Hacker News: justsomeguy123

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:09:43 +0000

Do you... change your tires? Or just get a brand new car every year to avoid the hassle of dealing with car shops?

Problem with Smart TVs is they become obsolete super fast software wise. And basically, unsafe to connect to the internet in a few years.

Most TVs have CI+ ports. I can easily imagine an upgradable "smart module". Just buy a new compatible one (which, effectively could just connect for power and HDMI) and get the brand new stuff.

There is no bubble, smart TVs are a consumerist trap and it will require government intervention to fix because nobody has any incentives otherwise.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Why adults still dream about school"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:10:00 +0000

Like, apart from the whole Europe.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "2022 Amish Population Profile"

justsomeguy123 — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 04:38:00 +0000

> Note: Population estimates for 2022 were calculated using a variety of sources including Raber’s New American Almanac, reports by correspondents in Die Botschaft, The Budget, and The Diary, settlement directories, regional newsletters, and settlement informants. The data includes all Amish groups that use horse-and-buggy transportation, but excludes car-driving groups such as the Beachy Amish and Amish Mennonites. > > To cite this page: “Amish Population Profile, 2022.” Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College. http://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/amish-popula....

Well, it's hard to cite a page where somebody manually estimated some numbers from various sources without at least providing a table to see what the individual estimates were so at least some errors can be corrected.

But, interesting factoids.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal"

justsomeguy123 — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 08:53:46 +0000

But you don't "own" that. You get a temporary rent. The problem is society (and tech) moves so fast it feels like the rent is too long.

The idea to incentivize public sharing of knowledge for a short term rent is not so stupid.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Microsoft clarifies that game activity is shared with third parties in new ToS"

justsomeguy123 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 05:34:03 +0000

> You know, because Minecraft is a game targeted at kids.

A survival game where you are utterly alone fighting zombies and all kinds of monsters that come at night while you have no weapons or shelter.

Yeap... kids stuff.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask"

justsomeguy123 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:14:50 +0000

> What did Python have relative to other languages that inspired these developers to devote so much energy into their projects?

Not a popular opinion, but Python had Google.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:38:29 +0000

I'm not worried at all. I was just commenting why others may see that comment (not mine) overly aggressive.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "How are the bees?"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:22:32 +0000

A comment here. It seems to me insects are all over the place in abandoned land. But here we have most of the land alongside the road planted (and sprayed I guess). Which is to say, farmers are killing bugs near their plantation. So, no surprise there.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 01:46:44 +0000

I re-read your post and while it's not overly aggressive it's the difference in tone and approach that get you. The original poster was like the hippie encouraging home-made yogurt and you were like the school principal saying 'this is bull, store yogurt has scientifically the same benefits'.

PS: I also learned while writing this I can't spell yogurt. Thanks spellchecker!

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:36:11 +0000

Is Pico their attempt at breaking away from Broadcom?

I am still waiting some better IO connectors so I can connect an SSD to RPi.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "“Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (2019)"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:46:13 +0000

How interesting boingboing added a scihub link, but their link is to an expired domain. The correct link is https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0022243719867935

Harbinger sounds so negative. How about long tail or hipster?

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before"

justsomeguy123 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 14:33:28 +0000

> You want them to change their name, open source Windows?

Open sourcing Windows would be a good start.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier"

justsomeguy123 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:04:08 +0000

Likewise. All the debunking and debunking debunking means I have no actual choice. If anything things are more muddy. Welcome to adulthood I guess.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:39:06 +0000

Gnome people basically looked as how Apple managed to be firm about design and though they can be even tougher since they do it for free.

Such reasonable / obvious requests linger for decades and after a while the system has been rewritten and bugs are auto-closed.

I no longer report any bugs nor care.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "“Crypto drainer” template facilitates theft"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:28:44 +0000

There's crypto "pop-jargon" and cypto technical jargon.

The technical jargon does make sense like any kind of niche technical jargon.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today"

justsomeguy123 — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:26:55 +0000

> the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.

"Terminated" is a pretty harsh wording for an account that was willingly deleted.

When you resign nobody says you got terminated. You are terminated when you are fired.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 15:23:38 +0000

Gource Visualization video which points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7JB0mhrGCQ does not work anymore.

> Video unavailable > This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:59:33 +0000

The culture is still there. They just learned to do better PR and how to make money in this new environment (which they couldn't entirely control).

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Ask HN: Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:52:35 +0000

I'm also curious what this is. Apple wouldn't give free certificates even for open source apps! $99 to give their users free apps.

New comment by justsomeguy123 in "Ask HN: Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?"

justsomeguy123 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 08:51:32 +0000

This may have been a mistake. Apple will have a reason to revoke your certificate.