Hacker News: itsmartapuntocm

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

itsmartapuntocm — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:49:39 +0000

Some implementations, like GoToSocial, do support importing posts from another instance.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

itsmartapuntocm — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:01:00 +0000

No these aren’t optical sensors like those, they’re full blown cameras.

Cobb County at least on their website says they use camera sensors as well as buried induction loops.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

itsmartapuntocm — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:00:44 +0000

I see them everywhere in Metro Atlanta. You can tell because there’s what looks like a little camera above each direction facing traffic light.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

itsmartapuntocm — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:04:31 +0000

They’re extremely common in the U.S. now.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data"

itsmartapuntocm — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:04:14 +0000

This was the reason they built such an extensive application compatibility shim system into Windows 95. If a poorly coded application breaks on an OS upgrade, the user is going to blame Windows, not the application.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

itsmartapuntocm — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:52:25 +0000

Good thing Sweden isn’t selling jets to Cambodia then.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp"

itsmartapuntocm — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:10:32 +0000

As a fellow Hokie I'm just happy they aren't calling us Virginia Tech University.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Riding high in Germany on the world's oldest suspended railway"

itsmartapuntocm — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:46:54 +0000

Bangkok changed the plans of its two most recent transit lines (Yellow and Pink) from standard rail to monorail for the cost savings - since they're completely elevated. I guess they solved the evacuation issue by making the space between the two rails a solid platform.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

itsmartapuntocm — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:36:15 +0000

I believe King Rama IX was not technically a U.S. citizen because his parents were considered foreign diplomats. In any case he never tried to claim citizenship and was only ever considered Thai.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft"

itsmartapuntocm — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:21:37 +0000

I’ve been watching ReactOS development for years and and progress is slow but steady. I’m excited for the point where it will be fully usable as a drop in replacement for old Windows software.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic"

itsmartapuntocm — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:10:50 +0000

It’s all by design. Car dependent suburbs with no transit access make it easier to keep “undesirables” out of your neck of the woods.

Robert Moses infamously made great use of infrastructure and urban planning to reinforce redlining.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator"

itsmartapuntocm — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:05:15 +0000

Are there any advantages to BasiliskII/SheepShaver these days? Seems like QEMU has caught up on the Macintosh emulation side for both 68k and PPC. The only hole is early Macs which Minivmac handles quite well.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (2023)"

itsmartapuntocm — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:58:24 +0000

"If you're building a skyscraper out of reinforced concrete, the only way for it to be stable is to design it in the shape of a pyramid."

Except the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur are standard supertalls built out of reinforced concrete?

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Linux as co-operative Windows process (2017)"

itsmartapuntocm — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:49:20 +0000

Pretty sure it was tongue in cheek.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Facebook ban on discussing Linux?"

itsmartapuntocm — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:02:51 +0000

I hope that’s the case. It’s certainly a lot less chilling than intentional censorship.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "Facebook ban on discussing Linux?"

itsmartapuntocm — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:38:00 +0000

Facebook explicitly told them that Linux was remaining on their cybersecurity filter.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "VirtualBox 7.1 Beta: Modernized GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing"

itsmartapuntocm — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:24:19 +0000

Only reason I'd use it over QEMU/KVM is that it has 3D acceleration for Windows guests.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5"

itsmartapuntocm — Thu, 30 May 2024 18:24:00 +0000

Same. Had an Xbox One last generation and I'm not fully gaming on the Steam Deck. The "good enough" performance at the huge benefit of open platform and portability is just what I need.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "A BSD person tries Alpine Linux"

itsmartapuntocm — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:37:16 +0000

Slackware is the happy medium I've found between BSD and Linux. It's unashamedly unix-like and uncomplicated, and has its own rich ports tree through Slackbuilds.

New comment by itsmartapuntocm in "America is divided over major efforts to rewrite child labor laws"

itsmartapuntocm — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 01:37:01 +0000

If they can't afford it, why do they keep turning down federal money that will let them do exactly that?