Hacker News: deevious

New comment by deevious in "Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)"

deevious — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:30:02 +0000

I requested GDPR exports for my accounts 8 days ago, nothing turned up yet. I have shreddit lined up to run as soon as I get my zips.

New comment by deevious in "The Old Computer Challenge"

deevious — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 10:58:53 +0000

On a similar vein, I just installed Windows 2000 + all updates on my Thinkpad T42 with an Intel M 1.8GHz single core, 1GB of ram and 160GB of spinning rust. The ultimate goal was to set up an Embedded Visual C++ 3.0 development environment so I could try out coding for Windows CE devices (shout out to NCommander and his nethack on Jornada video).

The biggest surprise came after I got it fully updated with Legacy Update, installed all the drivers and finally got my head around wireless supplicants by stumbling onto the Boingo client - my 5GHz SSID was in the wireless networks list. This prompted a full recheck of my router config (that came up correct), then some confused googling until I found IBM's Press Release touting the 5GHz prowess of the Intel 2915ABG card in my laptop: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&...

New comment by deevious in "Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino"

deevious — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:04:25 +0000

The wire from the basement was for an earth ground, he probably had another antenna wire either in the attic or going outside. Check out Galena detector radios.

New comment by deevious in "Casio F91 smart watch reboot"

deevious — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 06:07:14 +0000

You might want to give the Amazfit Bip a go, it's as barebones as it gets. The only gripes I have with it is the craptastic app and the lack of vibration, it only has a beeper.

New comment by deevious in "Casio CQ-1 calculator and clock"

deevious — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:50:17 +0000

For anyone who wants to take a look inside one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4qiPhjW4us

New comment by deevious in "Cameras Could Replace Car Mirrors?"

deevious — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:58:51 +0000

I'd say no to that, aside from the reliability and KISS aspects of this, there is one thing cameras won't be able to do properly: parallax. In tight parking spaces or near curbs I will often move around in the car so that I can see obstacles without having to adjust the mirrors.

New comment by deevious in "List of countries by mobile phones in use"

deevious — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:43:10 +0000

It was the same for Romania but that is about to change because of a kidnapping/murder case and a media shitstorm regarding fake emergency number calls and geotracking of callers.

New comment by deevious in "Show HN: Messing with Telnet"

deevious — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:38:20 +0000

It doesn't seem to work with PuTTY, maybe its telnet defaults aren't what the code expects.

New comment by deevious in "24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

deevious — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:55:35 +0000

I love opus just as much as I loved musepack and vorbis, the one thing all of them lack to one degree or another is support and hardware acceleration. If I throw an opus file on my Android 8.1 phone, it has no idea what to do with it unless I manually open it with vlc or foobar. For the regular user the support needs to be seamless, otherwise they are not going to bother.

New comment by deevious in "24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

deevious — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:41:46 +0000

This reminds me of Monty's A Digital Media Primer for Geeks[0] and Digital Show & Tell[1] - the delivery, the explanations and the way the experiments are set up is superb.

[0] https://xiph.org/video/vid1.shtml [1] https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

New comment by deevious in "Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats"

deevious — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:52:26 +0000

I merely pointed out that they are volunteers in order to underline that there is no connection between the state educational system and the private team of volunteers which provide the dictionary service.

New comment by deevious in "Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats"

deevious — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:50:45 +0000

I don't think they wanted to "catch" the cheaters. This was not a real examination to begin with, it was just a simulation in order for the pupils to get a feel for how things will happen. The real testing will happen on the 31st of March.

It was more of an experiment/eye opener from the team of volunteers behind the online dictionary project.

New comment by deevious in "Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats"

deevious — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:46:05 +0000

Just to clear some points: there is no administrative connection between the volunteers which provide the dictionary service and the testing. For this kind of national test you are not supposed to be able to bring in dictionaries, communication devices or any other helper material, it's just you and your brain. Classrooms where the exam is taken are outfitted with cameras, so in the event that there are suspicions of cheating, the footage may help. Of course, all of this does not mean that nobody will be able to cheat.

Finally, I think it's useful to point out that this was just the team of volunteers behind the online dictionary who modified the definition of 3 very uncommon words for a few hours.

New comment by deevious in "Romania dictionary altered to thwart exam cheats"

deevious — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:39:29 +0000

Actually, the test is administered by the public education system and the dictionary is a volunteer job. I see no ethical issues with what they did, the ethics issues lie with the ones that tried to cheat.

New comment by deevious in "Design a Perfect Search Box"

deevious — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:57:29 +0000

Sherlock Holmes, man, Sherlock Holmes. http://www.cinelegende.fr/img/2013/Boston/Sherlock-Holmes.jp...

New comment by deevious in "The new Nokia phones are here: Nokia 6, 5, 3 & 3310"

deevious — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 07:17:09 +0000

It has more in common with Nokia 6300 than with the 3310, IMO.

As zbuf said, I was also hoping for a 3G or newer modem, 2G networks are being shut down in many parts of the world and will continue to go down in the next couple of years.

New comment by deevious in "Ask HN: What is your experience switching away from QWERTY keyboard?"

deevious — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:51:22 +0000

This is also killing me, I've switched to DVORAK a few months ago and I'm up to speed, but missing these shortcuts can be pretty painful at times, especially with cut, copy and paste.

I have adjusted to doing Ctrl-Insert, Shift-Insert, Shift-Delete, I just have to constantly refrain from doing Shift-Delete when handling files, but it's still not as comfy as the QWERTY shortcut positioning.

Overall I'd say it's still worth it, the positioning of the punctuation marks is better and my fingers travel a lot less.

New comment by deevious in "Nano is no longer a GNU project"

deevious — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:18:11 +0000

I seldom used it a long time ago, before learning the basics of vi(m). It's great when you need to change some random config and you need a commandline editor that has the basic commands listed in plain sight all the time.

New comment by deevious in "Nano is no longer a GNU project"

deevious — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:15:32 +0000

Looks like the devels weren't all that happy about assigning the copyright of their code to the FSF.

Part of the e-mail thread discussing the move is here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-05/msg000...

I did't have the time to dig out the whole conversation history.

New comment by deevious in "[dead]"

deevious — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:44:43 +0000

It's a reload loop, you can press stop to make the page viewable. I'll just copy here the definition of operating system from that page, for your enjoyment:

  (OS) Operating System: is a software program that enables
  you to work with the computer hardware to communicate and
  operate with the computer software without this computer
  operating system all about computer software programs
  will be useless. see the blow contents