Hacker News: Washuu

New comment by Washuu in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

Washuu — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:04:56 +0000

My use cases:

* Replacement controller for my UFO Catcher - It has WiFi, easy to update, and I can operate the machine remotely with it. It's bolted to the back of small touchscreen that lets me change the machine settings as well.

* Remote printer access - I can monitor from the USB cameras and gather statistics about the prints.(I suspect a lot of 3D printing enthusiasts use them for this purpose.)

Having a small low power computer has been useful for me in those instances.

New comment by Washuu in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

Washuu — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:31:18 +0000

Change the audio language to "English descriptive".

New comment by Washuu in "Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus"

Washuu — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:56:39 +0000

The font size on this site is massive and zooming out causes the font to resize back to the same massive font size.

Why?! ;_;

New comment by Washuu in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

Washuu — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:01:20 +0000

I have four Prusa printers for my business with thousands of hours of print time. The worst issue that I have had is a finicky filament sensor that I temporarily disabled until I could fix it.

I see it as buying printers design for industrial usage versus printers for hobby. Prusa is selling me a tool that just works every time.

New comment by Washuu in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

Washuu — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:19:02 +0000

> I don't see any "Issues" on your GH...

Issues and PRs are available to open.(I just have not gotten any yet.)

> Any idea why your script does not seem to flag as a valid greasemonkey script when I try to use it in the Falkon (KDE) browser?

Honestly, no idea. I have only tested it with Tampermonkey on Firefox. Manually installing it should still work.

New comment by Washuu in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

Washuu — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:40:12 +0000

> Not necessarily? There was a post just a year ago on how somebody jailbroke the kindle books from the web UI.

I used that research to build something similar. It only works for manga and comics right now, but I have been tinkering with implementing glyph support as well to be able to handle full books.

https://github.com/Alexia/kandle-downloader

The original research is here, but the web site is down right now. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

New comment by Washuu in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

Washuu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:28:01 +0000

Add Mailchimp in there as well. I have never gotten an email from someone using Mailchimp that was not spam.

New comment by Washuu in "PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects"

Washuu — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:12:52 +0000

I have compensated hundreds to thousands of dollars to content creators to promote my products and have had content creators ask for thousands up front. It really depends on channel size and market. It also depends on what deliverables are being asked for. Logo on screen, 30 second advertisement reading, link in description, pinned comments, accompanying social media post, etc. Some content creators will haggle on all the pieces while others will accept a flat rate for a typical package deal of deliverables.

New comment by Washuu in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Washuu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:07:55 +0000

GPU hardware accelerated encoding/decoding is only in the paid version as well.

New comment by Washuu in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

Washuu — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:38:33 +0000

Using Gemini 3 Pro Preview, it told me in mostly polite terms, that I'm a fucking idiot. Like I would expect a close friend to do when I'm going about something wrong.

ChatGPT with the same prompt tried to do whatever it would take to please me to make my incorrect process work.

New comment by Washuu in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

Washuu — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:26:57 +0000

Then for some web sites it won't matter and display the dominant language of the country that you're accessing from. My Firefox sends US English as the only preferred language, but a ton of US tech companies default to showing web sites in Japanese without a way to change it because I access them from Japan. It's pretty typical of American companies that don't understand localization and accessibility.

New comment by Washuu in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

Washuu — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:26:37 +0000

Can you fix the fact that this new email spam category was added and that I was automatically opted into receiving it without my consent? That's fucked. I'm a paying customer and I keep getting advertisements in the Proton desktop applications for various things.(Black Friday deals, other stuff.) I should never see these advertisements if I'm paying you.

New comment by Washuu in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

Washuu — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:23:00 +0000

> This is particularly true for the visually impaired and some elderly and neuro-atypical people.

The Slack and (Google) Photos icons on Android look so visually similar in the sea of green, blue, red, and yellow icons on Android that I frequently open the wrong application. Using my phone sucks.

New comment by Washuu in "iPad Pro with M5 chip"

Washuu — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:57:14 +0000

I have an iPad Mini. I got it mainly for studying and reading. However, it also has become great for being an instrumentalist. I can toss it in my bag, setup it up with the folding case for sheet music, tuning, and everything else. It saves me from having to carry my sheet music books, tuner, and other bits around.

New comment by Washuu in "Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful"

Washuu — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:25:06 +0000

There are bunch of A&W restaurants in Okinawa as well and as far as I know, it's popular.

New comment by Washuu in "Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews"

Washuu — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:42:46 +0000

I just returned something on AliExpress last week.(Wrong items sent.) Sagawa showed up at my door to collect the package, I paid nothing, and AliExpress refunded me before it even left the country once Sagawa notified them that the package was collected.

So it really depends where you live.

New comment by Washuu in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

Washuu — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:10:22 +0000

> In addition, the annoyance of these gates comes from having to fiddle with the wallet, etc. in order to find the card or the phone, or the fact that multiples tries may be required for the reader to actually read it;

The NFC readers on the gates in Japan will read cards from several centimeters away. My phone, which has Osaifu-Keitai setup, can be left in my bag and I just wave my bag over the reader as I walk by. It is incredibly rare for a misread to occur. They just work.

New comment by Washuu in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

Washuu — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:05:56 +0000

Appreciated, thank you!~ \(￣︶￣*\))

New comment by Washuu in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

Washuu — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:35:39 +0000

It needs to be closer to where the acronym is first introduced. The definition, on my screen, is below the fold so it can not be seen in context of where the acronym is first introduced. If it was defined below the title, I would understand.

* https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/abbreviati...

* https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conve...

* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/acronyms

I do a lot of copy editing for clarity and non-native speakers so I have keep these things in mind. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by Washuu in "I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC"

Washuu — Mon, 12 May 2025 07:38:46 +0000

Thank you for the help. It is really frustrating when authors do not define an acronym when it is first introduced in the text.