Hacker News: fuster

New comment by fuster in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

fuster — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:13:30 +0000

Keepass and Joplin.

New comment by fuster in "T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs"

fuster — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:09:49 +0000

My bank took away the ability to do 2FA via email and is phone-only now. At least with the typical Gmail/equivalent account you have the option of making that less vulnerable to social engineering and outright bribes.

New comment by fuster in "Restoring audio from the B-58 "Hustler" Voice Warning System"

fuster — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:12:55 +0000

Yeah. I love this kind of stuff and appreciate everything the author has done but I think much better is possible.

New comment by fuster in "Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date"

fuster — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 16:26:17 +0000

Thank you for this. I actually thought it was only me that found these kinds of "timestamps" much less useful more often than not.

New comment by fuster in "USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)"

fuster — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 01:38:00 +0000

I've had this happen about three times now, but every time the actual problem is pocket lint inside the connector. After I clean it out it is back to working like new. It's not always obvious that it's lint until you start scraping back there since it gets jammed pretty hard when plugging in the cable.

New comment by fuster in "Atari 800XL Remake"

fuster — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:51:53 +0000

My first computer! Lots of fond memories. Loading programs from a cassette in particular sticks in my head.

New comment by fuster in "Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity"

fuster — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 01:58:48 +0000

Actually Iridium has really great coverage of the poles due to the planes running north/south.

New comment by fuster in "Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k"

fuster — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:46:02 +0000

This literally happened to me yesterday for a trip I'm leaving for in 3 days. The best part is that it's the second time I've been canceled on for this same trip. Naturally everywhere that isn't already booked up is 2-3x the price now. Just a huge hassle.

New comment by fuster in "Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup"

fuster — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:28:50 +0000

This one absolutely kills me. Why do my kids need Microsoft accounts for this? Their official instructions ask for DOB and require checking some box about allowing my kids to sign into "third-party applications". Not to mention all the legal crap I'll have to agree to, settings to scrutinize and opt-out of to ensure privacy, etc. I am this close to just telling them that they're going to have to abandon their favorite game for something else.

New comment by fuster in "25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build"

fuster — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:38:06 +0000

Most (all?) PCs should have a BIOS option to always restore power after loss.

New comment by fuster in "Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes"

fuster — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:55:35 +0000

I think there is the question of what people would do with the money they save by buying only the entry-level car. Would everyone really just save the money? I expect people would just spend it on something else (that maybe has more effective advertising, even if via word-of-mouth or something else). So spending would remain roughly the same. I don't have any hard research I can personally point to though.

New comment by fuster in "ECC matters"

fuster — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:56:44 +0000

Pretty sure most memory test tools like memtest86 write the memory and then read it back shortly thereafter in relatively small blocks. This makes the window for errors to be introduced dramatically smaller. Most memory in a computer is not being continually rewritten under normal use.

New comment by fuster in "AMD to Acquire Xilinx"

fuster — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:54:09 +0000

I did FPGA development for a few years a little over a decade ago. I recently came back to it for a project after doing software and just wow--the tooling is still absolutely awful. Possibly worse than before. Vivado in particular seems almost designed to foil version control systems. Which files actually contain user input and are necessary to rebuild a project? Why would you want to keep source and configuration files separate from derived objects? Entire swaths of documentation and examples become immediately obsolete with each new tool version. Not to mention infuriating bugs at every turn.

New comment by fuster in "DigitalOcean App Platform"

fuster — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:09:39 +0000

Oh wow I think I just figured out how a VERY limited-use card number got stolen around that same time.

New comment by fuster in "French bar owners arrested for offering free WiFi but not keeping logs"

fuster — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:39:15 +0000

The observed behavior on my Pixel is that it generates a new, random MAC whenever you connect to a new network. It reuses that MAC for that network going forward. It does not ever use the "real" MAC unless you specifically select that in the settings.

New comment by fuster in "DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX"

fuster — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 19:41:13 +0000

Still using my 48G today. I used to have a 48GX as well but some (not old!) batteries leaked and ruined it.

In high school I wrote some RPL for it that would use a small 9V-powered 2400bps modem to dial into a local BBS and download my mail.

New comment by fuster in "G2A pays Factorio developer $40k over illegally obtained game keys"

fuster — Thu, 21 May 2020 13:34:09 +0000

I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B. Just a few weeks ago I had two back-to-back $400+ fraudulent online charges on my card, but due to alerts I discovered it within 20 minutes of them happening. I immediately called my bank and notified them that they were fraudulent. Apparently they didn't bother to do anything for weeks because 1) the charges still went from pending to posted several days later 2) the vendors were apparently not notified through some other method because they shipped the products and 3) the charges showed up on my bill (although later I received credits when they completed their "investigation."). So as far as I can tell the vendors got left holding the bag even though the bank knew the charges were bad. I know that the vendors shipped the equipment because at least one of them contested the fraud by submitting proof of delivery from the shipper (to the wrong address)...

New comment by fuster in "Show HN: Stand-Up/Meetings in VR for Remote Teams"

fuster — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:06:09 +0000

Are you required to have a Facebook account?