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New comment by fyrabanks in "Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"

fyrabanks — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:36:00 +0000

ok but what's the anime 'checking if you're not a bot' gatekeeper? asking for a friend...

New comment by fyrabanks in "All major LLMs are lib-left. Even Grok, half the time"

fyrabanks — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:19:56 +0000

"Read that list back. Pro-regulation on companies, live-and-let-live on private life. That combination is the lib-left quadrant, definitionally."

if this is the definition of "lib-left," i don't think we have too much to be worried about being "off center" with models.

New comment by fyrabanks in "I Like Small Keyboards"

fyrabanks — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:58:51 +0000

thanks, me too. the one big disadvantage here, if you have to go into an office, is either having to own multiple or transporting your keyboard back and forth every day.

there was a period where i was doing standard + ortho Plank + an ErgoDox-like on three different machines and it's a bit of a mindfuck context switching between them. extremely inefficient.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

fyrabanks — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:59:34 +0000

great post. the only thing that was tying me to Windows at home was gaming. after Proton, that became irrelevant. (maybe it'd be different if I played competitive multiplayer games.)

curious, though--why hasn't your friend updated his Arch distro in 3 years? bleeding edge is one of the benefits vs other distros, IMHO

New comment by fyrabanks in "Claude Fable 5"

fyrabanks — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:07:51 +0000

"don't make any mistakes" /s

New comment by fyrabanks in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

fyrabanks — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:20:10 +0000

not to sound callous, but that's not good parenting.

my partner and i have reasonably good jobs, but we work 12-14hrs. we make mortgage and have some extra money. we are currently debating whether or not it is financially, morally, or ethically responsible to bring a child into this world and be able to provide them with the attention that they need and deserve.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

fyrabanks — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:06:01 +0000

good parenting, as always, remains the best solution

New comment by fyrabanks in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

fyrabanks — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:43:16 +0000

only time i ever have to deal with this anywhere (and i move physical sites a lot) is when using a commercial VPN provider. odd.

New comment by fyrabanks in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

fyrabanks — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Thank you. Exactly this.

There were so many fundamental problems with the infrastructure even before the person gave a poor prompt to an agent.

If you're using the same API key for staging and prod--and just storing it somewhere randomly to forget about--you're setting yourself up for failure with or without AI.

New comment by fyrabanks in "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games"

fyrabanks — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:21:22 +0000

i so badly want to spoil the story of stephen's sausage roll for you. i feel bad even spoiling that there is a story. play it.

New comment by fyrabanks in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

fyrabanks — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:44:12 +0000

Subtitle settings turn off between episodes

you can enable global subtitles in settings.

Let me sort by file size so I can watch the disk gobbling files first

you can kinda deduce that if you sort by bitrate.

it sounds like you figured out a solution for yourself, already, but there's a lot of existing utilities like tinyMediaManager, WebTools-NG, Raddarr, Sonarr, etc. for doing media management. Plex is just a media server/player.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Claude.ai down"

fyrabanks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:44:22 +0000

Yeah, sems fine?

New comment by fyrabanks in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

fyrabanks — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:40:43 +0000

they kindamostly cared when it was OS X. everything's been a bit of a mess since it became macOS while trying to make a unified platform for all their hardware

New comment by fyrabanks in "Why vampires live forever"

fyrabanks — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:32:06 +0000

does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood to people that need life saving procedures?

New comment by fyrabanks in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

fyrabanks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:31:06 +0000

Same. I built my first wheel according to his specs. His whole website is so helpful and thoughtfully written. RIP.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

fyrabanks — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:46:58 +0000

There were 20 people working on this game when they started development. Total. I think they expanded to a little over 100. This isn't some huge game studio that has time to do optimization.

GTA5 had well over 1000 people on its team.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

fyrabanks — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:08:01 +0000

Netflix also wants HBO / HBO Max. They're just leaving the Discovery stuff.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

fyrabanks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:03:49 +0000

The Pitt, The Penguin, Hacks, White Lotus, The Rehearsal, The Last of Us, The Chair Company--all shows off the top of my head that debuted or aired a season in 2025. A few of which won several Emmys, and all of which are critically acclaimed.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

fyrabanks — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:47:43 +0000

Buproprion is an anti-depressent with some stimulant properties, but it isn't a stimulant. It generally takes several weeks of treatment before it has any therapeutic effects on ADHD. Stimulants work immediately.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Hunter S Thompson's death to be reviewed more than 20 years later"

fyrabanks — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:53:52 +0000

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan is essentially the evolution of gonzo journalism.