https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fearless1ronHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:27:00 +0000Many have said it already, and it's also true for me: Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard was my role model as a young teenager. The world is a little less bright without him.

]]>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:27:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296314fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296314Not sure what kind of reply you're expecting here. I'm defintely not cheering you on for abusing users to make you $200/month. Your business model is cancer and the reason why the Internet is the kind of shithole it is today.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:35:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670092fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670092https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670092Why did you think that using an ad network was ever a sensible option for revenue? Ads are cancer and a security risk, so blocking them is just common sense.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:02:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669874fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669874https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669874Unfortunately not. Adblocking is a security requirement and should be enforced by any enterprise.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:35:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669699fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669699https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669699All ad networks are cancer, in my humble opinion. Adblocking is a security requirement, so I have no compassion for anybody who bases their economic success on any ad network.

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:32:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669689fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669689https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669689This still means that Google is effectively gatekeeping what can be installed on the hardware you own and what cannot.

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:59:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458018fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458018https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458018Well, obviously changing "installing software" to "sideloading" worked somehow.

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:53:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457964fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457964Host it in a country with free speech then

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:47:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457914fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457914https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457914I agree with you, but can we stop calling installing software on the hardware you own "sideloading"?

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:42:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457876fearless1ronhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457876