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digitalpacman··on Peptides: where to begin?
This actually isn't true. Hims compounded the GLP1s themselves. They broke/are breaking the law. Theres lawsuits.
digitalpacman··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
Postman is absolutely shit since it was sold. Stop using it.
digitalpacman··on Websites with fake MFA: security theater?
All 2FA is security theater. All 2FA in use today is normally just 1FA pretending to be 2FA. If I have your phone, then I have everything I need to login. That's 1 factor. 2FA is only 2FA if the physical device ownership requirement does not have access to use the thing being accessed. Why? Because you store passwords on that device. That device has your password. If I have the device, I have your password. You would have to use no auto-fill and memorize your passwords so that the physical device does not have your password in it. The point is, if I get one factor, I don't have the other. But in reality, our physical devices can access the thing we want, and therefore you likely store your credentials on that device.
digitalpacman··on Websites with fake MFA: security theater?
If they don't have 2FA on their email, and you have their password, that is bypassing the 2FA. :) Single factor. Password. No physical device, no 2FA.
digitalpacman··on Wall Street scooped up a third of Texas single family homes sold last year (2022)
Like abortion?
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?
Good you shouldn't be using them. You shouldn't be using foreign keys either. It just makes working with data harder and doesn't help with constraining it if your data modifications are inside transactions and properly written statements.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?
Easy. You don't ever pick MySQL because it's essentially garbage.
digitalpacman··on Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy
Dissolve their fucking business licenses.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Developers, what have you learned from product managers?
Nothing. They are generally always a waste of space and time.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?
Have you experienced nuget? Seems pretty solved and solid and unchanged since... forever now.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?
It's because you're getting passed the point of having simple questions. Once you get to a certain point of understanding, there is less available online for shared problem solving. This just happens.
digitalpacman··on Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell
My app has been removed from youtube oauth multiple times because we keep getting different verifiers. We've even had permission revoked after being approved. All we do is use a oauth to get their userid and read their livechat for a chatbot. They just can't get their shit together.
digitalpacman··on FCC plans to rein in “gateway” carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US
fucking please
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?
Yes there is. A computer counter is worse than a computer ballot printer. You have to have it as distributed as possible to make it as expensive as possible. A single counting or handful of counting machines makes it one machine to take over to do anything you want.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?
All software for voting is terrible
digitalpacman··on Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out
Literally no one stops tracing you when you opt out.
digitalpacman··on The Principal Developer
Or fewer CTOs who think they deserve the 1% working for them
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: I want to be a 40h/week intermediate developer.How do I stay employable?
Work contract. Find a business that expects 40 hour work weeks. Hunt for the work, don't use recruiters.
digitalpacman··on Amazon Dark Patterns
Yes. Because it represents how you've chosen to run your business. You are allowed to judge the business based on their previous behavior.
digitalpacman··on Amazon Dark Patterns
This happened to me directly on Logitech's website. It's why I'll never buy their products again. I received a wireless headset that didn't keep a full day charge longer than 30 minutes. I had to use it plugged in (powering) 24/7. I submitted a 1 star review stating my problem and they removed my feedback without even telling me. It was just gone a few weeks later when I checked it, hoping they hadn't removed it.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?
QA Automation.
digitalpacman··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
It doesn't have built-in websocket support so it can F off. Build better dev tools and feel bad. Even the plugin that used to be usable isn't supported on the new FF.
digitalpacman··on Things I’ve learned using serverless
Why does this guy think that JWT tokens secure against CSRF? They're unrelated. This scares me. I want to know what projects he works on so I can avoid them. Not knowing something is insecure is one thing, but knowing that it's insecure scares me.
digitalpacman··on OkCupid's “Removed” Visitor API
edge route blocking doesn't take a deploy
digitalpacman··on Self-Driving Ubers Driving in Bike Lanes
This is correct behavior in lots of places. It's safer for when turning right to have a biker wait for you to turn. They have no right to "go first" unless they are already in the lane beside you or in front.
digitalpacman··on Self-Driving Ubers Driving in Bike Lanes
And Texas.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What would you do if your income was taken care of?
I'd spend all my time making a digital product.
digitalpacman··on Ask HN: Why companies look for “full stack” developers instead of specialists?
You know what's worse? Full-stack architects. It doesn't seem very plausible that someone has all the knowledge in both the now very complicated front-end and back-end stacks to be a proper architect.
digitalpacman··on The underrated new[] { } in C
This also works with dictionaries.

new[] { {"", ""}, {"", ""} }

digitalpacman··on Ask HN: What old, discontinued desktop software do you still run?
winamp?
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