Hacker News: gjs278

New comment by gjs278 in "Some tiny personal programs I've written"

gjs278 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 19:52:10 +0000

I wrote a scraper that looked through substitute teacher jobs for a friend. she subbed 30 days in a row and got a full time job due to it.

New comment by gjs278 in "LVM Cache Surprises"

gjs278 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:34:25 +0000

the surprises are because you trusted magic LVM to take care of it. learn dm-cache and configure it how you want.

New comment by gjs278 in "I can no longer compile my first Flash game"

gjs278 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:39:31 +0000

I still distribute a visual basic 6 program that gets thousands of downloads a month

https://www.garyshood.com/rsclient/

New comment by gjs278 in "Miss a payment? Good luck moving that car (2014)"

gjs278 — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:49:02 +0000

hi! you don’t work for a ghetto auto lender. they require very little money down and they charge insane interest rates. and don’t care about your credit. that’s why the cars are such a flight risk.

New comment by gjs278 in "The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out"

gjs278 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:41:21 +0000

that’s barely freedom of choice. a robber pulling a gun on you and saying your money or your life isn’t what any reasonable person interprets as free will. free will would be not going to jail or being banned from society if you chose not to take the vaccine.

New comment by gjs278 in "Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer"

gjs278 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:56:32 +0000

god shut up. it’s $64,000. he’ll take the time to claim it. can you please not post?

New comment by gjs278 in "Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out"

gjs278 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:07:32 +0000

your comment is trivial. there are no holocaust survivors reading this page of hacker news. it’s not going to “happen again” or be “forgotten” because someone swaps the words of a phrase everybody knows. spend your energy on something else other than ruining the internet, making us self censor every little thing typed online. lest someone who had nothing to do with the event or problem take offense on behalf of others.

New comment by gjs278 in "Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots"

gjs278 — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:31:12 +0000

I hosted a server that was attacked all the time over a comcast connection and was always able to figure it out without cloudflare proxy blocking for me

New comment by gjs278 in "Google's penalty against The Online Slang Dictionary"

gjs278 — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:59:10 +0000

I have a penalty on https://garyshood.com/rsclient/ which used to be the number one term for "autoclicker" several years running.

I think it was due to comment spam since I didn't moderate the comments and since then the invisible penalty has never gone away. I've given up on trying. people just have to search "garys autoclicker" if they want to find it now, or have it bookmarked. "autoclicker" is pushed all the way back to page 4 for my site now. on bing I am page 2 behind basically autoclicker dot org and every other variation of the TLD

New comment by gjs278 in "Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable"

gjs278 — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:53:36 +0000

the mods here are trash

New comment by gjs278 in "Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns"

gjs278 — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:48:38 +0000

imagine actually worrying about this

New comment by gjs278 in "Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills"

gjs278 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:02:19 +0000

> Then we'd actually put real effort into controlling it so we could go back to life as normal even with the virus not fully eradicated.

ok now imagine the virus lives on surfaces for 5+ years and never dies. now what? you can’t eradicate this virus by quarantining, someone, and it only takes one, is going to spread it somehow.

now answer with that in mind. “we would just fix it” is a cop out, we can’t fix it.

New comment by gjs278 in "Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills"

gjs278 — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:59:28 +0000

I would have preferred we did nothing and let the old people die too. they suck up all the money and housing.

New comment by gjs278 in "Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk"

gjs278 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:10:10 +0000

that would happen with any pcie card, even non graphics ones

New comment by gjs278 in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

gjs278 — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 04:02:42 +0000

you have no sense of math. if you forcefully took back every mansion and giant boat from the rich and sold them at auction for double their value, you wouldn’t even fund the medicare/medicaid budget for more than two years.

New comment by gjs278 in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

gjs278 — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 03:58:41 +0000

rich people can buy teslas and green energy. you’re wasting your time thinking this will help poor people. it won’t. it’ll reduce the rich’s consumption but everyone else will still use poor people tech and end up getting carbon taxed. maybe redirect your efforts to something useful.

New comment by gjs278 in "Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants"

gjs278 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 13:23:56 +0000

considering the food delivery apps don’t make money, I don’t see how this will help anything

New comment by gjs278 in "New Mac ransomware spreading through piracy"

gjs278 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:52:37 +0000

and neither of those are ransomware. do you understand the difference?

New comment by gjs278 in "Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website"

gjs278 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:36:03 +0000

the certbot tools were made with the "default" experience in mind and no one tries them with more custom setups. the fact that they don't have easy guides on how to do it without certbot is worrying. you should be able to get a straightforward automated experience without having to use their convoluted tool that will choke and leave you hanging.

google certbot systemd or certbot openrc to see it fail. tack on that they had to invalidate all of their certs one day and gave little warning and you could easily have experienced revoked SSL certs if your system wasn't the default setup.

New comment by gjs278 in "AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit"

gjs278 — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:19:13 +0000

it’s not even slightly difficult to get a huge AWS bill. people do it on accident because they refuse to put in spend limits.