Hacker News: devoutsalsa

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

devoutsalsa — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:48:13 +0000

They will tell you how much you owe, but only if you file incorrectly :P

For Americans, if you didn't know, you can check your IRS transcripts at https://www.irs.gov/ to see exactly how much the IRS thinks you've earned.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?"

devoutsalsa — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:17:03 +0000

What you might consider doing is try contacting Ruby Central, or whoever it is that runs Ruby Gems. Even if they can't/won't give you access to the account, I'm wondering if they could/would freeze publishing updates to these gems until the account "owner" proves they are who they say they are. That way they don't risk giving control to someone who is hard to verify (you) and they prevent malware from being uploaded by the person who now controls your email until they verify the you are (which obviously they shouldn't be able to do).

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man"

devoutsalsa — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:35:39 +0000

I like the concept of of everyone should have enough. I don't know if it's achievable, but I think it's a good goal to strive for.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man"

devoutsalsa — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:17:24 +0000

Regardless of how you feel about taxation, increasing taxes will not fix out of control spending.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

devoutsalsa — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:23:36 +0000

My first thought was I bet I could get Sonnet to fix it faster because I got something back in 3 minutes instead of 20 minutes. You can prompt a lot of changes with a faster model. I'm new to Claude Code, so generally speaking I have no idea if I'm making sense or not.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras"

devoutsalsa — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:33:50 +0000

If I were a corrupt government official I would:

- install these cameras everywhere

- make the data available for everyone via an API

- make content about how we're all being spied on

- form sponsorship deals from Incogni & DeleteMe

- profit

New comment by devoutsalsa in "The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent"

devoutsalsa — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:58:44 +0000

I'm not an H1-B, but I am on a skilled migrant visa in a different country. While I'm not constantly thinking about it, I'm keenly aware that my immigration status is directly tied to my job. No job, no residence permit. So at a minimum I would say I have an incentive to not get fired, and the best way to not get fired is to be someone worth retaining.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

devoutsalsa — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:11:03 +0000

I'm waiting for airlines to offer a budget First Class called Number Two Class. You get exclusive use the lavatory for the entirety of the flight.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users"

devoutsalsa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:55:11 +0000

Evolution of LinkedIn posts over time...

"Should you choose to inscribe the lexical designation 'DOMINATE' within the commentary section, I shall subsequently furnish you with my proprietary methodology for accumulating substantial financial wealth in the millions."

"Comment the word DOMINATE and I'll share my secret method for making millions of dollars."

"yo if u type DOMINATE in comments ill tell u how 2 get mad rich like millions n stuff fr fr no cap"

New comment by devoutsalsa in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

devoutsalsa — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:56:24 +0000

Lately I’ve been asking Cursor “what does the program do?” Was actually pretty helpful as a starting point.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?"

devoutsalsa — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:14:56 +0000

I recently reported an email with “glint.email.microsoft” as a phishing attempt, but it turned out to be a corporate survey.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

devoutsalsa — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:37:04 +0000

I've never used Mattermost before today. After checking out their site, I can see they are also a for-profit company. What does Mattermost offer that Slack does not, other than a bill lower than $195K/year?

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Should we drain the Everglades?"

devoutsalsa — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:10:56 +0000

Not sure is that would work, as @fishinggarrett will yoink them for being an invasive species.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

devoutsalsa — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:48:10 +0000

Imagine living on the 20th floor or higher and having a broken ankle.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

devoutsalsa — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:39:06 +0000

You're right, although I think I'd just call that sending a few emails. Cold email marketing as a practice includes learning how to avoid spam filters and avoiding being detected, and it's unapologetically spammy.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Robert Redford has died"

devoutsalsa — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:52:40 +0000

To be fair, you're better looking now.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

devoutsalsa — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:07:22 +0000

I was learning about cold email marketing earlier this year, and it's all about learning to be a spammer:

- Registering lots of domains (launchmyapp.com, trymyapp.com, myapp.info, gomyapp.biz, etc.)

- setting up a limited number of mailboxes per domain

- warming email accounts up for 2 weeks by signing up for a service that sends to and receive messages from your accounts

- setting up a meta inbox to track messages sent and received across all of your accounts

Now pretty much every domain that isn't myapp.com looks like a spammer's domain to me.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100"

devoutsalsa — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:05:40 +0000

I like the idea of healthspan instead of lifespan. I’m happy to keep going as long I’m healthy. When the good times are over and everyday is “please end me” day, I hope I don’t linger for too long.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion"

devoutsalsa — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:17:35 +0000

I'm a little conflicted about using social media growing a business. If I do make content, I'll probably only commit to making actually useful posts, not putting up stuff that's vapid or shallow.

New comment by devoutsalsa in "Nepal Prime Minister Resigns. Parliament / Ministires set on Fire."

devoutsalsa — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:09:18 +0000

The trekking is great though!