Hacker News: ikidd

New comment by ikidd in "Bye, Bye GitHub"

ikidd — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:42:54 +0000

Forgejo has Runners that you can install on another server and register with Forgejo Actions. There might be 3rd party Runners you can pay to use, I've just run my own on a hardened VM.

New comment by ikidd in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

ikidd — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:35:13 +0000

And they've hobble Fable and Opus so hard with their safety guardrails, I ask innocuous questions and tasks and they get flagged so often I gave up on it. I can get all the work I need done in GPT5.5 or 5.6 without the hassle.

I just kept a $20 plan going for use on my phone.

New comment by ikidd in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

ikidd — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:12:27 +0000

Actually, it wasn't unreasonable. If the guy caused the damage while picking up a sonde, to know who's sonde it was would help identify the culprit.

New comment by ikidd in "Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data"

ikidd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:48:51 +0000

This is so much their own damn fault. I have no idea what level of utter incompetency it takes to think that a cloud storage system is a safe way to store the only copy of your data. And as you said, on top of that all the warning signs were there that you need to take a backup right away.

Holy hell, I wanted to see them get this suit dismissed just to rub it into their faces what mindless idiots were in charge of this fiasco.

New comment by ikidd in "Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data"

ikidd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:38:28 +0000

This station was clearing over a million dollars after expenses, and they couldn't be arsed to take a backup of their data on this cloud service. I have a hard time feeling much sympathy for them. And now Iron Mountain has to referee the data being recovered without handing over others data in the process.

The utter cluelessness all around from start to finish is impressive.

New comment by ikidd in "New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog"

ikidd — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:21:04 +0000

Your approximate location is automatically determined by cell tower triangulation and fed to emergency services when you call. It's very common now.

New comment by ikidd in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

ikidd — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:31:19 +0000

Tariffs I'm guessing. A fencepost in Canada is CAD$8 so $6. A roll of barbwire is US$70.

See UFA.com for Canadian prices. Keep in mind, there's a lot of variance in what people prefer to use, I'm just giving what I've always used and while prices have gone up, it sure hasn't gone up 2.5X here.

New comment by ikidd in "Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication"

ikidd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:49:20 +0000

There's ads?

New comment by ikidd in "Show HN: I created a project management system"

ikidd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:35:22 +0000

Wow, what a ignorant response to someone that was giving you genuine feedback.

Do better.

New comment by ikidd in "ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification"

ikidd — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:11:32 +0000

HAM-is-not-ham

And your example must be one of those weirdos on 80m. What a pack of crazies.

New comment by ikidd in "Zitron: "Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie" on AI [video]"

ikidd — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:57:24 +0000

I don't think Zitron has been right about anything in the last 5 years. But he talks a good talk.

New comment by ikidd in "Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago"

ikidd — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:44:45 +0000

Did they have writing and kept records that we've found? That's the "recorded" part.

New comment by ikidd in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5"

ikidd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:59:35 +0000

Hermes seems to pick up after a stoppage. At least I've never had to push it again, it might just take a long time to finish a task and then I'll see the messages in the transcript.

New comment by ikidd in "Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network"

ikidd — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:37:03 +0000

Exactly like all the "community-scripts" that were started by a fellow that passed away a couple years ago.

I've been railing against the install one-liners for years to obviously poor effect.

New comment by ikidd in "Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B"

ikidd — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:18:53 +0000

Nothing about this bubble makes sense. Why should this?

New comment by ikidd in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

ikidd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:19:03 +0000

You could exhaust Windows networking or filesystem features in an afternoon. Linux could give you a career.

I spent 20 years supporting Windows server and server applications like Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, etc, etc, and when I left that industry and got back to Linux, I was absolutely floored about what I had been missing. No wonder Windows had it's lunch eaten in virtually every facet by Linux server applications.

New comment by ikidd in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

ikidd — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:11:43 +0000

I've gotten to the point that if you're trying to show me something and I see you're using Windows, I just assume you're an unserious person and it's worthless.

All the major tools for advanced work are Linux-based, and there's maybe a Windows version, but it's probably a kludge like Docker Desktop.

New comment by ikidd in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

ikidd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:35:10 +0000

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New comment by ikidd in "Umuganda"

ikidd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:58:13 +0000

Eek, that doesn't have pleasant past.

New comment by ikidd in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

ikidd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:43:38 +0000

>Businesses don’t operate based on revenue

Well, you have that right. But apparently they IPO based on even less.