Hacker News: brycewray

Woolyss Chromium website shutting down 2026-08-31

brycewray — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://chromium.woolyss.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446564

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by brycewray in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

brycewray — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:23:05 +0000

> Also the little sound bite about peak demand, Texas has enormous capacity during the summer as well; far, far exceeding demand. It makes total sense to be testing and connecting multi-GW consumers during these months.

Texan here. Actually, it depends on how hot our summer weather gets and, thus, how much A/C use is in play. When we get into a not-unusual run of multiple 100-degree (F.) days in a row, the available capacity often drops to the point where ERCOT begins issuing alerts about things like suggested times of day when running certain appliances might not be wise. Having lived through the nightmare of the February '21 winter storm outages, I keep the ERCOT dashboard[0] as a bookmark and check it at least once, every day of the year.

[0]: https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

New comment by brycewray in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

brycewray — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:35:34 +0000

Was always one of the first things I would change in Word's autocorrect settings whenever I started with a company-provided installation.

New comment by brycewray in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

brycewray — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:49:14 +0000

It has a very “AI-written”-ish feel to it, FWIW.

New comment by brycewray in "Just Use Go"

brycewray — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:50:32 +0000

Apropos of nothing: it's interesting that a page pushing Go so emphatically is built[0] using the Rust-based Zola rather than the Go-based Hugo.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~blainsmith/blog/tree/main/item/.build.yml

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

brycewray — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:52:45 +0000

Article URL: https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050905

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by brycewray in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

brycewray — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:26:41 +0000

> There could be other issues causing this, for instance if you didn't grant uBOL the permission to inject scripts on the site.

Bingo. That was it. Again, thanks.

New comment by brycewray in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

brycewray — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:37:51 +0000

I will recheck my uBOL settings, then, sir. Thank you for your work!

EDIT: I did have it set to `Complete,` so perhaps I have something else going on.

New comment by brycewray in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

brycewray — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:13:09 +0000

Just as one example: Chrome + uBOL on Reddit will show you plenty of "Sponsored" stuff. You can use Inspector to find the offending CSS classes and then use `display: none` on them with something like Stylus[0], but not everybody wants to play that whack-a-mole game on the many sites that push uBOL past its blocking capabilities.

[0]: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus

New comment by brycewray in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

brycewray — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:23:43 +0000

Pepperidge Farm remembers that commercial.

New comment by brycewray in "Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their"

brycewray — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:39:20 +0000

"Sticks nix hick pix"

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

New comment by brycewray in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

brycewray — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:12:10 +0000

Yes, especially when a simple look at the source code showed what was "hidden." Not only aggravating, but amateurish.

New comment by brycewray in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

brycewray — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:26:44 +0000

Drives like these and the Syquest drives were essential for desktop publishing well into the early 2000s. I sent many such drives to various printing facilities --- or, sometimes (and, here, I really date myself) separate PostScript bureaus --- to obtain high-res, color-separated film for four-color commercial printing, either by local printers or magazines who would run ads for my employers of the time.

New comment by brycewray in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

brycewray — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:48:05 +0000

Backblaze's B2 storage is fine if used with a separate app over which you have more control. Others here have mentioned Arq. I have used it, as well as Kopia[0] and Blinkdisk[1] (Blinkdisk is essentially Kopia but with a nicer UI). Can recommend all three highly; the latter two are FOSS.

[0]: https://kopia.io/

[1]: https://blinkdisk.com/

New comment by brycewray in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

brycewray — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:53:04 +0000

(2023)

New comment by brycewray in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

brycewray — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:29:41 +0000

From the related blog post[0]:

> You can find Little Snitch for Linux here[1]. It is free, and it will stay that way.

[0]: https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/

[1]: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux

New comment by brycewray in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites"

brycewray — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:10:47 +0000

(2025)

New comment by brycewray in "Working on Products People Hate"

brycewray — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:40:16 +0000

This applies to more than just product engineering. Part of one of my former jobs (retired now) involved writing marketing copy and news releases. I never quite got over how one of my bosses, who would also write some of this material, often told visitors or other company execs that, where our textual output was concerned, “We have no pride of authorship here.” Speak for yourself, I always wanted to tell him, but never did because I needed the paycheck.

Interestingly, he lasted there only a year while I made it to nearly 17 years. Go figure.

New comment by brycewray in "Hugo's New CSS Powers"

brycewray — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:03:27 +0000

Whoops. Thanks for the catch. I was trying to trim down some of my CSS the other day, but inadvertently forgot to leave my `--cyan-700` variable. The yellow you saw was supposed to warn me, "Hey, you missed one!" but I apparently missed that one. :-/ Fixed.

New comment by brycewray in "Hugo's New CSS Powers"

brycewray — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:06:35 +0000

For Sass, yes[0] --- as has Hugo[1]. Hugo's recently added `css.Build` function, based on esbuild, is for post-processing vanilla CSS.

[0]: https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/sass/

[1]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.43 (July, 2018)