Hacker News: dundundundun

New comment by dundundundun in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

dundundundun — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:53:57 +0000

In my experience, the proper infosec professionals both know and balance this well, it's the amateurs and posers who gets it wrong.

New comment by dundundundun in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

dundundundun — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:12:30 +0000

That's a tradeoff you make yourself and in no way a monopoly.

New comment by dundundundun in "Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior"

dundundundun — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:54:55 +0000

This is stupid.

I'm lucky enough to have driven quite a few modern Ferraris (488, 812, FF, California) and what they have in common is that their interiors are not very pretty or advanced, but everything is where you'd expect and gives the info you need (that is, apart from the horrible non-deterministic placement of the indicator switches on the steering wheel).

This is not a Ferrari interior. It's an interior for rich people who will buy a Ferrari EV and think they have a Ferrari. Like the Purosangue before it, it cosplays as a Ferrari while diluting the brand.

I recently went straight from a California to a Miata ND, and the Miata is just so much more fun in every conceivable way. Cheaper interior for sure, but it can actually be used in fun ways on normal roads and you cannot hide weight with electronics.

New comment by dundundundun in "Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize"

dundundundun — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:51:36 +0000

Still, the Norwegian parliament has no direct input on who is chosen for the peace price.

(I am fully aware of the setup of the committee, hell, Norway is a small country so i've even met a couple of the members.)

Obama was a stupid choice, you'll get no argument from me there.

New comment by dundundundun in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

dundundundun — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:48:04 +0000

Yeah, so i'm not running Chrome either. I do not (from experience) trust Microsoft or Google to have software constantly running on my computer.

I realize that i can disable the service of course, but then i end up with outdated software.

New comment by dundundundun in "Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize"

dundundundun — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:49:18 +0000

The point is that Norway does not hand out the peace price - an independent committee does.

And its Oslo, not Geneva.

New comment by dundundundun in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

dundundundun — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:55:26 +0000

Can I download Teams without it also requiring Microsoft updaters and other stuff that insists on lurking in the background? Having a standalone MS app is fine, but I will never allow their updaters and background processes.

New comment by dundundundun in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

dundundundun — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:25:26 +0000

I loathe analytical sound. It destroys all listening pleasure for me. Give me nice warm coloured midtones and I'm happy!

New comment by dundundundun in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

dundundundun — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:07:29 +0000

Proper sleep.

New comment by dundundundun in "Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App"

dundundundun — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:21:56 +0000

I've always believed the deal with Apple was that I pay more, but then I am the customer and not the product.

Apple is not stupid, so I guess their research shows that this is not a common enough sentiment that adding ads will measurably hamper sales.

To someone who loathes ads (like me), this is a tragedy.

New comment by dundundundun in "Gemini in Chrome"

dundundundun — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:23:17 +0000

If they do close an account they have a support line you can call and talk to a human.

New comment by dundundundun in "A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers"

dundundundun — Thu, 01 May 2025 11:53:50 +0000

This is basically the way every other database is moved around.