Hacker News: goodboyjojo

New comment by goodboyjojo in "RPG in a Box"

goodboyjojo — Thu, 15 May 2025 09:48:29 +0000

i bought this software on steam awhile ago. i had fun messing around with it

New comment by goodboyjojo in "It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle"

goodboyjojo — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:25:52 +0000

cool read. its always good to breath life into an old device with hacking and modding

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Linux in Excel"

goodboyjojo — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:18:38 +0000

linux and the hit game doom are the things hackers always put on something first. any eletronic

New comment by goodboyjojo in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

goodboyjojo — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:16:06 +0000

this was a cool read.very interesting stuff.

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds"

goodboyjojo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:34:20 +0000

this is a good article. very interesting stuff

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a profit"

goodboyjojo — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:49:44 +0000

i like steam and gog the best. also i like itch, gamejolt and glorious trainwrecks. i really like finding indie game sites to see what's there

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Russia starts blocking VPNs, download Tor before it's too late"

goodboyjojo — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:40:21 +0000

sad vodka hours

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit from a Sexual Abuse Survivor"

goodboyjojo — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:38:38 +0000

i used omegle. it was ok but you did get a few perverts here and there. same thing with chat roulette

New comment by goodboyjojo in "How I got here"

goodboyjojo — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:20:07 +0000

this was a cool read. i hope you get out soon and be a software dev somewhere

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data"

goodboyjojo — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:50:45 +0000

data is never anonymous. if you get enough of it you can correlate who is who and turn it into information on the user.

New comment by goodboyjojo in "U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers"

goodboyjojo — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 06:00:04 +0000

this is sad. i wish we had better data privacy

New comment by goodboyjojo in "[dead]"

goodboyjojo — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:31:19 +0000

just wanted to share this cool youtube video about microsoft windows.

New comment by goodboyjojo in "My rude-ass car"

goodboyjojo — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 01:00:54 +0000

i don't think cars should have any business connecting to the internet. if i ever get a car i want it to be simple

New comment by goodboyjojo in "MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer"

goodboyjojo — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:29:58 +0000

magicavoxel is a pretty cool tool. i use it to make 3d art for fun and make models that i import to blender for video game dev

New comment by goodboyjojo in "People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours,bringing 2013's Her closer to reality"

goodboyjojo — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:49:03 +0000

i've seen lonely kids use it to cope with being lonely

New comment by goodboyjojo in "YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock"

goodboyjojo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:53:44 +0000

i use ublock and i got a popup on youtube telling me turn off adblock. i refuse to do so because i hate seeing ads and popups everywhere on the page of the youtube video. i use adblock software because it makes youtube easier to navigate and it looks cleaner

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Tell HN: Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell"

goodboyjojo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:42:15 +0000

that sucks man i know your pain. i hate having to jump though hoops just to do transactions online. i understand the things they do is to prevent fraud but treating everybody as a potential criminal is mildly disrespectful

New comment by goodboyjojo in "iPods now considered vintage tech– so of course sold out at Urban Outfitters"

goodboyjojo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:55:44 +0000

i have an old ipod touch that i use sometimes. also i remember this blog i saw on neocities of a kid that liked collecting old ipods.

New comment by goodboyjojo in "WebSDR – Internet-connected Software-Defined Radios"

goodboyjojo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:44:43 +0000

this is pretty neat. i remember some old guy on youtube showing cool things you could do with a cheap sdr dongle. and i remember some guy using gnu radio to hack into a car

New comment by goodboyjojo in "Ask HN: How did Git become the standard when Windows is the majority OS?"

goodboyjojo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:43:51 +0000

my guess is that many programmers like git because of the free/libre folk. i personally like git because it has an easy to understand gui interface that many people understand if you are not tech savy. my fav gui interface is github desktop that i use to talk to my github account and make commits to my personal website. i wish the other git repository hosting sites like gitlab and codeberg had an easy to use gui. maybe somebody will make one