Hacker News: ajot

New comment by ajot in "The Color of White Light"

ajot — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:01:59 +0000

Unrelated to TFA, this site is spectacular. I recommend any other HNer here to give a look to the posts in the "andinensis" section, where the author describes homesteading in a semi-remote area in Chile, and generating his own electrical power with a water stream that runs through his property.

It has been shared here before as well.

New comment by ajot in "KOReader"

ajot — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:59:04 +0000

I think it does if the books are all in a same, unique folder. If they are scattered around your main/home books directory, it doesn't

New comment by ajot in "KOReader"

ajot — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:01:00 +0000

I use the Project:Title[1] addon, I think someone else here on HN suggested it a few months ago. The only catch is that you need to update it manually each time after updating KOReader

[1] https://github.com/joshuacant/ProjectTitle

New comment by ajot in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

ajot — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:36:45 +0000

I think this would make a very nice Youtube video, or ten. Quite niche, but interesting enough for anyone like me to watch.

Godspeed!

New comment by ajot in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

ajot — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:55:21 +0000

>phonomenon

I guess this was a typo, but fits perfectly. Kudos!

New comment by ajot in "Open Source Low Tech"

ajot — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:10:28 +0000

I've been following this guy a couple of years now (as well as many other mentioned in the comments like LowTechMagazine, Simplifier, OSE, etc)

I always liked the WiFi catenaric (instead of parabollic) reflector for it's simplicity,though I think drawing parabolas shouldn't be that difficult either to get a more directional reflector

https://opensourcelowtech.org/wifidish.html

New comment by ajot in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

ajot — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:41:47 +0000

In my experience, you then need to activate it using real data from real people. I lent my data to a colombian colleague a couple of years ago, as he did not have a DNI yet.

New comment by ajot in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

ajot — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:35:23 +0000

Something I read here on HN some time ago and that can be of your interest: you can get specific Atom feeds from Youtube channels (only long format videos, only shorts, only live streams, only popular, etc)

>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71192605/how-do-i-get-yo...

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?