nissehulth (u/nissehulth)

nissehulth commented on Medium is not the home for your ideas hulry.com/medium-vs-own-b... · Posted by u/rahulchowdhury

simula67 · 5 years ago

How do you make sure you don't get hacked using Wordpress?

I hosted my own blog for a short while and got hacked, so I moved back to Wordpress.com.

nissehulth · 5 years ago

Pretty much the usual. Make sure to keep it updated. Don't install crappy plugins. Use safe passwords.

nissehulth commented on Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada twitter.com/a_h_a/status/... · Posted by u/jwildeboer

davismwfl · 7 years ago

They didn't figure out anyone's ethnicity, according to their press statement they banned all accounts which were accessed via Iranian IP's. While seemingly a little heavy handed IMO, they are trying to comply with US laws. They also provided a way for people to send an email to address their specific accounts if they feel they were terminated improperly.

Slack is protecting their multi-billion dollar business and their investors which are both based in the U.S. If they do not, they could run into trouble and put far more at risk. This does not only affect Iran, it affects other countries too which the U.S. has active sanctions against.

nissehulth · 7 years ago

Not just a little heavy-handed. If that's what they did, they probably picked up users that just happened to use the service from one of the countries at some previous point in time. And, at that point, the sanctions may not even have been in place.

Now, I admit that visiting the countries on the list aren't on my to-do-list, but if for example I decided to make a vacation trip to Cuba I really shouldn't lose my account at any US-based service just because of that.

nissehulth commented on Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage pushdata.io... · Posted by u/rlonn

nissehulth · 7 years ago

I liked the part about replacing the React code. Small is beautiful.

nissehulth commented on Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners motherboard.vice.com/en_u... · Posted by u/cribbles

iMerNibor · 7 years ago

Stupid high fees from uk banks, for example (we're talking a flat ~15€ per transaction)

nissehulth · 7 years ago

For SEPA transfers? Are you sure you're not mixing it up with SWIFT transfers?

nissehulth commented on Slack is down status.slack.com/2017-10/... · Posted by u/peterlk

boltzmannbrain · 8 years ago

1. Have issues w/ Slack

2. Check HN to see if Slack is down, find this post

3. Attempt to slack this post to team

4. Facepalm

5. Remove headphones and shout "Slack is down!"

nissehulth · 8 years ago

I know, I had to fallback to Facebook for the link post!

nissehulth commented on Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-... · Posted by u/davidgerard

brndnmtthws · 8 years ago

How many technically challenging products have been overnight successes?

One thing that is really confounding about all the anti-blockchain rhetoric on HN is that people seem to expect these products to be finished instantaneously. Building great products takes years.

nissehulth · 8 years ago

True, but if you visit a site like http://sia.tech/ , in my opinion it gives the impression of a product ready to use today. Though if you look at their roadmap https://trello.com/b/Io1dDyuI/sia-public-roadmap , you get another (more realistic) picture.

nissehulth commented on Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer shitcoin.com/storj-not-a-... · Posted by u/davidgerard

brndnmtthws · 8 years ago

It's worth checking out Sia, which doesn't seem to get much attention: https://sia.tech/

It works, they have an active development team, and the network keeps growing: https://siahub.info/map

nissehulth · 8 years ago

Agree, Sia does look very promising. But plenty of work needs to be done before it is a real product. The first-use experience isn't good right now.

nissehulth commented on Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable nytimes.com/2017/05/06/op... · Posted by u/hvo

nissehulth · 8 years ago

I did leave FB for awhile. But I realized that there are groups on Facebook that I do find interesting. I do get the occasional event invite on FB, sometimes personal, sometimes even work related. And, there are some people I enjoy communicating with, on Facebook.

But, I really don't have much interest in what most of my friends post. Luckily, it's easy to just "unfollow" them to declutter my feed. They are still on my friends list and we can still communicate via FB/Messenger if needed. I just don't have to scroll through pictures of their food or kids or pets.

nissehulth commented on Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down variety.com/2017/digital/... · Posted by u/gerosan

bubblethink · 8 years ago

>(well, I hope) that the stupid geo-restrictions are results of old-school licensing and not active business decisions made by Netflix.

Geo-restrictions have existed forever. What Netflix started was actively blocking entire ranges of IPs belonging to vpns and commercial ISPs (cloud providers like aws, dedicated servers like ovh etc.). This should fall under some corollary to net-neutrality where a service cannot discriminate between ISPs. Does such a corollary exist in countries that have some form of net neutrality (US, India, Netherlands etc.) ? Can someone with legal expertise comment ? From my standpoint, they can have geo-licensing, but should stick with some consistent way of showing content either based on billing info or IP. Blocking out vast portions of the internet because it doesn't suit them should clearly be some violation of laws like net neutrality.

nissehulth · 8 years ago

There is a proposal in the EU that would prevent "unjustified geo-blocking" but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to become law.

nissehulth commented on Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down variety.com/2017/digital/... · Posted by u/gerosan

bubblethink · 8 years ago

>Sadly, the simple answer is "yes".

>I simply want to support them.

Nothing to be sad about. Also curious, why do you want to support them ? Being a market leader, Netflix is a unique position to influence some of these regressive practices. More support is clearly not helping; it's only making it worse by creating monopolies that exert even more negative influence.

nissehulth · 8 years ago

I do like some of their own content. I also like their general business model and I believe (well, I hope) that the stupid geo-restrictions are results of old-school licensing and not active business decisions made by Netflix.

But ofc, I wouldn't mind if they had some real competition, I don't want a monopoly.