She was (or is) at Facebook, and "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there.
"Clownshoes" is common as an adjective at Mozilla.
Readit Newsmintplant commented on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown rachelbythebay.com/w/2026... · Posted by u/zdw
I have a 2019 and it's flat.
I think that's because you have the Pro version.
mintplant commented on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation sparkfun.com/official-res... · Posted by u/yaleman
I understand you're pretty upset with the situation, and I can't blame you.
But I never should be reading about any of this on public forums. It doesn't reflect well on you or Adafruit.
Now an outcome has been chosen for you, without your input. The situation is probably irreconcilable.
That's not the position you ever want to be in. Obviously.
If the situation was untenable, after your reasonable and private attempts, you should have decided to sever ties on your terms. The outcome would have been the same, but you'd be in control of the situation, and wouldn't be permanently leaving things in public view.
I'm sorry for the situation. I'm a real hot head at times, but it's something I've learned (the hard way, over and over again) that I need to control. Business is business...
I hope it works out for you and Adafruit.
> Now an outcome has been chosen for you, without your input. The situation is probably irreconcilable.
I think you've reversed cause and effect. SparkFun publicly cut off Adafruit in response to Adafruit's private contact with SparkFun. Only then did Adafruit put out a public post addressing SparkFun's vague public allegations.
mintplant commented on Bincode development has ceased permanently reddit.com/r/rust/s/PIViq... · Posted by u/sethaurus
The comments in that thread were shameful. If only the commit author names changed, then it would be trivial to run a git diff comparing the content of the old and new HEADs. But no one did - instead they dogpiled on the maintainer who got doxed and had their home address posted.
mintplant commented on “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number ericdaigle.ca/posts/super... · Posted by u/e_daigle
mintplant commented on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM telefoncek.si/2025/02/202... · Posted by u/ementally
"hidden microphone in a Chinese KVM" is the correct way to describe what is going on.
"Reusing existing stock" is not a valid excuse. They are currently selling this device without advertising that it contains a working microphone.
A working microphone and recording software and hacking tools like aircrack-ng on an otherwise stripped-down OS image...
mintplant commented on Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reuters.com/world/us/doge... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
The implication is that the death toll is under-reported due to the disruption of the means by which those deaths would be reported and logged. In other words, those thousands of deaths are just the ones we know about.
mintplant commented on The R47: A new physical RPN calculator swissmicros.com/product/m... · Posted by u/dm319
Super cool! But I so rarely reach for the physical calculators I already have these days. Any recommendations on RPN calculators for Windows or Android? The one I've got on my phone right now has some little quirks that bug me.
I don't want a good-faith workaround for a website hijacking my clipboard. I want the website and its developers to stop doing things that are stupid and wrong.
I don't disagree! But as long as they continue to do stupid and wrong things, workarounds remain useful.
So far the alternatives to capricious developer choices are:
- Draw Chinese characters into a translator
- Just have every website support every language ever
- Install cliboard manager software to handle the fact you don’t always want to copy
Gotta love HN.
It's frustrating that sharing workarounds in good faith attracts drive-by snark like this comment.