Hacker News: ectospheno

New comment by ectospheno in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

ectospheno — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:46:00 +0000

I have five PS5 discs from around launch. Gifts. It is such a pain finding them and putting them in only to download a patch anyway. I’d sell them but I don’t want to perpetuate them as a thing so I’ll likely just throw them away.

New comment by ectospheno in "PlayStation Network outage leaves players dreading all-digital future"

ectospheno — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:55:18 +0000

Sony has the numbers. If most people weren’t already digital only then they wouldn’t have pulled the trigger. This is a vocal minority fighting an already lost fight.

New comment by ectospheno in "PlayStation Network outage leaves players dreading all-digital future"

ectospheno — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:57:39 +0000

As someone who hasn’t purchased physical media in over a decade I find the current tempest in a teapot rather comical. My home is cozy, not large. I don’t want physical media taking up any space. I don’t sell. I have great internet. It’s convenient.

When PSN is down I do something else. Just like when any other service is down. If this makes the PS6 cheaper then great.

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

ectospheno — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:11:18 +0000

The commit logs over the last few months have highlighted when an issue was found by a program. They usually name the submitter and the tool.

New comment by ectospheno in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

ectospheno — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:46:02 +0000

I already own Dark Souls 3 but were I to purchase it again I’d still pick PlayStation over eBay. Even at this price point. I get I’m not the average consumer but I have money and discs are annoying.

New comment by ectospheno in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

ectospheno — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:23:16 +0000

If you aren’t rebooting a Linux box 15 to 30 times per year then you aren’t applying kernel security updates. I view uptime fanatics as walking security problems and assign an appropriately low trust value for their actions on computers in general.

New comment by ectospheno in "The Radiation Exposure Lie"

ectospheno — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:11:01 +0000

Agreed. My problem is that every dental association I’m aware of recommends dental X-rays on an individual, clinically justified basis and not a regular schedule. There are very few dental scenarios requiring yearly X-rays. They do them to get more money.

New comment by ectospheno in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

ectospheno — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:02:42 +0000

I don’t like Taylor Swift music. My not liking it has no bearing on her obvious talent in the industry. I get people not liking GTA. Ignoring their obvious talent is silly.

New comment by ectospheno in "Steam Machine launches today"

ectospheno — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:16:57 +0000

I have no interest in maintaining a gaming PC but want to play indie games that don’t launch on console. I also have money. I’ve been considering it.

New comment by ectospheno in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

ectospheno — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:46:44 +0000

You leave your key in the car? And you don’t run the air conditioner when you are inside?

New comment by ectospheno in "Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond"

ectospheno — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:50:48 +0000

That is cool. I use a gps NTP server on my home network and live with sub-millisecond time sync. I’d go PTP but the equipment is a bit too expensive if the only value add is better time sync and I don’t need additional bandwidth. Prices coming down would be nice.

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenBSD 7.9"

ectospheno — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:46:32 +0000

The sole set of wired headphones in my house is for my OpenBSD laptop.

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenBSD 7.9"

ectospheno — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:42:57 +0000

I use it for home router, my laptop, several vms for various services, and on one vps I keep around should I need to quickly set something up. I keep a proxmox server for anything I can’t or won’t run on OpenBSD.

New comment by ectospheno in "The Supreme Court just told every freight broker that they can be sued"

ectospheno — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:05:26 +0000

An article last year by him:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cvsa-2025-international-...

The writing style does seem a bit different.

New comment by ectospheno in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

ectospheno — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:17:49 +0000

Or it is just regular ageism.

New comment by ectospheno in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

ectospheno — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:55:09 +0000

It is amazing to me that people still answer their phone. If it isn’t my wife or kids then my phone has a silent ringtone. If your voice mail doesn’t successfully transcribe to text then I delete it without listening. I check my postal mail since mail fraud is the only thing still taken seriously by anyone.

New comment by ectospheno in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

ectospheno — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:08:43 +0000

I can only imagine this passing their “QA” because every dev there uses AI for every commit and therefore saw no issue.

New comment by ectospheno in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

ectospheno — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:02:38 +0000

The Bleeping Computer link below mentions a potential remedy until a patch is ready.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-cop...

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

ectospheno — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:18:04 +0000

Owing tax each year instead of overpaying solves this problem. As long as it’s less than $1000 you won’t pay any interest or fees.

New comment by ectospheno in "You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts"

ectospheno — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:32:45 +0000

Everyone is very, very wrong about something. By your logic we should ignore everyone about everything.