Hacker News: DakotaR

New comment by DakotaR in "Cloudflare Drop"

DakotaR — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:21:28 +0000

Yeah, I was going to start a file drop site like 0x until realizing what it'd be used for

New comment by DakotaR in "Google will let companies run Gemini models in their own data centers"

DakotaR — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 03:14:52 +0000

https://circlesofcaredatasettlement.com/

Remote-Touchpad: Control Mouse/Keyboard via a Browser for Wayland and X11

DakotaR — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Unrud/remote-touchpad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579176

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by DakotaR in "Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off switch"

DakotaR — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 04:02:43 +0000

I loathe ads on my Roku TV, but free news channels and Jellyfin make it worthwhile in my case.

New comment by DakotaR in "Goodwatch – A Ham Radio Wristwatch (2020)"

DakotaR — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:45:10 +0000

Somewhat disagree, it depends on the club. For example, I've experienced a lot more conversation on the W3OK repeater vs the W4MLB repeaters

New comment by DakotaR in "Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made"

DakotaR — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:57:06 +0000

Interesting, only a 10-year gap between the 68k portable Mac and the 68k TI-89

New comment by DakotaR in "Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor"

DakotaR — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 19:19:16 +0000

In the same vein, Remote Touchpad [0] is fantastic if you don't need an extra screen.

[0] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.unrud.RemoteTouchpad

New comment by DakotaR in "The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression"

DakotaR — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:25:53 +0000

I rented for a few months in a motel converted to studios/section 8, great niche and I wish it was more common

New comment by DakotaR in "Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls'"

DakotaR — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:37:30 +0000

Similarly, my high school always had someone controlling the lights to get all the traffic through

New comment by DakotaR in "GNU Units"

DakotaR — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:02:16 +0000

Thank you, these examples are amazing

New comment by DakotaR in "Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website"

DakotaR — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 21:42:12 +0000

As opposed to 'crayon' licenses that make up their own terms and cause legal uncertainty

New comment by DakotaR in "Show HN: Pubnix.pink, a public-access Void Linux system"

DakotaR — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:28:26 +0000

It started as a tiny vm for playing around with, then I came across the article [1] and started doing the sections until it was ready to open to other users.

As for Void Linux, it's the distro all my machines run. It's stable, lightweight, feels like a bsd, and the automated package build system is fantastic. I started with Fedora in 2016 and used it for years, but switched to Void after becoming disillusioned with systemd issues on my server.

[1] https://www.edwinwenink.xyz/posts/47-tilde_server/

New comment by DakotaR in "Show HN: Pubnix.pink, a public-access Void Linux system"

DakotaR — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:40:10 +0000

Short answer: they're like BBSes that have more tools and run on *nix.

New comment by DakotaR in "Show HN: Pubnix.pink, a public-access Void Linux system"

DakotaR — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:22:51 +0000

Not that I know of, pubnix and tilde server seem to be synonymous in this space.

Show HN: Pubnix.pink, a public-access Void Linux system

DakotaR — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:10:51 +0000

This is a hobby project I've been working on, any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35428660

Points: 27

# Comments: 8

New comment by DakotaR in "No Magnets, Big Power: BMW’s Fifth-Generation Electric Motor (2022)"

DakotaR — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:02:56 +0000

That's really interesting that they picked brushes; Renault's EESM motors are similar but use wireless power transfer to excite the rotor windings. Maybe brushes can pass more current cheaply?

New comment by DakotaR in "SSH tips and tricks"

DakotaR — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:57:08 +0000

I only use Mosh, but it's annoying to have to hit C-b [ and end up with clunky scrolling in tmux.

New comment by DakotaR in "A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor"

DakotaR — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 01:01:31 +0000

I really like the EESM motors cars like the Renault Zoe use. It's basically a permanent magnet motor, but the rotor uses electromagnets that are energized through wireless power transfer.

New comment by DakotaR in "How to Build a Real Igloo"

DakotaR — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:03:30 +0000

Matthias Wandel's take:

https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/winter/igloo.html

https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/winter/igloo2.html

New comment by DakotaR in "Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to prove I own my account"

DakotaR — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:23:43 +0000

Alternatively, use a brokerage that's been around for decades and doesn't employ these dark patterns.