<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: errantmind</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=errantmind</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:32:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=errantmind" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can also get excellent results with User Scripts that connect to a local language model.<p>1. Run LM Studio (download the Gemma 4 model), which has a 'local server' w/ API.<p>2. Use a more powerful LLM to write User Scripts (Greasemonkey, etc) to do whatever you want on any website you go to. Instruct it to connect to LM Studio.<p>3. Classify and highlight posts / comments based on any criteria that suits you. Summarize, delete from the DOM, etc., Just have fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:07:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747096</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47747096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best part about choosing a simple WM is you never have to think about it again. I installed and configured DWM many years ago and it just works. Never had a single issue after the first week.<p>It is like when you buy an appliance and it just fades into the background and then, one day, you realize you've had it for 10 years without any problems and you feel a tinge of gratitude before moving on with your day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935034</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article fails to mention that a lot of current commercial scale battery co-locations' purpose is to capitalize on rare but highly profitable periods where demand spikes and spot prices go up by, sometimes, multiple orders of magnitude.<p>The idea is to store the power until these events. A lot of money is made from these.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637992</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who has used Firefox since 1.0 (~20 years ago), I fully support returning Mozilla's sole focus to its users. Huge amounts of 'free' money has a tendency to de-focus organizations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 05:01:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43853874</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43853874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43853874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This will lead to a game of 'homeless hot potato' among neighborhoods in larger cities as each pass ordinances that ban various 'homeless activities' in their borders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821582</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "'Catastrophic grid failure' a possibility for Texas solar/wind/battery storage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some interesting facts:<p>* ERCOT (Texas) has more renewables generation than every other ISO, including CAISO (California)<p>* ERCOT is setting new renewables records almost every month, as new renewables sites come online.<p>Source: <a href="https://www.gridstatus.io/home" rel="nofollow">https://www.gridstatus.io/home</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192339</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Daniel Dennett has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the opportunity to hear a guest lecture of his in Colorado a little over 15 years ago which inspired my further study of philosophy at the time. He had a keen mind and will be missed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:07:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088539</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For info, I checked and it looks like none of my AGPL licensed repos are included in The Stack. Neither are my private repos.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770827</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39770827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no evidence patents increase innovation. I suggest reading 'The Case Against Patents':<p><a href="https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.p...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:39:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39348581</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39348581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39348581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've never gotten ads on Youtube with Firefox nor my Chromium-based browser. Maybe they didn't roll the adblocker-blocker out to everyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:26:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538381</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "AI and the Rise of Mediocrity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems weird to be writing about croissants here but the Costco croissants are no where near the quality of a croissant made by a skilled baker, to the degree it is hard to call them a croissant in anything but form. The ingredients, flavor, flakiness, number of layers, etc. are all inferior when compared to what is possible from an artisan. I've bought the Costco croissants a few times in the past to make sandwiches out of as that's about all they are good for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:04:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475140</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38475140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Show HN: Serverless VPN App for Android. Unlimited Devices. Unlimited Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lifetime Pricing going to sink you. Best of luck though otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:36:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38336894</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38336894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38336894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Turning Suckless into Suckmore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMO, Suckless is about providing the minimal feature set possible. If you patch in an extra feature, that is what you get and nothing else. You always end up with exactly what you need and nothing more.<p>Compare this to software where you only ever use a subset of the features yet still have to pay the cost of features you don't use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:45:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38064402</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38064402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38064402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People seem to forget the web existed before widespread advertising. Ads are not necessary for all content on the web and, personally, I'd be fine if every last ad supported site on the internet disappeared.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:40:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38051209</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38051209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38051209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Europol sought unlimited data access in online child sexual abuse regulation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The statement is that it is shameful to grab for powers that invade the privacy of law abiding citizens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 06:54:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723405</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37723405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "So let’s talk about this Wayland thing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you require the absolutely lowest latency possible though and don’t care about screen tearing then X without compositing, with VSync disabled is a better fit for you. You can re-evaluate once the possibility to have VSync disabled is implemented in your compositor of choice and the measured increased volatility in latency (99th percentile) with immediate mode is fixed.<p>I enjoyed the post, thanks. I suppose I'll wait then and re-evaluate when Wayland's 'immediate mode' is fixed and it is roughly comparable to X11 without a compositor. I go to great lengths to minimize my latency so this is really the only factor that matters to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 04:09:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37552139</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37552139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37552139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "So let’s talk about this Wayland thing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is unfortunate but forced vsync means I will never adopt Wayland. I do not want a frame+ delay when I'm gaming. I do not want v-sync lag when my framerate occasionally drops below my 240hz refresh rate.<p>I don't even especially like X11, I just don't want vsync forced on me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551617</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "Ask HN: How do you deal with never ending noise and distraction WFH?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live in the middle of a large city, in an old building, and don't really have noise issues. However, if I did I'd sound-proof my office. The noise insulation works both ways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551490</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37551490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This post: A long article about weight loss that is built on a calorie-centric approach to food instead of questioning that fundamental premise and differentiating between types of fats and carbs and their effects on body weight.<p>I've commented on this in the past but to reiterate, calories as a measure are pseudo-scientific at best and totally bunk at worst. If all you are doing is looking at that number on packaging, generally speaking, your weight control will be very limited due to the lack of precision in that measurement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:30:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512852</link><dc:creator>errantmind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by errantmind in "On Desktop GUI Minimalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I even briefly used a tiling window manager before very quickly returning to the floating ones; the appeal of such utterly inflexible window management I will simply never understand.<p>The author mentions this design in passing but I think it is contextually important to understand why people might like this at all so I'll share what I appreciate about tiling window managers:<p>The appeal, for me, is the inflexibility. Tiling window managers and their often bundled 'tags' approach to window management offer a simplicity that is comforting in its constancy to me, the user. To sum it up, they make me feel 'at home' using my computer. Comfy goes beyond familiarity though.<p>I never have a mess of windows to deal with across my monitors, where I'm constantly needing to look at a taskbar, minimizing and un-minimizing programs (or looking through a stack of 'shaded' windows in the author's case). Each of my frequently used programs has its own tag, or shares a tag (visually as a tile) with other programs. While the programs I have open at any one time change, their locations don't. Everything in its right place, I always know what is where. I switch between all programs directly with ease, with no intermediate interruptions to occupy my attention, my hands never leaving my keyboard. No 'looking' for stuff. Switches happen instantly because there are no transitions or any other forms of detectable latency (and for that matter, no compositor either). Combine all this with extensive use of scratchpads for ad-hoc and exploratory tasks and all the bases have been covered. Comfy.</p>
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