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> should I be worried? No, you can (ok, I admit: try) to leave any time. /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
by chinathrow 11mo ago
> should I be worried?
No, you can (ok, I admit: try) to leave any time.
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
- TiredOfLife 11mo agoGood old "how to stop smoking?" "just stop smoking"
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 11mo agoWhat if there's a forward proxy listening on 127.0.0.1 I don't run mine on 127.0.0.1 but that address is a very popular default
- hexaga 11mo ago127.0.0.2
- 1970-01-01 11mo agoYou're supposed to use 0.0.0.0 for site blocks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.0.0.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.0.0.0
- dhhdjjd 11mo ago[dead]
- xg15 11mo agoIf you go that route, at least change the password to some random string to lock yourself out. But that's not leaving either. Your posts are still out there, and so is your account. In fact, no one except you would know you left. There is a reason why the EU mandated the right to deletion.
- rootusrootus 11mo ago> If you go that route, at least change the password to some random string to lock yourself out. I do that once in a while when I find myself wasting too much time participating here. It increases the friction quite a bit, but eventually I cave and recover the password. If you really want to be serious about it, have to change the email address first, then toss the keys to that.
- em-bee 11mo agoi think it would be useful to distinguish between addiction and coercion. if you can't leave a cult, it's coercion. if you can't leave hackernews, it's addiction.