daveoc64's comments

On: The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

[daveoc64]

> if you are paying for internet access you have to be over 18, no?

No, that's not the case.

[john_strinlai → daveoc64]

every contract by every ISP i have ever signed has required me to be over the age of 18 to enter the contract.

[daveoc64 → john_strinlai]

In many countries, it's possible to get a prepaid SIM with data access - without any ID or age requirement whatsoever.

[john_strinlai → daveoc64]

ah, fair, but with an easy enough fix. make data-enabled SIM cards be 18+ (or whatever age). show ID to the store clerk at purchase time, just like if you were buying smokes/alcohol.

[bennyp101 → john_strinlai]

And then how does public wifi work? Stand outside a Weatherspoons, or just walk down a highstreet with free internet, back to square one

[john_strinlai → bennyp101]

seems dead simple to me: if you host public wifi, you are responsible for the people that use it. easy!

just like you already are responsible for what happens on your free public network (torrenting, hacking, CSAM, etc.) in most jurisdictions

(for what its worth, i think age verification is dumb. but it looks like we're getting it one way or the other)

On: When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

[daveoc64]

Rachel has blogged quite a bit about blocking badly behaved RSS Clients in recent years.

I'd link you to one of the articles if I wasn't blocked too, and my VPN wasn't also blocked!

[lapcat → daveoc64]

> Rachel has blogged quite a bit about blocking badly behaved RSS Clients in recent years.

Unfortunately that blocking is buggy and overzealous.

I just gave up eventually and unsubscribed from the RSS feed.

On: We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)

[daveoc64]

All the comments there seem to suggest that there has been no change and that robots.txt isn't required.

On: The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website

[daveoc64]

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem!

On: Text-based web browsers

[daveoc64]

It's covered on MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

On: Date is out, Temporal is in

[daveoc64]

I'm really surprised at how Temporal is only just rolling out in Chrome stable.

I would have hoped it'd be ready for wider use by now.

https://caniuse.com/temporal

[promiseofbeans → daveoc64]

We’ve been loving using it in our Deno servers since last year. It’s been frustrating that we haven’t been able to upgrade our web client date logic yet, since even though Firefox has supported Temporal for a while, Chrome have really dragged their feet

[nekevss → promiseofbeans]

I don't know if that's totally fair to Chrome. The specification was undergoing a lot of changes at the time, and V8 decided to wait for the specification to stabilize; meanwhile, Anba kept working on the implementation for FireFox. Additionally, the version of Temporal that Deno exposed last year was the heavily out of date to the most recent specification and had a large portion of the specification that was not even implemented.

[ZeWaka → daveoc64]

All the chromiums are scheduled for this week. Still TP for WebKit.

On: Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

[daveoc64]

That is nearly a year old now.

There were previously supply issues with these drugs throughout Europe, but those were mostly resolved by the end of 2024.

By mid-2025, it was (and still is) possible to easily get all of the medicines for any of the approved uses, including weight loss and diabetes.

On: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

[daveoc64]

>What occurs if your order is placed in a bucket of other priority deliveries? Doesn't that simply become a regular order? Also, AFAIK based on some digging, the drivers are not alerted to priority orders they are simply routed for it. That could have changed though.

At least on the platforms in the UK, the only thing that priority is advertised as doing is making your driver exclusively deliver your food.

If you don't choose priority, you'll probably end up waiting for the driver to pick up/deliver other people's food along the way.

It doesn't make the restaurant prepare the food faster. It also doesn't allocate you a driver more quickly.

It just means that the driver goes straight to pick your food up, then straight to you to deliver it.

[LostMyLogin → daveoc64]

From the Uber website:

> If you select the Priority Delivery option, a Priority Fee will be added on top of the delivery fee for your order to be dropped off first in case of a batched delivery.

Looks as if the only requirement is that you are first in a batched delivery. However, does not cover anything about picking up at multiple locations or waiting for separate orders. Nor does it explain multiple priority orders in a batch.

On: James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

[daveoc64]

I'm from the UK and had honestly not heard of the arrow.

I've checked my Toyota Yaris, and it's there!

On: Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ?

[daveoc64]

Christmas has become more and more of a secular holiday over the years.

I think that's true in many western countries.