Hacker News: WallyFunk

Express Yourself: Taxonomies of Descriptive Tags

WallyFunk — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:54:20 +0000

Article URL: https://modlibrarian.wordpress.com/2024/01/23/express-yourself-taxonomies-of-descriptive-tags/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231808

Points: 1

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Scale – Color Scale Generator

WallyFunk — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:49:51 +0000

Article URL: https://hihayk.github.io/scale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231742

Points: 2

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New comment by WallyFunk in "A Theory of Grift"

WallyFunk — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:01:45 +0000

> Buy The Change You Wish to See in the World

Isn't this 'Vote with your wallet'? I know I vote with my wallet. Everything I buy is a vote for how I want the world to be, and what products I want to see flourish and prosper. I also evangelize these products to others so they get on board too, because I alone will not make much of a dent, unless I recruit others to purchase it too.

AppCleaner – Uninstall unwanted apps on macOS

WallyFunk — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:54:57 +0000

Article URL: https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015516

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Lucide: Beautiful and Consistent Icons

WallyFunk — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:52:41 +0000

Article URL: https://lucide.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015488

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How my link blog works

WallyFunk — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:40:05 +0000

Article URL: https://justinmiller.io/posts/2024/01/11/link-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982388

Points: 3

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Flectofy

WallyFunk — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:39:30 +0000

Article URL: https://flectofy.flecto.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982378

Points: 2

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New comment by WallyFunk in "Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say"

WallyFunk — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:36:37 +0000

I ran a little experiment once with Reddit and registered with the Tor Browser. My first post was shadowbanned. After contacting the mods of the subreddit, they unbanned my post and it was visible to everyone. So I concluded Reddit is hostile towards Tor IPs. You have to go out of your way and contact mods to get posts visible, which people aren't going to do.

Reddit is (somewhat) pro-anonymity and doesn't even require an e-mail when signing up and they encourage you not to use your legal name, with username suggestions like SpongebobSquarepants45, but I see why they don't like Tor. Had no problems with VPNs, although VPNs are not really anonymous and we have to blindly trust them.

FlowGPT: Fast and Free AI and GPTs Bots Store

WallyFunk — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:27:44 +0000

Article URL: https://flowgpt.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Web Dev Toolkit

WallyFunk — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://gomakethings.com/toolkit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972714

Points: 2

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New comment by WallyFunk in "Sit."

WallyFunk — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:15:41 +0000

Interesting project. One thing I noticed: when I clicked the button, a fullscreen window got spawned, without any prompt asking me if I should enter fullscreen (Latest Firefox). On a sidenote: this could be used for browser-in-the-browser attacks[0] where someone could present a mock browser UI with a fake URL.

Other than that, it's a great project. Anything to just sit without distractions gives us an unfair advantage over the majority of the world's population who are addicted to phones.

[0] https://mrd0x.com/browser-in-the-browser-phishing-attack/

Good for Nothing

WallyFunk — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:15:28 +0000

Article URL: https://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12841

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844055

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Open Sustainable Technology

WallyFunk — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 17:14:43 +0000

Article URL: https://opensustain.tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844042

Points: 1

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New comment by WallyFunk in "Pushing It Back"

WallyFunk — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:39:36 +0000

> One logical possibility would be written records of some sort, using a substrate that hasn't survived—prone to waterlogging or insects, modern paper would certainly not survive across tens of kiloyears

Sometimes impermanence is a feature, not a bug. I was always told by my elders: 'The Internet is forever'. Once you put things on it, it's hard for them to be removed. A permanent record of sorts. But over the years I've found many sites just evaporate with entire Library of Alexandria events occurring daily on the web. Yes, we have Archive.org which has mirror copies, but it doesn't catch everything.

And bit rot is useful too. After I die, I don't really want my precious data lingering around. Let it rot.

New comment by WallyFunk in "Ask HN: How to stay relevant in your job"

WallyFunk — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:30:25 +0000

Avoid hype. Tooling might change, but stick to what works. But on the flip side if such tooling 10x's your productivity, it might be worth swapping out old methods. I call these 'game changer' tools. But they are rare enough that I can stay relevant with my current stack.

The Silent Todo List

WallyFunk — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:27:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.matt-rickard.com/p/the-silent-todo-list

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833461

Points: 3

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DevOps/SRE Blog Scanner

WallyFunk — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:26:18 +0000

Article URL: https://devops-scanner.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833453

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by WallyFunk in "Ask HN: Can an AI model be used to downscale an image?"

WallyFunk — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:07:47 +0000

If the original image is a vector/SVG then it should look well scaled down. I think you can have SVG graphics for a favicon.

New comment by WallyFunk in "Ask HN: What are your favorite technical blog posts?"

WallyFunk — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:06:10 +0000

Recent one that just got posted: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu...

Good deep dive.

New comment by WallyFunk in "Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record"

WallyFunk — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:03:44 +0000

Interesting

https://who.is/dns/microsoft.com

What are the potential ramifications of this?