Hacker News: digitalpacman

New comment by digitalpacman in "Peptides: where to begin?"

digitalpacman — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:58:33 +0000

This actually isn't true. Hims compounded the GLP1s themselves. They broke/are breaking the law. Theres lawsuits.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

digitalpacman — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:46:11 +0000

Postman is absolutely shit since it was sold. Stop using it.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Websites with fake MFA: security theater?"

digitalpacman — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:44:51 +0000

All 2FA is security theater. All 2FA in use today is normally just 1FA pretending to be 2FA. If I have your phone, then I have everything I need to login. That's 1 factor. 2FA is only 2FA if the physical device ownership requirement does not have access to use the thing being accessed. Why? Because you store passwords on that device. That device has your password. If I have the device, I have your password. You would have to use no auto-fill and memorize your passwords so that the physical device does not have your password in it. The point is, if I get one factor, I don't have the other. But in reality, our physical devices can access the thing we want, and therefore you likely store your credentials on that device.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Websites with fake MFA: security theater?"

digitalpacman — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:42:18 +0000

If they don't have 2FA on their email, and you have their password, that is bypassing the 2FA. :) Single factor. Password. No physical device, no 2FA.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022)"

digitalpacman — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 04:53:26 +0000

Like abortion?

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?"

digitalpacman — Sun, 14 May 2023 07:27:09 +0000

Good you shouldn't be using them. You shouldn't be using foreign keys either. It just makes working with data harder and doesn't help with constraining it if your data modifications are inside transactions and properly written statements.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?"

digitalpacman — Sun, 14 May 2023 07:26:02 +0000

Easy. You don't ever pick MySQL because it's essentially garbage.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy"

digitalpacman — Sun, 14 May 2023 05:41:31 +0000

Dissolve their fucking business licenses.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: Developers, what have you learned from product managers?"

digitalpacman — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:04:34 +0000

Nothing. They are generally always a waste of space and time.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?"

digitalpacman — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:17:08 +0000

Have you experienced nuget? Seems pretty solved and solid and unchanged since... forever now.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?"

digitalpacman — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 06:18:22 +0000

It's because you're getting passed the point of having simple questions. Once you get to a certain point of understanding, there is less available online for shared problem solving. This just happens.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell"

digitalpacman — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:57:00 +0000

My app has been removed from youtube oauth multiple times because we keep getting different verifiers. We've even had permission revoked after being approved. All we do is use a oauth to get their userid and read their livechat for a chatbot. They just can't get their shit together.

New comment by digitalpacman in "FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US"

digitalpacman — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 07:27:47 +0000

fucking please

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?"

digitalpacman — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:03:21 +0000

Yes there is. A computer counter is worse than a computer ballot printer. You have to have it as distributed as possible to make it as expensive as possible. A single counting or handful of counting machines makes it one machine to take over to do anything you want.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?"

digitalpacman — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:02:18 +0000

All software for voting is terrible

New comment by digitalpacman in "Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out"

digitalpacman — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:39:10 +0000

Literally no one stops tracing you when you opt out.

New comment by digitalpacman in "The Principal Developer"

digitalpacman — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:00:04 +0000

Or fewer CTOs who think they deserve the 1% working for them

New comment by digitalpacman in "Ask HN: I want to be a 40h/week intermediate developer.How do I stay employable?"

digitalpacman — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 03:46:56 +0000

Work contract. Find a business that expects 40 hour work weeks. Hunt for the work, don't use recruiters.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Amazon Dark Patterns"

digitalpacman — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:57:06 +0000

Yes. Because it represents how you've chosen to run your business. You are allowed to judge the business based on their previous behavior.

New comment by digitalpacman in "Amazon Dark Patterns"

digitalpacman — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 08:56:02 +0000

This happened to me directly on Logitech's website. It's why I'll never buy their products again. I received a wireless headset that didn't keep a full day charge longer than 30 minutes. I had to use it plugged in (powering) 24/7. I submitted a 1 star review stating my problem and they removed my feedback without even telling me. It was just gone a few weeks later when I checked it, hoping they hadn't removed it.