Hacker News: jerbearito

New comment by jerbearito in "Ask.com has closed"

jerbearito — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:12:40 +0000

WOW. 12 year old me would've loved this.

New comment by jerbearito in "The race to build the next WordPress"

jerbearito — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:45:37 +0000

This is great. I've considered doing the same thing. After all, I've always used em dashes in my writing, so I suppose all my blog posts are AI-generated as well.

New comment by jerbearito in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

jerbearito — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:55:50 +0000

Nice setup. I keep a FireWire card in my PC for digitizing VHS tapes using a Canon HV20 and a VCR. I need to sit down and finish the project (and sooner than later with VHS media breaking down).

> Linux will likely drop support for IEEE 1394 in 2029

Good to know!

New comment by jerbearito in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

jerbearito — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:26:55 +0000

That's a great idea. It would be neat if you could also cast media to it somehow.

New comment by jerbearito in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

jerbearito — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:26:01 +0000

These personal collections are always neat to see. I'd like to start my own (beyond scraps in my local Pictures folder) but I'm not sure how to structure it. I might just build a grid of tagged/categorized media, like a chaotic memory palace.

New comment by jerbearito in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

jerbearito — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:21:59 +0000

Seeing this a bit late. I take your point and yes, that's my worldview. Crocker does not say it's both. Sorry I'm so late to reply.

New comment by jerbearito in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

jerbearito — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:54:57 +0000

> "I don’t need to know anything about the domain you’re working in to know better than you"

This frustates me to no end. Is it just an example of the Dunning–Kruger effect?

New comment by jerbearito in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

jerbearito — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:52:21 +0000

Agreed, but I see this in every industry. And though it's certainly arrogant on some level, I think of it in a more positive light: people are generally optimistic and want to solve problems.

My grandfather had a rule at his business for 55-ish years: we welcome your ideas and suggestions, but not for the first year. You spend that time learning our processes, decisions behind them, pain points, areas that need improvement, etc. You also spend that time doing the work and hearing from your colleagues. Then you can (hopefully) make informed suggestions. That's not possible in every situation, but I like the intent.

New comment by jerbearito in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

jerbearito — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:13:43 +0000

Yes, but it's also both. Everyone should manage their own feelings and exchange information both efficiently and respectfully.

New comment by jerbearito in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

jerbearito — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:29:46 +0000

This comment and OP's feed reader suggestion are making me look into Thunderbird for the first time in 17-ish years!

New comment by jerbearito in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

jerbearito — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:28:09 +0000

> and it’s honestly quite great. As opposed to it not honestly being great, which if true, would kind of defeat the point of writing this post

Well I, for one, find the honesty refreshing.

Someone else mentioned Miniflux, which I've been testing for a few weeks on a local, tailscale-connected debian box. I really like it so far, with only a few minor complaints. It seems to embrace Dave Winer’s "river of news" idea that the author mentions. When I open my Miniflux homepage, I see the latest posts and I'm not distracted by older posts that I might not be concerned about.

That said, I categorize my feeds and treat the categories differently. Dev/design/DIY -- I tend to read all/most of it.

New comment by jerbearito in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

jerbearito — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:21:11 +0000

I've wanted to try Miniflux for a long time, so a few weeks ago I set it up on a headless debian box I have running for some homelab services. That's part of my Tailscale network, so I was able to immediately start testing on desktop, phone, etc. It's great!

I might take a stab at customizing the UI a bit. I like that it's opinionated but pretty bare-bones visually out of the box.

New comment by jerbearito in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

jerbearito — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:54:58 +0000

+1 for Kagi. It's been my daily driver for 2.5 years and I have no complaints.

New comment by jerbearito in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

jerbearito — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:38:24 +0000

That's hilarious! I hope y'all cleared up the confusion quickly.

New comment by jerbearito in "enclose.horse"

jerbearito — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:07:10 +0000

Very fun

New comment by jerbearito in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

jerbearito — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:02:00 +0000

Thanks for your assessment. I hope your judgement is useful to the author and their family.

New comment by jerbearito in "Blender 5.0"

jerbearito — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:49:28 +0000

> until Blender is battle-proven to the same degree

New comment by jerbearito in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

jerbearito — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 02:21:25 +0000

This feels like an arbitrary level of abstraction for how much control a user should have. When you buy a phone, you're buying a combination of components designed and paired for that manufacturer's software. Can the user potentially replace that software? Sure, but should they be expected to?

If they just wanted hardware, they could buy their own and piece something together, if we're exploring those kinds of hypotheticals. But buying an Apple or Android device is a different choice and I think, within that context, a user should be able to run the software they want.

New comment by jerbearito in "Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems"

jerbearito — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:07:50 +0000

> Amazon.com Inc is currently worth 2.4 billion dollars and the only reason is that most businesses insist on giving their customers the worst online experience possible

Huh?

New comment by jerbearito in "Slow"

jerbearito — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:08:41 +0000

> just not wanting to acknowledge that they did it purposefully

So the punchline of the urban legend is in question? The part that makes it so interesting? Not sure that qualifies as 'pedantic hair splitting'.