Hacker News: jabjq

New comment by jabjq in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

jabjq — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:39:04 +0000

I wonder how well-received this comment would be if it mentioned crime statistics regarding something else than gender.

New comment by jabjq in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

jabjq — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:30:36 +0000

I think the screenshots are fake because I’ve been using the internet for very long and I know how publicity campaigns work.

For starters, men with hundreds of thousands of followers have no reason to post a screenshot that shows that women have used an app to report them as creeps. That the kind of thing that belongs in a police report, not in a public social network where you’re trying to build your brand.

New comment by jabjq in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

jabjq — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:01:11 +0000

I’ve seen multiple posts online posted by guys showing screenshots. The screenshots would show texts sent to those guys by girls saying that they’ve seen the guys on Tea and that they won’t have any more dates because of what they’ve seen. It all stinks to high heaven.

New comment by jabjq in "Meta to stop running political ads on Facebook and Instagram in the EU"

jabjq — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:00:52 +0000

The best, most successful political ads in social networks are not paid.

New comment by jabjq in "Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September"

jabjq — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:57:11 +0000

The best instant payment system is cash. It allows the merchant to skip the taxes too. Unbeatable.

New comment by jabjq in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"

jabjq — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:52:00 +0000

It's very easy to ask everyone else to support your financial decisions.

New comment by jabjq in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

jabjq — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:46:24 +0000

No, it's not okay. I used google to look for a brownie recipe; I want a brownie recipe and nothing else.

New comment by jabjq in "When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens"

jabjq — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:33:21 +0000

Those who need fine motor skills can still learn them.

New comment by jabjq in "People's brains aged faster during the Covid pandemic – even the uninfected"

jabjq — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:10:28 +0000

That’s what happens when the elites create a mass trauma event for us proles - and this is just the first one.

New comment by jabjq in "AMD CEO says U.S.-made TSMC chips are 5%-20% more expensive, but worth it"

jabjq — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:07:55 +0000

This comparison is quite absurd.

New comment by jabjq in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (2023)"

jabjq — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:41:53 +0000

Yep, doesn't work at all. This post is two years old and the methods they use have been updated.

New comment by jabjq in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

jabjq — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:26:06 +0000

I think it’s a cool and potentially useful feature as long as it stays local.

New comment by jabjq in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

jabjq — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:53:33 +0000

You can check the UNESCO website and see for yourself. They have a section with recent news of stuff they’ve been doing and promoting.

New comment by jabjq in "The Gentoo Perl versioning scheme"

jabjq — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:40:55 +0000

Same as wow. It makes more sense like this. Maybe the issue is that some interpret what look like decimal numbers but are not decimal numbers as decimal numbers.

New comment by jabjq in "Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying"

jabjq — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:32:40 +0000

Or they are just lazy. Recently I had to implement text search and making it load the results instantaneously on every keystroke is easier than implementing a delay. I was hoping the client wouldn’t complain, and thus far he has not.

New comment by jabjq in "France launches criminal probe of X over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’"

jabjq — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:14:37 +0000

Friendly reminder that

> In France, a woman spent 23 hours in custody for giving French President Emmanuel Macron the middle finger. (She was acquitted after arguing she had pointed her finger in the air and not directly at the president.)

https://archive.is/MNgc6

New comment by jabjq in "Log by time, not by count"

jabjq — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0000

You shouldn’t use f-strings with logging.

New comment by jabjq in "Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men"

jabjq — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:03:09 +0000

Have you ever worked in a place full of women?

New comment by jabjq in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

jabjq — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:57:39 +0000

I googled the author's name and from a cursory look at his linkedin he was a toddler in 2003. It’s therefore reasonable to conclude that he has no idea how a phone from 2003 worked. I mean, he could’ve used one for a bit, but definitely not as a daily driver.

New comment by jabjq in "The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality"

jabjq — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:52:02 +0000

I bought some dark blue trousers at C&A and after a dozen washes they are noticeably losing their colouring.

Yes, I know, Cheap&Awful. I’m poor.