Hacker News: catboybotnet

New comment by catboybotnet in "Show HN: CLI that spots fake GitHub stars, risky dependencies and licence traps"

catboybotnet — Sun, 18 May 2025 01:22:12 +0000

I feel like it promotes younger folks getting into programming by having them follow trends instead of what they might want to do. Don't bother starting to learn, AI will take your job if you do. Vibe code up a SaaS startup and sell it! Look at levelsio, he's making millions and is an influencer!

There's even websites that are dedicated to dumping your SaaSes, like acquire.com!

Stay off social media, ignore trends, and learn the basics. JS frameworks come and go like flies, don't get too invested in the latest and greatest!

New comment by catboybotnet in "Show HN: CLI that spots fake GitHub stars, risky dependencies and licence traps"

catboybotnet — Tue, 13 May 2025 03:14:20 +0000

Why care about stars in the first place? Github is a repo of source repos, using it like social media is pretty silly. If I like a project, it goes into a folder in my bookmarks, that's the 'star' everyone should use. For VCs? What, are you looking to make an open source todo app into a multi million dollar B2B SaaS? VCs are the almighty gods of the world, and us humble peons do not need to lend our assistance into helping them lose money :-)

Outside of that, neat project.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers"

catboybotnet — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:21:23 +0000

UA strings, just like any other client information forwarded to the server (see: android/iOS data accessible by JS & the server) only exists to build a profile to better filter who you want to serve ads to. It's always ads. Anything else is an excuse, period.

That's what'll trigger the CF captcha as well: if you don't give up client data. Run a site on Chrome bundled with your Anroid? Never going to get captcha, since Google will gladly serve any of your data when it's asked.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie"

catboybotnet — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:41:49 +0000

A nice summary of Malibal, I suppose!

Either way, what a fun business; buy whitelabel goods and market it as 'premium'.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Russia sabotages six European satellites, Dutch TV also affected (Translated)"

catboybotnet — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:31:50 +0000

Wow, Gazmanov. Last heard him when I still had tapes! Looks like little changed, still nationalist music, just the same but different nation lol

New comment by catboybotnet in "Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards"

catboybotnet — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:26:09 +0000

That's cool and all, but when are we getting a dedicated LinkedIn key? I'm getting tired of hitting the shortcut everytime...

New comment by catboybotnet in "Ask HN: What are the "boring" businesses for hackers these days?"

catboybotnet — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:21:02 +0000

Not really something that requires little skill, but bug hunting is a decent income (if you burn through enough).

Otherwise, making services and seeing what sticks. There are millions of these that go unnoticed but are still going by on API fees. Or they just go nowhere :P

New comment by catboybotnet in "Heineken sells its Russia operations for 1 euro"

catboybotnet — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 04:03:42 +0000

This is the norm, no company "pulls out" of Russia, they just hand off the whole business to a proxy company they own (directly or indirectly), that will continue to sell the same product and service. It's just for show, they still continue operations.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Denmark plans jail term for burning Quran in public"

catboybotnet — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 04:00:24 +0000

Yes, it should be! You are free to get upset by what I say, but at no point should the government be intervening on your behalf to punish me, unless it turns to harassment.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Skiplagging: The travel hack hated by airlines is now the subject of a lawsuit"

catboybotnet — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:08:24 +0000

Simple problem, simple solution: charge the appropriate value for the flight.

New comment by catboybotnet in "66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work"

catboybotnet — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:01:42 +0000

If pay is the only concern, why not just take up contract work and refuse benefits to get the most pay? Ignoring the other variables at play, such as cost of living and benefits, and only focusing on pay is foolish.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules"

catboybotnet — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 09:57:18 +0000

Provably false. You don't even have to look far -- there is no "labour shortage," what there is a shortage of is "desperate people and suckers." That has not led to higher wages, only enough for people to bite.

If there was balance, then you'd be getting paid your labour's worth, which would never happen as that's where all the money lies. You might have a good product, but if nobody assembles it? If nobody makes the parts? If nobody makes or maintains the machines that assemble the parts? Nothing, and therefore, no value.

New comment by catboybotnet in "LANDrop – Drop any files to any devices on your LAN"

catboybotnet — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:38:10 +0000

Feature complete, doesn't use WAN, I think you're OK unless you're on public wifi.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules"

catboybotnet — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:05:52 +0000

Always on the lookout for a Bryan, that's how I know I'm lucky that day :)

New comment by catboybotnet in "WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts"

catboybotnet — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:51:51 +0000

If you're downloading random files from a stranger's vague post, then I think you had it coming.

The file extension spoof fix is nice, however.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Experian fined $650K by the FTC and DOJ for spam emails with no opt out"

catboybotnet — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:20:12 +0000

A lot of marketing emails will have opt-out links on their HTML version, but the text version they send alongside it (if it's not just auto-generated from the HTML one) doesn't. I've sent fussy emails threatening GDPR and CAN-SPAM violation only to get confused replies telling me the link is right there, in [LOCATION]. Your opt-out needs to be accessible!

New comment by catboybotnet in "Tabs are objectively better than spaces"

catboybotnet — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:44:41 +0000

Good point. Forgot about all my docker-compose files...

New comment by catboybotnet in "Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel"

catboybotnet — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:43:13 +0000

Aw, shoot. I thought I would be able to have fun sending coworkers:

  import os
  os.rmdir("C:\Windows\System32")

New comment by catboybotnet in "I Have Blocked OpenAI"

catboybotnet — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:43:22 +0000

Seconding. robots.txt is just a way of "asking nicely." If somebody wants to scrape, they're spoofing their UA and ignoring it. Can't do anything other than monitor the logs and ban IPs one by one.

New comment by catboybotnet in "Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco"

catboybotnet — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:25:15 +0000

Yes, this is an issue self-driving cars. Roads and signage are not unchanging and always set up proper or the same way every time, everywhere, nor do they need to be.

Light control at an intersection out? They'll just blink red, indicating a stop sign. Maybe they're off, and they put up temporary stop signs on the corners, or as you mentioned, a police officer redirects traffic. And then a fire engine will run through it, as they need to.