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Stíobhart Matulevicz
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Stíobhart Matulevicz writes Them's Good Broth!, a personal blog at stiobhart.net about programming and security. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link Stíobhart Matulevicz's posts to attack three-word addresses, Disqus link hijacking and pop-up overlays. One comment points to his Atom and LESS setup article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
stíobhart matulevicz's vaguely work-focussed blog
Most-linked posts?
- /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-02-14
- /2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-02
- /2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-01
- /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-13
What Hacker News says?
I don't know what I find more annoying; the ridiculous US copyright system that allows people to copyright almost 'anything'... or the unfathomably stupid people employed by the likes of Amazon, YouTube et al whose policies seem to be "Ban first. Ask questions later... Bu let's not bother with the questions" It doesn't surprise me that a 200 years dead composer's works are considered subject to copyright when, appar…
Comment linking /2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
on “Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]”Submitted Cracking the BBC's GCHQ Puzzlebook Challenge with Python as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is not only a big problem, but it seems to be in flagrant breach of GDPR regulations: https://stiobhart.net/2020-03-18-twittergdpr/
Comment linking /2020-03-18-twittergdpr/
on “Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media companies”Submitted Cracking the BBC'S GCHQ Puzzlebook Challenge with Python as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOh. It's worse than that. Copyright apparently extends back to the middle ages: https://stiobhart.net/2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
Comment linking /2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
on “The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free”Here [1] is the same thread on nitter (a twitter alternative that does not require Javascript to read). Other nitter instances can be seen here: [2] The twitter thread also contained a reference to this interesting article on "Why bother with What Three Words?"[3], which itself links to other interesting articles: [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] W3W is a neat core idea poorly thought through. Hopefully one day there'…
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
on “What3Words – The Algorithm”Not this moronic shit again! Just let it die, fer Gawd's sake! https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever
on “Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases”>we should go to every e-commerce site that employs them, with full crap-blocking privacy mode on, load up on products/services, and then abandon our carts at the captcha. I've been doing that for years [well, not the shopping trolley bit] on websites which throw fullscreen modal announcements in my face. The second it happens, I click off that website. I dream that the webmasters in question will have some advanced…
Comment linking /2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/
on “Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition”Maybe if you don't want links in your comments surreptitiously hijacked by Disqus and used to try and generate ad revenue: https://stiobhart.net/2017-02-21-disqusting/
Comment linking /2017-02-21-disqusting/
on “Isso: A Commenting Server Similar to Disqus”I've had it happen to me with four Twitter accounts at once. All locked overnight in January with no explanation or response to emails from their support dept[0]. It took 6 months and a formal GDPR complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner before Twitter finally unlocked the accounts and admitted they'd made a mistake[1]: >Hello, >We’re writing to let you know that we’ve unsuspended your >accounts. We’re s…
Comment linking /2020-06-14-twatter-revisited/
on “Gmail account disabled and locked out”Oh dear. Not this drivel again! When will it die? I would have expected the HN crew to be able to spot the obvious shortcomings of W3W a mile off. Even if much of the supposedly tech savvy media seems to think this idiocy is genius and continues to blow smoke up their arse. The only impressive thing about W3W is the indefatigability of their relentless PR department. https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-e…
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
on “What3Words rescue incident”If using LESS is hampering your work-flow, you're "holding it wrong". Have a look at this article, especially the bit where he mentions " less-autocompile": http://stiobhart.net/2015-10-03-my-atom-setup/
Comment linking /2015-10-03-my-atom-setup/
on “Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors”This new-fangled Google feature and the resulting Plus Codes actually reminds me quite a bit of Open Postcode [1] system which I read about many years ago but which, unfortunately, never seems to have progressed beyond a proof-of-concept, covering only Ireland. I actually think the Open Postcode system is a bit more flexible as you can increase/decrease the accuracy by varying the number of characters: >For geolocat…
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
on “Plus Codes – giving everyone, everywhere an address”Pity the hijackers come from within. https://stiobhart.net/2017-02-21-disqusting/
Comment linking /2017-02-21-disqusting/
on “Making Disqus 100% HTTPS”I think it's worth reposting this, every time that idiotic junk is mentioned here: https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
on “Subaru is the latest automaker to add what3words navigation”Oh gawd. Not again! https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever/
on “Over 3,000 Irish monuments now have a 3 word address”Only 500 years? Bloody amateurs!... https://stiobhart.net/2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
Comment linking /2021-04-8-bubble-trouble/
on “Italy Decides That Leonardo da Vinci’s 500 Year Old Works Are Not Public Domain”Someone has actually adopted this lunatic scheme?! The whirring sound you can hear is Genghis Khan spinning in his grave (located at Codpiece-Aardvaark-Nipple) https://stiobhart.net/2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever For a universal location system that actually makes sense, check out: http://www.openpostcode.org (implementation on that site shows only Ireland, but the concept is valid globally)
Comment linking /2016-01-15-stupidest-idea-ever
on “Three-word addressing scheme adopted in Mongolia and Ivory Coast”Wow! Just Wow!I guess you must be an advertiser to think anyone actually has any positive thoughts at all about those things. http://stiobhart.net/2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/ and http://stiobhart.net/2015-08-18-jsoverlaysrevisited/
Comment linking /2015-08-18-jsoverlaysrevisited/
on “Ask HN: What are the most clever “email collecting pop-overs” that you've seen?”https://stiobhart.net/2020-03-18-twittergdpr/
Comment linking /2020-03-18-twittergdpr/
on “Twitter account blocked without any (visible) reason”One of my pet hates and they seem to be getting more prevalent all the time. I say, vote with your feet (or 'finger') and just click away from sites as soon as a modal overlay pops up. Maybe, if we all did that, the site owners would stop this unbelievably annoying practice. https://stiobhart.net/2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/
Comment linking /2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/
on “Ask HN: Is there a good modal/pop-up blocker?”>The lightweight components come together in a unique way that will make visiting your website playful and fun. Jeebus! --they actually think shitting in your users' faces will make them think think your website is "playful and fun" https://stiobhart.net/2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/
Comment linking /2015-05-04-overlays-new-popups/
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