Hacker News: Quequau

New comment by Quequau in "Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent"

Quequau — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 12:15:19 +0000

No surprise when the CEO is a vandal.

Also, the other comment was wrongly flagged.

New comment by Quequau in "Oscilloscope/AWG/Logic Analyzer: Analog Discovery 3"

Quequau — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:01:34 +0000

the last time I looked at their stuff it seemed to me they could use a bit of refresh.

New comment by Quequau in "Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit from Itself? (2015)"

Quequau — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:00:42 +0000

Now Reddit has to save itself from mr. Huffman

New comment by Quequau in "Cormac McCarthy has died"

Quequau — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:25:47 +0000

Cormac McCarthy was an optimist.

New comment by Quequau in "U.S. Warned Ukraine Not to Attack Nord Stream"

Quequau — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:33:06 +0000

This where I want to link to that gif of Gene Wilder, dressed all in white, playing Willy Wonka... calling out "No, Don't, Stop, Come back".

New comment by Quequau in "[dead]"

Quequau — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:59:54 +0000

lol, the histrionics.

New comment by Quequau in "Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?"

Quequau — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:22:50 +0000

I guess, I don't know much about TikTok beyond the stuff that showed up in subreddits that I wound up filtering.

I gotta say my home view and my popular view are obviously impacted by the protest. I think nearly all of the subreddits I subscribe to participated, so all I see is content in the subreddits I moderate (which are also shut down). Popular looks old & stale to me, so I turned off my filtering... which revealed a bunch of stuff I don't care about.

For me this is turning into a meditation about how new users are frequently impervious to the messages and signs intended to help them and instead often want a real person to spoon feed them the content of those messages and signs. In the future I'd really like improve the experience of new users but I am not sure how to politely encourage them to engage their brains.

New comment by Quequau in "Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?"

Quequau — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:43:56 +0000

Scrolling through the list of subreddits that are participating it became clear to me that a lot of the sort of places that facilitate a kind of repetitive mindless viral content churn stayed open. That's not really all that surprising. So in that way I think you're right, users who like that sort of thing probably won't notice much or care.

New comment by Quequau in "Reddit CEO: We're Sticking with API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark"

Quequau — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:18:22 +0000

I've had an account on Reddit for 17 years. Steve Huffman being dishonest and manipulative is who he is. Seems to me that the board is OK with him being dishonest and manipulative because if they had a problem with that sort of thing, he would not be CEO and Reddit would be a different sort of place.

New comment by Quequau in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

Quequau — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:43:12 +0000

2 subreddits with more than 20 million subscribers, 1 subreddit with more than 10 million, 23 with more than 1 million subscribers, 18 with more than 500K, 32 with more than 250K... seems like it's beginning to add up to me and it's only 7:40 CEST.

I'm shutting down roughly 50 just before midnight CEST and I expect things to accelerate with the date change at GMT.

New comment by Quequau in "Reddit Strike Has Started"

Quequau — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:33:46 +0000

lol, you're right but also with a good deal of 'minimum viable product' in the mix. I'm going to steal this to share with my friends (who mostly hate Reddit).

Also, have a nice day.

New comment by Quequau in "Five Years of Veloren"

Quequau — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:49:30 +0000

Wow, has it already been that long?

New comment by Quequau in "Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes"

Quequau — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:18:37 +0000

Reading through the list of concessions and explanations attributed to Steve Huffman that Reddit is currently sending to subreddit moderators, I saw a couple of things that struck as almost certainly untrue or at least exaggerated.

I don't think Reddit is approaching this in good faith.

New comment by Quequau in "Mill CPU architecture, roadmap for 2023"

Quequau — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:24:13 +0000

Pleasantly surprised this is still ongoing. I hope they are able to produce something that sees some success.

New comment by Quequau in "The Folks Lining Up for Elon Musk’s Brain Implant"

Quequau — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 18:55:23 +0000

I wonder if more people will die from this compared to the number of monkeys they killed.

New comment by Quequau in "The modern day USB Oscilloscope"

Quequau — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:35:36 +0000

If this is well supported by a Linux application, it seems really interesting.

New comment by Quequau in "USB armory – The open source flash-drive-sized computer by WithSecure Foundry"

Quequau — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:19:21 +0000

Sorta weird to see this thing back in the news after so long. Seems like they've gone through a revision and have been sold to a larger company since the last time I looked.

New comment by Quequau in "Ask HN: Could US cocaine legalization halt Mexican cartels?"

Quequau — Sun, 28 May 2023 13:39:54 +0000

Given how many cartels have expanded operations to include synthetic opioids, methamphetamines, and human trafficking I am sceptical of efficacy of such a policy viewed only through the lens of defeating organised crime in Mexico.

Also, given how American policy seems to have to explore and exhaust all the bad options before settling on some mediocre option, I expect that the first policy choices might actually turn out to be harmful.

New comment by Quequau in "I wrote The Incredible Machine game in the 90s. Now I've made Contraption Maker"

Quequau — Wed, 24 May 2023 05:34:12 +0000

The Reddit post seems to have been deleted by the author.

New comment by Quequau in "Reddit welcomes NSFW desktop image uploads ahead of Imgur’s ban"

Quequau — Sat, 13 May 2023 11:47:16 +0000

The former policy of allowing NSFW images from mobile apps but not from desktop browsers was dumb and contradictory. It created a ton of confusion. I hope they update their pubic facing documents and help to accurately reflect what they are really actually doing.