Hacker News: jniles

New comment by jniles in "$3 ChromeOS Flex stick will revive old and outdated computers"

jniles — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:20:52 +0000

How did it go?

New comment by jniles in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

jniles — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:34:54 +0000

I understand this is tongue-in-cheek, but do you have an alternative/better proposal?

New comment by jniles in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

jniles — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:40:43 +0000

I am super curious how far this goes. If, hypothetically, I wore some sort of glasses that kept facial recognition from identifying and tracking me at my local grocery store, would that constitute a civil infringement in the future?

What about extensions that skip embedded ads in a YouTube video? Is that tortuous interference with the view counter that creators use to market their reach?

New comment by jniles in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

jniles — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:38:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing this link! I'd never heard of it before, and it is fascinating.

New comment by jniles in "I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)"

jniles — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:59:20 +0000

Giving a second shout out to pangolin. You can also manage a multi site set up quite easily with built in auth and without much command line foo. Super useful if you run something like proxmox and eany go spin up several services without too much configuration on each service to expose to the world. Really happy with pangolin.

New comment by jniles in "Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users"

jniles — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:45:40 +0000

In an employment context, do we consider the user to be the employer or the person using the computer? I would think it would be the device owner, which generally would be the employer.

If so, then I would think the previous statement about adblocking being opt-in would still hold. It is just that advertisers are trying to indivually track and monetize employees on company devices and time. On my work machines I am generally not allowed to run software that my employer does not approve, why should ads be treated differently?

New comment by jniles in "Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration"

jniles — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:25:59 +0000

Crowdstrike is a recent example that comes to mind. I don't see how paying for CrowdStrike made it more secure or reliable.

I would also argue that you could take all the $$ paying for proprietary software and contribute it to people who are making the open source software, making the reliance on "free" eyeballs less of an issue.

New comment by jniles in "Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies"

jniles — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:16:59 +0000

Just curious, but it sounds like this is the ideal use case for Do Not Track. Do you all use that as a signal to not track/remove nonessential cookies?

New comment by jniles in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

jniles — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 13:41:13 +0000

You didn't answer my question. Please outline how being white has lead to your suffering or your ancestors suffering. I am not saying they did not suffer - everyone does - but how did being white cause you or them to suffer?

So far, you haven't given any evidence of that, only called me racist.

New comment by jniles in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"

jniles — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:16:33 +0000

I am curious how you are suffering from not having a "white celebratation". I understand why there might want to be a protected space for certain groups that, up until recently, were systematically treated harmfully. Whites don't fall into that category. So, I don't understand how it harms you that you cannot have a white party. Can you explain what harms you suffer?

New comment by jniles in "Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

jniles — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:13:44 +0000

Not just them. Also FF mobile with UBO, and no email submission block for me.

New comment by jniles in "Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox users"

jniles — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:31:54 +0000

If that is the case, I wish they would just say that. Currently, it is written as a Rorschach test where each person sees the good or evil they want to in the changes.

Just say why and be done with it.

New comment by jniles in "Fish-delousing underwater laser (2018) [video]"

jniles — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:22:49 +0000

I would love to see more data on this. Their site makes some bold claims, but it is hard to know how to quantify the effectiveness of the laser treatment, How many units do you need per X fish? After how many hours/ days/ weeks does it take to reduce the parasites to X levels?

Not critiquing the technology, just hard to visualize as someone with no knowledge or experience in the field.

New comment by jniles in "Federal Trade Commission Launches Inquiry on Tech Censorship"

jniles — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:00:18 +0000

I wonder if signal.me links are still blocked on X.

New comment by jniles in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

jniles — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:55:03 +0000

By that logic, is the term Baptist or Hindu scientifically sound? Is the term string theory? Is the term working class ? What makes words or terminology scientifically sound that doesn't apply here?

It sounds like someone disagrees with the underlying identity that individuals ascribe themselves and now anyone who do research using these identities is censored. You don't have to endorse (or even fully understand) a phenomena to research it. Arguably those are some of the most interesting research questions.

New comment by jniles in "RamaLama"

jniles — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:55:04 +0000

It sounds like this project isn't addressing the user convenience aspect of ollama, but rather the developer convenience.

Hopefully both will be easy for users to play around with, but RamaLama should be easier to get your PR merged as a developer and swap out different registries. Vendor lock-in is rarely a good thing in the world of open source.

New comment by jniles in "Ask HN: ChatGPT plus down for me, or for everyone?"

jniles — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:59:18 +0000

It is also down for me.

Ask HN: Pixel 4a 5G phones not charging with November Security Update?

jniles — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:31:45 +0000

I have a Pixel 4a 5G phone that recently updated to the November security patch. It no longer charges from the wall. A very similar issue was reported on reddit a few days ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/ykwwxu/pixel_4a_5g_is_not_charging_with_notification/

Is this happening to anyone else?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33613064

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Big changes are coming to the reMarkable ecosystem

jniles — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:51:40 +0000

Article URL: https://remarkable.com/blog/big-changes-are-coming-to-the-remarkable-ecosystem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32984675

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jniles in "FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit"

jniles — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:54:24 +0000

I just did an upgrade to a few keys a couple days ago using solo-python and it was a breeze. Note that you might need to add the udev rules to your Linux machine if they are not detected as explained here: https://docs.solokeys.dev/solo/udev/