Hacker News: PenguinCoder

New comment by PenguinCoder in "The Kids' Guide to Piracy"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:16:05 +0000

Kids guide to getting in hefty legal trouble and fines.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "My main Android phone is now 99% Google free"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:56:16 +0000

My primary banks apps, and websites, work fine on Graphene, with the exception of anything NFC payment related. I do miss that convenience, but I still have a debit card and cash as needed.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:59:50 +0000

So then you have to run those apps as root user, or does sudo to your own user work? I wouldn't expect it to with those perms set.

Seems more dangerous than just dealing with the cruft.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

PenguinCoder — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:26:16 +0000

Can never predict your future. Enjoy what you will, when you can. I was in a motorcycle accident in 2021, TBI, hospitalized for 3mo, induced coma, and rehab for 9 months after.

I am back on the horse. It is just a zen and still relaxing time, albeit more anxiety while riding, than before. Thankful I can still ride, and I do.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Love systemd timers"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:32:51 +0000

`* 1 * * * sleep $(( $(od -N1 -tuC -An /dev/urandom) \% 45 ))m ; `

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Love systemd timers"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:31:07 +0000

So the `OnCalendar` stanza is the same as a Cron job; without the helpful comments of the ordering? And that is considered _easier_??

Just use Cron. It does one thing and does it well.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Cloudflare CTO enforcing usage limits"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:42:33 +0000

The spend is going to AI (which is 70% Reddit sourced); of course its being wasted. You don't need KPIs to tell you that.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:20:13 +0000

The man (character) was a rightful, respected, hard-ass. But made good points with evidence to explain the _why_; a true leader.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year"

PenguinCoder — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:22:20 +0000

> None of these autocratic countries care about their own populations. Trump has said so explicitly many times.

Going to need a better source than a habitual liar.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:04:33 +0000

> Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z.

So the world needs to adapt to your knowledge instead of you learning to adapt to a often used, and well-known moniker?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:37:45 +0000

> are/were peace-loving good guys,

And the US is?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:12:13 +0000

Isn't that the promise of AI??

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:43 +0000

Mortgage loans and car loans in America also ask for your W-2 or proof of that said income. Can't prove it, they won't let you use your claimed income as basis for loan approvals.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:24:30 +0000

It is insanely stupid that '4B' with a B, is 'too small' of an operating space.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:14:58 +0000

This will be the third death of SO, but likely way more permanent.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:07:15 +0000

While the most well known, there are other points of presence doing the same thing. Easy and trivial to duplicate traffic at line speed. It doesn't affect the traffic flow itself.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:03:43 +0000

Did the genetic genome tests from the biopsy, from a third party company. Helped guide the treatments.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:32:04 +0000

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that connection either. I was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, but was identified as 'genetic' and not caused by diet or lifestyle. I used to be a heavy runner too, done a few marathons, and plenty more 10k, 8ks etc. Wonder if that could be a correlation... Treatments have it contained/in maintenance so at least I have that going for me.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:17:10 +0000

Does NFC work with those digital payment apps on Graphene?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:46:43 +0000

+1 for chronic. Very useful for knowing when a cron fails without needing to manually review every log run.