Hacker News: Modified3019

New comment by Modified3019 in "Tunecat: Simple Internet Radio"

Modified3019 — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:33:24 +0000

For those that want a personal “radio station” that’s a bit more extensive: https://github.com/perminder-klair/subwave

New comment by Modified3019 in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

Modified3019 — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:22:52 +0000

>CalebCity: “How fearless minions are in ANY video game”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC375rujZhs

New comment by Modified3019 in "Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions"

Modified3019 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:56:06 +0000

I use privacy.com virtual cards. I make a card for each vendor, and define a limit for it. I can kill the cards anytime.

New comment by Modified3019 in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

Modified3019 — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:12:26 +0000

That was a fun read, thanks.

New comment by Modified3019 in "Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon"

Modified3019 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:41:02 +0000

Interesting, it seems I learned/am using a modern American mutated version of the word.

https://www.broadlearners.com/t/understanding-the-meaning-of...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/whole-nother

https://old.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/13s19j0/wtf_happ...

In my case, I was using it as almost a blend of the two meanings, something mostly meaning “unimpressed”, with a touch of “and a bit perplexed why such effort is going into this”. Basically a shoulder shrug and “okay…?”

I now find myself nonplussed, wondering if I should be using the word at all given it seems to have two opposite meanings.

New comment by Modified3019 in "Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon"

Modified3019 — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:02:49 +0000

Was initially nonplussed, but toward the end I realized the choice of pokemon for an example actually works out well for showing how prologue can solve problems. I’m now a bit curious about trying it out somewhere.

New comment by Modified3019 in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

Modified3019 — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:35:06 +0000

Same vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOTyUfOHgas

New comment by Modified3019 in "HDD Firmware Hacking"

Modified3019 — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:15:44 +0000

In my case, the drive suddenly only shows having 1GB of read only space available. The firmware version will be reported as “ERRORMOD” (meaning, error mode). There are no warning signs, it just happens.

All data is lost the moment you see ERRORMOD, there is no recovery of data that I am aware of. It is sometimes possible to clear the drive and recover function for the now untrustworthy drive: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/pm9a3-firm...

It’s not the only way a drive can fail, but it’s the most immediately obvious one.

Other ways of the firmware failing result in no drive showing up at all, or data corruption. Physical failures can also happen, like breakage of the solder balls under the chips (which fixable enough to get data off it).

New comment by Modified3019 in "HDD Firmware Hacking"

Modified3019 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:32:08 +0000

Related, someone decompiled Samsung’s 840 EVO ssd firmware, before Samsung later started encrypting it: http://www2.futureware.at/~philipp/ssd/TheMissingManual.pdf

Came across it looking how to deal with multiple different samsung drives caught in bad states due to shitty firmware. My original salty post warning about vendor branded Samsung drives on eBay is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37165189

New comment by Modified3019 in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

Modified3019 — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:19:36 +0000

You might consider setting up Navidrome. It’s working well for me, running NixOS on an N150 minipc along with Tailscale.

Lots of clients are available to connect with it (it also has a functional web UI). It does not touch your music files, keeping things like star ratings in its database.

https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

# Clients

https://www.navidrome.org/apps/

New comment by Modified3019 in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"

Modified3019 — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:36:08 +0000

I don’t have direct experience, but when I looked into it my takeaway that NBD was unable to reliably deal with network interruptions as well as iscsi.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=4895771&sid=f9b7ac...

https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/issues/93

Whether that’s the case with the latest version, I don’t know, but it’s something you might test if you choose to try it.

New comment by Modified3019 in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

Modified3019 — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:39:58 +0000

I just bought a few more Intel 310 Series 40GB mSATA ssd’s on eBay for $10 each. They are ancient and comparatively slow, but reliable and extremely low power, so much so they can be perfectly powered by a USB 2.0 port in an enclosure if needed, and don’t need a heat sink. My original 80GB version ($190) that I put in my W520 thinkpad in 2011 is still going strong.

Basically I like to use them as a cheap “better” thumb drive, putting ventoy on them with no concern for space, along with a fat32 partition for bios updates.

These along with a nanoKVM box my siblings can attach to the computers I built for them makes remote troubleshooting relatively painless when rustdesk isn’t sufficient.

New comment by Modified3019 in "Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer"

Modified3019 — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:58:57 +0000

IMOD’s (like Mirasol, which was abandoned) are pretty neat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometric_modulator_disp...

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...

New comment by Modified3019 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

Modified3019 — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:27:41 +0000

I’m an agronomist and while I don’t directly deal with that level of things, what you wrote sounds roughly like what goes on for the hazelnut industry here in Oregon.

https://www.hazelnutbargaining.com/

New comment by Modified3019 in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

Modified3019 — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:50:33 +0000

It’s for sure not fair for you personally. However it’s also not fair the rest of us have do deal with Russia’s hacking and propaganda organizations that are either directly state run or willfully tolerated. IP blocks don’t fix everything, but they do (or did at least) counter a good portion of the bots for no effort.

You live in a country that is awful to itself and everyone around it, but that’s not something we can fix.

New comment by Modified3019 in "The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill"

Modified3019 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:22:02 +0000

>An estimated 1.36 short tons (1.23 t) of uranium and 46 curies of alpha contaminants traveled 80 miles (130 km) downstream[8] to Navajo County, Arizona, and onto the Navajo Nation.[2] In addition to being radioactive and acidic, the spill contained toxic metals and sulfates.[9] The spill contaminated groundwater and rendered the Puerco unusable to local residents, mostly Navajo peoples who used the river's water for drinking, irrigation, and livestock. They were not warned for days of the toxic dangers from the spill.[2]

>The governor of New Mexico, Bruce King, refused the Navajo Nation's request that the site be declared a federal disaster area, limiting aid to affected residents.[10] The nuclear contamination event received less media coverage than that of Three Mile Island, possibly because it occurred in a very rural area not served by major media. The spill also happened in Native American country, among a community who reportedly did not have their concerns addressed by medical authorities.[11]

I’m not surprised, but I am disappointed.

New comment by Modified3019 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

Modified3019 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:14:54 +0000

My understanding is that FDIC deposit insurance only protects against bank failure, not fraudulent activity. Getting your account drained by an attacker may or may not be covered by a patchwork of other laws at various levels, and you could very well end up shit out of luck.

New comment by Modified3019 in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

Modified3019 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:55:39 +0000

Do the design and materials take into account how well it can be sterilized?

New comment by Modified3019 in "Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing"

Modified3019 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:18:01 +0000

My earliest desire for real AI was so it could control my dumb fucking harvester in C&C95.

New comment by Modified3019 in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"

Modified3019 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:06:16 +0000

Same, and agreed. It’s also annoying for everyone else who has to listen to the same few unit movement confirmation sounds hundreds of times in an hour.