Hacker News: conkeisterdoor

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Busy Is the New Stupid"

conkeisterdoor — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:37:18 +0000

The numbering of the challenges (eg T1001) is a little confusing to me too. My assumption is that the first number after the T is a tactic ID and the remaining digits are the challenge/issue ID. Maybe the challenge/issue ID is 3 digits because there's room (a plan?) to add many more examples?

I like the substance of this conceptual model as well (and may actually use some of it in my own personal productivity framework :-)), but don't see why it needs to be presented this way. It's neat, but I'd personally rather all the content be on one page, and maybe with a search feature for if/when the list of example challenges/issues grows.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

conkeisterdoor — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:20:48 +0000

This is what I'm currently doing sans tailscale. I'm running Ubooquity on a server in my homelab as my OPDS service to serve the ebooks hosted on a mounted NAS. I can download any of those books from my Kobo with a few presses on Koreader. It's pretty great. My Kobo Forma is probably one of my best and most used tech purchases. I've had it since 2019 and couldn't be happier with the device + setup. Getting it set up with tailscale so I can fetch ebooks when I'm away from home sounds like a pretty good upgrade.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)"

conkeisterdoor — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:35:01 +0000

Ah, a fellow indoorsman. :)

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Zig Error Patterns"

conkeisterdoor — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:59:14 +0000

It's very nice and worth the $75 IMO. The new font builder they have gives you a lot of options to tweak/customize the typeface, which is also very nice.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression"

conkeisterdoor — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:45:54 +0000

Glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. WinZip is a slow and bloated abomination, especially compared to 7-Zip. The right-click menu context entry for 7-Zip is very convenient and runs lightning fast. WinZip can't compete at all.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "9front "clause 15 common elements of maus and star type" released"

conkeisterdoor — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:55:35 +0000

I think the title is just the name of the newest release of 9front (an active fork of plan9), similar to how Bookworm is the name for Debian release 12.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Oh Shit, Git?"

conkeisterdoor — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:46:04 +0000

> "... or worse, your entire 'secret' MP4 collection to our monorepo?"

Oh no, that poor soul...

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds"

conkeisterdoor — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:12:44 +0000

I just read your comment after posting mine and it sounds like you've had a similar (but unfortunately opposite!) experience. The vivid dreams stop for me a few weeks after they start. Are your vivid dreams "permanent", or has it only been a short while since you started experiencing them?

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds"

conkeisterdoor — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:07:22 +0000

Indeed, and IME, the dreams I have after taking a break from daily THC use are extremely vivid - to the point that I can remember them in detail for days afterwards. I enjoy that a lot.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail' Alert, Dies at 74"

conkeisterdoor — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 03:34:50 +0000

About 30 minutes ago, it has been my Gmail notification sound for a few years :)

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Jd – JSON Diff and Patch"

conkeisterdoor — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:51:09 +0000

TIL after so many years that /usr isn't an abbreviation of "user". "UNIX/user system resources" makes a lot more sense in retrospect. Guess I should have RTFM a long time ago!

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Show HN: Homemade automated solar concentrator"

conkeisterdoor — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:55:10 +0000

This is so cool, thanks for sharing! If I had a yard/space to build one of these, I would totally try rigging one up to drive a little heat engine.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine"

conkeisterdoor — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 13:22:02 +0000

Most likely Arc (https://arc.net/)

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)"

conkeisterdoor — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:03:50 +0000

Different strokes for different folks :)

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands"

conkeisterdoor — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:21:32 +0000

Thanks so much!

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Show HN: Llm2sh – Translate plain-language requests into shell commands"

conkeisterdoor — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:49:27 +0000

This looks great! I would use this if you had a dispatcher for using a custom/local OpenAI-compatible API like eg llama.cpp server. If I can make some time I'll take a stab at writing one and submit a PR :)

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Paramount Wipes South Park, Daily Show Clips, and More from Websites"

conkeisterdoor — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:57:52 +0000

That certainly makes sense. But Disney+ has a desktop app, and I tried downloading and using that, but still never got resolution greater than 720p. I wish they would at least fix their app so PC users could stream in HD without feeling the need to rely on piracy.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Paramount Wipes South Park, Daily Show Clips, and More from Websites"

conkeisterdoor — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:52:57 +0000

I'm not sure, but I sure am not renewing my subscription either. I stream on a PC, and I have not once been able to watch a Disney+ show at any resolution higher than 720p, despite following all of their troubleshooting steps. They "scan your system and connection to determine the best resolution" (paraphrase), and don't allow you to choose the resolution. After talking to their support half a dozen times and escalating my request, I have seen no improvement. I'm convinced it's deliberate.

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Unity Catalog: Open, Multi-Modal Catalog for Data and AI"

conkeisterdoor — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 01:35:17 +0000

It's great to work with. I can't wait until someone makes an OSS equivalent of Databricks' Catalog Explorer

New comment by conkeisterdoor in "Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad"

conkeisterdoor — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:37:05 +0000

I'm particularly fond of the "Amazon option to ask your driver to stay for dinner and a movie" one