Hacker News: encom

New comment by encom in "Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin"

encom — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:10:49 +0000

Never has anything been blown out of proportion more than this Hot Coffee nothingburger. It astounds me that anyone took this seriously at the time.

New comment by encom in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

encom — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:44:35 +0000

>warnings in cigarettes packages

Oh how I miss those warnings. Nowadays the packages are covered in graphic body horror pictures. And there's no branding on them any more, just white text on a black background, so I have to carefully check that the illiterate teenagers at the store gives me the correct ones.

Do anyone else hear circus music?

New comment by encom in "Pixel Watch 5"

encom — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:51:20 +0000

But if you go too far in that direction, you end up at the Mozilla school of design. Alienating your core users, and designing a product for users that aren't there. Look at them now.

New comment by encom in "Pixel Watch 5"

encom — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:41:23 +0000

>My favorite watch (excuse me, "chronograph")

EXCUSE me... It's a time-piece!

New comment by encom in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:11:08 +0000

>The charging port doesn't work half the time

Give it a blast with an air compressor.

New comment by encom in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:09:45 +0000

This, but set it to disable all animations. It makes using the phone so much quicker, not having to pause for pointless animations.

New comment by encom in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:09:12 +0000

>I bet Facebook would prefer to get rid of the website entirely

For some parts they did. I tried Facebook Dating, and it's only available on phones.

Also, to save you the trouble, don't use Facebook Dating. It is, to use a technical term, a fermented shitpile.

New comment by encom in "A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:47:14 +0000

>!! you can do just as easily with up-arrow enter

  sudo !!

New comment by encom in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:26:07 +0000

I haven't logged into LinkedIn in over a year. My contacts are only people I've worked with or good friends (or that cutie from logistics)... people I've physically met and respect. I'd like to keep up with what's going on in their professional lives. The problem is my feed is full of garbage that they have engaged with. I don't care about levels deeper than the first.

LinkedIn is unusable, and wasn't even helpful at all in finding a new job.

New comment by encom in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:08:53 +0000

Only about a third of London population is White British.

New comment by encom in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:45:19 +0000

Neither Norway, nor any other Scandinavian country is socialist. We're just taxed up the arse.

New comment by encom in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

encom — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:12:12 +0000

I'm not principally opposed to subscriptions, but subscribing to a camera app is absurd.

Your post prompted me to donate to KeepassXC, my subscriptionsless password manager, because I would be sad if that went away, and I would hate if the software landscape became even more a subscription hell than it already is.

Pedants corner:

>most apps appeal to a finite set of people

The set of people is finite.

New comment by encom in "The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe"

encom — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:20:10 +0000

Many such cases.

Denmark has no more room in its prisons. Opinions are shifting away from importing infinity third world migrants, and news media is now allowed to talk about it, but not enough to meaningfully shift votes in the last election, so it's going to be more of this for the forseeable future.

New comment by encom in "Manual: •.,:;…!?·"

encom — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:51:18 +0000

>In European and many other languages[...]

What? I was taught danish, english, german, french - never European.

New comment by encom in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

encom — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:06:23 +0000

>the best possible experience

It's comforting to know that a game I bought and paid for, that was taken from me, is "the best possible experience".

It soured me so much on Minecraft that I can't even be bothered to pirate it.

New comment by encom in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

encom — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:31:46 +0000

>invaded Venezuela

Didn't happen. An intervention happened. An invasion lasts more than two hours.

New comment by encom in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

encom — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:42:17 +0000

>features no one asked for

Google asked for them. That's all that matters.

New comment by encom in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

encom — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:43:39 +0000

>10+ years ago it was common to have your phone + postal address on whois

This is the .dk TLD today, and it's the reason I've never posted my website here. The .dk registry (punktum.dk) is run by absolute clowns.

On the other hand, the first thing I do before spending money on a danish website is "whois eksempel.dk", and if it doesn't return a danish address (and wasn't created recently), I'm out.

New comment by encom in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

encom — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:06:23 +0000

Prisoners are not slaves, because they are not the property of the prison or any other entity. It's called involuntary servitude. I'm sure the people affected do not care about the distinction, but words matter.

It's also trivially easy to not end up in involuntary servitude.

New comment by encom in "The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)"

encom — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:01:57 +0000

It doesn't. MCU is slop that caters to Redditor man-child Funko-Pop people. No one will remember it in 10 years, and I've never heard anyone reference it outside.