pandasun's comments

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

Interesting, you see I see calls of violence on Twitter all the time but their hosting company isn't threatening to ban them. And if you mean "me" by "his": I don't call for violence.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

Actually I responded to that, and you never got back to me.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671916

Feel free to ban me though, this site is the worst echo chamber I've ever seen, hiding behind selectively enforced rules.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Gerald M. Weinberg has died

Is there a non-Facebook link? Facebook is blocked at my work.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series

Interesting how this kind of news always drops whenever there is bad press about Facebook.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid

I suspect the same thing. There's NEVER anything in this industry that is a coincidence. You might not get a lot of people agreeing with you right now, but just wait a few months and your comment will be spot on.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake

Thank you!

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Crypto Toolbox – Track Crypto Assets in Chrome

Are you planning on making it for Firefox?

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Musk mulls taking Tesla private, Saudi sovereign fund builds $2B stake

What does this mean? It sounds interesting. Thank you.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun

Hey dang, haven't heard back from you. Was just wondering on your opinion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17700387

I'm currently negative 3 points for trying to start a conversation about the topic at hand. How is this not a hivemind? I followed your instructions and yet this still happens.

Look forward to your response.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban InfoWars, Which Decries 'Mega Purge'

Not an Infowars fan, but I see "hate speech" being used as a reason to ban alternative views a lot lately. Let's say he was indeed engaging in hate speech (I haven't verified this): hate speech is still speech, no?

Edit: thanks for the downvotes, can we not have a discussion about this? Should we ban hateful books too? I happen to have learned a lot from historically hateful books.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system

Thank you!

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?

Your forum is very fast, did you do anything specific to make it that way? :)

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Usenet – A worldwide distributed discussion system

What are some good providers for binaries these days?

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: G Suite Horror Story

I wish I had done this in 2015. I lost the only pictures of my now deceased dog in Google Drive when I was locked out for no reason. Except I didn't regain access because I didn't make a popular Reddit or blog post.

Apparently Google's "customer service" runs as follows:

1. Don't provide any customer service email address.

2. Don't provide any contact form.

3. Don't provide any phone number.

4. Don't respond when people resort to sending snail mail. (Yes really I tried and I'm not the only one).

5. Provide a forum where 999/1000 posts don't get a response.

6. Suddenly respond if it affects public relations. (ea. a popular Reddit post).

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Make anonymous HTTP GET requests with proxies via Python

I could be wrong but I'm not sure this is completely accurate. There are HTTPS proxies listed on the page it's fetching proxies from.

And it's been a while but I could have sworn you can do DNS requests through a proxy.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: New attack on WPA using PMKID

There are some statistics on top of this "cloud cracking service" page that might be of interest to you: https://gpuhash.me

Right now it appears they have an 30% success rate (if I'm reading it right).

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Internet Archive, decentralized

Wow, your work (GUN) is really great. I hope you don't mind me asking how it works in layman's terms? Thank you for your work.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: The fightback against the Bitcoin energy guzzlers has begun

Thanks for getting back to me. I have to disagree with your first point. There is very much a hivemind on HN, and any comment that doesn't fit in there gets downvoted. I find myself scrolling all the way down every thread to get different points of view, by the time I get to the interesting comments I can barely read them because you made the CSS make "unpopular" comments barely visible.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672125

Fair enough.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why is this selectively enforced? "Assume good faith." for example? I haven't seen anyone do that on here.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681471

This was a genuine question of mine, it's currently -2.

I wasn't the first one with this thought: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-t...

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling

Thank you for explaining.

pandasun | 7 years ago | on: Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling

What would happen if we put trash in shipping containers and launch it into space? (Serious question).