from the publisher. I would imagine Google's lawyers respond pretty quickly to those, which is why SafeBrowsing hasn't been similarly challenged.
I had this same problem with my self-hosted Home Assistant deployment, where Google marked the entire domain as phishing because it contains a login page that looks like other self-hosted Home Assistant deployments.
Fortunately, I expose it to the internet on its own domain despite running through the same reverse proxy as other projects. It would have sucked if this had happened to a domain used for anything else, since the appeal process is completely opaque.
With Windows 11, WSL has X and Wayland support, so you can run graphical applications as if they're native (e.g. share the same cut-and-paste buffer, switch between windows using alt+tab, and so on). It's also much easier to attach USB devices like Yubikeys to an already-running container than the last time I tried to do the same with Parallels. (That was quite a few years ago, so maybe it's gotten better.) You can also launch Windows applications from Linux, which is makes it trivial to control my (Windows-native) browser from within WSL.
I strongly disagree about Mac hardware vs. Thinkpads or Framework, but to each their own.
That's basically WSL.
My work laptop is Windows, and the only native applications I run on it are a web browser, Zoom, and the company's VPN software. Everything else runs inside WSL.
I greatly prefer Debian to Homebrew, so if I can't run actual Linux, this is (to me) superior to trying to develop on a Mac.
Related: Go is looking to add SIMD intrinsics, which should provide a more elegant way to use SIMD instructions from Go code: https://go.dev/issue/73787
Wow, that's pretty crazy, compared to the US. I paid a one-time fee of $50, then $262.50/year for IPv4 block + IPv6 block + ASN: https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/
I've been through the process about 10 times now at various companies, and the paperwork (at least for ARIN) is no more difficult than what would be expected to justify IP space from your typical ISP. If anything, the ARIN folks are more responsive and technically competent than your average ISP support agent, which makes the process easier.
From your HN profile, I see you're in Brazil, which is part of the region IANA has delegated to LACNIC. Per [0], LACNIC has further delegated numbering authority in Brazil to Registro.br.
Following the links on that page (or performing a simple Google search) leads one to: https://registro.br/tecnologia/numeracao/como-solicitar/
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
My reply involved the effort of sending a test message from my Chase account, to capture the exact text used. If you want people to engage with you in good faith, you should put similar effort into your replies, rather than just use Reddit-speak for "I think you're wrong."
Not true, at least for ARIN. If you have an IPv6 allocation, you can obtain one or more IPv4 /24 allocations, so long as their stated purpose is to provide IPv4/IPv6 compatibility (e.g. for dual-stack services or NAT): https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#4-10-dedicated...
FWIW, a huge percentage of the spam I get is via Sendgrid, and at some point in the past year or two their abuse reporting mechanisms all turned into black holes, so mail sent via Sendgrid is heavily penalized in my spam rules.
Sending reputation is just as applicable if you're using a third party as if you're hosting it yourself, but much less under your control.