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woofcat··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
My company uses MCP in production to connect different AI products together that were developed by different teams. It makes the connections very easy, where a REST interface often has quirks and features that you have to understand.
woofcat··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Luxury watches are often five figures or more.. in that context $1250 is a deal.
woofcat··on Google, I Dump Your Ass
Any alternatives you'd recommend outside of the USA?
woofcat··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
No, as the request headers would be different for things like time.
woofcat··on He suddenly couldn't speak in space
Yes there is air inside the space station, no you're not going to have a random vacuum in one person's body.
woofcat··on MH370 vanished in 2014.New search aims to find answers families desperately want
Yes that's what they do.
woofcat··on The most banned books in U.S. schools
Because the modern system is that the parenting has been offloaded onto the school. The reason we have sex-ed is because we can't trust parents to do that.

The notion that the school board would simply ask a parent, then deal with the parents from kid A complaining that they read a book checked out by kid B is out there.

We run our schools to a lowest common denominator system.

woofcat··on Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?
screen readers / text based browsers / etc.
woofcat··on Kodak says it might have to cease operations [updated]
I'm presuming they were trying to say "Doomed from the start of the digital revolution"
woofcat··on Ask HN: What's to prevent someone from spoofing a website?
Goofy question, I also got this email and am trying to go through the process. However no emailed ever make it to my inbox.

Is Blackblaze getting flooded with these requests? I'm also a bit confused at the decision here. :)

woofcat··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
Mixnet would be a solution. Like what you described, have inbound packets held for some period of time and released as a group so that you cannot as easily correlate the inbound and outbound traffic.

The downside is that it gets much slower, and feels 'bad' as an end user. Each packet takes longer.

woofcat··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
That whole comment is "With a way harder method than going to the ATM".

I understand that it's possible to get crypto through obscure methods. However if you're selling a privacy focused solution, ideally you shouldn't have to spend 3-4 weeks to acquire the funds to purchase it.

woofcat··on Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
Why do all of these new VPN solutions want some form of Crypto payment that has to go through KYC regulations to acquire... doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose?

Mullvad with cash seems like a super ideal way to go. Why can't I just mail you $20 and call it a day?

woofcat··on 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
You mean Aha! isn't hiring 100 people in 100 locations world wide at all times?
woofcat··on A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com
Whomever has this fake certificate can run a server and say it's google.com and windows will say "yep you are" with the little green lock.
woofcat··on Cyph – A cryptographically secure messaging and social networking service
How is this any different than the other 1,000 "encrypted chat" solutions?
woofcat··on Make your electronics tamper-evident
Ideally for transit you vaccum seal it. Then they can't 100% predict how the beans will shift undergoing the compression.
woofcat··on How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? (2019)
It is true, games were present but it wasn't in the objectives of the hardware manufacturers to have "better game support" at this time.
woofcat··on [dead]
Extreme claims require extreme evidence. The claim they have is that they were targeted directly, and signals encryption was broken (or signal elected to steal the data?)

I've never heard of these people or their "legacy chat application" that would be worthy of compromising signal. And they are trying to sell their chat application bundled on a VPN as "airgapped" from the internet.

Kinda feeling BS on this one.

woofcat··on YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads
So you want their free hosting, but don't want to pay for it either directly, or indirectly?
woofcat··on YouTube cracking down even harder to punish user for skipping ads
Why not just stop using YouTube?
woofcat··on Personal VPN services are snake oil
ECH is not starting soon. CloudFlare haven't rolled it out to everyone and good luck finding a constant setup for it.

There are some experimental servers for it, but basically not supported anywhere.

woofcat··on Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)
woofcat··on Ask HN: Do you use AI at work?
It can be useful to solve the "blank page problem" i.e. to get an initial set of data to challenge. However it has zero customer data, or internal code to help with anything like that.
woofcat··on WebTunnel
Doubt it would happen but I'd love to see CloudFlare support this for all their domains. Blocking them is blocking 1/3rd of the internet.
woofcat··on Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor
No it's not. No-one has claimed it is. The parent of this whole thread is "If ever I'm the subject of a lawsuit that'd require me to turn in my computer, I'd scrub it to oblivion at the slightest intimation of what's happening."

'So if I was being sued, I'd destroy evidence.' is a great way for the court to give you the hardest of times, and potentially jail time.

woofcat··on Ephemeral usernames safeguard privacy and make Signal harder to subpoena
No, username is only for discovery. So while reuse is allowed. Your contacts would stay connected with you.
woofcat··on Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor
Being punished for either destroying evidence or contempt of court. Neither will be fun for you.
woofcat··on Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
What's funny is when you ask that same question of a tech startup they simply say growth is what matters not revenue.

CloudFlare has been losing money for ages. I use it but seemingly everyone is sure it'll last forever.

woofcat··on Show HN: I made a multiplayer browser game
What are even the controls... I get moving around, no concept of how to fire, or even the rules.
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