Hacker News: b3lvedere

New comment by b3lvedere in "List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games"

b3lvedere — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:30:02 +0000

Define or clarify the use of the word 'copy' please

New comment by b3lvedere in "List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games"

b3lvedere — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:25:08 +0000

Microsoft CD-ROM cases (jewel cases) were cool. There was this huge red sticker applied on it which said you wil agree to all terms and/or could not refund te product if this sticker was damaged.

Normal human beings had to tore the sticker in order to get the CD-ROM and install Windows, so they automatically 'agreed' to the TOS.

Until it was found out you can actually open a jewel case at the other side by carefully disonnecting the little plastic lids on the other side, thus never damaging the sticker.

New comment by b3lvedere in "On Really Trying (2009)"

b3lvedere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:03:37 +0000

I'm a dude, but thank you for not assuming :)

I think that's a really awesome honest answer. I find it very cool you're still looking for challenges and setting the terms yourself. I wish you the best life ever possible.

New comment by b3lvedere in "On Really Trying (2009)"

b3lvedere — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:52:30 +0000

Money aside, would you consider yourself being happy?

New comment by b3lvedere in "Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads"

b3lvedere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:30:19 +0000

It's been years i played with Proxmox. Back then it wasn't as easy as Vmware Esxi was/still is: Just boot a pretty small os, define a datastore somewhere, just grow disks, migrate them, etc. All done with some clicks of a mouse button in a nice web gui. Maybe i should start playing with Proxmox again?

New comment by b3lvedere in "Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility"

b3lvedere — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:26:50 +0000

This reminded me of some scenes in the videogame Dispatch [1]

[1] : https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dispatch/images/c/ca/Dispa...

New comment by b3lvedere in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

b3lvedere — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:41:13 +0000

The average mortal cannot afford negative backlash, financially or otherwise, to their living situation.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

b3lvedere — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:30:07 +0000

I’ve just been extremely selective with what i consume, just because there is an extreme amount of things to consume. Social media tries to trigger FOMO and Sunk Cost among other fallacies upon you. Not caring can be a powerful tool.

New comment by b3lvedere in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

b3lvedere — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:29:32 +0000

I humbly disagree a bit. Most items on that list do not have to cost a lot of money (besides a washing machine and a dishwasher) and some of them cannot be bought. It is also a mindset. I adore slow weekends.

New comment by b3lvedere in "FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses"

b3lvedere — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:36:41 +0000

At least reimburse everybody for all the costs involving getting the old drivers license invalidated and apply for a new one. Unfortunately that will not cause to magically dissapear the rest of your harvested profile.

New comment by b3lvedere in "PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry"

b3lvedere — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:55:55 +0000

Well, yes and no. They tried making exemptions for micro-businesses, but they are not exempt from the law completely. The administration costs can be bigger than your estimated profit for a certain country.

New comment by b3lvedere in "PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry"

b3lvedere — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:51:29 +0000

Direct link accessible? https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ad1...

New comment by b3lvedere in "Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow"

b3lvedere — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:07:34 +0000

It does enhance curiosity. As an experiment i once requested Google Street view to blur my previous home. It really stands out being the only blurred house in the entire area. And i can’t undo it either :)

New comment by b3lvedere in "NetBSD and my life (2005)"

b3lvedere — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:44:39 +0000

I once worked for a company where the marketing department sent huge powerpoints presentations to each other via Lotus Notes. All people in the same office sitting next to each other. The Lotus mail server had no real issues with it, but i told them to stop abusing email as a file server and use the shared drive for that purpose. Took some time for them to getting used to, but the shared drive was so much faster for their purpose they quickly adopted to this ‘new way’ of working :)

New comment by b3lvedere in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

b3lvedere — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:39:18 +0000

To my knowledge unfortunately not really. Pirates! is kind of unique.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Saying No"

b3lvedere — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:38:26 +0000

I have no freaking clue. It’s that person from Dubai again with weird luxury problems.

New comment by b3lvedere in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

b3lvedere — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:18:33 +0000

That would be an amazing and creepy track record of the website :)

New comment by b3lvedere in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

b3lvedere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:54:42 +0000

Only if you are willing to be harassed by Trump for as long as he and his sons live.

New comment by b3lvedere in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

b3lvedere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:50:10 +0000

I wonder if the power of heart will save us then.

New comment by b3lvedere in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

b3lvedere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:04:16 +0000

"Just say no!" (Nancy Reagan)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No