Hacker News: SuperNinKenDo

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

SuperNinKenDo — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:45:48 +0000

Globalization can run both ways. It can also create much more sensitivity to disruption as bets are placed in a system with a lot more moving parts.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

SuperNinKenDo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:28:46 +0000

Yeah. I installed it to HDD and it worked great. You'd think the thing had an SSD ot was so snappy. No issues with compat on the drive or anything.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

SuperNinKenDo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:15:57 +0000

I suspect it was a freak occurence, but I actually had incredible luck running Haiku on an old laptop back in the day. It was incredibly fast, and just about all the amenities you'd expect worked with no or minimal intervention.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Liberated Systemd"

SuperNinKenDo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:33:57 +0000

As I get older I get more and more annoyed reading useless comments like yours.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Why New Zealand is seeing an exodus of over-30s"

SuperNinKenDo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:32:28 +0000

Not really. More like a permanent resident, which is still pretty nice. In the past they were closer to citizens (and many older NZers who come over can be grandfathered into these privileges to one extent or another, with some extra red tape), but that has more to do with the legacy of the Commonwealth than current agreements.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Ghidra by NSA"

SuperNinKenDo — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:15:17 +0000

I'd say _this_ is the comment guilty of making a false dichotomy.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

SuperNinKenDo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:48:32 +0000

I love systemd, but you've hit on one of my biggest complaints. The mounting promises a cohesive system and instead gives you a completely broken mess, with mounts being split across .mount unit files, fstab, and worst of all, .service unit files. It's a totally incoherent mess, and that's only _after_ you figure out why nothing is working right, and build a complex mental model of every single feature that does or doesn't work in which scenario. Knowledge you only gain after screaming and tearing your hair out for a weekend. Your reward? A totally incoherent, inconsistend mess.

I hate mounts in systemd.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

SuperNinKenDo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:36:35 +0000

>Will Anki remain open source?

>Absolutely. Anki’s core code will remain open source, guided by the same principles that have guided the project from the beginning.

>Anki’s core code will remain open source

Hmmmmmm. Could be benign, but... hmmmmmm...

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security"

SuperNinKenDo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:03:55 +0000

>When Sheriff Leonard arrived, the tone suddenly changed. He said the Dallas County Courthouse was under his jurisdiction and he hadn’t authorized any such intrusion.

Reading only ever so slightly between the lines, it's clear that he probably did get it, just that he either wanted to swing his dick around for its own sake, or, more likely it seems from the dedcription in the article, resented that he was kept out of the loop on "his turf".

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish"

SuperNinKenDo — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:44:07 +0000

I love this kind of stuff - non-English programming languages, particularly when they utilise language features in unexpected ways like this.

My Turkish is pretty rusty - and was never any good anyway, but really cool stuff.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

SuperNinKenDo — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:01:32 +0000

Cool idea if you have a more specific niche requirement than it would initially appear, but genuinely nice to know this is available if such a use-case happens to cross my path.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout"

SuperNinKenDo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:06:01 +0000

How many? 3?

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty"

SuperNinKenDo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:32:13 +0000

The article contains the information only a few paragraphs in. It leads with the information that is actually news and is what the headline is about. You might wish every article starts with a genuflection to any and all relevant Kremlin talking points, but I think a few paragraphs in is certainly not burying it let alone not mentioning it, and you don't have a serious leg to stand on here.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Text-based web browsers"

SuperNinKenDo — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:25:21 +0000

I've only dabbled in Gemini so I don't know their names off the top of my head, but I tried out a number of GUI Gemini browsers in the past, and they're quite nice. Easy on the eyes, simple design, all the variable width fonts you could ask for if that's your bag.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

SuperNinKenDo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:51:14 +0000

You joke, but I honestly wonder if this period and projects didn't involve a bunch of Microsoft employees who got a little overexcited when they were told that they didn't need to maintain the insane, sometimes bug-for-bug, compatibility layers with 20-40 year old software that they had had to deal with their entire career there.

Must have felt incredibly liberating, and maybe they got a little too into the whole idea of "fresh start"(s).

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty"

SuperNinKenDo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:39:14 +0000

Please actually read TFA before commenting in this way.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas"

SuperNinKenDo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:18:16 +0000

I'm one of those sick, sad puppies that enjoys Excel shenanigans. Haven't been able to trst it out since I'm on my phone, but screenshots look promising, I look forward to trying it out.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Demystifying DVDs"

SuperNinKenDo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:13:42 +0000

Wow. Thanks for the heads up on DVD Decrypter being harder to get these days. I had no idea. When I return home I'm going to have the sift through all my old files and see if I still have a copy somewhere. Great little piece of software.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

SuperNinKenDo — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:57:24 +0000

Christ, comment sections like this make me never want to do anything that might gain widespread adoption, ever.

Brought to you by the helpful folks who managed to bully WinAmp into retreating from open source. Very productive.

New comment by SuperNinKenDo in "Formulaic Delimiters in the Iliad and the Odyssey"

SuperNinKenDo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:12:56 +0000

Currently reading through Robert Fagles' translation of the Odyssey - a superb page turner, though my father would say lacking compared to some of the older, less approachable translations - and it has a great breakdown in the opening notes of the various academic zeitgeists for understanding the composition of the poems, in particular these constructions - I belive written by Bernard Knox.

Would reproduce it here, but it's long, and obviously still under copyright. However if this post piques anybody's interest, you should be able to find a copy.... wherever copies may be found... and I highly recommend checking it out, if just for the relevant intro, if not for the translation - which I personally do rate.

I believe this post adds an interesting angle to the discussion that isn't particularly explored in the introduction to Fagles, but the Fagles introduction adds a lot of Academic-Historical context to how these literary techniques have interacted with Academic trends at various times to inform people's understanding of the pieces.

Together with the OP, the two make for great reading.