Hacker News: clownpenis_fart

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

clownpenis_fart — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:03:38 +0000

Unbundling charger without standardizing the connectors would result in every manufacturer using their own proprietary bespoke charging connectors. Which is exactly what the situation was before usb was made mandatory.

How much cool aid do you have to drink to genuinely believe the corporate argument that using proprietary connectors is "innovative"?

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

clownpenis_fart — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:41:17 +0000

CB actually have higher security standards than visa.

I once worked at a company doing payment card personalization (its the company who turn blank smart cards into finalized cards on behalf of banks. They print the customers names, emboss the account number, and program the chip and the magstrip)

Every year they had comprehensive security audits from Visa, Mastercard and Groupe Carte Bleue.

One guy there told me that they did the Groupe Carte Bleue audit first, because its the toughest. If they passed it they were sure to pass the others.

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "America's $1T AI Gamble"

clownpenis_fart — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:20:03 +0000

I use my brain, it's free

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "The email they shouldn't have read"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:00:10 +0000

Some companies are just incredibly naive sometimes. Case in point: i work at a game dev studio, and our main competitor on the segment we are on is a game published by Microsoft.

The other day a coworker was talking about how that other game had a tendency to release similar content as us, sometimes right before us, with marketing material that looked eerily like stuff still in production from our marketing team, to the point that they suspected someone was leaking stuff.

Dude, all we do is discussed on teams and it's all in documents stored in office 365. They dont need us to leak anything, they can simply read our team channels and our documents. They probably spend more time discussing plausible deniability with their legal team than researching what we do.

We are also moving our analytics from Tableau to whatever Microsoft's equivalent, and nobody seems to see the issue with that either.

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Show HN: BiTE – Cross-platform executable viewer and reverse engineering tool"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:12:42 +0000

The name of the project means dick in french.

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)"

clownpenis_fart — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:32:08 +0000

a reasonable explanation would have been "it was the best choice for our end users", not "it was the best choice for us"

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences"

clownpenis_fart — Sun, 09 May 2021 16:31:00 +0000

Aaaaah. Yesss. Finally my dream has come true and I can start laundry by pressing a button on my computer

wait what do you mean I still need to physically walk to the washing machine to load it this is bullshit

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Ask HN: Would you pay for Hacker News?"

clownpenis_fart — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:52:59 +0000

I don't know that it's none of that, it does seem to still be full of Smartest People In The Room

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Google have declared Droidscript is malware"

clownpenis_fart — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:21:08 +0000

Classifying javascript code execution as malware makes sense

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Europe seeks to limit use of AI in society"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:03:36 +0000

Since there have been and will be exactly zero useful ai application anytime soon other than bias laundering (aka "systematic discrimination is ok when a computer does it"), I think it's ok.

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:15:55 +0000

Yeah, it's really sad how we can't have nice things anymore like nuking hundreds of thousands of civilians.

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Typing Is Hard"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:48:36 +0000

that's the dumbest thing i've read today, grats

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years"

clownpenis_fart — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 11:27:57 +0000

beep boop does not compute what is "humor"?

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings"

clownpenis_fart — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:12:59 +0000

at the end of the day, Twitter is a website, and web developers are clowns

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Google recommends all North America employees work from home"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:59:51 +0000

Working from home and now it turns out I have to shit in my own toilet. This is an outrage.

Hoping I can expense the tp at least.

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls"

clownpenis_fart — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:48:32 +0000

using the word "lightweight" to describe anything involving js and an html renderer should be prohibited

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "NPM: 429 Too Many Requests"

clownpenis_fart — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:32:51 +0000

and the js/npm clown show marches on

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005)"

clownpenis_fart — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:06:37 +0000

code is written once, modified 10 times, and read 100 times

coding productivity is absolutely not about how fast you type the text into the computer

it is very much about how readable the code is though, and ide fancy autocompletion aren't helping with that

text has proven for millenias to be an effective way to represent ideas, so do get married to it

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000"

clownpenis_fart — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:07:38 +0000

Linux 2000: writing a post summarizing Linux's issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong".

Apple 2019: writing a post summarizing Apple products' issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong".

New comment by clownpenis_fart in "Amazon Echo Buds"

clownpenis_fart — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:20:40 +0000

But now all of the idiots of all villages form their own little filter bubble and convince each other that they are the smart ones and that the rest of the world got it all wrong.

Amen. Thankfully, hackernews are the smart people.