Hacker News: joking

New comment by joking in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

joking — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:08:34 +0000

if you can order for free or below cost doing anything in the app, you are not paranoid, you are directly stupid, is like being able to modify the shopping cart total in the browser and the server accepting that as the correct price. Everything should be server side validated where you have the full control of it.

New comment by joking in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

joking — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:17:50 +0000

with llms maybe you can reuse their api for your own benefit instead of just showing some maps, so the issue is even worse that only cost.

New comment by joking in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

joking — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:11:52 +0000

not letting outside people at the luggage area seems fine to me, if anyone could enter there the number of stolen baggage would skyrocket.

New comment by joking in "Google Opal"

joking — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:26:57 +0000

not available in your country...

I suppose for any in europe waking up like me that I can save you one click and some time.

New comment by joking in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

joking — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:49:06 +0000

My case, I have to manage a portal for old tvs and those don’t accept the LE root certificate since they changed a couple of years ago. Unfortunately the vendor is unable to update the firmware with new certificates and we are sold

New comment by joking in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

joking — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:06:48 +0000

there was an ad, or a presentation in a conference keynote, from when microsoft built phones, showing a user leaving the house and continuing what was he doing in the car in a very futuristic way. I can't find it now, but was something crazy by then, the continuum idea was also a good one, but here we are, walled gardens and nothing smart about them.

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

joking — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:04:49 +0000

maybe it doesn't do everything postman does, but I'm very happy using the rest client extension in vs code, the http files with the api calls are commited to the source code repository along with the code is easy to use, does what i need, and is easy to share with my colleagues.

New comment by joking in "Apple M5 chip"

joking — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:51:33 +0000

I don't have a problem with the notch, I have a problem with the icons not showing in the status bar and there isn't a *** way to show them. It's so difficult to add a overflow button that shows the hidden icons?

New comment by joking in "A new PNG spec"

joking — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:52:27 +0000

the main reason is probably that the chip is already outputting the image in a lossy format, and if you reorder the pixels you must reencode the image which means degrading the image, so it's much better to just change the exif orientation.

New comment by joking in "IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol"

joking — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:40:27 +0000

That’s why you have an vpn or the rdp gateway instead of exposing the machines directly to internet.

New comment by joking in "Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale"

joking — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:35:09 +0000

I was on the real state listing site side long time ago, we were trying to block scrapers from getting our data, at the en we loss, and now we pay them to send us users instead of paying Google ads because it’s cheaper. Fun times

New comment by joking in "Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale"

joking — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:29:56 +0000

That kind of search is already available in many portals. You can actually find the shape of a polígon with the places you can reach in 1h of conmuté easily, as there is a google maps api for it (distance matrix) and finding the properties in a polygon is a solved problem. (

New comment by joking in "Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale"

joking — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:24:10 +0000

Almost as easy as cropping the center. Doing it well automatically is another kind of problem

New comment by joking in "Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline"

joking — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:31:55 +0000

I like almost everything from this project, even the documentation and development is being done in the open, with design docs like this: https://www.figma.com/design/qdCWR4tTUr7vQSecEjCyqO/DOCS?nod...

New comment by joking in "Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt"

joking — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:06:09 +0000

Batteries also degrade by time even if you don't charge and discharge them.

New comment by joking in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

joking — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:59:10 +0000

Thats by design, you can’t trust the client, everything has to be checked server side.

New comment by joking in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

joking — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:18:00 +0000

I didn’t see synology or qnap mentioned here. They are probably the easiest way to self host and stream the músic, even if they are simpler, but for me worked well.

New comment by joking in "Conversations are better with four people"

joking — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:08:07 +0000

Sex is also better with 4 people, requires a bit of organization though.

New comment by joking in "I Don't Have Spotify"

joking — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:42:25 +0000

One of the best services I get from my Nas is the ability to save the music there and be able to stream to my phone. I prefer to buy some music and have it there than relying in any subscription service.

New comment by joking in "Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back"

joking — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:56:06 +0000

Also useful for magic and playing with cards.