Hacker News: genericacct

New comment by genericacct in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

genericacct — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:16:20 +0000

same thing happens in italy

New comment by genericacct in "You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine"

genericacct — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:32:11 +0000

Strongly agree, frequency may be the enemy of quality

New comment by genericacct in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

genericacct — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:12:52 +0000

Kind of funny coming from people who levy taxes on tobacco products all the time

New comment by genericacct in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

genericacct — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:30:11 +0000

Some "developed" countries are not much better in that regard

New comment by genericacct in "Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go"

genericacct — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:16:11 +0000

Installed on raspbian, works wonders, much better than the thing i vibecoded yesterday. One feature I'd like: recording new arrivals to a log with all the info so it can be used as a barebones IDS

New comment by genericacct in "TI-99/4A: Leaning more on the firmware"

genericacct — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:08:31 +0000

It was The original brushed metal computer.

New comment by genericacct in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

genericacct — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:00:05 +0000

Universal Basic Tokens allowance?

New comment by genericacct in "Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]"

genericacct — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:34:06 +0000

It is actually incentivized in some cases

New comment by genericacct in "X's move to show users' location is a great step toward online transparency"

genericacct — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:25:40 +0000

This is already happening in a number of countries in some way or another

New comment by genericacct in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"

genericacct — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:58:10 +0000

TFA mentions "european governments" but this legislation is proposed by a bunch of european members of parliament who in no way represent any governments and much less the commission or the union. In short it tries to depict a group of old farts as an overreaching snooping authority.

I wonder who could have a vested interest in depicting the EU as a repressive regime...

New comment by genericacct in "Google TV operating system struggling to generate revenue"

genericacct — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:12:39 +0000

A relative got a sony google tv and it is utter crap. No browser? I'll stick to fire sticks

New comment by genericacct in "The hit film about overworked nurses that's causing alarm across Europe"

genericacct — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:50:07 +0000

This also happens in Italy, there's a maximum number of people who can get into med school. However, even though some complain of being overworked, some others complain that increasing that maximum number will lead to unemployment. So apparently medical professionals can either be overworked or unemployed, there is no in between..

New comment by genericacct in "Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)"

genericacct — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:04:38 +0000

I've had some success with Motion (in that i have pictures of a dude ski mask wearing dude looking around the house), which is also open source C (++? no idea). I will look into this but my impression is that work on the edge is done already and what is really needed is some sort of central processor that runs YOLO on several streams

New comment by genericacct in "Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)"

genericacct — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:59:35 +0000

Lots of other interesting projects on the author's site, check them out

New comment by genericacct in "StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5"

genericacct — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:31:03 +0000

I take it you dislike Escher as well then

New comment by genericacct in "Open-TV: Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app"

genericacct — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:22:49 +0000

I would add a bottom status bar so you can give immediate feedback when launching a new viewer. The initial lag was so long i ended up starting the same stream 3 times because i was unsure the click had registered.

New comment by genericacct in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

genericacct — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 04:45:58 +0000

it needs to be said that web dev is by far the area in which LLMs are more versed , i suppose due to the incredible amount of training data available. Other languages produce more allucinations for now.

New comment by genericacct in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

genericacct — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:51:08 +0000

It's worse than bad, I have seen betting ads and placement in content that regular advertisers would not touch with a 10 feet pole, e.g. in pirated broadcasts

New comment by genericacct in "45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web"

genericacct — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:30:23 +0000

they can be credited with inventing e-commerce imho...

New comment by genericacct in "State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant"

genericacct — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:54:04 +0000

Had the backpack problem for some time... my current fix is a bash script that goes

while true; do pm-suspend; sleep 12; done

I just ctrl-c it when i need to use it and then restart it when i am done. Dirty but it works..