Hacker News: DangerousPie

New comment by DangerousPie in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

DangerousPie — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:05:29 +0000

Congratulations, you have discovered the concept of shoplifting!

New comment by DangerousPie in "Just the Browser"

DangerousPie — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:12:07 +0000

I had a look at what it actually does in the Firefox settings and all it seems to do is to disable one AI feature flag, change the default search engine, and then set a few other flags that are changes that you may or may not want to make, unrelated to AI. Not sure you want to run a 3rd party shell script just to do that…

New comment by DangerousPie in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

DangerousPie — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:47:22 +0000

They also demonstrated how this could be used to silently find out someone’s phone number and then hijack a TFA validation call from an app like WhatsApp to take over their account with no user interaction.

New comment by DangerousPie in "The Tag"

DangerousPie — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:33:05 +0000

It's still better than or

though, isn't it? Which is what most people are using right now...

New comment by DangerousPie in "Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy"

DangerousPie — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:06:25 +0000

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sarepta-sarepta

Thoughts from Derek Lowe (In The Pipeline).

New comment by DangerousPie in "Let me pay for Firefox"

DangerousPie — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:19:23 +0000

PostgreSQL is just a community of volunteers as far as I'm aware, not full-time developers employed by the project.

FreeBSD seems to have three paid directors: https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/our-team/

Debian has a leader and also seems to be more a volunteer organisation than a full company: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization

New comment by DangerousPie in "Let me pay for Firefox"

DangerousPie — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:42 +0000

How are you expecting to run an entity with developers, support, and operations without any leadership?

I don't know if you have ever worked in a larger team that lacked someone to make decisions, take responsibility and set a strategy, but in my experience that is almost always a disaster.

New comment by DangerousPie in "Let Me Pay for Firefox"

DangerousPie — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:57:24 +0000

They have cut back on those a lot now, haven't they?

New comment by DangerousPie in "Let me pay for Firefox"

DangerousPie — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:56:12 +0000

Aren't they just piggybacking on Mozilla's work though? The point is to make the work that Mozilla is doing sustainable, not to pay someone else to ship a slightly modified version of it.

New comment by DangerousPie in "Let Me Pay for Firefox"

DangerousPie — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:54:22 +0000

Or in slightly less fatalistic words: In any entity with more than 1-2 employees you need someone to make decisions and be accountable for them. The normal solution is to have a director/CEO for this. You may be able to get away with paying them slightly less than market rates if they are doing it for a good cause, but if you want someone competent you will need to pay them a relatively high salary to compete with other employers.

Expecting Mozilla to somehow function without a CEO, unlike pretty much every other charity in the world, is just not reasonable.

New comment by DangerousPie in "Accountability Sinks"

DangerousPie — Sat, 03 May 2025 09:14:48 +0000

Interesting article, but picking Johnson and Cummings's handling of Covid as a positive example is a very odd choice, given their falling out and the numerous corruption allegations and parliamentary inquiries into their actions since then.

New comment by DangerousPie in "I can't pay rent because devs just don't care"

DangerousPie — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:40:34 +0000

Sounds like all of this could be solved by not manually paying your rent at the last minute?

New comment by DangerousPie in "Read the Obits"

DangerousPie — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:46:37 +0000

They are also available as part of their excellent (and free) The Intelligence podcast. Always worth a listen.

New comment by DangerousPie in "NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable [fixed]"

DangerousPie — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:42:46 +0000

European alternatives:

https://europepmc.org/

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home

https://www.ensembl.org/

New comment by DangerousPie in "Cancer Incidence by Country"

DangerousPie — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:58:25 +0000

Keep in mind this is the incidence of cancer diagnoses. The quality of healthcare, diagnosis standards, and amount of preemptive screening varies heavily between countries.

New comment by DangerousPie in "Guess my RGB"

DangerousPie — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:53:59 +0000

Fun! This takes me back to coding up websites in plain HTML in Notepad. Coming up with the right hex codes for colors was an essential skill!

New comment by DangerousPie in "Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in Apple App Store"

DangerousPie — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:26:20 +0000

Must be region/account specific. I get crypto.com, bitcoin.com and coinbase as the top three results. Nevertheless I agree these should be moderated better and scam apps need to be removed quickly.

New comment by DangerousPie in "525 Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended"

DangerousPie — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:17:23 +0000

You wouldn't have to put up with a soggy straw if we tackled the real problems instead.

New comment by DangerousPie in "Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich"

DangerousPie — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 09:13:19 +0000

Aren't most properties in Germany unfurnished?

New comment by DangerousPie in "Hundreds demonstrate against high rents in Zurich"

DangerousPie — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 20:04:41 +0000

That's what happens when you artificially cap prices.