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New comment by _0xdd in "Dextroproporphan: An Analogue for a Better Dextromethorphan"

_0xdd — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:02:05 +0000

Calling it very effective for cough is probably a bit of stretch. Some studies have shown that DXM is marginally better than placebo [1].

[1] https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

New comment by _0xdd in "FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued"

_0xdd — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:35:45 +0000

In ~2017 I ditched FreeNAS when my FreeNAS Mini died from the Atom C2000 hardware failure. iXSystems was great about getting me a replacement board, but I decided when I rebuilt the system to just use FreeBSD and get used to command-line only administration. That directly lead to me learning pf, jails, bhyve, etc. Yeah, I don't have any fancy web UI, but I've had a rock solid system for almost 10 years with Samba + NFS running without issue.

New comment by _0xdd in "Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos"

_0xdd — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:30:17 +0000

I think the difference might be that Apple's facial recognition is happening directly on device and not being offloaded elsewhere.

New comment by _0xdd in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

_0xdd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:43:19 +0000

This is very cool. Do V-Chat next!

New comment by _0xdd in "Xsnow "protestware" in Debian"

_0xdd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:57:19 +0000

One of the comments that struck me on the lwn.net site is the (albeit small) possibility that someone in Russia could be running the software and unintentionally land themselves in hot water if someone discovers these images on their computer. I'm sure that's not the intended consequence, but I could be problematic.

New comment by _0xdd in "Free the Icons"

_0xdd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:01:34 +0000

It's still a bit jarring to me to see how far Apple embraced form over function with iOS and subsequently macOS. I remember reading the Human Interface Guidelines from the late Mac OS 9/early Mac OS X days and being taken aback by the level of detail and thought that went into those interfaces. Don't get me wrong, some things made no sense (brushed metal was... a choice) but there was a certain level of polish that I don't think exists anymore.

New comment by _0xdd in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

_0xdd — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:58:34 +0000

What's amazing to me is how I was downvoted into oblivion on a few different subreddits and forums for expressing concern about the vibe-coded nature of the project and that the author of the Mac port appeared to be using the Notepad++ name/branding without any official blessing from the project.

New comment by _0xdd in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

_0xdd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:57:05 +0000

I know this because every Christmas Eve I hear Hans Gruber say "schiessen den fenster".

New comment by _0xdd in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators"

_0xdd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:01:35 +0000

I spent a lot of time in math class playing this...

New comment by _0xdd in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

_0xdd — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:58:55 +0000

Tried to run it on macOS but it crashed on boot. Looks cool!

New comment by _0xdd in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

_0xdd — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:55:07 +0000

So, why aren't we all using ECC in 2026?

New comment by _0xdd in "Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15"

_0xdd — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:24:07 +0000

Honestly, best thing I did was ditch all that and just read the handbook, specificially chapter 17 [1]. All of my jails are now set up manually, initially using /etc/jail.conf, and now individual jail configs in /etc/jail.conf.d/.

I still use vm-bhyve [2] for my Bhyve virtual machines, but that's been rock solid for me for years.

[1] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/

[2] https://github.com/freebsd/vm-bhyve

New comment by _0xdd in "Vim 9.2"

_0xdd — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:31:17 +0000

I love this editor. The return on investment in learning vim is incredible. I'm not a programmer or even really "in" tech, but when my colleagues see me chew through a document using MacVim they're astounded.

New comment by _0xdd in "Vim 9.2"

_0xdd — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:19:33 +0000

Couldn't have come at a better time for those who are affected by their IT departments removing access to Notepad++.

New comment by _0xdd in "A Lament for Aperture"

_0xdd — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:00:26 +0000

Darktable. It has a hell of a learning curve, but it's one hell of a powerful raw editor with some really cool masking features. It has a reputation for being difficult to learn, but the newest release bundles a new tone mapper (AgX) that requires a whole lot less massaging than the old Filmic (and, to a lesser extent, the later Sigmoid mapper). I'm back to managing my photo libraries using plain old files and folders, and syncing them to my NAS using Syncthing. I couldn't be happier, and it doesn't cost me a dime.

New comment by _0xdd in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

_0xdd — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:04:13 +0000

Nice work! But not all of NYC. Where's the rest of Staten Island?

New comment by _0xdd in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

_0xdd — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:53:48 +0000

This is amazing. It's such a shame that Olympus and Panasonic have largely abandoned the small camera market within the M43 system. I really wish another manufacturer would step up and build something similar to the GX85, which is still one of my favorite walkaround cameras.

New comment by _0xdd in "FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)"

_0xdd — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:32:22 +0000

Boot environments saved my ass many a time in the last few years. One of my favorite features!

New comment by _0xdd in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

_0xdd — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:55:23 +0000

Just donated. I run a NetBSD instance on a VPS and on an old Lenovo mini PC that I use as a gateway/file server between my regular network and network of vintage PCs. I have two XT clones, two ATs, some 486s, a Pentium MMX, and an iMac G3 and G4. Fun hobby! I need to get NetBSD running on one of these old machines one of these days.

New comment by _0xdd in "OpenBSD 7.8"

_0xdd — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:31:37 +0000

Easier fix might be if you aren't using /usr/src (or /usr/opt) to move the contents of /usr/share/relink into /usr/src (make sure you move it, not copy, so that /usr/share/relink is empty), and then change the /usr/src mount point in /etc/fstab to /usr/share/relink. Reboot the machine and hopefully it works. If you ran out of space during the installation, you may have to repeat sysupgrade to reinstall the 7.8 sets to get all the object files where they belong.