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Fej commented on ACF has been hijacked anderegg.ca/2024/10/13/ac... · Posted by u/GavinAnderegg

gwerbret · a year ago

Moderators can downweight posts to drop their rankings. Here are 3 examples:

https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=41791369

https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=41815614

https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=41821336

Note the orange line indicating rank, which in every case shows a very sudden and precipitous drop in the rank of each post.

Fej · a year ago

Those threads appear to be stoking the drama more than anything. HN's stated goal is to satisfy intellectual curiosity, and even if the post topic itself is of interest, if the discussion isn't substantive then the system is probably working as intended (regardless of whether it's the flamewar detector or a manual downweight).

Fej commented on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets righto.com/2024/06/montre... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

grishka · a year ago

The problem with QR codes is that they are read-only.

I don't know about Montreal, but Moscow public transport uses similar paper tickets, also Mifare Ultralight, except you can get them for different number of trips. When you use your ticket, the turnstile or validator would increment those one-way counters so that the next one would know how many trips you have left. You can't do that with a QR code without either the reader or the user's device having a persistent internet connection to some sort of central server that would keep track of all tickets, which is impractical.

Fej · a year ago

NJ Transit uses QR codes for all train tickets and it works well enough. It's not quite as seamless as a tap card but NJT has moved largely to mobile ticketing and they're in the odd position of having to scan tickets both at turnstiles and by train crew (handheld scanners); cards would be awkward in the latter case. The paper tickets used to have magstripes but once they adopted QR codes for the mobile app, the tickets lost the magstipe and gained a printed QR code.

So the central server model is practical. The user's device has to have an internet connection at some point to activate the ticket within a reasonable period before using it but the connection doesn't have to persist after that. I don't know how their handheld scanners work in the Hudson River tunnels where there is no cell service but they do, so long as the user activates their ticket before the train departs.

Fej commented on Devtools for mobile browsers eruda.liriliri.io/... · Posted by u/latonz

Mr_Modulo · 2 years ago

Another option to get a JavaScript console on Android is use Kiwi Browser[1] Kiwi allows access to the full Chromium JavaScript console that you can open in a new tab.

Kiwi also allows usage of Chromium extensions. I wanted full ad blocking but Kiwi only had rudimentary ad blocking that was disabled by default. No problem, I installed uBlock Origin!

[1]: https://kiwibrowser.com/

Fej · 2 years ago

This is really cool, thanks for pointing it out! I have used Eruda and keep it in Tampermonkey in Firefox for use in a pinch but it's hacky. It's impressive that it works at all, but it's very difficult to do any actual work.

I already had Kiwi installed and it's neat to pop it open and see this feature hiding in plain sight. I can definitely see myself using it regularly, although I won't use it as a daily driver since it selectively blocks adblockers on a hardcoded list of domains which is just untrustworthy. https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src/blob/master/extensions/re...

Fej commented on Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved] twitter.com/samwcyo/statu... · Posted by u/zdw

Fej · 3 years ago

How does one disable the telematics system(s) on a Honda or Nissan?

Fej commented on Ask HN: Our users don't want to pay taxes · Posted by u/throwaway5678i

pyuser583 · 3 years ago

I have personal experience with trying to serve legally non-compliant customers: don’t waste energy convincing them to follow the law - they won’t.

I worked for a company whose reason for existing was because clients needed it to comply with the law.

If you didn’t hire, or employ, someone like us, you were violating the law.

Sales pitch was pretty simple: hire us, or you’re a felon.

It was insanely hard to get people to use our services.

It reached the point where sales gave up on trying to convince people to start following the law, and instead focusing on poaching clients from competitors (that is, folks who had already decided to follow the law).

Best advice is don’t fight them. If they’re not gonna do it, they’re not gonna do it.

Depending on the specifics you either reject them as a client, or accept them and file the appropriate paperwork.

Fej · 3 years ago

Would you be willing to divulge what law or type of law your company fulfilled?

Fej commented on America’s government comes clean on UFOs economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Fej · 4 years ago

This video cemented my skepticism on the topic:

https://youtu.be/Hv-sbtCAz9Y

Regarding one of the phenomena,

> So the options are this object has the ability to warp the space around it, which admittedly would be really cool, or the camera rotated.

Fej commented on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it imgur.com/a/K8m7p2t... · Posted by u/jandll

Fej · 5 years ago

Has anyone tried canceling via certified mail?

Fej commented on Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update blog.malwarebytes.com/and... · Posted by u/decrypt

curtis3389 · 5 years ago

I knew nothing of ZXing Barcode Scanner other than it was super simple and "just works." Nice to know that it's open source! I've been happily using on all my android phones since I started with the HTC Dream so many years ago.

Fej · 5 years ago

Not only that, there's a "plus" version that's both better and is now free, as it can't be updated anymore via Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.srowen.bs....

Fej commented on East Coast Internet Outage · Posted by u/taf2

Fej · 5 years ago

I am on Fios in northeast NJ, issues with some services (Netflix) but not others (Google except significant variance in ping times, Bing, AWS).