Hacker News: capitainenemo

New comment by capitainenemo in "Love systemd timers"

capitainenemo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:10:03 +0000

True. But commonly used ones.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Love systemd timers"

capitainenemo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:09:03 +0000

As someone else noted, that's also a cron feature

New comment by capitainenemo in "Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)"

capitainenemo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:03:49 +0000

well, people do in fact still do that. or APNG or WEBP. But, all I was focused on was the initial comment was on if you were going to use this particular tool, it'd be nice if it had a pure CSS rotate mode, which makes a fair amount of sense given "working without JS" is probably one of the few significant use cases anyway (unless, you reeeeeally need your model to be tightly integrated into the DOM for some reason).

So, saying that CSS would be worse than JS as a feature for this project did not really make sense. We weren't talking about "should the project even exist" (I feel it should and it's awesome ;) )

New comment by capitainenemo in "Love systemd timers"

capitainenemo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:59:11 +0000

How does systemd on the 2 machines avoid that? Are they communicating somehow?

New comment by capitainenemo in "Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)"

capitainenemo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:53:34 +0000

Oh. Sure, that is pretty obvious. A triangle in webgl is so much more lightweight than building it out of DOM elements but this was more about "if one is going to use this CSS system, why not support a pure CSS viewing mode" - which right now, it does not - rotation requires JS and is pretty stuttery. I was thinking it should actually be a bit smoother if there was a "toggle on/off rotation using a CSS animation" option. Plus, something like that could easily be done in pure CSS if JS was disabled, which would make the output all the more accessible and offer a good usecase.

It could also be helpful in scenarios where JS is restricted - emails? iframes? bulleting board user content? Dunno. Trying to come up with some that aren't just "nemo was running umatrix and doesn't trust your site just yet"

New comment by capitainenemo in "Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)"

capitainenemo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:02:58 +0000

Huh.... why would a CSS animation of a transform be slower than JS? This is strictly for the "CSS transform" case ofc - obviously pure webgl would be way faster.

I'm having a hard time seeing it. My experiments with CSS animation have always performed much better in CSS than JS (again, excluding it being pure webgl/canvas JS).

And ofc there's the nice bonus that it works if I haven't chosen to trust and whitelist their website for JS yet.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)"

capitainenemo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:01:13 +0000

Then there's "minecraft in CSS" which uses invisible form elements for camera rotation and works with no JS at all.

https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/

It's been on HN before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148 )

New comment by capitainenemo in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

capitainenemo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:53:41 +0000

Huh. Didn't know there were 2 non-JS interfaces. I get redirected to https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ (which is also 10 per page). I do appreciate that DDG has it at all. Google blocks all non-JS searches these days.

I've never noticed the challenge, but then, I don't think I've ever clicked 20 pages into the search results either. Usually if I've clicked on a couple of pages I feel it's time to refine my query..

New comment by capitainenemo in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

capitainenemo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:37:03 +0000

I will say it's nice to have them actually honour keywords in searches that google has made harder and harder to discover and seems to ignore at will (inurl: site: etc)

The funniest one for me in google is +"foo" they decided people didn't actually mean it, so they changed it to +""foo"" - then when we all started doing that, they made the new secret "yes I really want that string" to be +"""foo"""

New comment by capitainenemo in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

capitainenemo — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:44:58 +0000

shrug not interested in stock market speculation. That ⅕th figure is from 2025 actual revenue figures. The government percentage had dropped from 2024 where it was ¼.

It's variable though, and if DoD decides it wants a bunch of spy satellites or whatnot in orbit, you could see the percentage growing, along with their total revenue ofc.

It's just far from "completely dependent" which was my only objection.

Starlink obviously a huge part - $11½b revenue in 2025.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

capitainenemo — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:19:59 +0000

Only a fifth of spacex revenue is currently from government contracts, a percentage that they forecast will continue to trend downwards.

(not to say that isn't a huge risk if it disappeared, it's just far from "completely dependent")

New comment by capitainenemo in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

capitainenemo — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:14:15 +0000

(and ofc there's a bunch of forks adding bugfixes, some even relatively recent in activity, but unfortunately none have become the blessed official maintainer)

New comment by capitainenemo in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

capitainenemo — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:04:39 +0000

It hasn't received updates in a good long while, but seems to work fine, for me anyway. Has some rough edges, logging blocks when there's a bunch of redirects is a bit of a pain, making it hard to fix whitelisting in complicated things (like the dozen domains microsoft uses for auth) but apart from that...

New comment by capitainenemo in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

capitainenemo — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:24:52 +0000

uMatrix + NoScript personally (yes, seems silly, but I find NoScript's UI more convenient for script toggling, while liking uMatrix's fine grained controls)

Did you enable firefox resist fingerprinting? Also maybe letterboxing, which I think is not enabled by that flag by default, and also helps with CSS fingerprinting.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

capitainenemo — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:28:42 +0000

Yeah, the specs were... decent... nothing standout. Really I was going over the list of things I had lost after the Galaxy Note got rid of all their features and decided the replaceable battery was the one I cared about the most. The ruggedness was just a nice plus.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

capitainenemo — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:42:15 +0000

At least the USB-C ones I purchase are not flush - I never found those to be reliable. It's a male prong that looks pretty much identical in wiring to the male prong on the phone, that connects to a female one plugged into the socket. That plus a bit of a collar to help hold it in place. So I don't see why there would be any difference in grounding, it's the same connection...

(that plus the comments from the more knowledgeable person below)

Eventually they start wearing out, and I just replace them. I've had no issues with high voltages (45W+ charging on phone and steamdeck) and with peripherals (hub for example).

New comment by capitainenemo in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

capitainenemo — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:09:16 +0000

Indeed. I've had my XCover 6 for 3½ years now. I've dropped it many times, on hard surfaces (like outdoor concrete/brick). I've undoubtedly been fortunate. the plastic has gouges in it. there's (small) scratches on the screen (some from my keys), but the screen is not cracked. When it is dropped the back and battery pop off, which I think helps dissipate the forces. BTW, for anyone trying to extend their phone life, I strongly recommend those magnetic USB connectors. Reduces wear and tear on the USB port, and is also kinda convenient for quick disconnect.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

capitainenemo — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:06:28 +0000

At least on Android, when my Samsung Galaxy Note (I loved that phone - replaceable battery, pressure sensitive stylus, IR blaster, OLED, audio jack, water resistant - they went downhill from there IMO) finally end of lifed, I just used the official Samsung tool to upload a community image on it. The process wasn't horrendously difficult. I don't know if people would do it, but it was a clear set of steps that even a tech novice could accomplish if following carefully.

New comment by capitainenemo in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

capitainenemo — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:47:42 +0000

So, they have an XCover 7 now - with similar specs.

Also, they committed to a rather long support cycle for the xcover6 (5 years I think?) - I have one and it is still going strong. I've replaced the battery twice - not because I desperately needed to, but... why not. They are cheap, and I use the older ones still as backup battery packs since they are fast to swap in.

New comment by capitainenemo in "We need a federation of forges"

capitainenemo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:37:11 +0000

So, as a long-time mercurial users, revsets in jujutsu were a major feature for me. And if you don't want to use them, don't. But if you are looking to treat your VCS DAG as a queryable database they are awesome. And, they are great for avoiding having to chain a bunch of commands together, inefficiently, to get the same effect. Although you still can do that if you really want to. Just like you don't have to use jq to query JSON - you can do terrible cursed things with grep and awk and sed and it'll even work for simple cases. But you might want to give jq a spin - and really there are strong parallels in how they work.