Hacker News: Neil44

New comment by Neil44 in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

Neil44 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:50:41 +0000

It seems there's suspiciously little context available, yet here I also am commenting on a 'vaguepost'. I wonder if one day AI will be able to filter out vagueposts from my browser along with ragebait and curiosity gap headlines.

New comment by Neil44 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

Neil44 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:14:01 +0000

There are numerous spaces and opportunities for you to express your opinions. In fact almost anywhere else (in the US anyway)

New comment by Neil44 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

Neil44 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:44:52 +0000

It's not a direct threat but it is a passive one, it's also swearing and a contentious statement in a confined space where everyone needs to get along for the next N hours. They know damn well what the issue is but they're going to put their hands up and claim they're just expressing an opinion and they're not hurting anyone. It's childish behavior imo.

New comment by Neil44 in "The dead economy theory"

Neil44 — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:57:59 +0000

I don't think it's productive to single out a specific company that's in this area. If they closed someone else would do it. If they don't execute well someone else will. It's the same mentality as people who smashed up looms to keep people employed at spinning wheels.

New comment by Neil44 in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

Neil44 — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:02:18 +0000

I hate getting AI generated emails from people. They probably haven't even read or understood the slop they're sending me, the chances of them understanding and contextualizing what I reply are slim, I might as well reply with AI slop. What's the point of any of this.

Maybe I can increase the weights on slop in my spam filter.

New comment by Neil44 in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

Neil44 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:28:03 +0000

Yup. Let's see Kiras LinkedIN.

New comment by Neil44 in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

Neil44 — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:30:03 +0000

We have a customer with a business in Uganda, we just give her the laptops and she physically takes them with her next time she goes there.

New comment by Neil44 in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

Neil44 — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:06:34 +0000

I think solar and wind are a good idea, and subsidies can be a useful tool, I think making a statement about how cheap solar and wind are without mentioning that they're subsidized is not entirely accurate or honest.

New comment by Neil44 in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

Neil44 — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:09:49 +0000

In case you're as interested as I was, they have google street view.

New comment by Neil44 in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

Neil44 — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:24:15 +0000

I did not express an opinion on whether subsidies are good or bad :)

New comment by Neil44 in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

Neil44 — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:15:30 +0000

Solar and wind are still heavily subsidized are they not? If they're so economically amazing why are they subsidized?

New comment by Neil44 in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

Neil44 — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:09:39 +0000

To be fair it's pretty much the norm with shared and even vps hosting that your cpanel etc will be publicly accessible. Only people who hand-roll their setups will have things firewalled down etc. And if it's a website promoting a local tree planting initiative or whatever is it really a good use of budget to get everything hardened so much.

New comment by Neil44 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

Neil44 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:10:51 +0000

Solar and wind also require many materials extracted through mining, you can't really get away from mining whatever you do.

New comment by Neil44 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

Neil44 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:09:11 +0000

I would counter that being reliant on gas and oil from our enemies as we currently are is madness.

New comment by Neil44 in "Copy Fail"

Neil44 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:25:23 +0000

I thought that. surely people are going crazy right now owning anything with an our of date Wordpress exposed.

New comment by Neil44 in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

Neil44 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:30:14 +0000

They are not comparable accidents, Fukishima had no direct casualties and mostly very local effects and Chernobyl needs no introduction. I guess the cause / back story is more interesting for Chernobyl as well because of the human and political aspects.

New comment by Neil44 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

Neil44 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:56:31 +0000

The issue with a client app backing up dropbox and onedrive folders on your computer is the files on demand feature, you could sync a 1tb onedrive to your 250gb laptop but it's OK because of smart/selective sync aka files on demand. Then backblaze backup tries to back the folder up and requests a download of every single file and now you have zero bytes free, still no backup and a sick laptop. You could oauth the backblaze app to access onedrive directly, but if you want to back your onedrive up you need a different product IMO.

New comment by Neil44 in "Running Out of Disk Space in Production"

Neil44 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:43:40 +0000

I also discovered gdu recently. It's really good. It saves me running du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -h a million times trying to find where the space has gone while you're stressing about production being down.

New comment by Neil44 in "Every GPU That Mattered"

Neil44 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:00:03 +0000

I had the Voodoo 1 with VGA passthrough from the 2D card. When you loaded a game you'd head a little clunk from a relay on the Voodoo taking over the VGA signal and you knew you were about to have a good time. Doesn't seem that long ago!

New comment by Neil44 in "The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV"

Neil44 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:09:01 +0000

If I'm in the position in future I'd love to do a history degree. I wasn't very interested in anything except computers when I was young.