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New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees"

hatradiowigwam — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:07:10 +0000

Like text.npr.org - there is also a CNN "lite" version too: https://lite.cnn.com/

I agree whole heartedly I wish more of the web were like this.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "'Forced out': HOA fees to rise to $2,500 a month"

hatradiowigwam — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:04:39 +0000

I'm guessing one of the victims of this predatory behavior will respond with a gas can and a match. There are multiple ways to express discontent to this type of behavior, and it's statistically likely one of those ways will be arson.

This type of vigilante justice isn't good for a society, but it does tend to discourage the behavior. Similar to how markets where some thieves have a stump in place of a hand don't have a shoplifting problem(any more).

tldr; someone will likely make the developer suffer as a result of the suffering they are inflicting on others to feed their greed.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling"

hatradiowigwam — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:39:36 +0000

If you aren't familiar with tmux(or GNU screen), you owe it to yourself to become familiar. If you are a deveoper/sysop/cli-type it will act as a force multiplier. It takes 10 minutes to get setup and learn the basic hotkeys - and you will save many orders of magnitude of your time. One of the best learn-some-software investments you can make IMHO.

PS: This applies to /alot/ of software though...not just tmux. See: vim, emacs, bash, zsh.... the difference between a new or non-learned user is /vast/ compared to someone that spends 10 minutes and learns the basic of these tools. This is one of your first steps into greybeard mastery.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video]"

hatradiowigwam — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:05:08 +0000

This is advertising for a book. This individual has zero accomplishments or credentials to lend any gravity to their opinions. Everyone has opinions.

edit: typo

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Music Theory for Programmers"

hatradiowigwam — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:35:51 +0000

I can't possibly agree loudly enough with this recommendation. I started with Hal Leonard method classical guitar books(1 & 2) and that was one thing...great books, but nothing compared to Absolutely Understand Guitar. That guy teaches and explains music theory in a way so effective it's not even comparable to other systems. Fantastic teacher, fantastic material, nothing but praise for Scotty West's music program.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Audacity 4.0"

hatradiowigwam — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:02:45 +0000

I'm not sure what you are talking about wrt guitar and standard notation. Finger (PIMA) indication, staccato/legato, vibrato, tremolo, slurs, hammer, pulls, etc...it's all there. I don't see as much notation around hammer/pull as a classical player, but pick up a classical guitar music book sometime...you'll find that everything (guitar-related) you mentioned needing to be included, is already included.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

hatradiowigwam — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:56:00 +0000

> How do we do that in tech? Hell if I know, maybe a proctored written exam, followed by an oral exam, then a project? But who knows.

Ever taken a Redhat exam - such as Red Hat Certified Engineer? That's the right model. It's a hand-on exam with arbitrary exam objectives you have to meet (by any means possible, there is more than one right way to achieve desired state). There is no internet, devices, or anything else to help you. People that pass allow you to make assumptions about them - for example... without stackoverflow, github, or the internet at all - this person can configure virtual hosts with nginx, firewall rules, host VMs, and administer network concepts(virtual switches, routing) between them. To do that without any GUI or internet available - it means you understand those concepts very well, and can implement them blindfolded.

Any RHCEs want to chime in?

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

hatradiowigwam — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:31:01 +0000

This appears to me like a solution in search of a problem, like many others before it...the quote below seems relevant to this effort.

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." ~Henry Spencer

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

hatradiowigwam — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:16:05 +0000

> Most of the time the GUI experience is the same or better than terminal tools

I started to take your comment seriously until that line. You're avoiding leveling up and learning how to use the CLI. Whatever reason you are avoiding it for, understand that's what is at play here.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

hatradiowigwam — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:11:52 +0000

People actively do that at work. My employer is a large [US] government financial entity, that likely holds your mortgage and the mortgage of people you know. Our profit this last quarter was publicly reported as 3.6 billion dollars. Most people will respond to any question with an OpenAI-generated answer, and you'll notice it most when 3 or 4 people in a teams chat all reply with a near-identical answer to a question you ask in the channel. I can't overstate how much AI is used here, or how zealous the leadership is in pushing us to use it for...everything.

Just wanted to point out that people are doing it at work, not getting fired, and this isn't some 2-bit business you haven't heard about.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

hatradiowigwam — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:20:29 +0000

Welcome to the world of commodity trading. There is no SEC here, and this is business as usual. You can look at T&S to see this for yourself, but this is (like it or not) how this typically goes in commodity markets.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Men who stare at walls"

hatradiowigwam — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:30:46 +0000

If staring at walls doesn't do it - try playing guitar instead. Works for me and it's more fun than a wall IMHO.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

hatradiowigwam — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:45:15 +0000

Whether it's run as root/administrator or not - you can disable this behavior by setting the immutable flag on /etc/hosts. No user, including root, can write to a file with the immutable flag set(although root could _remove_ the attribute and then write).

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

hatradiowigwam — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:14:35 +0000

vimdiff is pretty fast, and is likely installed on your linux system without you realizing it.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland"

hatradiowigwam — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:06:49 +0000

That won't work... that will crash the price of [new] bonds, and more capitalized nations will buy the dip. You are operating under an assumption that the humans controlling a quantity of wealth enough to [quote] "crash the bonds market" make decisions based on principles. They don't - and if you compare history with a long term bond price chart then it will become apparent.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code?"

hatradiowigwam — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:18:43 +0000

I build ETL pipelines and all kinds of ad-hoc data processing software. These range from python projects to thousand-line shell scripts. The jobs run on machines above >1000 CPU core counts - what you would consider a mainframe or big iron.

Web stuff will burn you out. In my case, that happened 10+ years ago and I've never desired to go back [to building web products].

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

hatradiowigwam — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:22:08 +0000

I spent alot of time in Fairbanks throughout 2006 and 2008, doing aerial surveys from plane. Fairbanks was a good airport to get stuck at, and you do meet some interesting non-traditional travelers. I've never met the guy in the article, but I've met a few bike/hike travelers there who were either moving horizontally or vertically across Alaska (no small feat at all), and I always thought it sounded like an adventure.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab"

hatradiowigwam — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:38:10 +0000

Fail2ban is not in the same realm as port knocking, and to "bin it" would be foolish security posture at best, and negligent at worst.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

hatradiowigwam — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:36:51 +0000

> And just remember, you voted for this,

No...definitely did not vote for this, maybe you did? I voted against this in every way, and see how that worked out. Democracy is grand.

New comment by hatradiowigwam in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

hatradiowigwam — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:44:44 +0000

JG Wentworth...this guy is stuck in other people's brain's too!? I thought that was a locally aired commercial when I was younger, but apparently that earworm went nationwide!