Hacker News: CDRdude

New comment by CDRdude in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

CDRdude — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:19:45 +0000

I'm using an iphone 13, although I prefer to turn sideways and browse in landscape mode. What you consider borderline unusable is just how I prefer to browse reddit.

New comment by CDRdude in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

CDRdude — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:13:03 +0000

This is available for me on iOS https://old.reddit.com/r/all/

New comment by CDRdude in "Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google"

CDRdude — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:27:39 +0000

Isn’t it somewhat likely that a lot of shady crawlers pretend to be a google bot with their user agent?

New comment by CDRdude in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

CDRdude — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:10:02 +0000

It probably still is. I have a bit below 500 points and I can’t downvote.

New comment by CDRdude in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

CDRdude — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:59:26 +0000

Maduro was reported winning with 5,150,092 votes, or 51.20000% of the vote, and the main opposition had 44.20000% of the vote. These are considered suspiciously round percentages.

New comment by CDRdude in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

CDRdude — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:48:46 +0000

“Many people pirate” is a different statement than “too many people pirate games to make that a viable business”.

New comment by CDRdude in "60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds"

CDRdude — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:55:31 +0000

A justification I read once is that the human immune system evolved to deal with a certain amount of pathogens. If you don’t have enough exposure to pathogens, the immune system still tries to do its job, but winds up attacking non-pathogens.

New comment by CDRdude in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

CDRdude — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:22:10 +0000

Analogies don’t have to be 100% perfect. The Confederate analogy gets the point across just fine.

New comment by CDRdude in "Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]"

CDRdude — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:20:16 +0000

There’s a joke in there about the value of Macbooks.

New comment by CDRdude in "Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion"

CDRdude — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:59:24 +0000

The article suggests that this is is a first price sealed bid auction instead of a second price sealed bid auction. Skipping over the more complex nature of the Onion bid, the linked articles states "The total value of The Onion’s bid was $7 million" and "First United American Companies had a higher bid, offering $3.5 million in cash".

New comment by CDRdude in "NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon"

CDRdude — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:34:05 +0000

Third shift is the overnight shift at a 24-hour workplace. Usually that means midnight to 8 AM.

New comment by CDRdude in "I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag"

CDRdude — Sun, 19 May 2024 00:04:35 +0000

I think there is a very good chance this game was played at night when there would be few or no people in the park. They do not mention time of day in the post, but most urban capture the flag games are played at night.

Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)

CDRdude — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:56:50 +0000

Article URL: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2024/03/04/lemmy-fediverse-gdpr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39594412

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by CDRdude in "Tens of thousands protest in Germany against the rise of the far right"

CDRdude — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:31:31 +0000

There’s not just one enemy being sold to the public. We are a nation of consumers and we have varied taste. Other enemies include Democrats, elites, Russia, the trans agenda, Republicans, billionaires, immigrants, fascists, and antifa.

New comment by CDRdude in "Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'"

CDRdude — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:37:57 +0000

In my country, we have decided that there are some reasons that employers can't fire people for any reason, and that we have protected groups. For example, my employer can't fire me because of my religion or my skin color and I approve of that. I tend to think the other protected categories are good too. I'm pretty okay with making discrimination illegal.

New comment by CDRdude in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

CDRdude — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:16:47 +0000

Is that a useful distinction? In both cases, the event that eventually resulted in a canceled subscription was giving Joe Rogan a Spotify deal.

New comment by CDRdude in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

CDRdude — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:39:19 +0000

I think some messages will cost more storage than others. I have 4 devices synced to my Signal account. Yesterday, my friend sent me a 6.8 MB cat video[1]. I presume Signal has to store this cat video until I boot up my 4th device and load the queued messages.

[1]: It was a copy of this cat video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Ud1Cr76j8s

New comment by CDRdude in "Maine's constitution has unprintable sections"

CDRdude — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:40:07 +0000

Which ballot question is that? I haven’t found it in a quick search, and I’m intrigued.

New comment by CDRdude in "A functional cure for diabetes is now available in the US"

CDRdude — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:10:48 +0000

It is unlikely that it will work for type 2 diabetes. This treatment is a way for pancreas cells to start producing insulin again. However, type 2 is typically characterized by insulin resistance, where your body does produce insulin, but doesn't respond adequately to the insulin that is produced.

New comment by CDRdude in "Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday"

CDRdude — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:10:59 +0000

Yes, but that law isn’t surprising. The internet brings such a wide variety of life experience and education into the same discussion that there is always someone for whom the statement is obvious given their life experience.