Hacker News: Slash65

New comment by Slash65 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

Slash65 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:42:42 +0000

In my city in Northern California our downtown uses an app for parking now. I don’t use it so it’s still an option, but you have to goto a kiosk, enter your license plate number, and pay with card. It’s made the downtown more of a ghost town (admittedly it was already dying) and the boomers with cash just don’t go. The younger 20somethings all complain “boomers are too stupid to use an app” and have no concern for privacy apparently. Welcome to the future I guess.

New comment by Slash65 in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

Slash65 — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:02:25 +0000

People, or at least Americans, didn’t care in 2012 when the Snowden reveal happened. We’ve been at that point for over a decade now.

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