Hacker News: jzzskijj

New comment by jzzskijj in "Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job?"

jzzskijj — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:57:13 +0000

Games? Embedded? FPGA? UI frameworks? DSP or Signal processing?

New comment by jzzskijj in "Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11"

jzzskijj — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:00:34 +0000

I am curious to learn too about this. I have managed to say at Windows 10 with strictly local accounts only.

New comment by jzzskijj in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

jzzskijj — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:24:00 +0000

I had a tool, which extracted all FILE_ID.DIZ files from the archives (zip, rar, arj, lha, ...) in the directory and created DESCRIPT.ION files from those DIZ contents for those archives. Using 4DOS was joy when going through archives.

New comment by jzzskijj in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

jzzskijj — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:20:44 +0000

If you played Doom, you were already in Hell.

New comment by jzzskijj in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

jzzskijj — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:10:54 +0000

This stuff is still happening even today :-)

http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=107478 for example this 2024 release, if you scroll to the end of the page.

New comment by jzzskijj in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

jzzskijj — Mon, 27 May 2024 19:01:06 +0000

> Unsure which code pages were used but this was in Sweden.

Interesting. Every PC I ever used in Finland (home, school, friend's, etc.) were always using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 and I would have assumed every PC in Sweden did too. Maybe your did have cp850 or something uncommon.

New comment by jzzskijj in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

jzzskijj — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:12:16 +0000

Huh! Which system you were using? Notepad in Windows or Linux?

New comment by jzzskijj in "FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994)"

jzzskijj — Mon, 27 May 2024 06:50:05 +0000

This made me chuckle:

> Please don't be tempted to use fancy graphic or ANSI sequences in the FILE_ID.DIZ file, as most BBS software will not allow this, and will render your FILE_ID.DIZ file useless.

Everyone was doing exactly that and even I did something like +hundred artsy file_id.diz headers for the scene groups or my own groups. When "releases" started to be from 5 to 15 disks (packages), many sysops started to clearing the art away from the file lists and just leaving an oneliner of the title visible, like:

   The Name of The Release       Disk: [03/12]

Interesting too that as niche as they are today, they are still being made. The last ones I did was in 2015.

New comment by jzzskijj in "Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams"

jzzskijj — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:31:42 +0000

> It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.

This probably has more to do with publishers and licensing contracts than artists pulling their music off from platforms. Sometimes even bigger artists' albums disappear when publisher is sold or goes out from the business. Or the licensing contract's period runs out. As sad it is, many artists don't own the rights to their music, and if the rights owner is defunct, then there are missing albums or even discographies.

Over 92,000 exposed D-Link NAS devices have a backdoor account

jzzskijj — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:53:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-92-000-exposed-d-link-nas-devices-have-a-backdoor-account/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955951

Points: 20

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New comment by jzzskijj in "Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected"

jzzskijj — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:18:01 +0000

I have tried, a long time ago, LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. The both of the ports were so buggy, that by those experiences I could not trust the maintainers to be capable of securing the system. It may have been a false assumption, but I had to think stability/bugs and security must correlate at some levels.

New comment by jzzskijj in "Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected"

jzzskijj — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:56:05 +0000

What is the easiest way to get comparable smartphone experience with some actual control over your privacy?

New comment by jzzskijj in "4x4 ASCII Font (2016)"

jzzskijj — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 08:19:46 +0000

The smallest "readable" I've seen is 1x5: https://advent.blinry.org/2018/17

New comment by jzzskijj in "Sunsetting Atom"

jzzskijj — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:08:50 +0000

I have to assume no-one in the team saw Pulp Fiction (1994) when you ended up picking up the name "Zed"...?

New comment by jzzskijj in "Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS"

jzzskijj — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 08:16:43 +0000

I was quite surprised to learn this has nothing to do with DDG. Interesting how DDG seem to have taken the meaning of "duck" in (my) mind.

New comment by jzzskijj in "Stress does turn hair gray, and it’s reversible"

jzzskijj — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 11:52:52 +0000

Had the first kid and got quite fast lot's of grey hairs. I was really stressed with having enough time to do my work properly and to handle the daycare deliveries/pickups. The kid got older and needed less of my constant attention, and greying stopped for several years.

Then had the second kid and entered again into this constant not having enough time for anything mode. In the last 2 years I've been getting tons of grey hair, again. This time while I am much older, I can cope with the stress and constant tiredness even worse.

So I am a firm believer of the theory.

New comment by jzzskijj in "Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1"

jzzskijj — Tue, 25 May 2021 06:28:01 +0000

I was almost going to say something similar, because on Android there are still just 16 add-ons available and it has been a long while. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?type=extens...

New comment by jzzskijj in "Tell HN: FB tracked my sensitive buy outside FB, cant delete a suggestion in app"

jzzskijj — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:57:57 +0000

How are merchants and Facebook getting your MAC address?

New comment by jzzskijj in "Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro"

jzzskijj — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:31:33 +0000

Sounds quite familiar. I was 11 years and struggling with assembler on Atari ST. There was a short series of 68000 assembly basics in a Finnish computer magazine (MikroBitti) and some sources on disk magazines (Maggie by The Lost Boys).

New comment by jzzskijj in "Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows"

jzzskijj — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 07:55:07 +0000

What are the pros and cons to https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox for example? C++ vs. C#?