xiekomb's comments

xiekomb | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: CloudTabs Web Browser – a streaming web browser on every website

Remote Browser Isolation is interesting for several use cases. Your demo unfortunately does not work on iOS

xiekomb | 2 years ago | on: How to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account

I thought it was clever not to create a Microsoft account on my laptop. Turned out bitlocker was active (by an update, I don’t know, I never activated it manually). Motherboard fails, no key backup on the Microsoft account I did not have. Backup were corrupted, some data loss occurred…

xiekomb | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which websites do you use to find mid/long term remote contracts?

Good question. When I was looking for developers I could only find freelancers interested in short term contracts.

xiekomb | 2 years ago | on: Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script

That looks like using docker-compose ? My problem now that we switched to docker swarm is that docker compose commands are not available anymore. Need to use « docker service » or docker on the hosts and again deal with the complexity of some commands.

xiekomb | 2 years ago | on: Mitmproxy – An Interactive HTTPS Proxy

With more and more websites relying on Cloudflare and similar services to fight bots can Mitmproxy still be used in such context?

I am particularly thinking about the TLS fingerprinting features of cloudflare.

xiekomb | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How does archive.is bypass paywalls?

I thought they used this browser extension: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

xiekomb | 3 years ago | on: Thunderbird Supernova Preview: The New Calendar Design

I hope sync with apple calendars will work out of the box. It’s just a pain right now (events disappearing randomly without any way to debug)

xiekomb | 3 years ago | on: On being tired

Gluten can be responsible for such conditions. As many other external factors I guess. I have been reducing gluten consumption recently and kinda feel tiredness as reduced. Maybe unrelated but it cannot hurt. Also practicing sport regularly helps reducing tiredness. Human body is such a complex machine.

xiekomb | 3 years ago

Definitively AI generated article with really poor content.

No this is not an honest review… Look at the profile of Charles Ingram: a GAN generated picture and dozens of random articles published the same day all pointing to Amazon affiliates.

xiekomb | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Kraken customers experiencing fund withdrawal issues

« Kraken, a U.S. Crypto Exchange, Is Suspected of Violating Sanctions »

xiekomb | 3 years ago | on: Cosmetics Giant Revlon Files for Bankruptcy

And they didn’t have crypto in their balance sheet

xiekomb | 3 years ago | on: In Defence of the Single Page Application

Not long ago coindesk.com updated their website with whatever JS framework and then behave exactly like OP joke. You had to wait nearly 15s with a loader before being able to see the front page. How is it even possible that nobody in the management and dev team realized that this was an absolute failure for a news site ?

They reverted back to some more traditional behavior some times after, but common!

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: Bypass Paywalls: a browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

Lot of different tricks. One example: just by using a Google Bot user agent some websites will let you access the full content. Sometimes working with some cookies, blocking some particular 3rd party JavaScript libs, some other are more complicated.

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me

Ahah this! When reading the post title I was wondering if Twitter backend end (or even front end) source code had leaked. As a candidate I would give minus 1 point to the interviewer ;)

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Nyckel (YC W22) – Train and deploy ML classifiers in minutes

Hi, exactly what I am looking for. Do you handle multiple languages for text categorization (other than English)?

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: Gravatar allows mass collection of user info

The json endpoint is patched but it must have been scrapped by many people since this has been published.

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: It's time for you to install Windows Terminal

I have had only problems with windows terminal especially regarding Font aliasing. I moved since to Tabby which does a way better job imho. https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: Shorting Bitcoin

So many things wrong with this article. Taking a bet against bitcoin it totally legit but please don’t over simplify things or make false claims.

“No real world use” for bitcoin and other crypto currencies: ok so the goods I bought for years with bitcoin do not exist? And the trading market you are playing on are not a real world use case?

“ These practices have run rampant on every financial market in human history that hasn’t regulated against them fiercely. Why should Bitcoin be any different?”. That’s the ultimate authoritative argument. “Everybody knows”, “obviously”, etc. Please back up with facts and don’t make general claims like that.

USDT: totally agree. But then don’t trade with usdt. Bitcoin not easily convertible to cash ? Maybe you should pickup a more serious trading desk. On boarding is much more restrictive than mainstream platforms like binance but nothing is more untrue that bitcoin is not liquid. You can settle trades in USD (not USDT) instantly with a serious regulated broker.

Limitations of bitcoin: mining, fees, other. Agree, but nothing of these problems makes bitcoin an insider scam. Is there is a problem there is a solution. Who says that these shortcomings can’t be solved ?

xiekomb | 4 years ago | on: Gisgraphy – open-source geocoder based on open data

There is also Pelias which is a very good open source geocoder: https://pelias.io

xiekomb | 5 years ago | on: How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

I vote for creating a « mkcd » alias !!