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New comment by jzemeocala in "VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system"

jzemeocala — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:42:37 +0000

This gives me that same feeling as 90s-00s Linux .... Sure, your gonna royal mess it all up at some point and have to reinstall (probably sooner than you think)....but look at all the fun stuff you can potentially do with it.

New comment by jzemeocala in ""Terrorists?": The Suffragette Arson and Bombing Campaign – Egham Museum"

jzemeocala — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:37:51 +0000

After having spent 20+ years growing up in rural FL, I've been telling people for years now that: "poor people are the new negro".

If you are poor, than you look poor usually. And people ABSOLUTELY treat you differently from the government to the local store.

I lived in one really messed up part of FL called interlachen that really opened my eyes to that fact.

New comment by jzemeocala in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

jzemeocala — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:28:38 +0000

As someone who has worked in the music sphere with many hats over the past few decades: her best shot is to get people talking about her, perhaps find some local musicians she likes and offer cheap\free recordings to fill in her portfolio and get that word of mouth started.

Successful people in the music world (both on and off stage) HAVE to mingle with musicians (not other engineers) heavily to get noticed and recommended

New comment by jzemeocala in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

jzemeocala — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:55:48 +0000

I bought an Alesis QS8.1 super cheap in perfect condition (was a top grade digital piano/synth in the 90s).

and then i realized that ALL of the software (which i collected from defunct websites and archived on github) related to it was ancient and after a while of getting tired of using WINE every single time i decided i wanted a cross platform modern equivalent that did everything that several of these different programs did (plus break out some stuff that was now potentially possible with modern computer)

i thought it would be extremely hard because the computer to synth communication is pretty much only via sysex commands (of which the actual wave file encoding protocol was undocumented)

Claude walked me through examining the some of the original software in GHIDRA, and I had a working demo that night.....now im just playing with adding new features to it.

New comment by jzemeocala in "Patching my guitar amp's firmware"

jzemeocala — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:38:12 +0000

The pipeline to get to this work is starting as a solder junkie for a music store and documenting every repair and custom mod while also reaching out to the big companies for schematics....all while doing the fun stuff as work adjacent hobbies.

Eventually, you make contacts with the technical teams at the big companies and then you start applying....it's a long road, and I have been making audio electronics from scratch since I was 10.

I'm finally making those big industry contacts though, hoping to get in with either Kustom\Hanser or directly into JAM in Alberta (because I'm done with this country)

New comment by jzemeocala in "Solving the “Zork” Mystery"

jzemeocala — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:29:01 +0000

I recall the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy one being exceptionally rough

New comment by jzemeocala in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

jzemeocala — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:44:49 +0000

"Carl's Jr. has determined you are an unfit mother." "Your children will be taken into the custody of Carl's Jr." "Carl's Jr.....F#ck You, I'm Eating"

New comment by jzemeocala in "Electrostatics and High Voltage Links"

jzemeocala — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:44:24 +0000

THIS is the 90s internet at it's finest. I spent way too much time on this site as a kid....No surprise that now, in my 30s, I'm an electronics technician for a music store.

New comment by jzemeocala in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

jzemeocala — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:39:07 +0000

Rudy Rucker is amazing

New comment by jzemeocala in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

jzemeocala — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:42:50 +0000

"we are all just a few mistakes away from becoming the people we pity and frown upon"

New comment by jzemeocala in "A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears"

jzemeocala — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:59:34 +0000

one step closer to Rudy Rucker's "piezoplastic" from his Ware series

New comment by jzemeocala in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

jzemeocala — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:35:10 +0000

"When I'm bored, I just whip out my balls and start having a play. And people watch, and sometimes join in......"

the internet has ruined my mind

New comment by jzemeocala in "How to get better at guitar"

jzemeocala — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:35:37 +0000

this reminds me of when i was 16 and a multi-instrumentalist but in love with the bass i had a chance to go to any music school anywhere that i could get into (top choice was the academy of music in rotterdam) i eventually settled on what i thought would be a rock school (based on the instruments taught) in clearwater by some guy id never heard of named jeff berlin.....lol

New comment by jzemeocala in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

jzemeocala — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:45:46 +0000

That's just Nobel Syndrome.

New comment by jzemeocala in "UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone"

jzemeocala — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:00:50 +0000

Didn't this happen once before with nestle baby formula in Africa years/decades ago?

New comment by jzemeocala in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

jzemeocala — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:49:10 +0000

any word how it works with wine on linux?

New comment by jzemeocala in "Zorin OS"

jzemeocala — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:46:22 +0000

about a decade ago Zorin OS got me into Linux.....Highly recommend it to any windows users that are tired of the nonsense.

nowadays I am a happy and competent debian user

New comment by jzemeocala in "Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck"

jzemeocala — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:13:24 +0000

Do Malborge next

New comment by jzemeocala in "Internet in a Box"

jzemeocala — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:56:51 +0000

I actually did something just like this with the second raspberry pi and an offline copy of Wikipedia.

Although I don't know this devices specs I recall being able to reliably power the pi 2b + a 3.5 inch touchscreen with a random 15,000mah solar power Bank from amazon

New comment by jzemeocala in "Cracking 90s Abandonware (For the Alesis QS Series) with ChatGPT"

jzemeocala — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:06:50 +0000

This is an ongoing project to archive everything I can find for my NOS synth. With a focus on using chatGPT and ghidra to crack the demo limitations on ancient abandonware whose authors are no longer reachable