Hacker News: jan6

New comment by jan6 in "SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely"

jan6 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:33:58 +0000

I have finished the reading of the comment

New comment by jan6 in "SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely"

jan6 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:30:11 +0000

Finish It with Love & Interest But Undesired Stuff Therefore Exists Ramshackley

also known as FILIBUSTER - where you prioritize finishing stuff you like, pushing back the things you lack interest in, indefinitely ;P

New comment by jan6 in "KeyPress OSD – a unique OSD for screencasts; my first ever developed app"

jan6 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:49:14 +0000

perhaps worth pointing out the "some unique features" instead of being so vague about it ;)

New comment by jan6 in "Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu?"

jan6 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:23:14 +0000

it's a very subjective question, depending on stuff like how much you care to update the system, but I'd say:

you might like https://mxlinux.org/ which has seen growing popularity, it's based on debian stable, but with more up to date software, and ability to use newer kernels in case you need better hardware support for very new hardware

you might also just run normal debian, if you don't care for latest versions of everything... Debian is what Ubuntu is based on, and Ubuntu is very close copy of Debian, except Debian's release cycles are very long, so you'll be running on old software all the time, if you choose debian's stable branch...Ubuntu picks packages from debian's Testing branch, verifies it's good enough, and pushes them to ubuntu users, while debian stable is trying to be "super ultra mega stable", so it takes a loong time until everything's sufficiently tested...but using debian's testing branch is pretty fine (unstable is often fine, but might break sometimes)

and another contender: I feel like OpenSUSE is criminally underrated... as they get their money from the enterprise side of things (paid support for linux servers, etc, much like red hat and others), they don't have any reason to mess with what works, and they've been around for like, over a decade also, I forget how long, but a looong time... it would be a bit different, though, using RPMs instead of DEBs, and such, but one very useful feature is, they have builtin YaST control panel which allows you to, either GUI or TUI interface, do a lot of common tasks, without having...

New comment by jan6 in "Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?"

jan6 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:04:44 +0000

"crazy old" likely has years and years of people documenting all the workarounds and hacks that need to be done to achieve X while "crazy new" might not have that much cruft, but you'll be stuck trying to figure it out by pretty much alone

but of course it also depends on how clever the people beforehand have been, is it stuff tied to impossible knots that cross over 5 parallel dimensions, where nobody knows what it does or how it's doing it, just that "it somehow works, so we don't touch it, that guy was a wizard", or is it just layers of faith held together with duct tape and rope, where people tried to fix stuff over years, throwing in patches that "probably should help, I think, maybe", which could be condensed into less than a third of the size, when rewritten...

New comment by jan6 in "Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs?"

jan6 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:55:10 +0000

I'd think it probably just splits to two groups: 1) IT is critical, therefore we'll use modern tech that makes it more reliable or better, VS 2) Meh, It Works™, so why change it? We've got better things to do than figure out the latest pointless tech...(especially the case at smaller places, where there's less budget for the invisible backend machinery)

New comment by jan6 in "Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server"

jan6 — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 23:25:08 +0000

I will say, I WOULD absolutely love it, if it weren't for the little problem...that...I can't "just add to the zip"...because for whatever reason, it ruins the special setup... on windows, 7zip and windows explorer's builtin zip stuff refuse to modify it, as if it was corrupted (understandable), but explorer can view it, on linux, zip (apparently info-zip 3.0 according to the version) can add to it just fine, but ruins the special properties, on linux it just spawns the debug gdb with "no symbol table loaded" and no register or assembly data, and on windows it's either wrong format, or `check failed: 0x1 == 0x0 (32)` so also broken... I definitely love the idea of this, and the APE in general, and it works as-is, but modification seems impossible to me...changing to .zip doesn't change the breakage

anyone else had luck with adding stuff to it? is it just me? or is it like "it works with openbsd zip command only"?

New comment by jan6 in "Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)"

jan6 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:59:23 +0000

I mean, it's not hard to test that ;) firefox has a builtin offline mode, for example

New comment by jan6 in "Show HN: A usable eBook reader inside a browser (azw3, mobi, ePub, pdf)"

jan6 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:53:59 +0000

seems to be fine on my end?

New comment by jan6 in "Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (2008)"

jan6 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:12:28 +0000

I'd upvote thrice if I could ;) there's so many ways to utilize ternary, on different levels, you could use this kind of ternary hardware serialisation as an addon to normal binary stuff, not only base-3 computing, for example if -1 is the "empty" then I'd imagine it'd make it trivial to interface with, and emulate binary systems (so a ternary cpu would not need take a hit for binary emulation, only the architecture), which could be the gateway to get people interested in it initially, without needing 100% new everything, etc... just my uneducated guess tho...

New comment by jan6 in "WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history"

jan6 — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:17:59 +0000

because windows has no concept of an executable bit, so a rename could make it runnable? or a benign looking program has a built-in interpreter run code from external file?

New comment by jan6 in "Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter"

jan6 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:09:34 +0000

uninformed guess: every commit is a version bump, every push to master is a major version bump?

New comment by jan6 in "Show HN: Sqwok – A low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit and Twitter"

jan6 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:03:41 +0000

I think the site probably just died because it couldn't handle HN storming in to all the chats ;p

New comment by jan6 in "Building Your Color Palette"

jan6 — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:08:57 +0000

I think you mean grayscale, not black and white? VERY different things, black and white is strictly 2 colors, grayscale is any gray shade

New comment by jan6 in "1MB Club"

jan6 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 06:18:31 +0000

they are LARGELY useful... they do what they say on the tin, at least unless you visit some super agressive site which uses anti-adblock, but, then again you can conf up an anti-anti-adblock ;)

New comment by jan6 in "1MB Club"

jan6 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 04:51:00 +0000

more the fault of the site devs for not using css media queries, or svg ;p

New comment by jan6 in "1MB Club"

jan6 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 04:50:03 +0000

I imagine it should be pretty easy with javascript to set up dummy images, and replace them... probably also doable in pure css, just make them a block element or something, with a set size...

New comment by jan6 in "Localisation is too hard for Gmail"

jan6 — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:45:52 +0000

I especially hate the way gnu utils treat character groups like [:alnum:] which, if you have utf8 version of a locale, matches characters in ANY unicode language set... so if you, say, grep for numbers in /dev/urandom with a shell script, you can end up with, say, some characters that are technically numbers but in a totally different language, say, arabic, or hebrew...

New comment by jan6 in "Localisation is too hard for Gmail"

jan6 — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:39:39 +0000

well, gnome creates folders in whatever language you installed with, tho it can translate the file manager's sidebar items, I think... so a change of locale means you'd still have the old dir left, and show as old name everywhere except the special shortcuts

New comment by jan6 in "What happened to Firefox Send?"

jan6 — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:17:35 +0000

I've never had any such problems in my life with FF... not even when opening over a thousand tabs (of course not all active at the same time, lol)... sux they removed actually useful extention format, but otherwise it's great, even if it's only on google's and cloudflare's life support, pretty much...