Hacker News: The_President

New comment by The_President in "Bring back crappy forums"

The_President — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:30:57 +0000

SomethingAwful was an important prominent internet culture anchor for a long time, enforcing good moderation and content standards. I checked out of there the day Lowtax died and never looked back. Prophetic truth in the tagline "The internet makes you stupid."

New comment by The_President in "Bring back crappy forums"

The_President — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:24:09 +0000

I bypassed their arbitrary "old browser" check with a javascript line that set a flag. Works flawlessly after that.

New comment by The_President in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

The_President — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:21:55 +0000

Note to readers, this commentary brought to you by a code writer for Ardour. Unfortunately I was unable to view any of the about information for that program, because it crashed immediately.

New comment by The_President in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

The_President — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:23:17 +0000

Consistency in output - this is a standard test model to replicate entire existing system and then apply changes components of the system to test a theory.

New comment by The_President in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

The_President — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:07:37 +0000

Another good reason to not use it is the risk of having illegal material downloaded from a server hosted internationally.

New comment by The_President in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

The_President — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:51:42 +0000

Naev is a good choice for Eacape Velocity fans looking for a modern game. Naev has a lot of depth and polish, very well crafted.

New comment by The_President in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

The_President — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:46:13 +0000

Reticulating splines

New comment by The_President in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

The_President — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:36:14 +0000

SC4K - The original binaries run at 1080p on modern hardware with excellent performance and gameplay with a few command line tweaks.

With respect to SC3K being great still, I would run it but I haven't been able to get some performance issues ironed out.

Worst might be SC2K for N64.

Neat concept would a game to import cities into a GTA-like engine.

New comment by The_President in "KDE at 30"

The_President — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:19:19 +0000

Kmail worked great for years then one update akondai would no longer sync and that was the end of it.

New comment by The_President in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

The_President — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:31:35 +0000

Can't make "Gate C4" jokes anymore.

New comment by The_President in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

The_President — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:29:53 +0000

I had them tell me I couldn't bring an M&M novelty childs toy bat on the plane, complete in its original packaging that said "ages 3+."

New comment by The_President in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

The_President — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:15:58 +0000

The Bluetooth integration needs work - missing features such as "never connect automatically."

Default lock screen experience still has a needless delay of 5 seconds when entering a wrong (even blank wrong) password, even on the first attempt.

+1 on the gamma controls

New comment by The_President in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

The_President — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:40:44 +0000

Z-Wave is tried and true, and works even without an available hub. I don't see the appeal to Matter from a professional standpoint.

It may have it's place in the consumer market, but with product financing from major adtech firms it is clear the ultimate incentives are different than that of the licensed Z-Wave revenue model.

New comment by The_President in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

The_President — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:29:45 +0000

Simple hypothetical: "A disaster hits and the workstation owner is unable to return to the location the workstation is stored. During that time period the workstation is stolen by a gang of looters."

New comment by The_President in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

The_President — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:25:30 +0000

Additional problem is if physical access is obtained, illegal material could be covertly added to the drive then picked up by the built in scanners in your OS. Depends on how important you are.

New comment by The_President in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

The_President — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:15:46 +0000

I long for something like the first gen Zune that just worked. Great aesthetics and screen for the time. Replaced with an iPod Touch which was nice but entirely forgettable.

New comment by The_President in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

The_President — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:08:44 +0000

Search for various online banking privacy policies and read through them yourself.

New comment by The_President in "NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)"

The_President — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:32:51 +0000

In the economy pen market, it's anyone's guess to what part of the plant (shake/trim/flower) was used for the process and if it was flushed correctly. Those labels that show the growth additives and nutrients get pretty lengthy.

New comment by The_President in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

The_President — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:03:26 +0000

It's evident that proofreading your own comment might be more effective if it were written more carefully from the start.

Most people indent their code for legibility - if someone showed up to a code base and didn't do that, it could be offputting to anyone reading it.

New comment by The_President in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

The_President — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:27:10 +0000

No root and no way to firewall them. "Lockdown" mode - a lot of inconveniences.