Hacker News: BloodyIron

New comment by BloodyIron in "Perfection is not over-engineering"

BloodyIron — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:41:23 +0000

So is a screwdriver a tool or a product?

I think you're getting caught up on nomenclature and limited sample sizes.

New comment by BloodyIron in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

BloodyIron — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:45:39 +0000

How did you market it? I'm trying to get into my own production stuff and I don't want to participate in the parasitic Amazon or overcrowded Etsy ecosystems. Looks like you're doing sales through your own website, which I want to do myself. But I haven't yet figured out how to bring legit traffic to my own website. I don't have money to throw at advertising and that's a minefield of fake traffic anyways. Any advice to share please?

New comment by BloodyIron in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

BloodyIron — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:36:02 +0000

Anyone that cares about privacy and uses Instagram won't care about this. It's not a good thing for Meta to do this but the last two+ decades has demonstrated people prefer to be ignorant and accept whatever comes. Let them eat cake and rot. I tire of being called paranoid because I know how all this can be abused.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

BloodyIron — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:27:49 +0000

Samba has never been about file sharing over the internet. The project has been about cleanroom-reverse-engineering specific MS technology. To start it was NT4 authentication domains, then printing services, along the way SMBv1 (commonly incorrectly called CIFS btw), then SMBv2 v3.x, and then in 2012 Samba Active Directory.

In no way has it ever been about a functional alternative to something like Nextcloud. It's been about services primarily for LAN functionality, not stuff that should be going over the internet (mostly for security reasons).

So your expectations really don't align with what Samba has ever been about.

Source: I professionally support Samba for businesses.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

BloodyIron — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:36:09 +0000

I'm sorry Google, I'm afraid I can't do that.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

BloodyIron — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:35:04 +0000

Google will incur serious lawsuits if they remove that accessibility aspect.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

BloodyIron — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:33:15 +0000

Any chance for something 100% self-hostable? hcaptcha and friendlycaptcha last I checked require interfacing with their services.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

BloodyIron — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:32:14 +0000

Nextcloud, Samba serving SMB isn't really equivalent.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Brain scans reveal how to enters a psychedelic-like trance without drugs"

BloodyIron — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:40:54 +0000

I... I think I might be able to do that too..

New comment by BloodyIron in "The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS"

BloodyIron — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:20:54 +0000

I'm a fan of Concrete CMS. No plans to switch away, and yes I am working with AI.

New comment by BloodyIron in "OpenAI raises $122B"

BloodyIron — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:33:06 +0000

Inflation is a hell of a drug.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

BloodyIron — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:05:39 +0000

YouTube recommendations are very well tuned for me. You need to mark videos "not interested" and downvote stuff you don't actually like, as well as stopping videos when you've decided you're not interested. This and other aspects WILL improve your recommended feed. So if your recommended feed sucks, well that's on you there bud, you can influence it completely.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:34:20 +0000

Ahh yes the downvotes for pointing out that something is achievable by putting in the effort to improve. I see Reddit is spilling over here.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:43:09 +0000

We'll see how the future unfolds. Until then, I have plenty of other things to do. And I bet you do too :P

New comment by BloodyIron in "Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:38:22 +0000

I was giving a similar, but tangibly different, example of enshitification. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 translation to be a relevant example.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:37:39 +0000

Yes you can. I do it every day. Get better at driving.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:27:48 +0000

You open the trunk and put it in. And leave enough room behind your vehicle to do that, which is available in _every_ parking spot.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:26:54 +0000

Thanks for recording me without my consent just because I walked past your car parked. /s

New comment by BloodyIron in "Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:25:11 +0000

I'm actually probably going to start asking new friends if, when they invite me over, if they have a ring doorbell. I'm getting fed up with being recorded without consent just because I want to go visit someone. Fuck that.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs"

BloodyIron — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:22:25 +0000

Discord is so cooked. It's Reddit all over again. And that place is utter trash now. Mods and Admins not even following their own rules, zero accountability.