Hacker News: boomboomsubban

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:29:12 +0000

Huh? IA not doing what they claim seems fairly important to their point.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:31:09 +0000

>about the paywall workarounds that are frequent on HN—I was genuinely shocked to learn they hadn’t heard about it.

Is the Internet Archive regularly used as a paywall workaround? Generally it's archive.is, which has no connection to the IA.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:11:42 +0000

HN search is fantastic, it doesn't look like it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:12:23 +0000

It also makes them appear larger, there's so much in there the bun can't contain it all.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:44:14 +0000

The router ban affects routers made in foreign countries, Netgear's headquarters should be irrelevant. The author's previous article spells this out better https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-20...

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:32:34 +0000

IA makes torrents for basically everything on it's site.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:39:50 +0000

Does "report not spam" do anything? A local business will send me a receipt from a gmail address, and every time it's marked as spam despite it telling me future mail from this address will not be tagged as spam.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:34:25 +0000

If you found a dog on the street then you probably don't have any actual dog food. A hot dog seems like one of the best options in an average fridge.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:39:29 +0000

So something like getting Phil Spector to produce their record?

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

boomboomsubban — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:39:16 +0000

>What am I supposed to do? Spend a few hours to try each one and find the best for my 13 years old i5 with a Nvidia gt440 that's used 3 hours per month?

The performance difference will be minimal. It's an aesthetic choice, pick the one you like the look of or give a few of them a try.

It's like cars. Some people have extreme opinions on matters, some would be fine picking almost any car, and most test drive a few before picking their favorite.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:40:42 +0000

Minnesota did have home ice cream and other frozen food delivery until Schwan's finally shut down a few years ago. Usually men, but they did tend to be chatty from my experience.

So there is a US equivalent, but it would have been interesting to read about them too.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)"

boomboomsubban — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:32:38 +0000

We're these only used in Sweden? I know I've seen some of them before, but I'm not sure if it's from decades on the internet or my school having a specific thirty year old edition of The Hobbit.

I seem to recall thinking Gollum was big, but honestly could be remembering the Shelov scene. It was long time ago.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:39:37 +0000

Most racers didn't finish, so the water idea was just dumb. I'm not sure how serious anyone that actually trained ever took it.

The strychnine taker did feel like crap. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_O...

>Hicks led the race by 1.5 miles (2.4 km), but he had to be restrained from stopping and lying down by his trainers....He continued to battle onwards, hallucinating, and was barely able to walk for most of the course. When he reached the stadium, his support team carried him over the line, holding him in the air while he shuffled his feet as if still running.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:10:04 +0000

If you read about their wellness and performance enhancing drugs, there's good reason they died young.

For example, the 1904 Olympic marathon, the organizer believed drinking water was a bad idea while exercising and the winner took a mix of brandy, strychnine and egg whites during the race.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:20:23 +0000

>It's been a very long time since I moved to Arch, but I swear that something like 12 years ago it did have some form of menu-driven installer.

Yep, removed in 2012 as the last maintainer quit. Maintaining an installer seems like one of the least fun hobbies.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Sega co-founder David Rosen has died"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:55:24 +0000

Yes, but largely by a Japanese team moved over out of hopes they could train the Americans and corporate politics.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Happy Public Domain Day 2026"

boomboomsubban — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:16:12 +0000

It had been a while since I read the DMCA, and I was mistaken. It says "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under (copyright)" so it doesn't need an exemption.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Happy Public Domain Day 2026"

boomboomsubban — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:19:37 +0000

>What about the anti-piracy measures on the Blu Ray?

In the US, bypassing DRM is a crime even if the intended use is legal. There are exceptions for things like criticism and accessibility, but I don't believe they'd be relevant.

Maybe it'd be as simple as selling your new copies as "for review purposes" and it'd be legal, I'm not sure.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:47:47 +0000

It's not hard to imagine the last default search contract negotiation had Google go "we'll give you $x if you kill manifest v2, $x-$150 million if you don't."

edited to correct my misunderstanding.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

boomboomsubban — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:56:45 +0000

They list their sources, if you care but don't trust them you could replicate it on your own.