Hacker News: deadlocked

New comment by deadlocked in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

deadlocked — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:45:43 +0000

This is a great story, thanks for sharing.

I have to know: how is your (now wife) doing?

New comment by deadlocked in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

deadlocked — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:16:57 +0000

I don’t disagree with your overall point but developed countries are raising their retirement ages because they’re trying to stave off pension crises. It’s the surprising alternative to taxing corporations and the ultra-wealthy appropriately.

New comment by deadlocked in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

deadlocked — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:05:27 +0000

Shift+Cmd+5 brings up the built-in screen capture tool, which includes options for recording the screen (or a window, or a section of the screen).

OpenScreen and its ilk seem to have more features for post-capture editing though.

New comment by deadlocked in "How to turn anything into a router"

deadlocked — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:58:17 +0000

I've been a fan of opnSense for a few years now - I'm actually using it as the WAN device for our office, as well as a VPN concentrator in other contexts.

Some recent changes are driving me up the wall though - their new UIs for configuring VPNs (IPSEC and OpenVPN) are far less intuitive than what they've termed the 'legacy' UI and I note that recent versions have introduced a firewall rule migration feature that I'm not touching with a 9-ft barge pole.

These changes are making me wary about using opnSense in future, which is a pity because other than pfSense there isn't really a fully-featured, open-source firewall OS that comes close to matching it (and pfSense has its own issues). Linux is great and all - and I do use it for routing/firewall/VPN in places on our network - but there doesn't seem to be a dedicated network appliance distro that bundles in a comprehensive Web UI. Apart from OpenWRT and its ilk, but I'm not convinced that that's suitable for enterprise deployment.

New comment by deadlocked in "Put the zip code first"

deadlocked — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:04:05 +0000

Irish post codes will get you the exact unit within the flats.

New comment by deadlocked in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

deadlocked — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:26:10 +0000

Not in practice.

New comment by deadlocked in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

deadlocked — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:53:54 +0000

They’ll give you a small handful of examples, of which a number occurred in the UK (famously not a member of the EU), most of which were actually arrests for incitement, and of the remainder the majority were thrown out before ever going to trial, or subsequently on appeal.

Very few of the cases they present will have involved citizens being murdered in the streets by the government for exercising their absolute right to free speech.

New comment by deadlocked in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

deadlocked — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:02:31 +0000

The Air never had the Touchbar. Only the Pro line had it.

New comment by deadlocked in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

deadlocked — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:59:51 +0000

You didn't misread, parent did.

New comment by deadlocked in "Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room"

deadlocked — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:32:29 +0000

I haven't edited a .plist in years, but nor have I fiddled with the Windows registry in years. Honestly think both OSes ship with sane defaults these days.

New comment by deadlocked in "Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server"

deadlocked — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:34:55 +0000

Virtual hosting is only similar in that it allows you to serve content based on the requested FQDN (or, indeed, destination port of the request).

New comment by deadlocked in "NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching"

deadlocked — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:47:20 +0000

Oh god that last one drives me up the wall. It entirely defeats the purpose of using a keyboard shortcut to switch applications if you have to move the mouse to open a window anyway. It's beyond me why MacOS wouldn't automatically restore the most recently minimised window, the way literally every other DE does.

New comment by deadlocked in "Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead""

deadlocked — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:27:27 +0000

The answer to most of these is the same: companies have to show that they are making a reasonable, good faith attempt to comply. If they can show that they have policies, that they have processes to implement the policies, and that their users have read the policies, understand the processes, and are aware of their own responsibilities then there's a strong likelihood that they will not run afoul of the directive.

New comment by deadlocked in "Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead""

deadlocked — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:06:51 +0000

Yeah, but they're simultaneously missing the fact that some of the protocols that underpin things like WhatsApp etc. were developed in the EU, and probably with funding from the EU.

New comment by deadlocked in "Bollards: Why and What"

deadlocked — Mon, 06 May 2024 09:51:52 +0000

I was a little confounded by the author's point about guardrails often being on the outside of sidewalks. It was only when I copy/pasted the URL for the article that they were quoting that I realised that they both had it arse-about-face and actually meant that guardrails are often on the _inside_ of the sidewalk. The outside of a sidewalk (path in this part of the world) would be the bit that borders the road, surely.

New comment by deadlocked in "Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update"

deadlocked — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:34:42 +0000

The only sensible way to go about it would be to just drop it one day, no fan fair, no announcements, no additional hype.

New comment by deadlocked in "Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update"

deadlocked — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:50:29 +0000

HALF-LIFE FREE CONFIRMED

New comment by deadlocked in "Sinead O’Connor has died"

deadlocked — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:59:05 +0000

It's a shitty thing to write but she's also someone who had very openly struggled with poor mental health for basically all of her life. I've a hard time holding something as thoughtless - in a very literal sense - as that against her.

New comment by deadlocked in "Sinead O’Connor has died"

deadlocked — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:48:43 +0000

With the what now? She experienced IRA bombings? Are you sure about that?

New comment by deadlocked in "Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker"

deadlocked — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 09:06:17 +0000

And of course the physical characteristics - yes, that ASUS laptop has the same or a slightly better technical spec than the MacBook Pro that I want, but it's also made out of plastic and it's half-an-inch thick!