Hacker News: blisstonia

New comment by blisstonia in "MAI-Thinking-1"

blisstonia — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:52:26 +0000

I gave up after the first scroll.

New comment by blisstonia in "Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?"

blisstonia — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:07:36 +0000

This is a recurring theme. Someone comes to the realisation that the 'endless growth' model is an unfair way to organise civilisation.

It's heartwarming to see so many people come to the realisation that endless consumption/growth/production makes us miserable.

The issue is that we all exist under capitalism, unfortunately until it's gone, we're forced to live within it.

New comment by blisstonia in "Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit"

blisstonia — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:22:21 +0000

They probably gave up on their Snapdragon X efforts as Snapdragon X2 Elite was nipping at their heels and they'd have a redundant device by the time their efforts came to market.

New comment by blisstonia in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

blisstonia — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:15:54 +0000

Anyone know why news.ycombinator.com hasn't fallen foul of this legislation?

New comment by blisstonia in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

blisstonia — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:17:55 +0000

I hope any websites geoblocking UK ip addresses will leave some message about why they are blocking access, so the user sees it and hates it.

New comment by blisstonia in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

blisstonia — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:38:43 +0000

Lobsters hasn't been blocked here in the UK.

New comment by blisstonia in "Is the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS alien technology? [pdf]"

blisstonia — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:31:18 +0000

Oh cool, a .PDF I can squint at.

New comment by blisstonia in "OpenWrt One"

blisstonia — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:34:23 +0000

If you live in the UK and have recently got FTTP, this box is capable of giving you pretty much close to the ISP advertised speeds (with SQM enabled in OpenWRT). It should be good for symmetric gigabit connections, which is very cool!

Imagine running PiHole and WireGuard on your router… exceptional stuff.

New comment by blisstonia in "New HBO Documentary Claims Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Len Sassaman"

blisstonia — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:40:38 +0000

Whatever you think of cryptocurrencies, the mystery is alluring and endlessly fascinating.

New comment by blisstonia in "Vanilla OS 2: an immutable distribution to run all software"

blisstonia — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:37:10 +0000

I’m glad to see the author note that the installer is problematic - I think I’ve only had 1 seamless install in about a dozen attempts.

I filed a bug report to add a function to copy error messages from the installer - would be really helpful to file meaningful bugs reports

New comment by blisstonia in "Minimal Web"

blisstonia — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:35:41 +0000

Yeah the headings being teeny weeny is jarring.

New comment by blisstonia in "Count Binface"

blisstonia — Thu, 02 May 2024 13:08:21 +0000

On the ballots today, the best logo (read: branding) was that of Count Binface.

New comment by blisstonia in "Count Binface"

blisstonia — Thu, 02 May 2024 13:07:04 +0000

Yes, unfortunately. In the past the London Mayoral and London Assembly votes were Proportional Representation — but that changed this year.

General Elections in the UK have always been FPTP.

New comment by blisstonia in "The Revenge of the Home Page"

blisstonia — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:57:12 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by blisstonia in "Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform"

blisstonia — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:06:39 +0000

It's a fair comment. The name isn't great.

Fortunately scuttlebutt is the protocol, which I guess is fine.

New comment by blisstonia in "Oink's Pink Palace"

blisstonia — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 10:19:41 +0000

Here's the story about the novel:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/28/salinger-unpub...

Directly calls out WhatCD

New comment by blisstonia in "Oink's Pink Palace"

blisstonia — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:56:45 +0000

Heh I know right? I think it freaked everyone out a little bit. Startled everyone as it had a whiff of LE…

New comment by blisstonia in "Oink's Pink Palace"

blisstonia — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:16:37 +0000

WhatCD was pretty damn good, I'd say it rivalled Oink. Remember the bounty on that MSFT forensic tool? The copy of the unreleased JD Salinger novel? Both fulfilled...

New comment by blisstonia in "Oink's Pink Palace"

blisstonia — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:15:42 +0000

Oh yeah!