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New comment by iamtedd in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

iamtedd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:20:33 +0000

There is a gender-indeterminate alternative: people.

Using "man" to refer to all people stopped being popular last century.

New comment by iamtedd in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

iamtedd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:13:42 +0000

Only men?

New comment by iamtedd in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

iamtedd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:02:36 +0000

Is this long-form /r/linkedinlunatics?

New comment by iamtedd in "Google changes its search box"

iamtedd — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:19:00 +0000

Real-world Prisoner's Dilemma.

New comment by iamtedd in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

iamtedd — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:03:05 +0000

Twelve years later, if there's still so much misconception about /dev/(u)random, has the man page been fixed?

Edit: can't count.

New comment by iamtedd in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

iamtedd — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:58:53 +0000

That was hard to tell where the additional commentary on the fact ended and the next myth started.

New comment by iamtedd in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

iamtedd — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:01:08 +0000

Yeah requires a free Bluetooth radio and has a bit of setup, but in my opinion, it's well worth it to not be reliant on Android or iPhone, which has always given me problems.

New comment by iamtedd in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

iamtedd — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:58:42 +0000

> Now if home assistant could get thread network join*ng working without an android phone with a google account

There is already a way to do this. It's fiddly, but not by much. Once set up it's a much better experience, though.

https://www.matteralpha.com/how-to/how-to-use-home-assistant...

New comment by iamtedd in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

iamtedd — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:25:31 +0000

I can tell you don't actually know what goes on on a dairy farm.

New comment by iamtedd in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

iamtedd — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:46:49 +0000

To misquote Douglas Adams:

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what Kubernetes is for and how it works, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

New comment by iamtedd in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

iamtedd — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:57:12 +0000

11 years of mandatory telemetry in Windows, and it still takes a huge amount of noise from users and journalists online over a long time for Microsoft to notice and finally make change. What good is the fucking telemetry then? Why can I still not turn it off?

New comment by iamtedd in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

iamtedd — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:45:58 +0000

You can disable the YouTube app's handler for YouTube URLs. In the app info, open by default. I haven't tried it, but presumably, all YouTube URLs will then open in your browser.

New comment by iamtedd in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

iamtedd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:43:15 +0000

In all these nostalgic retrospectives, I never read how the zip drive can achieve 100x or more capacity than the floppy. What is the engineering feat that allowed this? There's one paragraph in Wikipedia that says the heads fly across the disk like a hard drive. OK, how did they manage that while the disk isn't sealed? Is that all it took?

Similarly, articles just gloss right over the "click of death" without any technical explanation of what goes wrong. Why were these drives and/or media so prone to failure?

There's nothing new in this article.

New comment by iamtedd in "The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces"

iamtedd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:26:18 +0000

If I were an epileptic, I would appreciate seeing the warning before I buy the game, not once I've launched it. Which, by the way, invalidates Sony's return policy.

New comment by iamtedd in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

iamtedd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:47:31 +0000

That's interesting. Do you have further reading? I've seen AFACT v iiNet, but that doesn't look to be the source of "cost of renting", just that the ISP isn't responsible for their users.

New comment by iamtedd in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"

iamtedd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:34:19 +0000

> The email is optional and only if you want to see the calibration curve and the question breakdown sent to you.

That still doesn't make sense. Why can't it just be shown on the page?

New comment by iamtedd in "Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating"

iamtedd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:36:14 +0000

Why do I need to sign up to get the results? Why couldn't it just be on the page?

New comment by iamtedd in "Show HN: M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown"

iamtedd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:55:24 +0000

Same with swiping up.

New comment by iamtedd in "Death to Scroll Fade"

iamtedd — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:25:20 +0000

Replying to the wrong person and trying to replace a phrase that wasn't used. Bravo, you take the cake for low effort post.

New comment by iamtedd in "Your phone is an entire computer"

iamtedd — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:24:55 +0000

I doubt that's the issue. Phones already have a baseband processor and OS in control of the modem. Also evidence if viability is all the Windows laptops with WWAN.