Hacker News: djkoolaide

New comment by djkoolaide in "Ubuntu 26.04"

djkoolaide — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:30:35 +0000

The beta installer was completely unsuccessful in setting the TPM-backed disk encryption on both a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Intel 258V) and a ThinkPad P14s (AMD 300-something). Hopefully they ironed that part out in the release, but it seems still early for this feature (at least for my comfort level).

New comment by djkoolaide in "Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout"

djkoolaide — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:30:14 +0000

that's how it works. point a free-to-air dish at the right place in the sky, demodulate the DVB-S2 signal, and it's often IP traffic moving through mpeg transport streams.

New comment by djkoolaide in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

djkoolaide — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:18:38 +0000

Tossing in a suggestion for Vallum[0] here. It's not FOSS but very polished and a fraction of the cost of Little Snitch.

[0]: https://vallumfirewall.com/

New comment by djkoolaide in "Television is 100 years old today"

djkoolaide — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:28:52 +0000

I've had two SSDs "die" over the years, both of them went read-only, but I was able to recover all data. SSD failure modes are weird.

New comment by djkoolaide in "SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection"

djkoolaide — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:31:10 +0000

Highly recommend downloading the .isos and playing them in mpv with deinterlacing. Lot of great native 60i footage in this doc.

New comment by djkoolaide in "Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage"

djkoolaide — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:07:52 +0000

We build bespoke servers installed at client properties to support our service. Since August, our unit cost has jumped from $3,500 to $5,500. It’s a bleak situation and will directly impact many businesses.

Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

djkoolaide — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:38:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/micron-exit-crucial-consumer-memory-business-2025-12-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138224

Points: 50

# Comments: 19

New comment by djkoolaide in "New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules"

djkoolaide — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:54:32 +0000

404 Media is a great place to start.

New comment by djkoolaide in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

djkoolaide — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:13:42 +0000

Yeah, a password manager/autofill would have set off some alarms and likely prevented this, because the browser autofill would have detected a mismatch for the domain npmjs.help.

New comment by djkoolaide in "XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images"

djkoolaide — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:48:02 +0000

Given my understanding of Debian, I don't believe this can be attributed to a "marketing strategy."

New comment by djkoolaide in "Changes in schizophrenia diagnoses associated with cannabis use disorder"

djkoolaide — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:19:33 +0000

People have this strange concept that weed is supposed to make you see rainbows and stuff lol. I'd say your experience is about normal.

New comment by djkoolaide in "Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor"

djkoolaide — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:00:55 +0000

I use both the Windows and macOS version almost daily (work vs home), and I'm happy to report that the macOS version is just as efficient as the Windows one when dealing with huge directories. I regularly have to deal with thousands of files at a time, and it just zips through them. One of my all-time favorite applications, no doubt.

New comment by djkoolaide in "USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update"

djkoolaide — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:42:49 +0000

I believe it's still used. Whenever I print anything (Sonoma 14.4) I have to allow connections for 'cupsd'.

New comment by djkoolaide in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

djkoolaide — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:44:51 +0000

Too Many Records is awesome -- just installed it and I think this will help me in selecting records for my weekly vinyl gig. Great work.

New comment by djkoolaide in "GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories"

djkoolaide — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:30:11 +0000

Seafile is fantastic and I'm surprised I don't see more discussion about it around here. I've been running it on a VPS with MinIO as my object storage for about two years now, ~4TB of data just shy of 100,000 files. It syncs fast, stable af, and I "own" all my data. Can't recommend it enough.

New comment by djkoolaide in "Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments"

djkoolaide — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:22:30 +0000

While the mixing process is certainly a frustrating one, it’s also the part I’m most addicted to. I mix something almost every day, whether it’s my own work or other multitracks “acquired” from the internet. It’s so much fun working backwards on a song I’m familiar with and going “ok, how the hell did they make the kick sound like that?!” and figuring it out :)

New comment by djkoolaide in "What I learned about MP3 encoding"

djkoolaide — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 04:57:33 +0000

I'm interested in knowing more, but after a few minutes of searching, I can't seem to find a modern macOS implementation of the reference Fraunhofer codec. All my tools (Audition, xACT, ffmpeg, and even dbpoweramp) use various versions of LAME. Does Fraunhofer's encoder preserve above 20kHz at 320kbps?

New comment by djkoolaide in "Running Windows NT 4.0 on an Intel 13th Gen CPU [video]"

djkoolaide — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:34:10 +0000

This might be interesting for those of us supporting legacy hardware in our environments.

Running Windows NT 4.0 on an Intel 13th Gen CPU [video]

djkoolaide — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:33:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSN43szLVts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37814618

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by djkoolaide in "Bypassing YouTube video download throttling"

djkoolaide — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:41:45 +0000

I can answer about the audio.

YouTube (and most other streaming sites like Spotify etc) use something called ReplayGain. It's essentially a tag that specifies the calculated average loudness of the video/song/whatever (this number is calculated at upload time).

Upon playback, the official YT client knows to use that tag and adjust its volume level accordingly, but I'd imagine either the tag isn't getting downloaded, or perhaps MKV doesn't support ReplayGain tags natively.