Hacker News: BigTuna

New comment by BigTuna in "Open Social"

BigTuna — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:07:46 +0000

There are already working alternate implementations of every protocol component.

New comment by BigTuna in "The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign"

BigTuna — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:59:32 +0000

And fwiw Bluesky DIDs are currently still centralized in plc.directory but work is being done to decentralize them.

New comment by BigTuna in "Why does FM sound better than AM?"

BigTuna — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:58:08 +0000

>We WANT to know that there's a collision in transmission so that we know we need to retransmit

Digital trunked public safety systems solved this problem decades ago. If you key up when the frequency is in use you get a distinct rejected tone. I'd think prevention is far preferable to sorting it out once everyone's finished walking on each other.

New comment by BigTuna in "Ask HN: Node vs. .NET Core (2024 edition)"

BigTuna — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:21:16 +0000

This is an absurd generalization

New comment by BigTuna in "Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?"

BigTuna — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:42:43 +0000

I was too poor, but I did belatedly donate to the maker of Trumpet Winsock thanks to this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875

New comment by BigTuna in "Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts"

BigTuna — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:24:28 +0000

>just not for their own workers

The shoemaker's children always go barefoot

New comment by BigTuna in "Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies"

BigTuna — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:37:35 +0000

Just think of the billions of planets out there that have never heard Black Sabbath

New comment by BigTuna in "My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy"

BigTuna — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:07:20 +0000

If pixelfed and mastodon are federated with each other, you should be able to view users and posts from both sites on either site - no need to sign up for both.

New comment by BigTuna in "Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite"

BigTuna — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:38:14 +0000

It's all your posts and replies as a user. While they currently host the only* PDS themselves, the end goal is for every end user to have their own PDS. Inrupt/SOLID calls this concept a "pod".

*(actually they just onboarded a second production PDS yesterday.. progress!)

New comment by BigTuna in "Build your own BitTorrent"

BigTuna — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:30:42 +0000

I think it's breaking some other things as well

[stage-1] Expected "\"orange\"\n" as stdout, got: "Hello World 2!\n"

New comment by BigTuna in "Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)"

BigTuna — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:34:43 +0000

This was probably 20 years ago now but I don't think it was a formal paper

New comment by BigTuna in "Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)"

BigTuna — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:11:55 +0000

A long time *ago I read re: Feynman's divorce that false accusations of abuse were common back then because no-fault divorce didn't exist. Couples that wanted a divorce would have to concoct a story in order to get a judge to sign off. I don't have strong feelings either way because it's impossible to know what really happened between them, but I found it an interesting counterpoint.

New comment by BigTuna in "A Love Letter to Geocities Sites"

BigTuna — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 13:46:09 +0000

Any old heads remember using HoTMetaL to write HTML? It was literally just a glorified text editor that inserted tags for you. I eventually learned HTML well enough from it that it became faster to just write pages in Notepad.

New comment by BigTuna in "Vintage radio broadcasting equipment"

BigTuna — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:12:02 +0000

I'm currently working on getting a retired Broadcast Electronics 2100C cart machine from my old college radio station and as I expected the parts appear to be very hard to come by. If anyone has a suggestion/lead I'd be grateful.

New comment by BigTuna in "Software is eating the car"

BigTuna — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:33:17 +0000

I don't mind complexity but what I can't stand is having to access that complexity through touchscreens. Without the tactile feedback of a knob or button I have to take my attention off the road to see where I need to press on the screen. That's a major step backwards in auto safety, IMO.

And don't get me started on the lazy manufacturer design trend of bolting a tablet to the dashboard and calling it a day.

New comment by BigTuna in "Couple arrested after feds trace their IPs as having accessed Silk Road"

BigTuna — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:21:22 +0000

Somewhat misleading headline. The IP trace led them to the couple but old fashioned techniques like surveillance provided the evidence to actually make an arrest.

New comment by BigTuna in "Android Lollipop update causes problems"

BigTuna — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:06:55 +0000

I have a 2012 Nexus 7 and I'm wary of people saying they didn't have performance problems until Lollipop. If I was using it for much more than an e-reader the lag would have forced me to upgrade a year ago. I don't question the other issues reported but I haven't experienced any of them. The only thing I don't like so far is the combined notification bar that requires two swipes to reach the menu that used to only require one.

New comment by BigTuna in "Woz’s take on the Apple 1’s noisy -5 volt supply"

BigTuna — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:19:20 +0000

When you read responses like this it's impossible not to be in awe of the guy. He's a great role model for newer generations both in his passion for his work and his top-notch personality.

New comment by BigTuna in "Our Invisible Rich"

BigTuna — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:08:32 +0000

1. Presidents don't raise taxes. 2. There are far more loopholes and exemptions than there were in Reagan's first term.

New comment by BigTuna in "Researcher shows that black holes do not exist"

BigTuna — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:56:59 +0000

Alternative theories are fine but this doesn't explain any of the observations that have led us to believe black holes exist in the first place. If black holes don't exist, what exactly is Saggitarius A* then? The stars at the center of our galaxy are orbiting something invisible and truly massive (about 4 million solar masses.)