Hacker News: 486sx33

New comment by 486sx33 in "Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network"

486sx33 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:48:08 +0000

What would be great is if there was a “box” I could program 50 or 100 digital channels to IPTV channels and just flip channels on the tv and the box changed IPTV sources. anything like this that’s consumer grade available that works with M3U playlist

New comment by 486sx33 in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

486sx33 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:32:42 +0000

Some routers specifically allow openWRT.. example, Routers like the GL.iNet GL-MT6000 (Flint 2) and TP-Link Archer AX6000 come with OpenWrt pre-installed and are designed for easy OpenWrt use.

New comment by 486sx33 in "Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)"

486sx33 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:40:47 +0000

I actually love this because the entire time I owned a Dreamcast I used to look at the windows CE logo on the front and think, does it have windows CE in ROM? How can I boot it?

New comment by 486sx33 in "As banks close accounts, experts point to immigration crackdown"

486sx33 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:25:19 +0000

Walmart supports Apple pay in Canada , so does Home Depot.

Anyway , monero for a PoS crypto system sounds amazing. Do you know if any North America support this? If so specifically which brand / company / provider ?

New comment by 486sx33 in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

486sx33 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:07:47 +0000

It’s not that far off, a major benefit is insitu refueling, so that’s a major reason it looks like that.

New comment by 486sx33 in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

486sx33 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:06:45 +0000

It shouldn’t be the first time, this is what natural gas peaker plants have been about for 20 years. Solar and wind can’t sync the grid, they require sync or the grid collapses. Sync (Hz) can only be provided by base load that quickly spin up or down to balance out the frequency of the grid

New comment by 486sx33 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

486sx33 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:18:30 +0000

It’s unfortunate, but this exact sentiment precludes every market crash. Just before dotcom burst it was the same thing. Technology will change everything the nasdaq will continue to grow in the technology age, etc etc. eventually the chickens come home to roost as they say

New comment by 486sx33 in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

486sx33 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:58:59 +0000

This is the key, streaming content providers delete and edit things to match the feeling of society at the moment or perceived societal pressures. Really not how history should work imho

New comment by 486sx33 in "Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64"

486sx33 — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:21:57 +0000

Rare got all kinds of privileges, heck they developed their own unofficial dev kit. https://www.behindthecode.ca/rareware-n64dev/

New comment by 486sx33 in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

486sx33 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:33 +0000

Why would I want to hack the bootloader for a wall charger? Asking for a friend

New comment by 486sx33 in "America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy"

486sx33 — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:18:11 +0000

No one dunks finished carpet in dye. The dye house dyes the fiber, pre construction. https://youtu.be/FG2-af0xYOA

The treatments like stain master are/were the problem, not the dye.

Carpet is a wonderful product, even polys. It’s good we’re having a conversation about it, but vinyl flooring has far out passed carpet , and it is full of awful carcinogens, made in china, not disclosed, secret recipes. But , it can be unstable and release into your home / office / work place

New comment by 486sx33 in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

486sx33 — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:27:35 +0000

They did not require permits at the time as they were portable Think transport trailer sized. If you use portable power for under 365 days a year, an epa permit was not required. They changed the rules on permitting after and xAI complied

New comment by 486sx33 in "DOS Memory Management"

486sx33 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:49:56 +0000

We did special boot disks to strip out everything but what was needed for the game, but sometimes we still couldn’t make it One day I went to a friends house and he had like way more conventional memory in memtest! What the hell I spent hours and days getting 620kb

He was running Dr -dos

New comment by 486sx33 in "How were video transfers made? (2011)"

486sx33 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:28:21 +0000

Even into the 2010s I knew of use of professional betacam (HDCAM) cassettes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam

New comment by 486sx33 in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

486sx33 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:02:49 +0000

Eventually NetZero forced you to use their own dialer to ensure you kept the ads running… but you could spy on the ppp connection by just opening the COM port of your modem in terminal and watching. The password was encrypted (xor?) but you could just copy and paste the value into a regular dialer lol

New comment by 486sx33 in "Why do users happily use my AI tool but refuse to pay for it?"

486sx33 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:04:24 +0000

There’s little value in software and no value in annual recurring subscriptions to people. If you solve a large enough problem that a person can use to make themselves money, then you can become an overhead cost of doing business. My household has zero recurring subscriptions now.

Two things jump out at me also 1. The first thing I see is “it’s free”. Then further down the page buy credits. I really don’t want to buy credits in your walled garden that I don’t understand yet. But what the heck I’ll try, next click my only option is to continue with google. Nah I’m not looking to login to a completely unknown product with my google account credentials.

It feels painful on top of I don’t know what I’m buying or why I’d buy it. It’s a canva clone? Or ?

New comment by 486sx33 in "The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal"

486sx33 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:11:51 +0000

Huh A single prefix is easier on the router than a dozen.. I should hope so? Isn’t this kind of like saying the grade 1 math test is easier than the grade 12 math test ?

New comment by 486sx33 in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

486sx33 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:42:58 +0000

Context “ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot... “

New comment by 486sx33 in "Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero"

486sx33 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:54:08 +0000

It’s fairly easy to decrease susceptibility to this attack. #1 run your own node #2 monitor the nodes you are connected to with “sync_info” #3 ban nodes that aren’t up to current block height, strange port connections, and connections from typical spy IP addresses. There could still be a spy node connected when you send your transaction but it won’t have a very high probability of originating from any particular place

New comment by 486sx33 in "An official atlas of North Korea"

486sx33 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:02:38 +0000

My grandfather built that railway in a supervisor capacity in Labrador. My dad was born in sept illes because of it. It was once very important but now a footnote. It moved iron ore in the 60s / 70s