Hacker News: delfugal

New comment by delfugal in "Leaving Mozilla"

delfugal — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:31:49 +0000

It's easy to leave a place. Harder to stay and fix the things you don't like. How many people regret leaving the place they invested 12+ years, rather than fighting back while in a position to do so?

If you're burned out, no longer fun, we all get it. But don't leave your investment into a product just because some new direction took over unless you plan to kick their backside.

New comment by delfugal in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

delfugal — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:21:01 +0000

How soon to see rare-earth-free paired with CATL Sodium batteries? Seems a price war, range war is imminent.

New comment by delfugal in "Are software patents legit? I let mine expire on purpose"

delfugal — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:17:13 +0000

No Patent police makes them nearly worthless. Too costly. Nice framed certificate on a wall, not much else.

New comment by delfugal in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

delfugal — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:45:25 +0000

Nice walk through history. So many people trying to be the next big thing.

New comment by delfugal in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

delfugal — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:08:48 +0000

Can Agents put Intuit out of business? Asking for a few hundred million Americans tired of their lobbying $$ that killed off IRS direct tax filing.

New comment by delfugal in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

delfugal — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:45:01 +0000

WHY SWEAT IT? Your brand is a non-black fan. I'd stay with that. Why confuse people. Maybe trademark your fans colors.

New comment by delfugal in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

delfugal — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:11:22 +0000

Can't believe they didn't rehire Gil Amelio.

New comment by delfugal in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

delfugal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:24:54 +0000

Well, that ends DISCORD. Add to hosts file with 0.0.0.0 DNS

Why would any sane person allow this tracking and cross tracking and selling of our private info? Ridiculous for a commenting service.

New comment by delfugal in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

delfugal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:17:25 +0000

WWVB Self Setting Analog clock on Amazon is $34.99. Dozens of styles. No DHCP to configure. It just works. But cool HN try.

New comment by delfugal in "Please just try HTMX"

delfugal — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:22:09 +0000

What you need is more f-bombs in your article.

New comment by delfugal in "I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model"

delfugal — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:15:57 +0000

Should call it Trump Speech Generator. Loads of gibberish.

New comment by delfugal in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

delfugal — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:31:35 +0000

Installed a Minisplit to heat/cool a 1,000 sqft large work area. My average monthly electricity cost is maybe $30 to heat or cool. The tech in these are amazing.

New comment by delfugal in "Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard"

delfugal — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:41:57 +0000

Noisy does not mean good.

Old Cherry keywitches in Wyse Terminals and computers were the best keyboards ever. They had a great feel with barely there faint click. Totally nothing like the CLONK CLICK that people think made those early IBM keyboards popular. I always hated them. If you're copying a keyboard an old Wyse keyboard from say a WY50 terminal or Wyse386 PC clone and copy that.

New comment by delfugal in "Do not download the app, use the website"

delfugal — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:29:19 +0000

100%

New comment by delfugal in "Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits"

delfugal — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:38:31 +0000

AirPass? I had that wrong. Maybe because I just had lunch.

New comment by delfugal in "TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S."

delfugal — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:23:18 +0000

Plans "to invest" can always change. Appears someone has been promised a tax break along with Mar-a-lago chocolate cake.

New comment by delfugal in "Elizabeth Holmes Partner Rakes in Millions for New Blood Testing Machine"

delfugal — Sun, 11 May 2025 00:10:34 +0000

Sounds like Siemens will be getting a big order for Blood Testing machines.

New comment by delfugal in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

delfugal — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:37:08 +0000

sudo nano /etc/hosts page down, add 0.0.0.0 facebook.com 0.0.0.0 linkedin.com 0.0.0.0 adobe.com Ctrl z

Life is so much better now.

New comment by delfugal in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

delfugal — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:51:49 +0000

Adobe has perfected digital blackmail.

After using and promoting their products for years to create our work, the switch off access to view or print any of it unless we keep paying blackmail monthly fees.

I don't want to edit my old work, but to lock me out of viewing it is nothing short of BLACKMAIL. As people change jobs or retire, they lose all access to their work. Sick.

New comment by delfugal in "LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs"

delfugal — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:36:19 +0000

I wish they'd make LibreQuickbooks.