Hacker News: gibbonsrcool

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?"

gibbonsrcool — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:33:07 +0000

Panel interviews seem to be more common. Curious if others have seen the same? I personally feel very uncomfortable coding in front of a group. First one of these I tried had like 5 people watching and I lost my nerve and bailed. :|

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana"

gibbonsrcool — Sun, 05 May 2024 21:16:40 +0000

Wow it’s a small world. I just discovered your channel recently and love the content. Probably watched the home lab video like 10 times. I have a historic building with 3 vacation rentals that I’m in the process of adding some intelligence and monitoring to, including a raspberry pi kiosk based on one of your videos. Thanks for making them!

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:34:11 +0000

Speak for yourselves... I'm flying to Seattle to LAN next month! :P

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:57:36 +0000

Sure, I made the repo public: https://github.com/gvbl/TextAPic

I don't believe the app works any more, something has changed and I haven't investigated. I hope it's still useful for you!

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:21:01 +0000

And why are they bugging us for a sign in when in mobile private mode on safari! Gtfoh!

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:18:40 +0000

After doing some Android freelance recently and having a clients Play Store account get shut down because they forgot one of the requirements imposed by Google I’m done with Android, and hopefully can free myself from Google services completely.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:16:32 +0000

Yes it’s MMS. Something I learned during the process of making it was that sending a pic wasn’t technically SMS… guess I forgot. Haven’t worked with SMS/MMS since.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?"

gibbonsrcool — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:52:55 +0000

My father continuously had problems sending pictures over SMS, which would be super helpful so that I could help him accomplish tasks remotely. The built-in app on Android was too confusing for him thanks to cognitive decline. I made a super simple app that's only purpose was to send pics via SMS. One screen, contacts selected by drop down, camera view in the center, one button. Google wouldn't let me publish it because SMS apps on the Play Store have to implement ALL SMS functionality. I sent him the APK by email so at least there's that. It worked well for him at least. Fuck Google though.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

gibbonsrcool — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:45:22 +0000

I understand their incentives. But the fact that they are exploited here, just less so still, makes the exploitation wrong. The H1B program needs to end.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

gibbonsrcool — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:26:20 +0000

Even if the pay by salary amount is fair, these workers can be exploited to work more hours than their non-H1B colleagues such that if their pay was broken down hourly it would be comparatively lower.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: What Are You Learning?"

gibbonsrcool — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:37:41 +0000

1. How to administer a secure network for a property with multiple vacation rentals. I bought a bunch of Microtik components so I’ll be learning RouterOS and how to setup VLANs.

2. Ray tracing in a weekend but in Rust.

3. How to return to the job market after 4 years of off and on freelance and being a caregiver for sick parent.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:39:39 +0000

Monopolistic practices, dominating search engine market, anticompetitive behavior in online advertising, collusion with other tech companies on hiring practices, privacy concerns over user data collection, biased search results favoring its products, tax avoidance strategies in multiple countries, anti-union activities, censorship in certain countries to comply with local laws, allegations of workplace discrimination and harassment, misuse of market dominance in Android operating system.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 11:00:05 +0000

Unfortunately Apple and MS seem like they’re going strong into 2024.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:28:19 +0000

I predict Google will flounder on multiple fronts. They’ll either continue empty promises of a ChatGPT killer or release one that will be 2nd rate. Meanwhile more adoption of ChatGPT and the like will mean less search and less ad revenue. Azure and AWS will take more market share from GDP. They’ll release ad-blocker unfriendly chrome and users will switch to Firefox. YouTube will expand its trial of not operating with ad-blockers and a serious alternative will emerge, maybe Vimeo or maybe a newcomer. They’re the most user-hostile of the big tech companies and I want them to lose.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

gibbonsrcool — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:26:49 +0000

I’ve had such bad experiences with Reddit mods I’m cheering this on.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US"

gibbonsrcool — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 16:23:36 +0000

The second biggest geopolitical opponent to the US, Russia, is in major decline. Their primary opponent, China, is slowing down and has enormous domestic problems to deal with that are projected to worsen for a long period of time. The US was supposed to be behind in AI research, but technologically, they're ahead. I believe that once AI is used to exert geopolitical pressure, economically or through counter action, it will be a runaway advantage. If this were Star Wars I think we'd be at the point where we were only starting to see the rise of the Empire.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:18:07 +0000

The decline in young people's sexual activity is a recent event: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-have-been-...

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere"

gibbonsrcool — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:19:36 +0000

Is it possibly because they're not sleeping with each other? Seems to be all over the news lately, the decline of young people having sex. The older I get, the less I see sex as optional for human health and well-being. There's no time you crave it more than adolescence, so going without it then could be even more damaging. Sex is not just a fun experience, it's a basic psychological need. Both the left and right in the US are way too puritanical and I really hope there's a big shift in popular culture to stop censoring sex and maybe think about toning down the violence.

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999"

gibbonsrcool — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:32:00 +0000

“you could have just posted the link without your opinion”

New comment by gibbonsrcool in "The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999"

gibbonsrcool — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:22:31 +0000

A link by itself might be another site that the person who commented likes, not necessarily the one mentioned in the article.