Hacker News: fletchowns

New comment by fletchowns in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

fletchowns — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:34:58 +0000

I was more referring to an advance directive / living will sort of thing

New comment by fletchowns in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

fletchowns — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:22:31 +0000

Those plans should be in place regardless of the results of a blood test

New comment by fletchowns in "Blender 5.0"

fletchowns — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:12:14 +0000

Kdenlive is awesome. I am only a hobbyist but I cancelled my subscription to Premiere when I found it.

New comment by fletchowns in "Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change"

fletchowns — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:06:09 +0000

> Gaming works astonishingly well on Linux these days

They have certainly made a lot of progress, but there are many of us that will be stuck unless all the new AAA titles are supported. Battlefield 6 is a notable recent example of a wildly popular game that you can't play on a Steam Deck.

Seems like it's really just the anti-cheat that is holding things up. I wish every game studio out there didn't have to come up with their own anti-cheat system. Is this something Valve could solve once and for all with their OS & platform? That seems like something that would make the 30% tax a lot more appealing to game studios.

New comment by fletchowns in "Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works"

fletchowns — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:22:16 +0000

> Curious what the purpose of calling a pay phone is? (wasn't possible in my country)

If you want to let somebody know you can't talk right now but you will call them back in 10 minutes, this makes it possible without having them use another quarter (coin currency in US) to call you back in 10 minutes, or requiring them to feed quarters in while you wait on hold for 10 minutes.

Also plenty of other reasons that we've all seen in spy movies :)

New comment by fletchowns in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

fletchowns — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 08:30:12 +0000

I've got 18TB on Glacier and it costs $2.80/day

I've only tested partial restores from Glacier since it is expensive. I've got a raidz2 array locally as insurance against having to restore from a backup.

New comment by fletchowns in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

fletchowns — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:15:45 +0000

I've been using Nextcloud for years, but I've never used the web UI. Windows desktop app for syncing my Documents folder, and Android app for synchronizing a few folders on my phone, as well as the "append only" upload of my photo reel that something like SyncThing doesn't support. Works great, never had any issues with Nextcloud. The real value is in the companion apps.

I use a cron job to back up Nextcloud to B2 and S3 Glacier.

New comment by fletchowns in "Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation"

fletchowns — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:42:25 +0000

Never heard of this before, what a great project! I wish my Roborock QV 35A was supported. Still considering sponsoring the project though, because what a great initiative it is!

New comment by fletchowns in "Doomsday scoreboard"

fletchowns — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:19:00 +0000

First thing I thought of as well! Despite being short lived, MarchFIRST was influential on Apple's branding and comeback.

New comment by fletchowns in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

fletchowns — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 01:00:37 +0000

> Bundling view and controller in the same file

It reminds me of how PHP development used to be back in the day. That's not meant as a bad thing, I always liked how simple it made the development process for the right size project.

New comment by fletchowns in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

fletchowns — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:47:31 +0000

I liked the idea of Bookshop.org but I was surprised when I ordered something from it, it shipped from somewhere 2,000 miles away from me. I had the misunderstanding it was going to ship from a local bookshop that was actually local to me.

New comment by fletchowns in "RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis"

fletchowns — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:46:24 +0000

That is unfortunate there's so many Redis instances out there that not only are exposed to the public internet (330,000) and don't have authentication configured (60,000). I'm guessing those folks probably didn't even realize their Redis was public.

There are so many tutorials out there for things like Docker Compose that cause people to bind a service to 0.0.0.0 with a port open to the public internet.

New comment by fletchowns in "Just let me select text"

fletchowns — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:49:10 +0000

Yeah I think that was it!

New comment by fletchowns in "Just let me select text"

fletchowns — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:06:20 +0000

I think my text highlighting habit started in the late 90s when the prominent N64 website (what was the name of it??) would have text intentionally "hidden" on the page in the same color as the background, so you had to highlight to see it.

New comment by fletchowns in "Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users – what's new in 'Trixie'"

fletchowns — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:09:05 +0000

I run it on my dev machine because that's what I run on my servers. Keeps things simple with the consistency.

New comment by fletchowns in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

fletchowns — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:10:53 +0000

> I've been wondering for a while what the alternatives are.

Raspberry Pi + Snapcast + Any speaker with an AUX input

I've got a few Pi's hooked up around the house now to extra speakers, home stereo, and even a .NET snapcast client running on my desktop PC.

That setup plus Music Assistant has been awesome so far. No proprietary hardware or closed source software :)

New comment by fletchowns in "iTerm2 critical security release"

fletchowns — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 02:20:13 +0000

Have you tried using tmux?

New comment by fletchowns in "MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia"

fletchowns — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:34:49 +0000

Always create a backup or snapshot before any major media reorganization :)

New comment by fletchowns in "MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia"

fletchowns — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:12:19 +0000

It really is an incredible resource, and Picard is a wonderful app. Very satisfying getting a library properly tagged! Takes a while, but totally worth it. Shoutout to ListenBrainz as well, their scrobbling service: https://listenbrainz.org/

New comment by fletchowns in "UltimateAntiCheat"

fletchowns — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:00:28 +0000

Cheating in online gaming is such a blight on the industry. Such a waste of time & money for every legitimate participant in the market, except for the groups making and profiting of the cheats of course.

I still like my idea for a third-party reputation service that has consequences for not just one game but every multiplayer game participating in the program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634784

I really do think it would make cheating non-existent, and allow developers to focus on building cool games instead of building invasive & ineffective rootkits we have to install just to play games online fairly.