Hacker News: TwoNineFive

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

TwoNineFive — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:02:12 +0000

Thank you for considering violence against corporate totalitarianism. Please choose one of the following:

A: Violence now!

B: Maybe later.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

TwoNineFive — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:14:57 +0000

> CEO of MZLA (the Mozilla entity that develops Thunderbird).

Was it really too hard to say "I am the" or add "here" at the end? Instead we get this lazy "words hard less wrds good" manner of speaking.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

TwoNineFive — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:17:40 +0000

lol

Remember when Jobs of Apple died?

Now think about what is going to happen when Musk dies. Compare and contrast.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

TwoNineFive — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:28:22 +0000

I got scammed on Swappa about six months ago. I was buying a used Google Pixel tablet in "mint" condition. It was really used and terribly scratched up.

Swappa staff were unhelpful and only after I opened a dispute with Paypal did I get my money back.

I don't blame Swappa for a random dodgy seller, but this was an "Enterprise" seller, whom is still selling on Swappa today!

See this reddit review, which isn't mine, but is almost exactly what I dealt with.

https://reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1d8emzf/suckered_on_swap...

Reading OP's post, I can't help but wonder if they bought a Verizon Pixel. This is a very very well-known gotcha. Verizon locks their bootloaders and you can't bootloader-unlock Verizon Pixels, even after they are carrier-unlocked.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Google Public CA is down"

TwoNineFive — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:17:12 +0000

You didn't read it or understand it.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Google Public CA is down"

TwoNineFive — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:16:14 +0000

Your license to website has been revoked.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025"

TwoNineFive — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:42:08 +0000

It's regrettable that you would spread misinformation, and easily explained/debunked information at that. This is a reasonably well-known issue and even with the extremely bad and limited information you provided (no model numbers or other info), I already know exactly what your problem is.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

TwoNineFive — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:03:28 +0000

COVID saved Trump. His policies, such as the section 174 tax change, were tanking the economy in 2019, and we would have likely seen a recession in 2020-2021 instead of 2022.

His solution to COVID was to tell the public to inject themselves with bleach. Or just go get infected and let natural selection figure it out.

It was no more a joke than the racist cartoon he posted the other day.

You need consequences.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

TwoNineFive — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:00:48 +0000

Binisoft WFC for Windows is a free outbound firewall. It was acquired by MalwareBytes awhile back, but they have not interfered with development so far.

https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php

It has some areas where improvement is needed, but the fundamentals work and the user interface design is decent.

I am surprised it's not more popular for Windows users. All of the alternatives I've tried have critical issues which made me dismiss them as unserious.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

TwoNineFive — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:34:55 +0000

> IPSec is terrible, huge, and messy standard that company that made it took 20 years to stop getting CVE every year

This is fact, not FUD.

Microsoft has had multiple RCE vulns in their ipsec stack in the last two years.

The big vendors like Cisco had ipsec vulns for decades.

These days the issues are pretty well known and documented, but it really is a bad standard.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "The Myth of the ThinkPad"

TwoNineFive — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:13:33 +0000

Teens gets Thinkpads as hand-me-downs from parents and as used devices in the aftermarket. Lenovo has also spent some considerable efforts in this advertising space. That's why I just call them Teenpads now.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing"

TwoNineFive — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:09:03 +0000

This is abusive toxic positivity, no different than "it's just a joke bro."

New comment by TwoNineFive in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

TwoNineFive — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:46:53 +0000

Webdevs still security ignorant. Actually just ignorant. Not sorry to say that because it's beyond true.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

TwoNineFive — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:13:44 +0000

The word "advert" is nowhere on that page, so I know it's worthless.

At least half of all HN content on any day is self-serving blogs and plausibly deniable adverts.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)"

TwoNineFive — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:25:59 +0000

Some good advice but terrible form. Some of you software people have a loud, pretentious, and arrogant ego problem.

With self-serving advertblogs like this, I always imagine that Simpsons episode where Bart has a pot on his head and is banging two pans together, yelling "I AM SO GREAT, I AM SO GREAT, EVERYBODY LOVES ME, I AM SO GREAT!" lol

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

TwoNineFive — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:12:47 +0000

Why don't you know anything about the history of btrfs? You would know if you knew anything, so why don't you know?

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

TwoNineFive — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:18:41 +0000

Anyone who was an adult in this industry back in 2021 remembers the wacky funding shit going on.

This is not surprising in any way.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

TwoNineFive — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:37:02 +0000

They have a desperate need for false-victimhood.

Without their claim to victimization, they can't justify their hatred.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "How People Use ChatGPT [pdf]"

TwoNineFive — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:17:33 +0000

> Subtle product placement and propaganda is not easy in text

Reddit.

New comment by TwoNineFive in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

TwoNineFive — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:26:04 +0000

I want to like nuclear, but it's clear that many of it's proponents are red-eyed bitcoin-maxis with that strange fanatical juvenile vibe going, and it all just turns me off because it's obvious they are spouting BS. It's all just an act to pump a penny stock or because they are an angsty teen.