Hacker News: PenguinCoder

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:07:03 +0000

> It's very rare nowadays to see any web devs who don't know the "full stack" from bare Apache/Nginx up to React

citation needed. Pretty much every single React/JS front end dev I've dealt with, doesn't know, understand, or care about the web server aspect itself "Not my problem".

New comment by PenguinCoder in "US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:13:47 +0000

Legally can't run a third time or be voted for again. But then again, legality hasn't stopped the things he does. Others need to step up.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:50:13 +0000

How do you backup game files from a console, to an external drive/location that you own; and ensure the validity of that backup will still be usable on the console later?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:09:33 +0000

Information should be free.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Curl: Nobody Wants to Work with Windows"

PenguinCoder — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:02:41 +0000

I REALLY hate that alias.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes" for old.reddit.com"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:39:20 +0000

Same, and maybe that's really the push needed to keep me from wasting my time on that site.

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.