Hacker News: pluc

New comment by pluc in "PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations"

pluc — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:13:51 +0000

Because PHP was designed for this and JS evolved for it. There are still JS quirks that should be avoided.

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

pluc — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:37:49 +0000

Was it Automattic again?

LittleSnitch for Linux

pluc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:26:08 +0000

Article URL: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870

Points: 1376

# Comments: 459

New comment by pluc in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

pluc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:26:51 +0000

Samba, rsync, sshfs, even fusefs... but there's seemingly nothing that can keep your files yours across your own devices without extensive hacking/setup, suspicious EULAs, MitMs, etc. We can build it, but normies can't

New comment by pluc in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

pluc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:22:09 +0000

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

New comment by pluc in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

pluc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:07:04 +0000

I'd love a local offline alternative, maybe I'll get AI to build it for me

New comment by pluc in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

pluc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:08:45 +0000

I'd argue that as soon as Camacho became aware of Not Sure's IQ test, he reached out. He didn't call on him before because he didn't know he existed (and/or he wasn't around), so he couldn't have helped prior.

If Trump spots a mentally capable person that is also stupid enough to eat his slop (or evil enough), he gets a job.

New comment by pluc in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

pluc — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:37:45 +0000

Google tried that and there's still some blood on the wall

New comment by pluc in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

pluc — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:35:00 +0000

Time since paying Google customers had to resort to social media outrage to obtain decent resolution: 0 days

Good luck to you

New comment by pluc in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

pluc — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:26:23 +0000

or Microsoft Copilot for .NET Core

New comment by pluc in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

pluc — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:30:16 +0000

Why is spectacular in quotations? I keep seeing this in headlines, is it because they're quoting a single word?

New comment by pluc in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

pluc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:39:12 +0000

Whenever I read stories like this about how hard it is for US people to keep getting the little they've been getting I think of people on the other side. It takes an evil compliance to be the Karen in this article. Zero empathy, zero compassion, you're a row in a spreadsheet. If they'd start caring a little and standing up to what is very obviously wrong, the US would be a much different place. Apply that same logic to "the deep state", military men, etc. It's pretty crazy how much of their situation is their own making, yet they'll happily blame the other side.

New comment by pluc in "Should QA exist?"

pluc — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:21:27 +0000

In the age of AI of course not, AI is your QA

New comment by pluc in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

pluc — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:47:28 +0000

It's not a fine it's a fee

New comment by pluc in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

pluc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:02:15 +0000

We'll see once they pipe ads in there if they'll limit themselves to relevant ads or of they'll toss all pretense of caring out the window

New comment by pluc in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

pluc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:00:35 +0000

Control. Gatekeeping. Profits. Proprietary technology. Licenses.

New comment by pluc in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

pluc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:12:56 +0000

I'm amazed Microslop let us keep GitHub this long. Probably because they're training AI on it? To have a direct line to developers? I don't see why else they would've bothered with something that was so anti everything they stood for

New comment by pluc in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

pluc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:44:14 +0000

You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool. The two are fundamentally incompatible.

You won't get it to push your products when users ask what's the best XYZ - either because it'll be too honest to lie or because it'll be too expensive for you.

New comment by pluc in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

pluc — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:33:56 +0000

Have a look at Evan Hahn's murder util: https://codeberg.org/EvanHahn/dotfiles/src/commit/843b9ee13d...

New comment by pluc in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

pluc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:59:26 +0000

It's hard to argue against contempt but... I'm gonna try. It feels like at the end of the line it's just a checkbox someone gets without having to consider the consequences of the changes. Either it's too big or there's too many levels where decisions get made and handed down to drones (or AI), but the people who decide seem to have no concept of what their products are used for and the people who implement features seem to have accepted that the system is so big that they can't understand all the impacts of their changes and have to rely on trusting commands from above - who may expect them to challenge from the POV of users or question things but never do. Anyway, this feels like what happens when managerial overhead and marketing KPIs smash into a complex product ecosystem. It all smells of IBM to be honest