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New comment by craniumslows in "[dead]"

craniumslows — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:56:33 +0000

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New comment by craniumslows in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

craniumslows — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:46:24 +0000

The FSF offices have moved again if you weren't aware. The new address is

Free Software Foundation 31 Milk Street, # 960789 Boston, MA 02196 USA

https://www.fsf.org/about/contact/mailing

New comment by craniumslows in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

craniumslows — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:45:01 +0000

I use Silicon Dusts HD home run and it works great. Live TV from home while I'm travelling is one of my primary use cases. I subscribe to a TV listing service. The DVR function is good too. My biggest issue was that I had to get a graphics card that could transcode on the fly then TV worked perfectly.

New comment by craniumslows in "Usaid.gov"

craniumslows — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:48:15 +0000

Through this I learned CISAs website runs on Drupal and that was much cooler to me than I thought it would be.

thought process (hmmm what other gov do I know? oh I'll curl up cisa. oh it uses drupal thats neat.)

New comment by craniumslows in "Pharaoh's Tomb HD – A Remake Made in JavaScript with Kaplay"

craniumslows — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:07:22 +0000

My inspiration at learning TurboPascal and writing my first little games was this game! How cool. Very fun to see it again! Thanks.

New comment by craniumslows in "Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items"

craniumslows — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:59:40 +0000

If you liked the Living Computer Museum then you may be interested in the https://icm.museum/ Interim Computer Museum.

New comment by craniumslows in "Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed"

craniumslows — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:59:19 +0000

What a wild world. I also just got a kinesis keyboard, and pay for keybr.com but i have the freestyle2 the one that is split down the middle. I've made it to X but would really like to get my speed up on the number keys and function keys too. Good luck!

New comment by craniumslows in "Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp"

craniumslows — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:52:56 +0000

Can anyone help clarify what license this is released under? The original was AGPL if the rewrite is permissively licensed that would be pretty cool.

New comment by craniumslows in "Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?"

craniumslows — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 23:10:34 +0000

I use an app called Cinch but there are a few third party apps that do it. I wish I could run GNOME on my macOS

New comment by craniumslows in "Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year"

craniumslows — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:55:41 +0000

Why not educate the people in need about the tons of other free email services that exist? Outlook, tutanota, protonmail, yahoo, gmx, fastmail, zoho theres plenty more but you get the idea.

The only way to win is to not play the game.

New comment by craniumslows in "Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon"

craniumslows — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:09:16 +0000

I think it'd be wonderful if any project with a social presence would consider mastodon. Even when it's just a bot that parrots what the twitter account says it is nice to not have to use twitter.

New comment by craniumslows in "Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon"

craniumslows — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:52:59 +0000

I think this is a good solution for businesses that are starting to outgrow their home garages. Here's my feedback:

When I read this post and looked at the site I thought you were offering a turnkey drop shipping solution service. I also had the impression that you offered warehousing and other logistical services.

I know this is not the case, but it took me several minutes to figure out what exactly was happening.

New comment by craniumslows in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

craniumslows — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:32:40 +0000

There’s also gopher and Gemini hosting.

New comment by craniumslows in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

craniumslows — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:31:20 +0000

Heck ya! :-)

New comment by craniumslows in "SDF Public Access Unix System"

craniumslows — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:30:03 +0000

Check out the tilde verse. You might dig it. It isn’t invite only but it is more modern

tildeverse.org

New comment by craniumslows in "[dead]"

craniumslows — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:10:30 +0000

This is just spam.

New comment by craniumslows in "SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way"

craniumslows — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:16:49 +0000

I used to be really grumpy about SELinux until I learned about audit2why and audit2how. With those two utilities SELinux is just as easy if not easier to configure than any systemd process.

Every job is hard when you are using the wrong tools. Don't change your oil with pliers, and don't setenforce 0.

New comment by craniumslows in "Ask HN: How many of you use GNU/Linux?"

craniumslows — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 19:20:09 +0000

I use GNU/Linux and OS X soon to be rebranded MacOS. I started off using RedHat 3 dot something ages and ages ago then moved on to FreeBSD for about 6 or 7 years before I did lots of distro hopping in my 20s. I remember the fun and annoyance at having to recompile your kernel for sound driver support, or to add or remove a feature.

So the why? I think that it gives me the blend of power and convenience that I am personally looking for. In my early days the open source, free compilers were a godsend as I had to get a ride out of town to get to a book store that sold a book or manual with a distribution CD. As the internet access got better I started using the GUI and noticed that my use case was slowly evolving. Now-a-days I find that I am on whatever is handy Chromebook, iPad, MacBook, Desktop PC running Fedora.

Many computer users merely want something that works, and you can't blame them for that either.

This seems like it could be a fun question.