Hacker News: jessikat

New comment by jessikat in "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"

jessikat — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:35:17 +0000

Feel free to reach out, I will be happy to try help with these issues :)

New comment by jessikat in "Apple removes gay dating apps from Chinese App Store at Beijing's request"

jessikat — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:18:45 +0000

This is why "side loading" needs to be normalised as a completely regular form of app installation. Far more resistant to censorship than relying on profit driven corporations "fighting" on our behalf when it suits them.

New comment by jessikat in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

jessikat — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:57:12 +0000

Except they do. One just has to look at the inability to keep JPEG-XL mainlined in Chromium. Sure, some forks still have JPEG-XL, but it's effectively gone at this point.

New comment by jessikat in "Peter Jackson-backed biotech company sets its "de-extinction" sights on NZ Moa"

jessikat — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:50:44 +0000

The Haast Eagle would be another interesting de-extinction... and preyed on Moa :)

New comment by jessikat in "Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies"

jessikat — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:15:16 +0000

It's kind of ridiculous that the US has held onto pennies for this long. New Zealand phased out our 5 cent coins back in 2006, approximately 3 US pennies worth at present.

New comment by jessikat in "Microsoft keyboard users are so devastated after discontinuation of accessories"

jessikat — Sun, 28 May 2023 17:32:43 +0000

I'm gutted; I absolutely love the Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard, especially with the optional slightly inverted slope, it's even more comfortable than previous ergonomic keyboard models. And I've been exclusively using Microsoft ergonomic keyboards for over 20 years, started in my late teens. Tempted to buy a second Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard as a backup for when this keyboard eventually dies, hopefully not for a long, long time!

New comment by jessikat in "Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more"

jessikat — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:51:47 +0000

I'm kind of surprised that New Zealand isn't available when Australia is. We tend to share a lot of regulatory standards and such.

New comment by jessikat in "Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to RAM and Wakes Up Again"

jessikat — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:40:30 +0000

I've also heard of a trick of integrating WoL with DNS, where if the server requests a lookup for a local IP, it'd send WoL packets to the destination. You'd probably just need to set the TTL for the server's IP very low so that it doesn't get cached.

New comment by jessikat in "JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization"

jessikat — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:00:37 +0000

If the vscode extension did it all locally, I'd 100% install in an instant!

New comment by jessikat in "Ask HN: What is it like developing and deploying ASP.NET on Linux?"

jessikat — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:42:15 +0000

I've had zero issues deploying .Net on Linux, whilst developing in Windows. The docker support is really good, if you want to go that way too, and didn't need any platform-specific shenanigans to get working.

New comment by jessikat in "Don't Pickle Your Data"

jessikat — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:46:31 +0000

JSON really is a terrible serialization format. Even JavaScript can't safely deserialize JSON without silent data corruption. I've had to stringify numbers because of JavaScript, and there were no errors. Perhaps that's the fault of JavaScript, but I find the lack of encoding the numerical storage type to be a bug rather than a feature.

New comment by jessikat in "Sshfs Is Orphaned"

jessikat — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:20:47 +0000

I use winfsp/sshfs-win to remotely access my Haiku system, which works extremely well.

New comment by jessikat in "Ask HN: What is your Git commit/push flow?"

jessikat — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:05:20 +0000

I use branches gratuitously, and push to my forks regularly as you do, but I also do interactive rebases and edits when preparing to push to upstream to clean up my mess.

New comment by jessikat in "Show HN: What The Fake: Guess which headline is real?"

jessikat — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:52:09 +0000

Ah yeah, I got bit by that too! Haha

New comment by jessikat in "Ask HN: Don't you think DuckDuckGo's name should change?"

jessikat — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 04:43:39 +0000

I think it's neat, and uh... what, type it in? Hahaha, sorry :p

New comment by jessikat in "A Small Ode to the CRT"

jessikat — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 02:55:39 +0000

Have to say that at least it was simpler to work with than digital displays as a user. I still have trouble with digital displays, EDID, getting __nothing__ when a signal is out of range, whereas you might get something you can decipher from a CRT. Displays that don't wake up, displays that blink off and on, and all sorts of other timing issues and such. It can certainly be a mess for drivers too, esp. in the hobby OS space.

New comment by jessikat in "Resurrecting the old Wordle for procrastinators"

jessikat — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:34:44 +0000

It allowed cunts as a guess today :p

New comment by jessikat in "Wordle Now Redirects to NYT"

jessikat — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:07:19 +0000

I solved one the other week with repeated letters, answer was elder.

New comment by jessikat in "Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube"

jessikat — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:32:45 +0000

It's basically the digital equivalent of body shaming. And this sort of thing will feed into biased AI algorithms, and shape the world of "acceptable media" in the years to come. It may seem harmless on the surface, but the ramifications run deep.

New comment by jessikat in "Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)"

jessikat — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 10:06:41 +0000

They did not do this out of generosity or good will to small businesses. They did this for the PR, knowing that they're still rolling in the cash like Scrooge McDuck from all the years they've been milking it, and will continue to milk it, whilst looking like they're giving a handout. And it honestly looked like it worked from the comments of people defending their stance.