Hacker News: 0ld

New comment by 0ld in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

0ld — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:50:50 +0000

Yes. It would still protect you from the other strains and reduce risks of reinfection by the strains you already have, which is the main issue preventing your immune system from clearing the infection up by itself

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X2...

New comment by 0ld in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

0ld — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:55:00 +0000

2.6.9 is around 6yo now. I had been procrastinating for too long too, with my almost 30yo fvwm2rc, but finally migrated to x11/fvwm3 last month. Wasn’t too complicated in the end

New comment by 0ld in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

0ld — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:45:30 +0000

Apple TV is a huge Apple TV+ ad in itself. I shelved my device when my 2yo had "subscribed" to Apple TV+ by just randomly clicking around

New comment by 0ld in "Gnome is better macOS than macOS"

0ld — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:41:52 +0000

it’s just better "think different" than macos

New comment by 0ld in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

0ld — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:40:50 +0000

I’ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job - chats work, calls work, presentations work, screen sharing works. or should I say mostly work… sure, it’s as glitchy as it ever was and may fail for any reason at any time, but you don’t really need an app to experience all that

New comment by 0ld in "A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant"

0ld — Sat, 17 May 2025 09:58:28 +0000

It used to have a steep learning curve, I’d say. Once I’ve had a long complicated manually written configuration of all my devices, integrations, automations etc, which gradually got replaced by simple clicking in the gui. On the other hand, this also meant a lot of breaking changes over the years, when I had to re-configure my staff the new way

New comment by 0ld in "When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option"

0ld — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:37:46 +0000

a lot of people do, for example me. apple maps sucks badly where i live (eu). say, it has no idea my house (built 6 years ago) exists, it builds routes via non-existing roads, is not aware of road works, detours or most of the businesses around

apple maps is completely useless here, even though i don’t like using a google app, there’s no alternative

New comment by 0ld in "Jellyfin: Free software media system"

0ld — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:25:30 +0000

Well, it was recently added to ports, JFYI

https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/jellyfin/

New comment by 0ld in "🥺: the best sudo replacement"

0ld — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 09:33:52 +0000

you'd be even more impressed to find out how often polish characters (ąęłćśżźńó) get totally screwed in... poland itself

New comment by 0ld in "Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?"

0ld — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:42:31 +0000

i can. so you can too. the hardest part is finding a clean ip in a clean block. the rest is quite simple and straightforward. dkim+spf set up was enough for my opensmtpd to deliver my mail to all the big players without any going to spam

New comment by 0ld in "Show HN: I made Devzat – It's like Discord but in the terminal, over SSH"

0ld — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:28:54 +0000

i had been using telnet for irc in the 90s a lot, it doesn’t really require any custom client

New comment by 0ld in "Please, delete all new places since the start of war 23th of February"

0ld — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:10:00 +0000

> they literally run out of fuel on the way

surprise (not), but they literally ran out of fuel on the way [0]

that 65km convoy is just a 65km sitting duck of a traffic jam at the moment. without fuel and food

all of this war is a festival of glorious russian corruption and incompetency at its best. i, as a ukrainian, must thank them for that

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-move-kyiv-stall...

New comment by 0ld in "My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story"

0ld — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:18:09 +0000

try searching zigbee2mqtt supported devices: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#s=switch

New comment by 0ld in "My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story"

0ld — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:20:19 +0000

HA is nice, and I've been running it on RPi for a few years, mainly to make my air purifiers work in the way I want, plus some light switches and a motion detector

The only annoying thing are random breaking changes which make me overhaul my configs a couple of times per year

New comment by 0ld in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?"

0ld — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:45:52 +0000

short answer: it will pass

longer answer: been there, seen that. carry on, find yourself a hobby and a couple of friends who share it (might require some effort, but it’s worth it). kids are also very rewarding (probably not for everyone, but surely for me), albeit very demanding too. anyway, it will pass, just dont try to drink or drug it out - that will only make things worse

good luck

New comment by 0ld in "I Lost My Past (2017)"

0ld — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 12:08:43 +0000

heh, yeah, right, in the former ussr too there are people who fondly remember a lot of stuff their nomenclature families did have, which the other 99% didnt. and they certainly dont remember any shit the lowly plebs been through

what they are actually missing is the lost great times when they were able to feel being so high above the others

New comment by 0ld in "Raspberry Pi Colocation"

0ld — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:37:34 +0000

they rent you a docker debian instance on a pi, not full pi

New comment by 0ld in "Old towns eager for new blood sell Italy homes for $1"

0ld — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:23:14 +0000

> her 1 euro house cost her about €2000

…and then 100k more to bring it to normal living condition

New comment by 0ld in "Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations"

0ld — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:18:08 +0000

> no ads

Well, in your link it says:

> In-App Purchases

> 1. Remove Ads $5.99

New comment by 0ld in "A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech"

0ld — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:20:53 +0000

if i am writing a youtube comment and care about it, i always recheck if the comment is still there after a couple of minutes and then a couple of days. because the comments are now "disappearing" more and more frequently the last time my comment got automatically deleted right away was a couple of weeks ago for "bottle opening" words (in my language) put together. replacing a few letters in these words with different same-looking characters helped for some time, but eventually even these got deleted a few days later. i should probably give up using this last google service i still use