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RektBoy··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
> "import saved passwords"

Yikes

RektBoy··on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
Can someone explain to me why anyone would pay for this SaaS, and instead just use an api from all markets?
RektBoy··on Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
From what?
RektBoy··on Why I’m making my family German (2017)
> and she can expect trouble when paying invoices for any German doctor or hospital.

What? Your social security is linked to your health insurance, how? Doesn't make sense.

RektBoy··on ChatGPT Plus
In normal company, they will buy you a custom setup without problem.
RektBoy··on Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
https://samchui.com/2023/02/01/the-last-boeing-747-delivery/
RektBoy··on Why Finland Selected the F-35A (2021)
I hope Finland will join NATO asap. (I'm not American).
RektBoy··on Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
I hope it will be same OSINT treasure trove like BeReal was (is). Yikes.
RektBoy··on Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate
Reminds me of Galactus, all-knowing user service provider aggregator. Hehe
RektBoy··on Show HN: I've built a C# IDE, Runtime, and AppStore inside Excel
If the user can code in C#, why they need Excel? Exporting to Excel for other non-coder employees, sure why not.

I don't understand the use-case, Excel is horrible tool for anything else than stupid, a few hundred rows data science.

RektBoy··on TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT
Give it binary obfuscated with VMprotect
RektBoy··on Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?
I watched "The Core" yesterday, wtf.
RektBoy··on Astronautilia
First time hearing about this book.
RektBoy··on Pwned or Bot
Everything from that Stripe data about IP addresses in Europe is just pure cringe.

Did you know, that at least in my country, nearly everybody is behind CGNAT, so hundreds if not thousands households has exactly same external IP address and this rotates very often. So you constantly have same IP address, which hosts tons of torrents with porn or movies (nobody cares about torrents in my country). etc.

RektBoy··on Bank of America has lost Zelle transfers for many customers
Why don't Americans use direct money transfer from one bank account to another, like rest of the world? I lol everytime I see these problems.
RektBoy··on The Pretty Good House
From wood? Good one Americans, really good one, ha.
RektBoy··on Stripe issues
I don't get it, why are Americans so brain-dead with paying with their credit card online directly?

Here in small country in EU, Czechia, we have several payment processing companies, which process debit cards payments online.(nobody use credit cards here, spending money you don't have, no thank you, rofl)

These are companies based in our country, you can call them, you have a written contract with them, so if something go sideways on their part, you have options to bring them to court or something.

And there're several of these companies, like 3 or more. All with proper audits and everything.

Nobody use paypal or stripe or some similar BS here, also we can send money directly from personal bank account to company bank-account, with no fee, so this is just another option. Or even all banks integrate with eshop in a way, you can make a direct payment through bank API with callback, so order is instantly payed. Also no fee, of course.

I can't comprehend, why is American online market so backwards.

RektBoy··on I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools
$500

Whitehats *coffee emoji*

RektBoy··on Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation (Part 2)
>I wonder, would this virtual machine be hand crafted or auto generated?

Every proper obfuscator with virtualization should be auto-generated. Of course, when I reverse it, then my scripts are also automatized as much as they can be.

RektBoy··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
Here in CZ, where pirating has long tradition, mainly because it's legal to download movies and copyrighted files for own use. Or at least it's in gray area now because of push from EU but still nobody is willing to prosecute it. (Uploading/uploaders are prosecuted normally, since it's illegal to upload)

Many people is buying games from Steam, because it's convenient. Not gonna mention we have same prices like US or even bigger, because it's in EUR, yet we have 4x smaller median salaries. And still we buy games from Steam.

Netflix was popular here too, but recently (me included) everybody is switching back to fileshares and torrents. It's unbearable to pay for multiple streaming services and that's just foreign movies, if you want our local movies, there are different streaming services for it.

Thanks but no thanks.

RektBoy··on Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing
ChatGPT Please find Firefox Goodbye
RektBoy··on Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing
Bing needs this, Firefox and Chrome will not search themselves.
RektBoy··on Web hackers vs. the auto industry
How much bounty money did you receive from these multi-billion companies?
RektBoy··on Acorn, our open source precision farming rover
Can't imagine how could you make harvester this small. I think more helpful would be precision monitoring of fields with drones and then maybe even taking care of small weeds. For every other process, you need big machinery anyway.

Would be more productive to force big manufactures to open-sourcing their stuff.

RektBoy··on Customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to take calls (2020)
American dream, right?
RektBoy··on Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately
Ok so in similar manner. Please download Microsoft Silverlight now, only from official MS source. No other source is allowed. Go.

Funny thing, here in EU country, there are government apps which stills require MS Silverlight. Nice right?

RektBoy··on Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam [video]
If some psychologist made a study on people who believed Logan, that would be interesting read.

To me, it’s unbelievable. Since Logan and his brother Jake has long history of scamming their fanbase over and over.

RektBoy··on Atom was archived today
VScode is also crap. It doesn't even support multi screen multi-window, heh no thank you. I can't comprehend, how anybody can use VScode for any real work.
RektBoy··on Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games
That's why I play games, which are running on private servers for years. Like ultima online.
RektBoy··on A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003
Is this some Gen Z meme? Like if its look old, it must be bad? I cringed a lot on this website. Clunky AF.
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