Hacker News: SadTrombone

New comment by SadTrombone in "DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD"

SadTrombone — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:02:53 +0000

I would maybe amend that to the pricing page, I also thought "long-lived API tokens" referred to the DNS updater functionality, not the management API.

New comment by SadTrombone in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

SadTrombone — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:43:20 +0000

And if you spent more than 5 seconds thinking about this you'd realize that 99% of Firefox users don't know or care who Brendan Eich is. The only one making any moral argument here is you.

New comment by SadTrombone in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

SadTrombone — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:44:03 +0000

If only there was another browser option that was the first word of this thread's title!

New comment by SadTrombone in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

SadTrombone — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:42:55 +0000

I'd imagine that's the reason it's not enabled by default, they're not finished fully implementing it in Firefox yet.

New comment by SadTrombone in "Ubuntu 26.04"

SadTrombone — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:03:02 +0000

Who is "we"? I find GNOME great.

On the other hand, I'm not a fan of people disparaging free open source software that they've never contributed anything to, either money or code.

New comment by SadTrombone in "The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan"

SadTrombone — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:36:33 +0000

There are other countries and coalitions in the world that aren't the United States. Humanity fought and ended wars for thousands of years before the United States ever existed.

New comment by SadTrombone in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

SadTrombone — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:04:49 +0000

This is addressed on their site.

> We might modify your laptop to remove or power down the battery, wireless radios, etc. to ensure it can be used safely in the data center.

New comment by SadTrombone in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

SadTrombone — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:03:02 +0000

"Gemini sent Gavalas to a location near Miami International Airport where he was instructed to stage a mass casualty attack while armed with knives and tactical gear."

New comment by SadTrombone in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

SadTrombone — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:57:23 +0000

It's absolutely not worth noting that because it simply isn't true.

If anything, the MoH numbers are lower than the actual death toll. Even the IDF said internally the numbers were right and their own statistics state that 83% of casualties in Gaza have been civilians.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/israeli-intelligence-health-...

New comment by SadTrombone in "Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands"

SadTrombone — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:29:52 +0000

The IDF has killed many tens of thousands more women and children than Hamas has, so who the bigger terrorists are is debatable.

New comment by SadTrombone in "Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands"

SadTrombone — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:22:41 +0000

I always find it fascinating that pretty much every time pro-Israel posters like yourself bring up Sudan, they only use it as a cudgel to deflect from the IDF's actions in Gaza, not out of any legitimate or sincere concern for the people of Sudan.

> The October 7 massacre passed with barely any notice in much of the Western world.

Verifiably false.

> Yet the moment Israel responded to recover the hostages—if not earlier—there were already demonstrations everywhere against so-called Israeli “atrocities.”

Because we've seen time and time again the brutal methods the IDF uses to retaliate against the entire population of Gaza, employing collective punishment against innocents. And the protesters were sadly proven very right yet again.

> Even with regard to the war in Gaza, Hamas’ use of human shields[1] has resulted in significant civilian casualties [...] Instead, the criticism overwhelmingly targets Israel for civilian deaths caused by Hamas’ human-shield strategy.

Surely even you realize that bombing a building when you know there are human shields held within is a bad thing, right? If you know there are innocent people in the blast radius of your bomb and you still fire the bomb, you are the villain in this story. The IDF has killed more civilians than Hamas has and it's not even remotely close, a difference of tens of thousands at minimum.

New comment by SadTrombone in "After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?"

SadTrombone — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:36:44 +0000

What information do you have that they weren't contributing to the bottom line?

New comment by SadTrombone in "A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain"

SadTrombone — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:34:36 +0000

As someone with back pain, what were the lifestyle changes?

New comment by SadTrombone in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

SadTrombone — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:38:19 +0000

Looks like the releases are pretty up-to-date: https://packages.framasoft.org/projects/mostlymatter/

New comment by SadTrombone in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

SadTrombone — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:49:17 +0000

Not sure if you saw this, but another user pointed out that Mattermost is moving to limit self-hosted instances to 1,000 users: https://forum.mattermost.com/t/solved-is-there-any-limitatio...

New comment by SadTrombone in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"

SadTrombone — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:06:09 +0000

AMD has also often said that they can't compete with Nvidia at the high end, and as the other commenter said: market segments exist. Not everyone needs a 5090. If anything, people are starved for options in the budget/mid-range market, which is where Intel could pick up a solid chunk of market share.

New comment by SadTrombone in "AnduinOS"

SadTrombone — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:12:26 +0000

Isn't VanillaOS immutable?

New comment by SadTrombone in "Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles"

SadTrombone — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:38:48 +0000

That's the whole point of it being in a "bottle", each bottle has its own self-contained instance of wine.

New comment by SadTrombone in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

SadTrombone — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:14:05 +0000

Playing this corny HN-brained faux-debate game when Israel is blocking hundreds of aid trucks from entering Gaza and letting children starve to death is in really bad taste.

New comment by SadTrombone in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

SadTrombone — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:12:08 +0000

How so? It's common knowledge that the nascent IDF absorbed terrorist organizations like the Irgun and Lehi into their ranks and gave them autonomy to operate as they had been. Leaders of these terrorist organizations went on to join the highest ranks of Israeli leadership. David Ben-Gurion being one of many (his Haganah cooperated closely with the Irgun and Lehi as they committed kidnappings, bombings and murders).

This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's widely documented by respectable historians.