Hacker News: jdfellow

New comment by jdfellow in "Never buy a .online domain"

jdfellow — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:17:50 +0000

Well, dang. I've used a .tech as my personal domain and email for some years now, and didn't know this was owned by an obnoxious registry.

New comment by jdfellow in "Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick"

jdfellow — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:55:10 +0000

I have an NX Mini (which isn't exactly the same as the regular NX line) which has a "1 inch" sensor and a 3-lens interchangeable system. With the 9mm fixed lens it's as pocketable as a phone, but with a flip-out screen, a real flash and otherwise much better quality. With the 9-27mm zoom lens it's even a reasonable portrait camera. I haven't found one of the 17mm f/1.8 lenses, they're pretty rare.

Anyway, I really like that little thing. With a C-mount lens adapter I can use surveillance camera lenses which is pretty fun.

New comment by jdfellow in ".well-known/avatar"

jdfellow — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:11:59 +0000

Yeah I'm not sure that the content negotiation would work very well if you're using a plain webserver or storage service to serve static content.

New comment by jdfellow in "We don't need a DAC on the ESP32-S3"

jdfellow — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:42:22 +0000

Isn't Delta-Sigma and PDM exactly how DSD works? In fact, I think Sony originally came up with DSD as an intermediate representation of PCM in one of their DACs and then Sony & Phillips got the harebrained idea to use it in SACD. That is to say, a simple DAC for DSD is just a capacitor functioning as a low-pass filter, without any other components.

New comment by jdfellow in "USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)"

jdfellow — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:22:04 +0000

I believe those are MCX. My Shure SE215 IEMs (earphones) use the same connector.

New comment by jdfellow in "Ardour 8.0"

jdfellow — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:01:39 +0000

There's also a distinct commercial DAW based on Ardour called Harrison Mixbus.

https://harrisonconsoles.com/product/mixbus/

New comment by jdfellow in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

jdfellow — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 15:33:52 +0000

There's a big old rules list[0], which I can never tell is satirical or not, that those road bike racers adhere to.

0: https://www.velominati.com/

New comment by jdfellow in "Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?"

jdfellow — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:00:45 +0000

Cornell CS 3110 - OCaml, lectures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLre5AT9Jn...

New comment by jdfellow in "Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing"

jdfellow — Tue, 02 May 2023 02:10:19 +0000

Well, it is based on Locust so there's at least some rhyme or reason to the name.

New comment by jdfellow in "Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost"

jdfellow — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:20:21 +0000

There's a long-standing convention of "golden age" meaning the first age, when an art came into its own. A "silver age" follows if there's a revolution in the art, often with some sort of decline between.

New comment by jdfellow in "Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (2022)"

jdfellow — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:26:06 +0000

Another old UNIX prior art is finger.

New comment by jdfellow in "Google Groups has been left to die"

jdfellow — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:29:16 +0000

Google Groups performed the classic embrace-extend-extinguish maneuver against USENET, by way of their acquisition of DejaNews and then implementing their own forum/mailing list interface on top if it.

But, I wonder how many communities that are using Google Groups would be suitably served by falling back to USENET. I suppose it would require some updates to both NNTP server software to be easier to administer (if you want to go that route), and especially NNTP client readers to be more modern and user-friendly.

New comment by jdfellow in "Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks"

jdfellow — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 17:24:35 +0000

If you have Spotify premium give https://getconcertmaster.com/ a try. It's a frontend for Spotify with additional cataloging features for classical recordings.

New comment by jdfellow in "Portugal proposes to end Golden Visas, curtail Airbnb rentals"

jdfellow — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 01:37:39 +0000

Portugal started to collapse, slowly, after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and it's just been one setback after another since.

New comment by jdfellow in "American drivers have a blinding headlight problem"

jdfellow — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:00:38 +0000

The federal EPA requires states to run emissions inspections in urban counties but leaves it up to the state for rural counties.

There's no federal requirement for safety inspections so that varies state to state.

New comment by jdfellow in "Multi-Account Containers"

jdfellow — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:59:24 +0000

I love containers but I've started to phase out using this extension and preferring Temporary Containers for most of my use cases.

New comment by jdfellow in "I almost bought a scanner"

jdfellow — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:08:46 +0000

Color film and photo paper is made with dyes that fade and shift over time. An inkjet print with pigments will last longer. Only monochrome silver metal film or paper will last indefinitely, and it's the gelatin layer that will last, some substrates including consumer-grade acetate film and most papers will degrade. The best archival format is silver on polyester film. Color can still be achieved by way of three exposures in RGB, similar to Technicolor.

New comment by jdfellow in "The FBI Identified a Tor User"

jdfellow — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:25:26 +0000

Wait, there's bills for search warrants, like in Brazil (the movie)?

New comment by jdfellow in "The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them"

jdfellow — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:08:03 +0000

You can also create free aliases on a completely different domain, and I think they have a plugin with 1Password to do this for each login you create.

New comment by jdfellow in "This is the year of the RSS reader?"

jdfellow — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:28:37 +0000

Gnus having NNTP and it's "nnrss" module means its my default newsreader.