Hacker News: bastard_op

New comment by bastard_op in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

bastard_op — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:19:41 +0000

Well as usual if you want to see the stupid count, just query in Shodan this and behold just how many are left exposed for this same incident again:

http.html:"StoreView" https://www.shodan.io/search?query=http.html%3A%22StoreView%...

Total Results: 4,525

New comment by bastard_op in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges"

bastard_op — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:51:33 +0000

I realized upon reading too this was the same Danfoss fridges that got hit for .mil bases in the US. There's probably a shodan signature to find them on the internet because HVAC people don't know about network security, and someone has a trivial exploit to access them due to shitty ancient embedded controller security in them.

New comment by bastard_op in "An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust"

bastard_op — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:44:41 +0000

Visio and Project FTW.

New comment by bastard_op in "Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications"

bastard_op — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:35:44 +0000

I've been waiting 26 years for a Visio replacement since M$ bought it, hopefully they can do it too. No other app or web-based copies are good enough still (sorta omnigraffle if you use a mac [ew, no]), and I've tried most over the years to find one as I still use Visio weekly in 2026. It's the only reason I'll actually buy a copy of real windoze and visio for keeping around a VM, I can still buy real licenses overseas for both visio and project for ~$20usd each instead of the ~$500-1000usd actually IN the US.

New comment by bastard_op in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

bastard_op — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:22:17 +0000

I'm surprised anyone still uses wordpress after this whole sh!tshow, but outside HN folks probably don't even know. Just reading about it about it puts me off from the product and company.

New comment by bastard_op in "Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks"

bastard_op — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:47:28 +0000

At this point is anyone surprised at what Amazon will do to the plebeian workers that fuel them?

New comment by bastard_op in "iPhone Duo"

bastard_op — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:45:36 +0000

I can't wait to see how bad the hinge does with ifixit.

New comment by bastard_op in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

bastard_op — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:35:48 +0000

GM tried for years building their own infotainment system internally and never made one anyone liked until they just integrated android auto/car play finally. It was an admission of defeat in doing so, but made everyone happy. When they announced pulling this back, I laughed, thinking "trying to put the rabbit back in the bag, eh?"

Would I buy a car without android auto as an android user? No, end of story. GM can die like other stupid heavy-handed vendors, but sadly they are too big to fail, and will drag down the nation with them.

New comment by bastard_op in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

bastard_op — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:23:28 +0000

Pay the fine, go back to exploiting humanity.

Its not enough. Shut them down.

New comment by bastard_op in "Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike"

bastard_op — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:34:23 +0000

Claude, I need a strategy for defeating unions trying to up their rates, please research union defeating settlements done in the past 50 years and build a case against them to keep our rates at the lowest possible.

New comment by bastard_op in "Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times"

bastard_op — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:33:05 +0000

If not for creeper cops to creep, what is it for?

New comment by bastard_op in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

bastard_op — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:10:26 +0000

They must love giving their personal information to Microsoft. Mac users are used to it with the icloud "privacy" proxy they default enable on macos/ios users to slurp everything they do already, so I guess why limit yourself to giving your info to only to Tim Apple. Microsoft needs love too.

New comment by bastard_op in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

bastard_op — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:02:12 +0000

Google is an ad company, ad blockers are bad. Why are you using a browser from an advertising company and expecting different results?

Microsoft repurposed Google's adware in Chrome into Edge telemetry/spyware to feed your browsing directly into windows telemetry to watch everything you do, they wanted that back when IE lost the war.

Google already went evil and set the precedent removing adblocking capabilities, now Microsoft can just blame them and feed everything you do into Bing for ad money as well as telemetry/spyware without you blocking it, that's effectively double-dipping all in on stupid windows users.

New comment by bastard_op in "Premier league bans gambling sponsors"

bastard_op — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:20:00 +0000

They turned themselves into whores for sale to the highest bidder. I imagine if they could, cocaine brands would be on everyone's shirts and tattoo's on players foreheads.

Silly people still care about this crap.

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.