Hacker News: hammyhavoc

New comment by hammyhavoc in "The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign"

hammyhavoc — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:10:12 +0000

The statement being made is not "HN doesn't love blogs".

The statement being made is "Very anti-HN thinking to be posted here."

Rather than present useless analogies, engage with what's actually been presented. I didn't ask about your grandmother.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "ProofPage – a mini-landing page to avoid proving your skills to every new client"

hammyhavoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:00:42 +0000

Is this not just reinventing the utmost basic portfolio website of quarter of a century ago? Are people not already doing this with cheap or even free turn-key templates? Could probably have an LLM excrete one in minutes.

I get daily outreach from fly-by-night operations in other countries using LLMs and templates to crap out the above, complete with client logos and project examples that don't belong to them. Where is the "proof"?

If you're aiming at devs, why would they use this over the likes of GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages?

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Tell HN: macOS Time Machine will no longer support Time Capsules"

hammyhavoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:49:05 +0000

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/104170

Probably ongoing support. It was no iPhone in terms of units sold.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Ask HN: A hassle-free chat-style email app"

hammyhavoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:48:16 +0000

I'd be content with even a browser extension in LibreWolf to style specific email threads, and past and future emails from specific senders as chat bubbles. Would need to strip the signatures of course. I find email threads really laborious to parse with lots of short messages from family members in group threads versus skimming through chat bubbles. Each sender would need a user-configurable chat bubble colour too.

I'm sure someone could probably vibe code a FOSS repo for this in an afternoon if it's as capable as the average comment here seems to claim (hasn't been my experience, but would love to solve a problem and be proven wrong).

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Just graduated, got my first SEO job, my boss thinks I'm useless:("

hammyhavoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:59:03 +0000

How long have you been working on their SEO?

New comment by hammyhavoc in "How to Speed up WordPress Site in 2025"

hammyhavoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:57:29 +0000

That's a lot coming from someone who posted a link to a blog post that isn't even publicly available.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Digital Memory Holocaust': Meta's AI Purges 3M Accounts/Month (Leaked Data)"

hammyhavoc — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:55:09 +0000

As a Jew, I take great issue with calling this a "Holocaust" as not only is it inaccurate, it diminishes the meaning of the word for describing the state-sponsored murder of 6m+ Jews alone—and that's without even getting into the Romani Holocaust, disabled, gay community et al who were also murdered.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

hammyhavoc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:47:33 +0000

Experiences?

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Study mode"

hammyhavoc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:42:00 +0000

Ah yes, the thing that told people to administer insulin to someone experiencing hypoglycemia (likely fatal BTW) is nothing like a library or Google search, because people blindly believe the output because of the breathless hype.

See Dunning-Kruger.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Study mode"

hammyhavoc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:40:35 +0000

Why not do the research yourself rather than risk it misinterpreting? I FAFO'd repeatedly with that, and it is just horribly unreliable.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Study mode"

hammyhavoc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:39:31 +0000

No wonder there are so many confident people spouting total rubbish on technical forums.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Study mode"

hammyhavoc — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:37:14 +0000

There might not be any stupid questions, but there's plenty of perfectly confident stupid answers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/s/Wqc8XGKT5h

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Why not Matrix (2023)"

hammyhavoc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:27:15 +0000

Make the LLM bulletpoint output seem more human that it is?

New comment by hammyhavoc in "The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign"

hammyhavoc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:24:41 +0000

Whatever you think HN is, it isn't. People are not represented by a subdomain of an accelerator.

HN also drank the crypto-crap and NFT Kool-Aid. It's nice to see people able to not follow the groupthink.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "AI Labubu"

hammyhavoc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:43:08 +0000

Does this site have a license to use the Labubu brand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labubu?wprov=sfla1

New comment by hammyhavoc in "The Promised LAN"

hammyhavoc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:42:41 +0000

NetBird is also worth a look—FOSS and can be self-hosted.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "The Promised LAN"

hammyhavoc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:42:14 +0000

I didn't think there were others doing this out there, but yes, do this for sure. It's a lot of fun. Write about it too. I'm going to write up ours.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "The Promised LAN"

hammyhavoc — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 04:41:41 +0000

CRTs implode—and then glass flies out at high velocity.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month"

hammyhavoc — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:51:25 +0000

Not infrequently, someone being smart in one field doesn't necessarily mean they can solve problems in another.

I know some brilliant people, but, well, putting it kindly, they're as useful as a chocolate teapot outside of their specific area of academic expertise.

New comment by hammyhavoc in "The future is not self-hosted"

hammyhavoc — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 05:44:04 +0000

"The future" is relative and contextual. Different tools for different tasks, different solutions for different problems.