Hacker News: LightBug1

New comment by LightBug1 in "A Health Update"

LightBug1 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:28:26 +0000

I don't call them anything.

Haven't logged in directly for years, or checked anonymously for more than a year now.

Come on in, the water's lovely.

I miss twitter and tweets. So, thank you, Mr Hockenberry for being one of the team to bring us that. Wishing you well.

New comment by LightBug1 in "How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008)"

LightBug1 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:25:49 +0000

I'm still calling the axing of Google Reader the jump the shark moment!

New comment by LightBug1 in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

LightBug1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:35:02 +0000

You literally have no idea what you're talking about.

But I'm pleased you live up to your profile name.

All best,

New comment by LightBug1 in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

LightBug1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:05:10 +0000

I note that you do acknowledge the hypocrisy.

That's enough for me.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

LightBug1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:10:37 +0000

It's not "looking for support", it's pointing out the abject hypocrisy. But what's new. Have a great day.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office"

LightBug1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:13:20 +0000

Thanks for that fairER assessment.

For all his warts and all, Jobs is starting to age well in comparison to the current crop of wankers.

Excuse my French.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

LightBug1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:09:35 +0000

Only if you ignore the last 100 years of geopolitics. But, fair point.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

LightBug1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:03:25 +0000

Welcome to the party.

Fuck that obnoxious wanker.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS"

LightBug1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:50:57 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Will wait for the Moto reboot! Hopefully this becomes more of a thing.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS"

LightBug1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:41:57 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!!!

I'm a previous Moto user and despite Pixel supposedly being more advanced, I really disliked them. I always preferred the Moto phones.

Gives me hope!

New comment by LightBug1 in "Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS"

LightBug1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:36:16 +0000

Excellent. That was one of my main issues with Graphene.

I'm just starting a deep-dive on it.

As a newbie, can existing users point out any other gotchas?

* EDIT: Oh ffs, only on Pixel phones ...

New comment by LightBug1 in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

LightBug1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:54:05 +0000

Read my comment again. Actually read it.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions"

LightBug1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:46:44 +0000

For the lazy asses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug

New comment by LightBug1 in "Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened"

LightBug1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:18:08 +0000

The instance might be exceptional, but the steady torrent of different varities of shit coming out of the USA is not exceptional. It's incredible.

And don't me wrong, I'm certain there are millions of good people in the USA. But the assholes are in the ascendancy. Obviously.

Stand up, or get flushed down the shitter.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened"

LightBug1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:16:05 +0000

The instance might be exceptional, but the steady torrent of different varities of shit coming out of the USA is not exceptional. It's incredible.

And don't me wrong, I'm certain there are millions of good people in the USA. But the assholes are in the ascendancy. Obviously.

Stand up, or get flushed down the shitter.

New comment by LightBug1 in "Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened"

LightBug1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:08:21 +0000

Let me guess. USA?

For the land of the free and home of the brave ... it's incredible what you let happen.

New comment by LightBug1 in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

LightBug1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:15:48 +0000

I think the point is that - tragically and infuriatingly - it seems we'll answer that question when it happens.

Personally, I think it's time for some metaphorical guillotines to change our current directon.

New comment by LightBug1 in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

LightBug1 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:56:37 +0000

We will continue extracting absolutely everything we can from Earth, at whatever the cost ... with the hope that technology will one day save us from our weakness.

And, yes, technologyy may "save us", but there are many different definitions of what that will look that ... some may be horrendous for the majority, but none of them will inconvenience those making the most significant decisions.

New comment by LightBug1 in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

LightBug1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:17:24 +0000

TARIFFS! LOL

New comment by LightBug1 in "Tesla Roadster"

LightBug1 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:45:25 +0000

It's a joke. A clever trick. To what end? ... absolute joke.

Do you know what gets me excited? Have you seen the new Porsche Mission S?

Form, function and beauty ...