Hacker News: bmlzootown

New comment by bmlzootown in "Web Server on a Nintendo Wii"

bmlzootown — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:53:23 +0000

Fun fact, my Wii running Linux was my first server. I had a webserver running, and an IRC bouncer (ZNC). Anything outside the standard "it's available on every architecture" type stuff require manual compilation, however, which can take forever.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

bmlzootown — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:39:03 +0000

This is absolutely ridiculous.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

bmlzootown — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:34:36 +0000

They've made it into an actual skit now? I remember when it was just a regular old meme.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Fluxer: Free, open source instant messaging and VoIP platform"

bmlzootown — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:37:09 +0000

I could understand Discord taking issue with the UI, but the logo? White on blue isn't exactly original and/or trademark/copyright worthy.

New comment by bmlzootown in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

bmlzootown — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:55:49 +0000

Since the last major jailbreak for Kindle devices was released, I've been using Koreader as well on my Scribe. I have progress syncing setup with Hardcover (Goodreads alternative) instead, however. Only downside is their recommendations don't seem to be well geared to my interests at this point, but hopefully that'll change in the future as more use the service.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years"

bmlzootown — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:15:56 +0000

I was genuinely hoping that this would extend back to at least the 10 series. I'm still daily driving my S10+ that I got when it first came out with no major issues other than the eventual lack of updates. Battery life is still great, very minimal wear and tear. Only real complaint I have at this point is that, post TMobile-Sprint merger, signal strength is rather odd at work now.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Goodreads has no incentive to be good"

bmlzootown — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:39:53 +0000

Yeah, I've read the same book multiple times before, years apart, without realizing it. Only when I went back to Goodreads later to mark it as read did I realize that... well, I had already read it.

On the flip side, I can enjoy a book more than once. This is a definite plus.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down"

bmlzootown — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 03:05:34 +0000

I'm all for historically low housing prices, but as for the rest... I'm not sure we should invoke any sort of Black Mirror-esque scenario on the world. Reality is already dark, grim, and eerie enough as is.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes"

bmlzootown — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:31:04 +0000

Volume control is a must. I had my headphones on, at normal volume, and... let's just say I didn't realize just how loud it would be.

Other than that, however, this seems neat. I've been trying to listen to new music lately, so this'll definitely come in handy.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account"

bmlzootown — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:18:29 +0000

If we, as a species, only learned from our own personal experiences, we'd still be dwelling in caves.

New comment by bmlzootown in "DHS announces extension of Real ID full enforcement deadline"

bmlzootown — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 18:48:29 +0000

Literally stood outside the DMV the other day for more than hour in sub-40F weather to get my real id.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation"

bmlzootown — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 04:31:20 +0000

The same is true for some other primates. Eye contact seems to be a sign of aggression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_contact#Between_species

New comment by bmlzootown in "Reconstructing images a person sees via non-invasive brain scans"

bmlzootown — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:15:52 +0000

Visualize the text, "welcome to my Ted talk."

New comment by bmlzootown in "New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'"

bmlzootown — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 01:42:22 +0000

I mean, they quote Ian Carnelli in the article, saying that he expects a "much bigger deflection than (he) had planned". That said, the article also mentions that it will take Earth-bound telescopes/radars at least a week to get initial estimates in regard to the change of the asteroid's orbit, and then three to four weeks before getting precise measurements.

I think the real takeaway here is just that something unexpected happen. They're monitoring as they would have regardless, and results will come in time. Expecting results and/or a conclusion this early is, well, jumping the gun.

New comment by bmlzootown in "GitHub user sends notification to 400k users"

bmlzootown — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 02:55:34 +0000

I'm up to about 156 replies between two emails now. My phone and smart watch were buzzing like crazy earlier for each notification.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Ask HN: Teach me something new"

bmlzootown — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 06:38:02 +0000

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term "factoid" was believed to be coined by Normal Mailer in a book he wrote about Marilyn Monroe. Per said book, factoids are "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority."

While many use "fact" and "factoid" interchangeably, they are (by original definition) inherently two entirely different things.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company"

bmlzootown — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 02:42:08 +0000

The important question is this -- why does he believe those things?

This is the same man that at one point tried to say that he was the founder of Tesla.

Saying things that I agree with doesn't mean that I should inherently be in favor of said person doing X, Y, or Z.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things?"

bmlzootown — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:59:11 +0000

We've had local business owners come in before that have tried to haggle with us. Even had one specifically point out repeatedly that he ran a business so he knew how it worked. Wouldn't take no for an answer.

It frustrates me to no end when someone doesn't understand the word "no".

New comment by bmlzootown in "Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed"

bmlzootown — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 06:55:14 +0000

It should be accessible from the normal settings. Click on your profile avatar, settings and privacy, GoodTwitter2.

New comment by bmlzootown in "Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed"

bmlzootown — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 05:16:52 +0000

GoodTwitter2[0] is the only reason that I still use the web version anymore. I can handle the mobile interface on a mobile device, but making the desktop experience mobile-themed was the straw that almost broke the camel's back. GoodTwitter2 mostly fixes that, thankfully.

The userscript also fixes the reverse-chronological issue. There's literally a setting that enables one to force "Latest Tweets First" mode, so it'll switch back to the "latest" feed whenever Twitter has decided that you should be viewing their "home" feed instead.

[0] https://github.com/Bl4Cc4t/GoodTwitter2