Hacker News: ajot

New comment by ajot in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

ajot — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:24:44 +0000

Of note: Plasma Bigscreen was sort of revived and rejuvenated last year by a Plasma Mobile dev

https://espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen/

New comment by ajot in "Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter"

ajot — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:21:51 +0000

The 101things radio stuff is super cool too!

https://101-things.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

HamFist – Build a Multi-Channel Morse/CW Decoder with the Pi Pico [video]

ajot — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRf3QOt4wc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861323

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ajot in "Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)"

ajot — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:13:13 +0000

You can read it in the Medium frontend scribe.rip, to avoid some Medium shenanigans. I do think bolding stays the same though, it seems to have lots of bolding. Weird style.

https://scribe.rip/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-9...

New comment by ajot in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

ajot — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:51:55 +0000

Hey, this sounds interesting! Is there any tutorial out there on how to make it work?

New comment by ajot in "Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab"

ajot — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:16:11 +0000

(2013) The $12 phone

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/the-12-gongkai-phone/

New comment by ajot in "Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia"

ajot — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:28:54 +0000

As the other commenters, I liked the concept. I did the map, and got quite a few repeated answers.

I then did the ransom one, but I did quite well until I got definitely bored around round 70. I think 100 rounds are too much, at least for the daily game.

New comment by ajot in "LineageOS 23"

ajot — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 13:30:13 +0000

Nate Johnson, one of the devs at LineageOS, maintains some official and unofficial builds. You could go from scratch using a Radxa SBC, or try to get an older streaming device (like one of the previous versions of the Chromecast). Some of these older devices even got Widevine DRM still working after installing LineageOS, if you want to use a streaming service.

https://xdaforums.com/t/official-lineageos-22-for-amlogic-gx...

New comment by ajot in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

ajot — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:48:24 +0000

They should have partnered not only with Intel, but with Palm, RIM or whatever other then-giant to rival Android. Those two went their own ways with WebOS and buying QNX, so maybe they could have agreed to form a consortium for an open and interoperable mobile OS

New comment by ajot in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

ajot — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:52:02 +0000

Check on RSSGuard, I checked a few weeks ago after another reccomendation here, and the dev was working on importing the QuiteRSS sqlite db.

It seems he has already completed it? I'll try to migrate this weekend then https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/1707#issueco...

New comment by ajot in "Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server"

ajot — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:03:27 +0000

Never implemented this by myself, but I've read in the past this post on using Prosody, by the guys helpong the Low-Tech Magazine blog to become a self-hosted solar-powered site.

https://homebrewserver.club/category/instant-messaging.html

New comment by ajot in "Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE"

ajot — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:24:50 +0000

Had to check, but it seems that KDE is "owned" (or legally represented and its trademarks owned by) a german nonprofit, KDE eV. Wouldn't there be a possibility for Riddell (or anuone in the community) to create a cooperative in Germany or any other part of the EU, just like the galician folks?

New comment by ajot in "I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher"

ajot — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:37:11 +0000

I use NeoLauncher for this same reason: sometimes I don't remember the name of whatever app I use once in a while (eg WLANScanner or Ning).

It's available on IzzyOnDroid, though I installed the GitHub release. It does have some bugs, every now and then it freezes and you need to go to the Apps submenu in Configuration to restart it.

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

New comment by ajot in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

ajot — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:35:34 +0000

There are a couple of Luci themes you can install

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/luci/luci.themes

New comment by ajot in "Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video]"

ajot — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 05:16:08 +0000

There's a playlist (xor a 5 minute summary video) of a guy going the Gingery route

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9d6LkFNP1fGjdW2RxqSH...

New comment by ajot in "LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis"

ajot — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:11:31 +0000

It is! I remember using this (or SciDavis, a related project) a couple of years back in college. It was not as powerful as Origin 10 years ago, but it ran on Linux.

This is great for people who don't know nor want to learn to program.

New comment by ajot in "Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer"

ajot — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:20:57 +0000

Seems to work pretty well on Firefox for Android. Very impressive work!

New comment by ajot in "Multimodal WFH setup: flight SIM, EE lab, and music studio in 60sqft/5.5M²"

ajot — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:34:35 +0000

Reminds me of the Nomadic Furniture book "cubicles". Here's an instructable showing something inspired by it.

https://www.instructables.com/The-Perfect-Instructable-build...

New comment by ajot in "Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python"

ajot — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:23:19 +0000

As others here have already said, thank you for your book, and for having it for free on your website. After years of thinking about leraning to program, I finally started with you book a couple of years ago. It is so much fun, and it's been super helpful on my day to day job.

New comment by ajot in "The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings"

ajot — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:15:17 +0000

Greatly done by Standard Ebooks too, I guess for the aesthetic as well as for old paintings being in public domain.