Hacker News: amatecha

New comment by amatecha in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

amatecha — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:45:22 +0000

Suddenly remembering the days of dialup and your browser serving a fully-functional cached copy of a webpage when you try to access it and you're not online...

New comment by amatecha in "Leaving Mozilla"

amatecha — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:14:52 +0000

indeed, there is https://www.irccloud.com which is quite excellent!

New comment by amatecha in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

amatecha — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:30:40 +0000

Working on a web client and bouncer for Hotline, the old chat software from ~1997. Just want to chat with my peeps who still use Hotline, from the comfort of the browser I have on whatever machine, while some server maintains the persistent connection to the Hotline server for me. Like an IRC bouncer, but for Hotline.

New comment by amatecha in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

amatecha — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:28:48 +0000

Stop using corporate-owned walled gardens and manipulation factories.

New comment by amatecha in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

amatecha — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:41:15 +0000

Yeah, I've had to fight to get medication that the doc insisted "doesn't work" - had to cite actual studies that showed blatant results showing effectiveness. The way society has this widespread "appeal to authority" built in around doctors drives me crazy, because they are treated as if they are the ultimate authority on health/medical, but are often woefully under-educated about specific subtle details that can end up being critical to the management/prognosis of a health issue.

I have a worsened lifelong issue because of repeated sub-optimal "solutions" to a problem, such that the best long-term solution was found by the THIRD doctor that looked at my problem. "Solutions" from the first two guaranteed my problem will forever be worse than it would have been (solely due to their treatments), if only the third doc's solution had been considered/presented first. Even worse, I was a teenager and young adult when dealing with the first two. My mistake for not doing my own comprehensive research, apparently -- the thing we entrust doctors to do for us...

New comment by amatecha in "Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads"

amatecha — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:15:43 +0000

Hmmm, that's a great question, I'm not actually sure! I don't _think_ Jellyfin has a music curation/recommendation system built-in. I did a quick search and https://github.com/LumePart/Explo came up as a possible self-hosted music recommendation service. ( found on https://github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin )

New comment by amatecha in "Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads"

amatecha — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:54:31 +0000

That's the problem with subscription services. It's a coercive relationship where the terms are unilateral. As an alternative, I've been buying music from Bandcamp for quite some time now and have a huge library built in addition to the CDs I already owned and ripped to my NAS, which I can stream from anywhere thanks to Jellyfin.

If I miss out on some stuff because it's not easily obtainable, whatever, at least my music is my own and doesn't magically go missing because of some random subscription licensing deal.

My favorite is when I canceled Spotify years ago, and they show this custom playlist like "we'll miss you" and has all these songs to say goodbye with or whatever. But.. due to Spotify's frequent delisting of songs, one or two of the songs were not playable. Gotta love it.

New comment by amatecha in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

amatecha — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:48:02 +0000

I'm pretty frequently blocked by Cloudflare when I use Firefox on OpenBSD -- apparently it's too suspicious of a combination for their liking, or something. Even on Linux I've occasionally had issues. I've had to email site operators to ask them to change their configuration so I can actually be a customer of their business.

New comment by amatecha in "Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact"

amatecha — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:57:15 +0000

Yeah, I wouldn't care if someone cooks with bare hands, assuming they actually wash their hands properly. I'm only unhappy when I see them taking their nasty smartphone out of their pocket and doing something with that, then continuing to cook without washing their hands (or without putting on new gloves). Gross!

New comment by amatecha in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

amatecha — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:48:39 +0000

Yeah, I contacted my MP (via email). No response. :\

New comment by amatecha in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

amatecha — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:16:05 +0000

Yeah I was daily-driving a 2012 machine (X230) until 2024, when I then switched to a 2018 ThinkPad which I'm still using.

New comment by amatecha in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

amatecha — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:56:12 +0000

Yeah, I was actually running it on a 386 at first. In those days I didn't have much money and I just dumpster-dived computer hardware that was thrown out behind computer shops. Back before recycling stuff got regulated, PC repair shops threw out totally-working hardware all the time. Every piece of hardware of the web server was free, including the monochrome CRT monitor I had hooked up to it, and the awesome IBM Model M keyboard. The best dumpster find ever was a working Pentium 4 machine, all they took out of it was the HDD! Good times :)

New comment by amatecha in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

amatecha — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:51:15 +0000

Yeah, probably not - because they don't explicitly have to, as outlined in the post. The very architecture of CF's services essentially enables "blackmail as a service" in the sense that, CF protects the attacker and essentially creates a coercive environment in which the victim "has" to pay CF to protect them from... the very attacker that CF protects.

New comment by amatecha in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

amatecha — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:05:21 +0000

Yeah, I ran a phpbb forum (alongside my normal static site) on a 486 in 2003 or so. It worked. It was slow, but it worked just fine for my friends and I! I remember it took multiple minutes to generate the SSH server key after the initial install lol

New comment by amatecha in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

amatecha — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:02:16 +0000

Oh yeah, I know "the average person" still thinks Chrome is the best browser (if they even care at all about what browser they use), but I mean in tech circles is where it surprises me...

New comment by amatecha in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

amatecha — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:56:27 +0000

I'm just surprised people use Chrome at all. Google has proven over and over they can't be trusted and will exploit you every chance they get.

New comment by amatecha in "Why most product tours get skipped"

amatecha — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:40:33 +0000

Yeah, it depends. Some webapp vendors will actually look at metrics of interaction with those tooltips/tutorials, though I'm sure most don't. But yes, there are things I've had showing on the screen for months and months (like the "Try dark theme" which has been showing at the top right of JIRA since whenever they added that)...

New comment by amatecha in "Why most product tours get skipped"

amatecha — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:52:40 +0000

Yeah plus 99% of the time those reshuffled features are extraneous shit I never cared about for a millisecond in the first place. "We moved Stickers over here!" ... that's nice, I'm here to make some software and had to open this horrible web app to look at a flow chart someone made.

New comment by amatecha in "Why most product tours get skipped"

amatecha — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:50:58 +0000

Any kind of tour/nag tooltip on any app/site I use stays up forever, until they hopefully finally realize I am never going to interact with their cognitive-energy-wasting noise that should never have been shown to begin with. I've had the "try out dark mode" tooltip showing on JIRA for months. Just don't show these. Don't waste people's time. There are sites I close and never come back to because they start with an unskippable tutorial.

Just a couple examples offhand..

Discord (constant tooltips covering the screen to harass me to try "Nitro", or some new AI BS I am never going to even remotely consider trying)

Miro ("Sign in with Google" modal in the top right, "CANVAS 26" conference signup site stripe covering the top of the screen, frequent "What's new" modal covering the entire app, "How likely are you to recommend this product or service to a friend or co-worker?" net promoter score survey covering the bottom of the screen, which makes zero sense whatsoever as an enterprise user)

JIRA ("Try dark theme" tooltip covering the top right of the page)

Figma ("Reconnect with Community" tooltip covering some content on the left)

New comment by amatecha in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

amatecha — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:25:00 +0000

Makes me think of that scene of Neo waking up from the Matrix the first time and seeing the "battery pods"... yeah...