Hacker News: headwayoldest

New comment by headwayoldest in "BBEdit 16"

headwayoldest — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:01:47 +0000

I have used and loved Barebones stuff in the past, but strikes me as odd they're still advertising Yojimbo on their main page. It was fantastic, but has been abandoned for quite some time.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

headwayoldest — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:54:21 +0000

As soon as "don't be evil" became a topic for debate it was over, if you're surprised you haven't been paying attention.

New comment by headwayoldest in ""Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says"

headwayoldest — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:41:06 +0000

I don't think we really need those quotes. Broadcom bought an existing, successful company, and immediately skyrocketed the price of their most used commercial offering.

You don't need a degree in business to surmise that short term profits will also skyrocket but you will eventually lose the market.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Ubiquiti SFP Wizard"

headwayoldest — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:17:38 +0000

For those outside the IT/networking realms, SFP use uniform connectors for both the networking device and the fiber cable, but the major vendors (Cisco and friends) have used firmware flags and settings to provide vendor lock-in for at least the last 15 years.

It used to be that in the event of a major outage or hardware failure you would need to issue additional debug commands to the effect of "I know this isn't your approved SFP but please just try it," if you were trying to replace a first party SFP with a third party one. TAC would more or less laugh at you and hang up if you sought support.

I'm not sure if this product will _actually_ change any of that, but here's hoping.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Building the mouse Logitech won't make"

headwayoldest — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:24:25 +0000

Logitech held out on moving some of their more niche products to USB-C until they were forced by the EU. I'm sure when the author _started_ their journey they had not released the Ergo S yet, looks like it came out September '24.

I also gave up on waiting for the Ergo S and grabbed a Kensington TB550. The name is awful, but the trackball is excellent.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes"

headwayoldest — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:42:21 +0000

Ah yes, the famous logic of Henry Ford. Pay union workers? Bad. Buy newspaper to run anti-semitic trash for eight years? Good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent

New comment by headwayoldest in "Krazam OS"

headwayoldest — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:07:09 +0000

Even odds on which one will still be going in 10 years time.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Nimble: A new columnar file format by Meta [video]"

headwayoldest — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:50:55 +0000

Yes, but before that he was helping Zordon and the Power Rangers.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106064/

New comment by headwayoldest in "The Reddits"

headwayoldest — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:40:14 +0000

I was an active and fairly early Reddit user for many years, but the brutal changes to satisfy financial goals drove me away as well.

I think it’s interesting to see a flagging platform with a user base that will consistently post and upvote “fuck spez” celebrated here as a success, but I suppose the only thing that matters at this level of discussion is the almighty dollar.

New comment by headwayoldest in "toastermuseum.com"

headwayoldest — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 02:51:52 +0000

Would love to see a “knob feel” category for these in addition to the visual observations.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Reddit Sans"

headwayoldest — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:27:57 +0000

I guess with less users and moderators they have more time to explore their hobbies over at reddit now.

New comment by headwayoldest in "8BitDo Micro"

headwayoldest — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:09:24 +0000

In my experience 8BitDo makes nice products, but given the audience I have to ask... did anyone else's hands preemptively cramp just looking at this thing?

New comment by headwayoldest in "macOS Sonoma is available today"

headwayoldest — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:39:36 +0000

Ultimately users will go where the package maintainers are. There are more people out there willing and able to write Ruby today than Perl (Fink) or TCL (MacPorts).

I'm sure someone will start a macOS package manager based on python and yum to signal the waning days of those technologies.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Double Commander – Changes in version 1.1.0"

headwayoldest — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:13:16 +0000

Another Mac native (though much older) choice is Path Finder, which I used and loved for years before Finder stopped sucking.

https://www.cocoatech.io

New comment by headwayoldest in "What's Hashing? (2022)"

headwayoldest — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:12:09 +0000

There are kennels in the states as well, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to run through a swamp with a bag of Franzia

New comment by headwayoldest in "uyuni – open-source configuration and infrastructure management"

headwayoldest — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 22:48:15 +0000

I understand the desire to flee Ansible before the IBM shittification completes, but anything based on Salt is not the way.

Needing a "master" node that can lose sync or orphan managed nodes it forgets about is a show stopper for any project with meaningful hardware churn.

New comment by headwayoldest in "1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year"

headwayoldest — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:21:26 +0000

I've been using 1Password since 2009 and I would suggest you try any and every alternative first before giving Agile Bits a dime.

New comment by headwayoldest in "The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark"

headwayoldest — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 02:04:15 +0000

Goodbye, Reddit.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports"

headwayoldest — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 02:56:54 +0000

So you're telling me there's a chance?

Warnings like these quickly hit the Prop 65 problem - the notices are so ubiquitous you go blind to them.

New comment by headwayoldest in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

headwayoldest — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:22:48 +0000

As someone who played Fallout 4 with mods, thank you very much!