Hacker News: ZetaRicky

New comment by ZetaRicky in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ZetaRicky — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:57:05 +0000

Interestingly, the Latin version of the encyclica is yet to be released at the moment

New comment by ZetaRicky in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

ZetaRicky — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:56:22 +0000

Maybe Okular can be tweaked this way

New comment by ZetaRicky in "Mastodon is doomed?"

ZetaRicky — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:15:31 +0000

My Mastodon instance is small enough that every request I made to the mantainer was solved within a couple hours, usually by blacklisting accounts or entire servers. The “human” size of the instance (~500 users), in my opinion, can’t be ignored in this case

New comment by ZetaRicky in "Internal messages at Twitter show cutting off 3rd party apps was intentional"

ZetaRicky — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 10:21:34 +0000

“Elno wants his birdsite without other apps joining!”

New comment by ZetaRicky in "My plane is not trackable without using non-public data"

ZetaRicky — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:16:16 +0000

I see your point, but planes and cars are not on the same level, in my opinion

New comment by ZetaRicky in "Stop Writing Twitter Threads"

ZetaRicky — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:50:37 +0000

Some Mastodon instances, like the one I’m on at the moment, allow 5000 characters per toot. I feel that’s more than sufficient for any Twitter-ish “long” post

New comment by ZetaRicky in "The coming tsunami of fakery"

ZetaRicky — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:04:53 +0000

If I remember correctly, the first days of Reddit were filled with bots posting to fake some user activity so that humans would ditch other platforms.

New comment by ZetaRicky in "How to stop being “terminally online”"

ZetaRicky — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:02:00 +0000

The author mentioning “based” and “cringe” reminded me that meme culture ages poorly while endlessly recycling the same tropes/jokes. Eight years ago the dichotomy was “dank”-“normie”, and Impact was used with way less meta-irony.