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New comment by deadbunny in "OpenRocket"

deadbunny — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:55:40 +0000

New comment by deadbunny in "How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry"

deadbunny — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:47:54 +0000

This is the problem with destroying industries then trying to keep small remaining pockets of it/restarting it. You lose all of the institutional knowledge, the stuff that isn't written down, the stuff that comes from experience.

This is only exacerbated when those projects you're trying to do become massively over budget and late. People decry it as a waste and a failure, leading to any hard won knowledge being lost yet again as those projects gets scrapped and all the people making it lose their jobs.

You don't get good making things if you only try once every 30 years, you get better by continually doing that thing, passing the hard won knowledge down through the workforce by training incoming people not from hiring "experts" and expecting everyone to be up to speed on project #1 immediately.

New comment by deadbunny in "We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source"

deadbunny — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:59:39 +0000

As if people read guidelines. Sure they're good to have so you can point to them when people violate them but people (in general) will not by default read them before contributing.

New comment by deadbunny in "What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?"

deadbunny — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:12:55 +0000

You don't have to use MS' keys, you can setup secure boot using your own keys reasonably easily.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware...

Snail farmer of London, mafia friends, and a £20M vendetta against the taxman

deadbunny — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 08:56:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball-the-snail-farmer-his-mafia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632881

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

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

deadbunny — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:24:18 +0000

Literally `git reflog`

New comment by deadbunny in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

deadbunny — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:21:14 +0000

> On the flip side, it's super similar to those video poker machines in bars and restaurants.

Other than playing cards being shown on screen, it's not.

> If you allowed the option to increase the bet

There is no betting in Balatro.

> and got rid of the special joker abilities, it's basically the same thing.

So completely change how the game works completely then it's "basically the same" as video poker? Do you hear yourself?

> People claiming otherwise are being willfully ignorant.

People claiming otherwise can tell the difference between 2 games using playing cards.

> I love Balatro, but it's definitely gambling adjacent

Again, there is no gambling in Balatro.

> and depending on how rules/laws around children gambling are defined, it probably should be age gated, or those rules/laws should be updated to reflect reality, you can't have it both ways.

Gonna ignore this because you haven't explained in any way how Balatro is in anyway "gambling adjacent" other than your made up situation where if you completely change the way the game works it becomes gambling, which of course is nonsense.

New comment by deadbunny in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

deadbunny — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:09:09 +0000

Which regulations mandate these "complex systems"?

New comment by deadbunny in "Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices"

deadbunny — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:51:29 +0000

Piper[1] has always worked for me. Granted I only use wired mice.

1. https://github.com/libratbag/piper

New comment by deadbunny in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"

deadbunny — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:28:53 +0000

That was due to fundamental differences in standards[1] though. This isn't the case with DVD onwards (mostly).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_television

New comment by deadbunny in "When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)"

deadbunny — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:07:15 +0000

I remember my first linux admin gig and mistyping my password when using sudo then getting an email about it a few seconds later. After years of home linux use this amused me and was like "oh, so that's what happens when things are configured properly".

New comment by deadbunny in "Missing open-source contributor presents a dilemma when accepting their PR"

deadbunny — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:40:15 +0000

I don't like them and won't contribute to projects with them but isn't this the exact point of a CLA[1]? A textfile in the repo seems a lot easier to track and audit than PR comments and a bot to chase people.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreemen...

New comment by deadbunny in "Jellyfin 10.10.0"

deadbunny — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:15:01 +0000

> What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovelessly constructed TV OSs that call out to servers and will cause mayhem when those servers are decommissioned?

My Sony TVs all work without an internet connection, so I'd guess nothing?

New comment by deadbunny in "Infinite Git repos on Cloudflare workers"

deadbunny — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:32:20 +0000

TFA is literally marketing for them. HN is their target audience and a good way to capture that audience is to show them something technically interesting.

New comment by deadbunny in "AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner"

deadbunny — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:43:07 +0000

They're running ECC on consumer level Intel chips?

New comment by deadbunny in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""

deadbunny — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:58:12 +0000

Works for me. I have Youtube on constantly when at my desk as background noise and uBo is still blocking everything perfectly fine.

Edit: Seems Google/Youtube are experimenting/testing with injecting ads directly into the video streams:

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1de9kv5/youtu...

Signal encryption keyring changed from gnome_libsecret to basic_text

deadbunny — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:52:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/753

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685638

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by deadbunny in "Everything you need to know about Python 3.13 – JIT and GIL went up the hill"

deadbunny — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:35:09 +0000

Yes, but:

1. Other people with different needs exist.

2. That's why we have schedulers.

New comment by deadbunny in "Home Assistant Presence Simulation"

deadbunny — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:08:52 +0000

This has been on my list of things to do for a while, saves me a job. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by deadbunny in "X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum"

deadbunny — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:00:28 +0000

If X owns the building they can seize that, tennants be damned.