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New comment by bovermyer in "The Importance of Being Idle"

bovermyer — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:13:02 +0000

Bullet ants, on the other hand, are not fun. Not even a little bit.

New comment by bovermyer in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bovermyer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:32:49 +0000

Iran made those AWS data centers... unhappy.

The comment is disingenuous, though, since Locker doesn't need AWS S3 to function.

New comment by bovermyer in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

bovermyer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:31:43 +0000

Very cool idea, but without background file syncing from/to my local machine, it can't replace my cloud storage provider.

New comment by bovermyer in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

bovermyer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:37:48 +0000

I long ago switched to Fly.io. It feels like the old days of Heroku.

New comment by bovermyer in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"

bovermyer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:51:40 +0000

I hit 0.012.

As a test of general knowledge it was interesting. The confidence angle was the most interesting part, though.

New comment by bovermyer in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

bovermyer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:23:12 +0000

There's also this: https://minifeed.net/global

However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.

New comment by bovermyer in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

bovermyer — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:17:36 +0000

We agree on that take on understanding, yes. More succinctly, I think we could say that understanding comes from an application of, and interaction with, knowledge. The more connections to a bit of information that an individual has, the better their understanding.

This thread's getting a bit long, so I'm happy to continue this discussion via email, if you like. My email is ben@overmyer.net.

New comment by bovermyer in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

bovermyer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:34:56 +0000

Alright, so we have our first point of divergence. For me, the majority of my general knowledge comes from reading.

Where does the majority of an individual's _understanding_ come from?

New comment by bovermyer in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

bovermyer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:01:28 +0000

Let me start by asking you this:

Where does the majority of an individual's general knowledge come from?

New comment by bovermyer in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

bovermyer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:27:15 +0000

We must be from _wildly_ different backgrounds.

New comment by bovermyer in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

bovermyer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:15:36 +0000

Most of that article is just good career advice in general, so I'll just comment on the part about AI.

One major problem I see with the use of AI is that it will prevent people from building an understanding of . This will reduce people's ability to drive AI correctly, creating a circular problem.

New comment by bovermyer in "Meow.camera"

bovermyer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:28:57 +0000

A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?

New comment by bovermyer in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

bovermyer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:48:55 +0000

If history is any indication, only demonstrable threat of personal erasure will affect the behavior of people on this scale.

By "erasure," I'm not referring to the death of the involved; I'm referring to the elimination of the individual's social capital.

When the privileged lose their ability to influence others, they tend to get rather distressed.

New comment by bovermyer in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

bovermyer — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:43:33 +0000

From a layman's point of view, I'm more interested in antimatter's potential as a weapon.

Not necessarily because I want to use it, but because I have a vague idea of what it's capable of, and what that would mean in the hands of certain groups capable of producing it.

New comment by bovermyer in "[dead]"

bovermyer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:01:16 +0000

I like simplicity. The Unix philosophy, as codified, is both simple and rigid. It's the rigidity that kills it.

The Unix philosophy does not give room for experimentation, learning, understanding, and growth. It imposes a set of rules, and some people take that as unalterable.

These people are wrong.

New comment by bovermyer in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

bovermyer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:10:40 +0000

Obsidian is good, but I switched to Zettlr last year and I like it much better.

https://www.zettlr.com

New comment by bovermyer in "Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry"

bovermyer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:56:25 +0000

I like the direction this fork is going in. I will wait to use it until it achieves a little more critical mass in adoption, though.

New comment by bovermyer in "The Social Smolnet"

bovermyer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:03:58 +0000

OK, I love that. I'm going to try it out right now.

New comment by bovermyer in "Chuck Norris has died"

bovermyer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:52:38 +0000

Oh, for sure. MAGA types think some of my views are absolutely abhorrent. I'm pretty sure there are a few cultures that would kill me for my views.

Just because they hate me, though, doesn't mean I can't disagree with their position.

New comment by bovermyer in "Chuck Norris has died"

bovermyer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:48:58 +0000

Something I was brought up to believe was that you shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to those in mourning.

I struggle with that rule sometimes.