Kudos, it couldn't have been done in a better way. All those little details made me laugh quite a bit :D
Readit Newscookiengineer commented on Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
cookiengineer commented on 'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off theregister.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/belter
> It's pretty clear that Linux, or even BSD, is the way forward.
Yeah and in many EU institutions and companies there's been a move to webapps. And in the big ones, like the EU parliament or EU Commission, there are rules: for example webapps must work on every MEP's smartphone, no matter if it's Android or iOS. So those webapps tend to be very portable (they work on any phone and on any desktop/browser combination).
For many "whatever OS + whatever browser" is literally all that's needed. So switching to "Linux + a browser that ships with Linux" is not a showstopper.
People are convinced there's no way out of Microsoft's grip but Windows getting viruses (just like Microsoft's founder btw, like the Epstein files showed) may be a thing of the past for many very soon.
Now I like Anthropic and I'm a very happy paying Google customer: can we please just ditch Microsoft and not the entirety of products made by american companies? Microsoft produces shit but it's not the case of every american company.
> Now I like Anthropic and I'm a very happy paying Google customer: can we please just ditch Microsoft and not the entirety of products made by american companies? Microsoft produces shit but it's not the case of every american company.
That's not what this debate is about. Sovereignty implies that the country keeps running when a hostile company owning the software decides it doesn't want that to happen. The incident with the ICC / ICJ judges investigating Gaza attacks and against Israel resulting in them personally sanctioned by Trump's administration was the wake-up call.
Rule of law in software doesn't exist anymore (when the software is in US' proprietary hands), and that's the threshold that has been crossed and is non negotiable.
cookiengineer commented on The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024) predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-w... · Posted by u/epicalex
Mysterious radio astronomy signals turned out to be the breakroom microwave:
Sadly, it's never aliens
https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/its-the-microwave-h...
Haha, that was a fun read. Didn't know about this, thanks for the pointer!
cookiengineer commented on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors notepad-plus-plus.org/new... · Posted by u/mysterydip
I have to say, the fact that you immediately ascribe to malicious intent my very clearly curious request is not making me think schizophrenic less.
> I have to say, the fact that you immediately ascribe to malicious intent my very clearly curious request is not making me think schizophrenic less.
I didn't frame the question as an implied disease as a cause for my comment, that's on you.
I don't compromise on my ideals, and especially won't doxx myself on HN. Next time maybe frame your questions in a nicer way and you'll get a nicer answer in return. Just a hint, because that's how debates are supposed to work in my opinion. If you judge me for that, then so be it.
If you don't understand how a democracy with actual police reports work, maybe just shut up? Maybe just check the police reports? Maybe build a platform where no morons auto delete everything that's against their extremist belief? And maybe also don't believe everything that kids type online in their devtools?
Just some hints, kid.
@dang are you effing serious? Why are you tolerating users like this guy but then strike me for pointing out that there's a doxxing campaign going on against the author, which the author literally mentions in the linked article?
I'm really disappointed by the moderation double standards here.
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You can build things this way, and they may work for a time, but you don't know what you don't know (and experience teaches you that you only find most stuff by building/struggling; not sipping a soda while the AI blurts out potentially secure/stable code).
The hubris around AI is going to be hard to watch unwind. What the moment is I can't predict (nor do I care to), but there will be a shift when all of these vibe code only folks get cooked in a way that's closer to existential than benign.
Good time to be in business if you can see through the bs and understand how these systems actually function (hint: you won't have much competition soon as most people won't care until it's too late and will "price themselves out of the market").
Authentication and authorization is as simple as POST /api/create/admin with zero checks. Pretty much every API ever slop coded looks like this. And if it doesn't, it will forget about security checks two prompts later and reverse the previously working checks.