Hacker News: BloodyIron

New comment by BloodyIron in "Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"

BloodyIron — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:07:03 +0000

Clients sue other business partners all the time, that doesn't mean they stop working together. There's lots of examples of this.

New comment by BloodyIron in "Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage"

BloodyIron — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:50:44 +0000

I'm a fan of audiobookshelf. Don't let the name fool you, it does a lot! I use it for podcasts, audio books, & ebooks. It's great!

New comment by BloodyIron in "Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage"

BloodyIron — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:49:04 +0000

Ceph muahaha

New comment by BloodyIron in "Juggling for Blind People"

BloodyIron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:47:39 +0000

Putting aside that it seems to not work at all on my phone... how is a BLIND PERSON supposed to READ THE TEXT for how this works? This of course assumes blindness is binary (which I _personally_ know it is not).

New comment by BloodyIron in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

BloodyIron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:44:56 +0000

Did someone forget to consult with the MPAA and the RIAA on this one? This is a joke of an outcome. $3k per book. How much was it per song for Napster?

New comment by BloodyIron in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

BloodyIron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:41:23 +0000

Quotas?

New comment by BloodyIron in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

BloodyIron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:36:42 +0000

YAY!

New comment by BloodyIron in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

BloodyIron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:34:36 +0000

As someone who is struggling with SEO for my business due to AI in the last 1-2 years, I'm quite displeased to see this. I'm sure this is going to ruin website SEO even more than it already has been.

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

BloodyIron — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:34:03 +0000

Well I sell various IT systems as products. For example, turnkey TrueNAS systems that were built on refurbished hardware that I/my business personally validated for reliability, and various other metrics. We don't make the hardware, nor the software, but we combine them, validate it does what is expected, and from my perspective that's fair to consider it a "product". How does that line up for you?

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.