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New comment by jazz_from_hell in "What is the modern equivalent of Google Groups?"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:26:12 +0000

Yeah that might be a good selling point for Discord. So far I haven’t really felt at home in Discord’s UI paradigm, but I also haven’t found any ”must-have” communities there either (for my tastes).

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "What is the modern equivalent of Google Groups?"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:01:24 +0000

I mainly hang out in two Slack communities, both quite high-volume. The first one is public but regional (not in English), the other one is invite-only but quite big.

For people who want a nice place to hang out online, I can warmly recommend starting a Slack (”tenant”?). I’m kinda surprised that more people don’t try this. Mattermost or Discord might work too, but IMHO Slack still has the best UI for this. (The shortened retention sucks of course, but it’s still very useful.)

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "What is the modern equivalent of Google Groups?"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:20:57 +0000

In general, the best online conversations I read/participate in take place on Slack.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:44:10 +0000

It’s not about the the browser. As others have pointed out, in order to use these sites without getting messages like “please upgrade your Adobe Flash plugin”, one needs to use an ad-blocker such as uBlock Origin.

I like uBlock Origin but these anti-patterns really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:37:04 +0000

Is that in the US? ISPs seems to be quite weird over there (:

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:24:24 +0000

Yeah that sucks. The streaming sites are often user-hostile. And their selection of quality movies is not terribly impressive.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:19:59 +0000

Interesting! How does that work? i.e. where does Qbittorrent get the results from? Would be cool if that could be done outside of Qbittorrent (for those of us who uses other clients).

I usually browse torrent sites in incognito mode, where uBlock is not active. Perhaps I should just set up a new browser profile for that instead.

PS. OTOH, I’m not really shure why I should trust a site that sends me away to other sites when I click on links. Talk about dark pattern…

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:18:40 +0000

Yep. And that’s not really a selling point in favour of the convenience of torrents…

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:35:34 +0000

Torrenting definitely is possible. But based on my own experiences I would definitely not call it convenient. Still very useful though, since there are lots of older movies that are not available on streaming (especially for us living outside of the US).

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:32:53 +0000

I’m not so sure about that.

According to [0] the domain x1337x·eu should be a real mirror, and it definitely has ads.

[0] https://1337x-to.github.io/domains

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old"

jazz_from_hell — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:14:08 +0000

Well, sure. But it’s very hard these days to find torrents without jumping through lots of nasty hoops. Especially now that RARBG has ceased to operate.

The other day I was trying to download Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I went to “1337x” but I just kept getting ads wherever I clicked. Yuck. The whole experience just felt humiliating. In the end I just opened Apple’s “TV” app and bought the movie for $9 instead. Hopefully a (small) portion of that will go to the funding of new great movies. (Well, the odds for that might be high, but one can still dream…)

With that said, if anyone knows of any decent trackers out there, feel free to get in touch. (My e-mail is in my profile.)

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Launch HN: Shimmer (YC S21) – ADHD coaching for adults"

jazz_from_hell — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 19:59:09 +0000

It’s entirely possibly to have ADHD and opt out of medication. If it’s appropriate or not is very individual though, probably not something we can settle on a message board.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: What do you do when you don't feel like working?"

jazz_from_hell — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:31:54 +0000

Meditate • Read HN • Read the newspaper (mostly online, sometimes on paper) • Read more about upcoming trends/best-practices/improvements stuff • Grab a coffe, either in the office kitchen or at some nice coffee shop • Discuss with people in Facebook/Slack groups • Chat with friends. Stuff like that.

I wish I would take more walks outside, but I don’t do it nearly as often as I should.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 03:30:45 +0000

Good question. I can see that being an issue in the US.

In my case, I actually work in IT rather than tech. Equity is never part of the deal. I think equity is much more common for US employees than it is for European.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:37:21 +0000

Ouch. There are definitely pitfalls along this path. And if the manager doesn’t understand what the deal implies I’m sure it can be very hard and stressful. Too bad it didn’t work out for your wife.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:21:57 +0000

I can understand why you feel that way. But many companies simply doesn’t want to talk to people who wants to work part-time. (As in ”don’t call us, we’ll call you”.) So even if it might seem pushy to negotiate like that, at least to me it’s understandable.

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:05:40 +0000

Wow. Sounds pretty great. I’ve generally thought of startups as quite stressful work places – might not be the case for all of them though?

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:04:12 +0000

Cool!

I’ve heard about Ferriss book but haven’t read it. Is it good?

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:02:00 +0000

Cool! Sounds like a good deal.

Having an understanding manager really helps I guess.

I also have three kids so I know the struggle :)

New comment by jazz_from_hell in "Ask HN: Working part-time in tech?"

jazz_from_hell — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 19:56:34 +0000

Cool! How does one find such a great employer? ;-)