Hacker News: blackhaz

New comment by blackhaz in "Every GPU That Mattered"

blackhaz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:49:09 +0000

I don't understand this - where's Trident VGA?

New comment by blackhaz in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

blackhaz — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:43:19 +0000

It's surprising to see an OS, dominant as a sever platform, now optimizing catering to people who are unsure whether they've pressed a button on their keyboard. What's next, replacing asterisks with a progress bar?

New comment by blackhaz in "Why I love FreeBSD"

blackhaz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:26:28 +0000

My DigitalOcean FreeBSD droplet chugging along: 7:25AM up 1707 days, 15 hrs, 5 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.21, 0.17

Too bad they dropped support for it.

New comment by blackhaz in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

blackhaz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:59:55 +0000

They'll just come up with round displays. Like on PDP-1.

New comment by blackhaz in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

blackhaz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:50:20 +0000

Apple is no longer about Jobs' "simplicity as the ultimate sophistication". It feels like a bunch of kids with no proper design education competing for the security of their salaries. Apple is dead without Steve. The company has no focal point. They're running solely on the inertia from Mac OS X and the first generations of the iPhone.

New comment by blackhaz in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

blackhaz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:08:53 +0000

Sorry for the off-topic, but what a bliss to see Windows 2000 interface. And what an absolute abomination from hell pretty much all the modern UIs are.

New comment by blackhaz in "In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad"

blackhaz — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:34:41 +0000

Same. Still a great pleasure to see those ads from the past. Nothing compared to ads today.

New comment by blackhaz in "Astra: An open-source observatory control software"

blackhaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:50:21 +0000

Fantastic news. As ACP is no longer in development, I am starting to slowly look for a replacement, and a few things that come up in my mind:

- Will it work with MaximDL to acquire images and autoguide, or will it simply not need it at all? - Will it work with PWI3 for autofocusing? - Will offset tracking (at custom dRA, dDec rates) be implemented at some point to track artificial satellites? - Will it at some point implement targeting using TLEs and MPC elements? - I am extensively using #WAITZENDIST and other #WAIT directives to wait for an object to be at certain altitude - would be really good to implement that in observation plans (a single plan can do a number of things sequentially.) - Can plans launch custom Python scripts and read/write stuff from/to files?

I probably want too much at this point, but sincerely wishing you best of luck with this incredible project, will definitely follow all the developments!

New comment by blackhaz in "UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)"

blackhaz — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:59:11 +0000

Was that part of some kind of cost optimization? Why would anyone design such an obscurity?

New comment by blackhaz in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

blackhaz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:24:38 +0000

That's a URL bait!

New comment by blackhaz in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

blackhaz — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:02:51 +0000

Anyone else feeling like Daffy Duck reading the 1700s?

New comment by blackhaz in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

blackhaz — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:16:38 +0000

And from 32 years ago as well - MS Office 4.0 as an example.

New comment by blackhaz in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

blackhaz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:58:54 +0000

Not sure I understand you - what game, market capture? There are environments that remain more or less sane (e.g., FreeBSD, Xfce, etc) that don't play this game, if I got you right. I guess treating users so helps capture more of the market share, but it looks like there's only so much dumbfuckery one can inject into the environment until the curve begins to drop and dumb fucks themselves begin to run.

Philips just screwed up my TV. They've updated the firmware (of course, it was automated) to make home screen more of a dumb fucking experience with everything animated and self-playing movies jumping out at you for no reason, and so on... But the interface is now completely unusable - literally can't even launch YouTube. No amount of resetting helps. They also hid all the previous firmwares and I can't even roll back from a USB stick. I am a dumb fuck when it comes to TVs. And I will most likely be considering another brand next time.

New comment by blackhaz in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

blackhaz — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:42:47 +0000

Same as Windows 3.1, and Windows 95, up to 2000. After some point computers began to be optimized for a non-technical person and here we go... Ads, auto-updates, pop-ups, bright colors, all this fucking desktop circus.

New comment by blackhaz in "WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026"

blackhaz — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:02:59 +0000

VHS cassettes: maybe not so obsolete, after all?

Also, the Return of PKZIP.

New comment by blackhaz in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

blackhaz — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:48:36 +0000

A bit sad not to find the whole collection of Larry Carlson's animations in there (only a few games.) Also, need full archive of Joe Cartoon!

New comment by blackhaz in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

blackhaz — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:16:03 +0000

It's incredible that it still lives to this day. I remember running it on Pentium-133. The gallery they have there still has showcase renders from 2000s.

New comment by blackhaz in "YouTube as Storage"

blackhaz — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:10:39 +0000

Has anyone got an example how such a video looks like? Really curious. Reminds me of the Soviet Arvid card that could store 2 GB on an E-180 VHS tape.

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

New comment by blackhaz in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

blackhaz — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:07:22 +0000

Oh, right! 800x600 was pretty sharp on a 14", and 1024x768 on 15", and when ClearType came out it actually was blurring things on CRTs.

New comment by blackhaz in "Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition"

blackhaz — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:42:26 +0000

My dad used to run a whole commercial bank on MS Office 4.0 and a 386. (A small one, but still!)