Hacker News: bigbuppo

New comment by bigbuppo in "Websites Should Be Printable"

bigbuppo — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:18:00 +0000

Exactly. That's why they should handle device independent output.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Websites Should Be Printable"

bigbuppo — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:17:18 +0000

The biggest problem is that we went to mobile-first design along with a horrible split between backend and frontend functionality. If you hit view source on a lot of sites these days a page will be just a stub for calling javascript that actually puts the html on the page. It's not so much a function of hiding what the site does as it is web developers are afraid to write html and instead punt that into their javascript framework-of-frameworks.

New comment by bigbuppo in "No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector"

bigbuppo — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:05:18 +0000

It's almost like Big Tech is a net drain on everyone.

New comment by bigbuppo in "What Is Gridifcation"

bigbuppo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:02:50 +0000

They are attempting to humanize it.

New comment by bigbuppo in "No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner"

bigbuppo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:57:51 +0000

He bought 37,000 acres of forest land because who wouldn't buy 37,000 acres of forest land if they had the means and opportunity to buy 37,000 acres of forest land?

New comment by bigbuppo in "No more icons in every menu by default"

bigbuppo — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:15:58 +0000

I wish that were true. Unfortunately hardly a month goes by before I have to explain to someone that 1) those three little lines on top of each other aren't just a decoration but can be clicked, 2) that's where the settings live, 3) you've been in IT for 27 years but don't realize that's a thing you can click what a UX fail.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

bigbuppo — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:25:46 +0000

Just like people shopped at Sears up until the day the stores finally closed.

New comment by bigbuppo in "No more icons in every menu by default"

bigbuppo — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:10:29 +0000

We let the wrong sort of designers do the design. The designers that simultaneously made changes under the guise of "UX" just sort of made it up as they went along without any basis in reality. That's how we got stuck with the hamburger menu.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

bigbuppo — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:22:03 +0000

That reminds me... need to cancel plex pass.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

bigbuppo — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:53:26 +0000

Mikrotik developers would never stoop so low as to use a scripting language written by someone else.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

bigbuppo — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:41:23 +0000

It's sad how many wordpress installs haven't been patched in a decade. they're so old even new exploits aren't supported.

New comment by bigbuppo in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

bigbuppo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:47:29 +0000

The baddies also take a look at the CT logs and look for fresh wordpress instances that haven't yet been configured and will helpfully configure them for you within a few minutes.

New comment by bigbuppo in "How abliterated models can get you pwned"

bigbuppo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:49:11 +0000

They can blame source training data rather than their own malicious intent. It's the perfect crime!

New comment by bigbuppo in "How abliterated models can get you pwned"

bigbuppo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:47:49 +0000

Now you have an infinite number of problems.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

bigbuppo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:43:38 +0000

Remember how Sears was a thing but they kept making dumb decisions and were also unable to adapt to new realities? Facebook/Meta is like that. Doomed company walking.

New comment by bigbuppo in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

bigbuppo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:23:54 +0000

Back in the day web sites that were ad-supported had their own departments that dealt with ad sales, so it's not like it can't be done.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote"

bigbuppo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:37:15 +0000

Every single server with a dozen ethernet and/or IB ports that run something like four pairs in each connector for bandwidth, times 8 to 42 servers in a cabinet times a couple thousand cabinets in a building times a dozen buildings in one location. And then you need the fiber to connect all the switches together, and the buildings together, and then you need to tie the facilities into the wider world through various ways.

It adds up quick.

New comment by bigbuppo in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

bigbuppo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:44:10 +0000

If you work for an ad tech firm you are one of the baddies.

New comment by bigbuppo in "Git-Like MS Word Version Control System"

bigbuppo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:33:49 +0000

Oof. Bad name. There's already an 'sccs' version control system.

For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

New comment by bigbuppo in "Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote"

bigbuppo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:16:59 +0000

They make the fiber optic cables and such that connect everything.