Hacker News: dclaw

New comment by dclaw in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

dclaw — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:45:53 +0000

There is a wonderful IRC-based Pirates adaptation called PiratesIRC https://piratesirc.com

New comment by dclaw in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

dclaw — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:23:22 +0000

It's just modern book burning. The contents don't even matter, you will never see the text and images in these books again.

New comment by dclaw in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

dclaw — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:34:31 +0000

If old.reddit dies, I leave. It's just another step into the grave.... That's about all that should be said.

New comment by dclaw in "StubHub, CEO hit with ‘deceptive practices’ class action over mass scalping"

dclaw — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:57:00 +0000

End it.

Make reselling tickets illegal again overall.

Allow resale within 5 days of the show only (for those that genuinely can't make it), and for face value+original fees only.

New comment by dclaw in "Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked"

dclaw — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:21:01 +0000

It's not just excess bandwidth. It's cpu cycles, poor site coding, database issues. Like I said, not everything is backed by a huge company that has the money/hardware/engineering resources to absorb the load.

New comment by dclaw in "Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked"

dclaw — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:54:31 +0000

This is really unacceptable folks. There are those of us that have to keep these sites up, and it's seriously been a few years of nightmare scrapers and botnets, and stupid things like this that you are trying to legitimize that will make this worse. If a site doesn't want you, you should go away. There's a reason for it. Not every website is backed by a billion/trillion dollar company with the resources to absorb things.

New comment by dclaw in "Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer"

dclaw — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:10:08 +0000

This is exactly what I was hoping for to knock Bambu down a few notches.... Definitely makes Prusa an even better contender in the space.

New comment by dclaw in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

dclaw — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:20:25 +0000

WCMesh in California covers a few hundred miles of southern California on Meshcore.... That isn't flat. It really just depends on buy-in in the local region.

New comment by dclaw in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

dclaw — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:20:21 +0000

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

New comment by dclaw in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

dclaw — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:03:32 +0000

Happy pass user for ~8 years now, have ~1300 passwords stored. No issues whatsoever. Use git to sync it across devices, totally awesome.

New comment by dclaw in "Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment"

dclaw — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:59:15 +0000

Apparently someone has recreated it.

https://yucatantoday.com/en/blog/how-is-the-maya-blue-pigmen...

New comment by dclaw in "Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)"

dclaw — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:29:16 +0000

Pirates IRC is based on Sid Meier's Pirates to an extent. If you're still on IRC, it's worth playing. https://www.piratesirc.com/

New comment by dclaw in "White House Says Gold Reserves May Be Used to Purchase Bitcoin"

dclaw — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 04:20:16 +0000

Yes, revalue gold. No, do not buy bitcoin with it.

New comment by dclaw in "Imapsync"

dclaw — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:06:02 +0000

Absolutely, ms365 too. Definitely a worthwhile tool, and if you have a big job or do it more than once a year you should purchase it.

New comment by dclaw in "The number pi has an evil twin"

dclaw — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:19:28 +0000

OK, that's fucking awesome. Thanks

New comment by dclaw in "The number pi has an evil twin"

dclaw — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:19:55 +0000

This discussion helped me discover my new favorite map. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peirce_Quincuncial_Projec...

New comment by dclaw in "Do you need ID to read the REAL-ID rules?"

dclaw — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:45:28 +0000

Real-ID is such a farce. I have had an ID since I was 15, and presented my birth certificate and ssn as a minor to do so. There is no instance where I am not "real".

I have a US Passport that took less effort and paperwork to get than a Real-ID. I will never submit.

New comment by dclaw in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

dclaw — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:13:04 +0000

s/delay/terminate

New comment by dclaw in "RStudio: Integrated development environment (IDE) for R"

dclaw — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:36:08 +0000

Ahh cool, now r-studio brings up this instead of the 24 year old data recovery program.... :-(

New comment by dclaw in "June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)"

dclaw — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:25:41 +0000

For what it's worth, we're trying to do a lot of our server upgrades with the Elevate scripting to Almalinux, but man can it be a pain. We have a 30% success rate in testing, and even when it goes right it tends to be 2-3 hours of downtime. The alternative though is to rebuild every server on spare hardware and manually migrate data and configurations over. So it's still a better option once we can figure it out. I'm hoping to get downtime <1hr and >90% success rate before we start really pushing through these by April.