Hacker News: Auguste

What's New in SpinRite 6.1?

Auguste — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:02:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.grc.com/sr/61for60.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550361

Points: 4

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New comment by Auguste in "Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures"

Auguste — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:53:23 +0000

I disagree. I've never heard of this game before, but I just read the whole CoC and it made me want to give it a try.

I respect that the developer went to great lengths to outline their expectations in such clear detail. It sounds like a cool community to me.

New comment by Auguste in "Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser"

Auguste — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:42:14 +0000

Well done! Dillo is a great little browser.

New comment by Auguste in "Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive"

Auguste — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:46:03 +0000

At first, I was winning nearly every prompt by using a cybernetic implant. After a couple of rounds, the cybernetic implant began failing, or the procedure to get it would have side effects. Seems like there's definitely some randomness to survival?

New comment by Auguste in "1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account"

Auguste — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:19:04 +0000

I appreciate their transparency. I'm not a 1Password customer, but this earned some respect from me.

New comment by Auguste in "Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer"

Auguste — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:58:24 +0000

The difference with Kagi is it lets me completely block Quora from my search results. Quora has been garbage for years, even before they started using AI answers.

New comment by Auguste in "Encyclopaedia Metallum"

Auguste — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 12:21:34 +0000

That's weird, I don't know anyone who wouldn't call Rammstein and Rob Zombie metal. Are they really not considered metal in some circles?

Just curious, if they don't sound anything like metal to you, what kind of metal do you like to listen to? I mostly listen to doom metal, plus a little bit of death metal, industrial metal, and black metal.

New comment by Auguste in "Encyclopaedia Metallum"

Auguste — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 09:33:40 +0000

They exclude pretty much every industrial metal band because industrial metal is ostensibly not metal enough.

No Rob Zombie. No Rammstein.

Meanwhile, they added psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and their whole discography (now up to 24 albums) solely because their 15th album was metal.

I love King Gizz, but Metal Archives are disappointingly inconsistent.

New comment by Auguste in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

Auguste — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:01:43 +0000

https://dheinemann.com

I mostly blog about programming and software, or whatever comes across my mind.

One of my favourite posts is "This is not the Web I've Known", which is about personal websites and the Small Web.

https://dheinemann.com/posts/2022-01-09-this-is-not-the-web-...

New comment by Auguste in "To unlock drink verification can (2013)"

Auguste — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:57:40 +0000

For a while now, the KTM motorcycle company has been selling bikes with a Demo Mode.

For the first 1,500 km, you get access to all of the electronic features of your new bike; then they get disabled and you have to pay to re-enable them.

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/ktm-demo-mode

New comment by Auguste in "Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says"

Auguste — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:12:51 +0000

Amazon Prime is definitely hard to cancel, but I had a pleasant customer support experience at least.

A few years ago I came to realise I had left my monthly Prime subscription active for a whole year when I thought I had cancelled it.

Once I realised, I cancelled it and asked Amazon support if I could possibly get a refund; they granted it the next day after confirming I hadn't bought anything or watched Prime Video in that time.

I'm very careful to make sure I cancel Prime when I'm done with it now. It bothers me that they don't send an email receipt or anything every time you're billed.

New comment by Auguste in "Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots"

Auguste — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:25:16 +0000

I'm disappointed that Search My Site isn't seeing many legitimate viewers.

Just wanted you to know that I'm a fan. I love reading peoples personal websites, and Search My Site has been great for discoverability. I visit the Newest Pages and Browse Sites pages once or twice a week to check out the new sites being indexed.

I don't know what the answer is to the spam bots, but you do have some real visitors out there. :)

New comment by Auguste in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

Auguste — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:20:26 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by Auguste in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

Auguste — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:22:21 +0000

https://dheinemann.com

Pretty simple. I blog about whatever comes across my mind.

New comment by Auguste in "A New Face for Pebble"

Auguste — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 01:24:56 +0000

The Pebble Time Steel definitely does. I assume the regular Time is the same.

New comment by Auguste in "South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat"

Auguste — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:16:23 +0000

It's hilarious. I have no idea what the text or comments are saying, but I can't stop laughing.

New comment by Auguste in "South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat"

Auguste — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:02:05 +0000

You mean the 'Crying While Eating'[1] meme?

[1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-while-eating

New comment by Auguste in "OS X Mavericks kernel_task eating 100% CPU"

Auguste — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:33:57 +0000

No, I don't have a bluetooth keyboard. On the Macbooks I use the built-in. On the iMac I use a wired keyboard.

New comment by Auguste in "OS X Mavericks kernel_task eating 100% CPU"

Auguste — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 23:28:28 +0000

I've had this problem with all my Macs at home, although it would never occur with other Wi-Fi access points. This leads me to believe it has something to do with the wireless access point itself.

I was never able to fix the problem, but it went away after I bought an AirPort Time Capsule, which now serves as my wireless router. It has an extremely limited feature set compared to a real router, but I haven't had connection problems once since implementing it.

New comment by Auguste in "MS-DOS Viruses in Action"

Auguste — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:47:50 +0000

You may be able to get them working in a FreeDOS virtual machine.