Hacker News: jabroni_salad

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

jabroni_salad — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:10:56 +0000

It would be nice if that was all they were, but evidently a software update can render the fridge unable to run, so it is clearly much more. These things have transitioned from IT to OT.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "iPhone Duo"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:00:47 +0000

The fedex driver that delivers to my office is still maining one of these. Its so cool.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "iPhone Duo"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:57:48 +0000

My z fold 8 is actually smaller than my old Xperia Z 3 Compact despite technically having a bigger screen. I would buy a device this size that doesnt unfold, even.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:34:11 +0000

I checked their site and it looks like a write-up hasnt appeared yet. They did a good one for their GPU black market story so hopefully they didnt just forget :)

New comment by jabroni_salad in "There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:26:07 +0000

Fandom also refused to give back the wowwiki.com domain. A mistake to ever let them manage it.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Audacity 4.0"

jabroni_salad — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:43:50 +0000

there is also the janko keyboard. It looks a little scary but you can play in any key using the same hand shape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:32:40 +0000

Looking at TFA, they are moving it to a venue where selling off the gold can happen quickly. This kind of thing was not necessary for the USA's approach to funding the War on Terror because we decided on a really innovative combo of Taking On Debt and also Just Not Accounting For Things which will surely have no consequence later on.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Playa Phone"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:01:18 +0000

If your impression is from social media, you will mainly be seeing those who love posting themselves on social media.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:29:16 +0000

this domain doesnt have an mx record at all

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:40:21 +0000

I feel like it is actually payment pages where I see these kinds of bouncers the most, though. click fraud is inefficient, but payment fraud can actually ruin a business.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:25:38 +0000

Advertisers should be grateful I even skimmed the subject line

New comment by jabroni_salad in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:35:15 +0000

It's only anecdotal but for every site that rejects my personal domain they accept a fastmail.com alias just fine.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:34:12 +0000

the subdomain addressing is interesting but not really portable. Personally I only use it for things that I would be okay using a 10minutemail for, and I use plus addressing for anything that would be more permanent.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "My Ten Years in No Man's Sky"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:13:23 +0000

Im having trouble zooming on the image but I'm pretty sure benq has the only 3:2 desktop display on the market that isn't a graphics tablet.

You should also look at the LG Dualup if this kinda thing interests you.

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:47 +0000

Yes, and put a search bar that loses focus to some piece of crap I dont care about after I enter 3 characters, and some hotkeys that navigate me to a different page when I accidentally activate them because I thought I was going to put text in the search field.

youtube people I know you are in here. Fix your stupid PIP thing.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

jabroni_salad — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:27:48 +0000

At some point facebook has switched gears to be more about public/semipublic forums and marketplace. If you wanted the old facebook that was for your immediate family/friends/acquaintances then it isnt really relevant anymore compared to group texts.

I just gave FB a few screenlengths of scrolling. There was one post from a family member and about 20 from people I am not friends with and groups I do not follow. I used to use an extension to get rid of that extra stuff (Purity) but at some point I stopped fighting it and stopped visiting too.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

jabroni_salad — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:03:50 +0000

I was gonna say, this is every time the gang feels like firing up a round of Uno.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Elevators"

jabroni_salad — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:56:47 +0000

This was fun to read and play with but I'd like to see it with different usage patterns, too.

The simulator seems to have passengers spawning on a random floor and then transiting to a different random floor. But for where I work, the trips are pretty much always from the lobby to a floor, or from a floor to the lobby. Nobody goes inbetween floors except maybe the cleaners.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "KOReader"

jabroni_salad — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:03:40 +0000

I have no idea but users seem to like it despite all the ghosting.

The reason I use koreader is because it can sync my progress on disparate devices. I have a normal sized kobo and also a phone sized viwoods eink device.

New comment by jabroni_salad in "Ask HN: Why is every company encorporating AI everywhere?"

jabroni_salad — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:55:01 +0000

I consult on the topic of technology for non-technology companies (think like a hydraulic piston manufacturer or something. They consume software in order to create something else.)

Basically if the technical leaders at such companies fail to shoehorn AI in somewhere, they will have to find a way to demonstrate to their board of directors that they are keeping up to date and not allowing the business to settle in to abandonware. The guys selling the software also have a similar problem -- industrial abandonware whose development team was laid off 12 years ago is for sale right now and you have to be careful not to accidentally spend a million dollars on it. Something that has AI bolted on, even in an insignificant capacity, is more likely to have present day relevance.