Hacker News: gaudystead

New comment by gaudystead in "Restroom Archive"

gaudystead — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:51:40 +0000

Cool project! I wanted to make something similar, but for archiving bathroom graffiti! Yours is a better implementation than I would've accomplished though, so I'm glad you did it!

What was your original goal(s) for the effort?

New comment by gaudystead in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

gaudystead — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:47:31 +0000

I was going to comment this same thing until I saw yours. I miss degaussing... Especially after holding a magnet to the CRT to get it to display fun colors it wasn't meant to and crossing your fingers that the degauss would fix the damage you'd wrought.

New comment by gaudystead in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

gaudystead — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:30:01 +0000

Regarding the honeypot allegations, I'm guessing they're referring to the connections between 4chan's founder, Christopher Poole, aka "moot", and Jeffrey Epstein:

https://www.ms.now/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-4chan-chris-poole

New comment by gaudystead in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

gaudystead — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:09:31 +0000

Hell hath no fury like an inconvenienced power user.

New comment by gaudystead in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

gaudystead — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:38:20 +0000

Your username betrays you, because this is indeed a good idea. Thank you for sharing! I'd never heard of this, but now have some cool gift ideas for family & friends. :)

New comment by gaudystead in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

gaudystead — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:18:06 +0000

The operators of the phone system are consenting to the call being recorded by informing you that the call is being recorded. You are consenting to the call being recorded by continuing with the call.

How is that not two party consent?

New comment by gaudystead in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

gaudystead — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:34:51 +0000

I'm sure some businesses are considering moving back to on-prem, but for many, I suspect the cost to find onboard, and pay the SMEs to keep those systems running well enough to not fail due to one reason or another isn't as appetizing to them as the ability to offload that work, along with the legal responsibility.

When something goes wrong, pointing the finger at someone else is far easier for most than pointing it at yourself.

New comment by gaudystead in "The lost joy of music piracy"

gaudystead — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:58:04 +0000

Can I offer you a SomaFM[0] in these trying times?

They're entirely listener supported and the music they play is - to my knowledge - entirely human curated. I've found many tracks and artists new to me, with some artists not even having a presence (or a very small one) on Spotify.

Their curation is so good that they've become a significant resource I go to when seeking out new music. It feels like a warm hug from people who probably were also users of what.cd back in the day. Some of the humans who make up their team are the ones who play the music at DEF CON each year, so I take that as a good endorsement that they are well equipped to have good taste and be fellow music nerds - a compliment of the highest regard.

They're worth your time (and money, should you choose to donate).

[0] https://somafm.com/

New comment by gaudystead in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

gaudystead — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:48:32 +0000

Can confirm... Was flying back home and during a layover in Mumbai I grabbed some food from the food court. It was only after having sat down and eaten most of my food when I noticed that there were pigeons roosting directly above where my meal was purchased from, with their poop stains dribbling down the raised walls directly above the food. That was a particularly rough set of flights back home, but I lucked out and had a fairly empty flight for one leg of it that offered a full row of empty seats for me to lay down in and disassociate from the pain on.

(for anyone who is unaware, the airports - the ones I passed through, at least - in India are fairly open air, so birds were a common sight within them)

New comment by gaudystead in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

gaudystead — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:27:40 +0000

Minimum Vibeable Product

New comment by gaudystead in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

gaudystead — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:24:21 +0000

For anyone reading the above comment and wanting to see what the commenter might be referring to, here is the first YT video I found on that channel that is relatively brief but has an example of the techniques involved:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G_QZIGVYX_4

New comment by gaudystead in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

gaudystead — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:46:25 +0000

I recently discovered openevidence.com, and it's apparently what many doctors have started using for diagnosing patients (with or without their consent). It could be worth looking into for trying to find an explanation of symptoms that might not have a clear diagnosis. It may also just be the new WebMD once it gains more popularity (or even already), but may be another tool in your arsenal all the same.

New comment by gaudystead in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

gaudystead — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:45:25 +0000

That's assuming the attacker informs Creative of the attack. A malicious actor could go to the showroom, update the firmware on all devices, and simply let them continue on as normal, waiting for a future opportunity to strike.

Let's hope Creative patches things before something like this happens.

New comment by gaudystead in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

gaudystead — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:33:07 +0000

Any chance you'd be willing to share a template of your spreadsheet?

New comment by gaudystead in "Leave Me Behind"

gaudystead — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:30:09 +0000

Curse you for this ear worm of a song, but also my brain keeps wanting to interpret this as "duck... You're bad at your job and will never amount to anything. Your mother is ashamed of you and you're the reason your father is an alcoholic." hahaha

New comment by gaudystead in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

gaudystead — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:03:54 +0000

Might as well go for the limit and replace the comma with " &" (space ampersand)

New comment by gaudystead in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

gaudystead — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:29:36 +0000

From someone who likely played your work in my younger years, thank you for it!

New comment by gaudystead in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

gaudystead — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:01:12 +0000

I haven't trusted that disable switch for a while now... I'd always had it disabled, but there was one conversation in particular where it referenced a past conversation - despite memory being disabled - and when I asked it why it responded the way it did, it pretended I was mistaken and told me it has no memory of past conversations, even though I could scroll up and see it in the response.

Just because you flip a switch doesn't mean the switch is _actually_ flipped. Same thing goes for turning off wifi/Bluetooth on iOS.

If it's a software switch, it's closer to a promise than a guarantee.

New comment by gaudystead in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

gaudystead — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:07:03 +0000

It's not "_cease_ all motor functions"?

New comment by gaudystead in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

gaudystead — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:38:30 +0000

Every day feels like a day closer to, if not already at, a day where discerning customers are the minority.