Hacker News: Slash65

New comment by Slash65 in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

Slash65 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:09:28 +0000

Jumping in with one persons anecdotal evidence but I loved when I can pay $10 a month for Netflix when it had everything or almost everything I could watch and I quit pirating. When the content from other networks got pulled and the prices starting getting jacked up I went back to the seven seas. A good service with good quality at a decent price is awesome but 10 different services all trying to gouge me for $15-$20 a month with no guarantee the content I like won’t be removed in a few months is ludicrous and led me right back to not paying anything.

New comment by Slash65 in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

Slash65 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:17:31 +0000

The world is cold and insensitive the majority of the time

New comment by Slash65 in "On privacy and control"

Slash65 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:09:06 +0000

This is the rub, tech is able to track you based on your browser, viewport size, os, location (a vpn still has a location if you aren’t rotating) and more. I use Firefox for privacy and just that measure alone rules out 97% of internet traffic and zeros down who I am within 3%. How private am I if I default to that 3%. 1440p monitor and a half screen Firefox viewport? Now we’re building an advertising profile!

New comment by Slash65 in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

Slash65 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:31:36 +0000

That’s what I do, the jetkvm has its “own” mini hdmi that follows it as I have moved it from different machines. Buying one cable wasn’t the end of the world (I was able to snag the jetkvm for $70 during its kickstarter and a $10 cord) and I use it constantly so it’s never collecting dust

New comment by Slash65 in "Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)"

Slash65 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:16:01 +0000

I like the comparison of Meshtastic being the replacement for CB, it fits pretty well since they are both decentralized and made to run without a lot of underlying infrastructure and both work well to communicate in emergency’s.

New comment by Slash65 in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

Slash65 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:22:25 +0000

I think this is the real problem. If it’s unsourced, how can I verify the LLM isn’t hallucinating. That being said I started running open web ui to host models locally and have heard that some will source their content(I don’t know which, I haven’t hosted them yet) so that is promising. I also like hosting deep seek locally and being able to review its logic process so I can assess how it arrived at its conclusions. All that to say, I still use a traditional search (self hosted version of searxng) for 95% of my search. I like llms for bouncing ideas around, but not for finding accurate results quickly