Hacker News: UI_at_80x24

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "TFTP Honey Pot Results"

UI_at_80x24 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:03:49 +0000

Man, besides being slow; I really miss those days.

I could say I was "into computers" and it meant something. Eternal September ruined it.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

UI_at_80x24 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:28:32 +0000

Dell chargers only work (reliably, and at capacity) with Dell devices. Also Dell devices will (sometimes) refuse to work with 3rd party chargers.

Get a charger that displays the voltage & current being output on a port and you will quickly see what devices adhere to standards.

The USC-C port doesn't guarantee compatibility. Manufacturers are being evil and pushing proprietary protocols over open standards.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:02:54 +0000

Lol, that's what I thought this was about too.

Why don't these people/companies think about how hard it will be to search for their $thing !?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Plein Air"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:15:01 +0000

It shows paintings based on your location and the 'time of day', or something.

From the `About`:

>Plein Air — A painting for right now, wherever you are

>Plein air — French for in the open air — was the discipline of painting outdoors, in front of the weather, the way Constable studied clouds in Suffolk meadows and Monet painted the same haystacks at every hour of every season. The painters took the canvas outside because the light couldn't be remembered later, only stood inside as you painted.

>Plein Air stands you next to one of those paintings. The sky over your head and the sky in the painting share the same kind of hour — the same long afternoon, the same threatening storm, the same fog clinging to the river. One painting, chosen for right now. Tap the title to see why it was picked.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

UI_at_80x24 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:01:39 +0000

Do you know what the maximum SD card size that it'll support? I'm especially interested if a 1TB card will work.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:37:28 +0000

Here's an easy script to scan for compromised packages:

https://cscs.pastes.sh/aurvulntest20260611.sh

Not my script. It's easy to read/parse. Never pipe a script directly to bash.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:13:39 +0000

Have you looked into Sway/i3?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:09:05 +0000

In the infamous words of George Carlin:

"Selling is legal, and fucking is legal; but selling fucking is not legal."

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

UI_at_80x24 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:04:18 +0000

I loved the look of the fonts on DOS after I upgraded from a C64. My favorite was the exclamation mark on 1024x768 (VGA). It had curves! Pointy at the bottom right above the dot, and the rounded curve at the top. I've never found a monospace non-bitmapped font that had the same character. (ha!)

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

UI_at_80x24 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:10:25 +0000

I have encountered the exact same kind of frustration, and no amount of prompting seems to prevent it from "randomly" happening.

`the error is on line #145 fix it with XYZ and add a check that no string should ever be blank`

It's the randomness that is frustrating, and that the fix would be quicker to manually input that drives me crazy. I fear that all the "rules" I add to claude.md is wasting my available tokens it won't have enough room to process my request.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:59:25 +0000

Similar in concept but for different reasons; does anybody know of a way to convert images into a '8bit pixel map'?

My wife likes to take images and crochet them into tapestry/blankets/cozies.

It seems to me that if we could get a grid overlay onto an image she could then make whatever she wanted. (One color per 'pixel')

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

UI_at_80x24 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:51:15 +0000

Could you please describe your use-case? How do you use it? How do you make use of it?

I use Claude code, so I understand that paradigm; I don't grok this though. Is it any different then going to a web page i.e. gemini.google.com and typing your query there?

Could this side bar have been a "search bar" at the top? Now that I say it out lou, adding them to the 'search providers' isn't a bad idea.

Generally speaking I am against this being shoved at us, but I find it as a useful tool in a limited number of areas.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

UI_at_80x24 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:19:14 +0000

But the 90s was only 20-years ago!

lol, you got me. Stupid old brain not calculating time correctly.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

UI_at_80x24 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:10:22 +0000

It absolutely is worth trying. I look forward to it being battle tested and proven. I just don't want to be the one doing the testing.

rg, fzf, and several others that I can't think have proven to me that rust is the direction going forward.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

UI_at_80x24 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:01:40 +0000

I've been a fan of all rust-based utilities that I've used. I am worried that 20+ (??) years of bug fixes and edge-case improvements can't be accounted for by simply using a newer/better code-base.

A lot of bug fixes/exploits are _CAUSED_ by the C+ core, but still... Tried & true vs new hotness?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)"

UI_at_80x24 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:38:44 +0000

Here is the comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077285

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Coding Tricks Used in the C64 Game Seawolves (2025)"

UI_at_80x24 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:18:42 +0000

This comment does not deserve to be flagged. It is worth knowing the bias of the source as it taints everything it touches.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

UI_at_80x24 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:26:13 +0000

I'd rather have a slate.

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along"

UI_at_80x24 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:16:29 +0000

Ublock origin Settings -> Filter Lists -> Cookie Notices (enable them).

No ads, No annoyances. Why are you still struggling with this?

New comment by UI_at_80x24 in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

UI_at_80x24 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:33:32 +0000

Canada should re-enact the AutoPact [0] (tldr: I don't see this in the wiki article, but the real benefit was; for every 3 cars sold in Canada, 1 had to be 'made' in Canada). This was ruled as unfair under NAFTA and thus terminated. It also had the effect of incredible auto-industry cutbacks.

BUT, with a new contender (China); we could re-enact it, rebuild our diminished blue-collar manufacturing base; and hasten the rollout of EV vehicles. Which is the real objective here.

IMHO, that would be a solid win for everybody.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_A...