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New comment by ga_to in "Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors"

ga_to — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:55:02 +0000

Sure could, but then you would need to do the thing AND think about doing the triggering and then find the trigger button on your watch. This way you wouldn't have to think about it, because it's automated. Triggering something manually also doesn't really count as 'automation' I would say.

New comment by ga_to in "OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise"

ga_to — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:41:46 +0000

Nice ad you got there. How do I define request interceptors with fetch? Axios does it.

New comment by ga_to in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

ga_to — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:29:24 +0000

In my (admittedly limited) experience, it does run, even with quite comparable performance, but getting a wheel to interact with the game has been a bit challenging. But this could be resolved with a custom driver for my specific hardware. Using the community standard mod manager seems to resolve the UI jank by completely bypassing it.

New comment by ga_to in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

ga_to — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:01:06 +0000

Disabling the physical light switch should usually only come after setting up a different way of controlling the light by hand, without a phone.

Most likely there is some sort of motion or presence sensor that turns on the lights which then turn themselves off after some time or no more presence is detected. There are also small wireless switches that could be used in place of the actual wall switch.

I have done so in my apartment for example. Since the bedroom light switch is for some reason outside of the room I taped it down and put a wireless switch in a more reasonable spot. Another example is the hallway light, which only turns on by motion sensing when the sun is starting to go down.

New comment by ga_to in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

ga_to — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:23:00 +0000

Citizen =!= Human.

Even if they might not be citizens, they are humans, people. With human rights. Categorizing one group of humans as being less deserving of basic human decency than others, is, for a lack of a better word, nazi rhetoric.

New comment by ga_to in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

ga_to — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:42:18 +0000

Are those not people? Right into the 'subhuman' rhetoric?

New comment by ga_to in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

ga_to — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:10:30 +0000

And Lina is problematic why exactly?

New comment by ga_to in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

ga_to — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:55:33 +0000

The comment (at least my reading of it) did not cast any judgement on whether this was a good or bad thing.

New comment by ga_to in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

ga_to — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:04:17 +0000

To each their own.

Stackoverflow Outage

ga_to — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stackstatus.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100566

Points: 27

# Comments: 52

New comment by ga_to in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

ga_to — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:50:45 +0000

And right they are; sliding doors offer even less seal than the regular cheap doors usually used and as such less sound or odor protection.

New comment by ga_to in "GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code"

ga_to — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:25:15 +0000

Gonna tell him what?

New comment by ga_to in "Windows 10 resists its end: usage share climbs while Windows 11's falls"

ga_to — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:13:54 +0000

Because 10 supported that.

New comment by ga_to in "Introducing tmux-rs"

ga_to — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:54:09 +0000

I usually don't comment because I am fine with reading stuff on here during my breaks and don't engage in discussions. Your poo-pooing of a hobby project that has no ambitions of being enterprise grade really rubbed me the wrong way though. If it brings you joy to call me a bot, go ahead though.

New comment by ga_to in "Introducing tmux-rs"

ga_to — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:09:45 +0000

But it's _not_ c2rust. It started that way but this approach was abandoned in favor of a manual port. From the comment you replied to: > The decision to throw it all away and do a manual port, while surely gut-wrenching, was the right call. You just can't automatically translate the intent of the original C code into safe, idiomatic Rust.

From the second paragraph of TFA: > I threw away all of the C2Rust output and decided I would translate all of the files into Rust manually from C.

Please at least read the source before shit-talking it.

New comment by ga_to in "Libre Office ReleaseNotes 7.6"

ga_to — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:34:11 +0000

IIRC Microsoft does similar things for the VSCode changelogs to highlight that all features work across all platform and colorschemes.

New comment by ga_to in "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models"

ga_to — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:40:50 +0000

Microsoft has done this before with mauikit and mauilinux: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/35

Unlikely that they even consider checking whether they are stomping across existing names.

New comment by ga_to in "How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb voice assistant"

ga_to — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 09:55:10 +0000

I would bet it's not. Based on the same starting point (phone in pocket) how many steps are there actually?

UI Option:

- take out phone

- unlock phone

- leave current app

- find and open control app

- find icon to toggle action

- lock phone

- put phone back in pocket

NFC option:

- take phone out of pocket

- bump phone against NFC sticker

- find NFC sweet spot

- put phone back in pocket

New comment by ga_to in "A few things to try with DALL·E"

ga_to — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:16:41 +0000

A short one sentence explanation what DALL-E _is_ would have been a nice inclusion. I guess it's an image generating AI thing?

New comment by ga_to in "Apple Made $6.5B USD by No Longer Providing Accessories with New iPhones"

ga_to — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:17:41 +0000

If you already have a USB A to Lightning cable you can keep using this, true. But the new cable that is included just does not fit. An android convert who might have a dozen USB A chargers but zero USB A to Lightning cables would either need such a cable, which is not in the box, or a new charger, which has a USB C socket on it to use the cable from the box.