Hacker News: bastard_op

New comment by bastard_op in "How Kalshi Infects the News"

bastard_op — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:59:37 +0000

I always find it hilarious CNN as the last bastion of democracy will slog Polymarket in their "numbers" segments constantly. Way to jerk off the president still CNN, can't turn down those advertisements.

New comment by bastard_op in "UEFA slams FIFA's 'unprecedented, unjustifiable' Balogun decision"

bastard_op — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:41:22 +0000

It's probably going to come down to a whale bet on Polymarket, and Trump owed someone a call back.

New comment by bastard_op in "UEFA slams FIFA's 'unprecedented, unjustifiable' Balogun decision"

bastard_op — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:31:43 +0000

These are basically paid soap operas like American "professional wrestling", and they have quite the following, so what does it matter fake or not?

New comment by bastard_op in "Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's"

bastard_op — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:31:27 +0000

I tried to look, but the google captcha wouldn't let me, finally gave up trying.

New comment by bastard_op in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

bastard_op — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:23:18 +0000

China will just buy a "trusted partner" one way or another.

It's like the epidemic of scam nvidia cards being resold without gpu or memory - where do you think those are going?

New comment by bastard_op in "GTA 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box"

bastard_op — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:05:32 +0000

I'll wait for the Fitgirl digital download special edition.

New comment by bastard_op in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

bastard_op — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:07:46 +0000

This is every few weeks, I cancelled Anthropic and now use Codex only. Anthropic has been a hot mess since at least december in my usage, and has only gotten worse in 2026.

New comment by bastard_op in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

bastard_op — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:38:12 +0000

Either you drink your Microsoft poison, or you leave.

New comment by bastard_op in "The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story"

bastard_op — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:00:07 +0000

Developers should spend more time being network engineers before writing network code. I saw this title and my first thought was, "What, mtu?"

If you've ever had to support vpn's in an enterprise securing businesses with ipsec or sslvpn with tunnel overhead, you've run into mtu issues. Some apps/protocols or firewalls misbehave, devs/engineers didn't read the memo from 20 years ago in rfc form how ipv6 mtu's work (and missed v4 to boot, lucking out with 20 more years of someone else fixing it).

Not Tailscale or Cisco or in between are immune to mtu issues in vpn or networking.

New comment by bastard_op in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

bastard_op — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:51:34 +0000

Is it just me or does the back of it look like the goatse.cx guy?

New comment by bastard_op in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

bastard_op — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:00:26 +0000

It ought to be illegal everywhere, the only reason it won't be in the US is the president is on the grift with his kids operating on the boards of them.

New comment by bastard_op in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

bastard_op — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:36:50 +0000

>> SteamOS could still be affected

Steam itself does age verification, which when you first boot a steamdesk, afaik it forces you to log into steam before you can do much of anything without some initial hackery. That said, once in there's nothing stopping them from launching into desktop mode, launching firefox, and watching pr0n that way.

Sadly the solution is still for parents to do real parenting, but that's like saying stupid people shouldn't breed.

New comment by bastard_op in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

bastard_op — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:02:51 +0000

Even more so, just like meta removing end to end encryption.

"Nah dog, we like watching everything you say and do."

New comment by bastard_op in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

bastard_op — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:49:14 +0000

Just like manifest v3, it's not in their best interests to disallow snooping. It hurts their business model.

New comment by bastard_op in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

bastard_op — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:51:39 +0000

>> it seems that Signal's team is actively working on linking additional Android devices, and very soon we can simply solve this by using Signal for Android.

Wishful thinking, this has been a problem since tablets (android or ios) were a thing and trying to use one linked to your phone.

New comment by bastard_op in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

bastard_op — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:56:48 +0000

Roblox has long been known as a pedo farm, and talks with friends actually with kids all know it, so I don't know how it's still even around.

New comment by bastard_op in "New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content"

bastard_op — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:52:41 +0000

It sounds like the great firewall of god that is meant to prevent all sins. In theory it's probably just a content filtering service, same as most enterprises do, but with a spin for godly sheep to flock to.

Not a bad idea really if you have kids, as the alternative is basically spyware on your kids phone, and today it's somewhat trivial to build your own MVNO off a mainstream network like this. Would I ever trust it? About as much as I'd ever trust a priest around my kid, which is never.

New comment by bastard_op in "Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks"

bastard_op — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:19:28 +0000

Tim Apple always does what is right! Next he'll give an Apple Peace Prize to Bibi.

New comment by bastard_op in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

bastard_op — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:10:27 +0000

I wonder what would happen posting these ads to truth social and twitter.

New comment by bastard_op in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

bastard_op — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:47:05 +0000

Their support is non-existent. It's NOT suitable for enterprise.