<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: definitelyauser</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=definitelyauser</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:11:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=definitelyauser" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Murderbot, she wrote"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are they any longer? Murderbot is a nice read, but it feels like really expensive short stories.<p>By the time the book gets going, it's already over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304313</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Blizzard's pulling of Warcraft I and II tests GOG's new Preservation Program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, Warcraft does need a remaster.<p>Have you tried replaying it? You can't even RMB to move units, you need to click the move icon then select where.<p>Warcraft 2 does not (imho), and last time I tried it, Warcraft 2 BNE still worked just fine, so that's probably getting shut down now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:46:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42303854</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42303854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42303854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "iOS 18 is the worst software Apple has ever released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! That made it a lot more useable again.<p>It's been the absolute worst experience since updating.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:36:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293695</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You submitted this 9 hours ago as "I built a brutally honest Dating Profile Rater, an..."<p>And now you just happened to "discover" this profile rater?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:06:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085710</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42085710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The influencers, the biggest athletes and musicians are marketing it<p>The government is marketing it.<p>Public concerts hosted by the municipality will have gambling ads posted all over, sponsored by the latest scam.<p>Sample size: Alagoas/Pernambuco. Cannot say anything about the gambling ads in the other states.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:33:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667371</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I absolutely cannot imagine singing karaoke without alcohol.<p>Alcohol certainly does not preclude it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667355</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For some reason free customers are the most demanding<p>Ever try giving something away for free on an online marketplace?<p>If not, don't. Always charge something. Even if you'll just tell them afterwards you don't actually want/need the money.<p>You'll run into the worst people imaginable on the internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319320</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41319320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don't think it's unreasonable for people to expect cloudflare to be policing their own service for malware when they're trying to pitch themselves as a security product.<p>But you're not the customer, you're the consumer.<p>Are they pitching themselves as safer for the consumer?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:47:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41137693</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41137693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41137693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the ads were bad enough, but my Samsung TV will start lagging and freezing when it's connected to the internet.<p>Had to buy an AppleTV (box), factory reset the TV, and use the AppleTV to stream to my TV over HDMI.<p>TV worked fine when I first got it, but after updates and internet it just became completely useless if left to it's own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41117964</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41117964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41117964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "'Russia's Google' exits the country"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Start off by searching for "yx" or "xy".<p>Then do your actual search.<p>If you're going for image search, do the yx/xy text search first, then you go over to images.<p>That'll (for some reason) never give you a captcha.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41032674</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41032674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41032674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "How random are TOTP codes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Secure" is relative.<p>I have a system I use where you enter your email and get a one-time code.<p>The goal in that system is not to securely authenticate you, merely to identify you. "Good enough" for the use case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881954</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Region-specific Machines pricing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but what about hardware that's already here? (I'm also Brazilian)<p>It's ridiculously expensive.<p>Very little hardware is produced domestically, and the little that is, you don't want to be running your switches on what is in essence a no-name "intelbras" brand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875181</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40875181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Pitfalls of comparing BigDecimals in Java"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>BigFixedDecimal? Sounds like yet another java naming pitfall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:21:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720618</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> how could that possibly happen?<p>Global singleton shared across requests, instead of request scoped.<p>1. [Client 1/You] Auth/write to variable (failed).<p>2. [Client 2/ISP] Auth/write to variable (success).<p>3. Verify what the result was (success)<p>A race condition combined with a global singleton can easily explain such behavior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:19:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584458</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "Cloudflare took down our website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was the correct answer related to cache invalidation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 07:50:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488625</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40488625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "DuckDuckGo was down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Main thing holding me back from even trying it is the mental overhead of having to think about "number of searches per month".<p>Same as an ISP with a bandwidth limit, even if it's much higher than I'm likely to need, it's not something I'm interested in having to keep track of or worry about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 07:59:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463993</link><dc:creator>definitelyauser</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by definitelyauser in "'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  Streaming services tend to have garbage UI's, content that gets removed after x amount of time, and filled with ads<p>And forced mandatory subtitles in the wrong language. (Netflix)<p>Actually had to install a chrome plugin to remove subtitles.</p>
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<p>I've tried a few dongles and have had nothing but bad experiences.<p>"Kinda works" for a while, with a noticeable delay when changing songs etc.<p>Actually pondering replacing the infotainment system itself to get wireless airplay.</p>
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<p>>  patrolled by drones that mark targets for these smaller squads.<p>Surely it could be scaled better with satellite imagery? Assuming it can be updated "reasonably frequently". I imagine drones would run into maintenance problems, especially in such "remote" regions.</p>
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<p>> I paid the mIRC license like 15 years later, by the way...<p>Probably not valid anymore, fairly recently he changed something requiring a new license.<p>Not that he doesn't deserve a new license after all these years.</p>
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