Hacker News: 6c696e7578

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

6c696e7578 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:23:20 +0000

Office 2003 is a terrible example, office is a product that deliberately makes one part worse on each "upgrade" so that the consumer has a reason to upgrade to another release.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Get your Windows license refund"

6c696e7578 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:37:57 +0000

PCWorld in 2009 declined to split the laptop and OS. They offered to refund the whole purchase, but that would obviously leave me without a laptop.

Utterly pointless waste of time. If I see a vendor offering Linux/FreeDOS, I buy that.

If you've had any success in the UK getting a refund, please correct me, but I think time is probably better spent writing to the MP about it as the consumer should have choice when the options are MS or Apple.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

6c696e7578 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:29:56 +0000

It seems putting anything on the web that allows submit is screaming to get spammed these days. Is there any sort of spam filter that's worth using?

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

6c696e7578 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:59:16 +0000

Fine, but you have the invest in the CPU to determine if the payment was made. That's a cost on you, not the scraper. If the scraper bangs on that payment door 1000x you've spent a fair chunk of CPU looking for valid cookies, query the redis/valkey and DB to manage payment auth.

You're not wrong, it is time the scraper pays, but you're going to have to fund it still.

I don't claim to have a better answer.

I want a perfect solution that is free, putting pages up used to be free, now it isn't.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation"

6c696e7578 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:51:25 +0000

Same

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Self-host your mail server"

6c696e7578 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:32:56 +0000

Been self-hosting my own mail since '99.

Delivery isn't the problem, just people don't use mail as much as they used to. Most people reach for signal or whatsapp to communicate. Most mail is order confirmations. So don't really care if people can't get mail, it isn't the primary communication tool for most people like it used to me.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Neocities: Create your own free website"

6c696e7578 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:24:11 +0000

Yep for the web they worked better. I don't remember midi files getting as close to popular music as mods did. Then mp3 happened and you could download an MP3 in about quarter of an hour in that era. You could hear a midi though in the browser, but mod wasn't as convenient.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Neocities: Create your own free website"

6c696e7578 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:38:17 +0000

I remember .mod music files more than midi

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

6c696e7578 — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:02:40 +0000

https://archive.ph/jR2LF

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "30 Years of ReactOS"

6c696e7578 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:13:40 +0000

> Aix

This is more a limitation on the architecture - virtually nobody has power arch hanging around to play on.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Don't Download Apps"

6c696e7578 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:33:16 +0000

I would say use flickr, but that's shitified now.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset"

6c696e7578 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:43:23 +0000

pkill -9 -f '(chrome|firefox)' is my rage quit, it's like hanging up but hitting the keys on the keyboard as hard as you'd throw the phone down

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

6c696e7578 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:19:05 +0000

Interestingly, chatgpt was unavailable due to the same cloudflare outage.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

6c696e7578 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:04:22 +0000

Likely the $3000 was needed to stand up a network that can handle the request load from hacker news.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

6c696e7578 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:44:38 +0000

> I used per-account email with alias services and password managers.

20-something-ish years ago I setup qmail in my VPS and a .qmail-default file captures all my me-sitename@vps emails. If they send me junk I echo '#' > .qmail-sitename and that's the end of it.

Other things that get a mixture like someone annoying who harvested my ebay/paypal addresses or something, I'll sift out the good (stuff I need) via maildrop and everything else gets junked.

Honestly one of the best, but annoying, things I've done, well worth the time invested as I have a nice clean mailbox.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse"

6c696e7578 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:34:24 +0000

If you have the luxury, switch to different OS user accounts. mr_shopping for online buying, mr_games for games, .. mr_rascal for you know what. The attack surface isn't any different, but the blast radius might be.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

6c696e7578 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:26:52 +0000

Saw the long passwords are cursed one. Reminded me of ancient DES unix passwords only reading the first eight characters. What's old is new again...

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

6c696e7578 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:48:02 +0000

> Last week, I got a LinkedIn message

Are there any moderators left at LinkedIn?

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance"

6c696e7578 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:45:36 +0000

GitLab, not GitHub. I think the distinction is that you can have a on-prem GitLab (as well as hosted online). The implication here being that RedHat probably had very relaxed account security.

New comment by 6c696e7578 in "Helium Browser"

6c696e7578 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:43:16 +0000

They do, whilst they have a minor user base. If they become the majority they'll lose funding.

So from Mozilla's point of view, they must be continually worse alternative. They'd shoot themselves in the foot if they looked like the better alternative.