Hacker News: kioshix

New comment by kioshix in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

kioshix — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:06:44 +0000

They're not talking about a home owner's solar panels here, but giant solar farms surrounding them.

New comment by kioshix in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

kioshix — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:56:14 +0000

About a year ago I wanted to check out LinkedIn. Signed up with my real name, added my employer and past employers, verified my current work email address etc.

About 24 hours later, when logging in to pick up where I left off, I'm redirected to a page that tells me that my account has been locked. For the safety of my account, I needed to verify my identity to continue.

I refused to do so, for the same reasons this article highlights. So I wanted to delete my account and never return. Guess what? You can't delete your account without first verifying.

It took me a few frustrating months of trying to email their DPO (data protection officer) and filling out forms, constantly being routed to regular support with very unhelpful support staff. I actually contacted the Irish data protection agency thing (I'm not Irish, but european), and while waiting for them to process the case, I miraculously got a reply from LinkedIn that my account deletion was being processed.

Quite an infuriating experience.

New comment by kioshix in "Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10"

kioshix — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:52:06 +0000

> When unplugging and plugging back in external monitors it moves windows back to the same monitors they were on before unplugging them. This is probably the most significant QoL feature.

Sometimes. Sometimes it does. It's all very random. My work laptop drives me nuts, when plugging back into the dock my windows return to where they were about 3/4 of the times. A quarter of the times they just all bunch up on the main monitor.

New comment by kioshix in "E-scooter firms threaten to leave Italy after highway code updated"

kioshix — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:16:31 +0000

Good! These companies need more regulation.

New comment by kioshix in "Melinda Gates Resigns from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"

kioshix — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:25:55 +0000

I didn't even know they got divorced!

New comment by kioshix in "You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank"

kioshix — Fri, 03 May 2024 13:23:29 +0000

Yeah, the reddit post is worth a read. Yes, they did exploit the banks notification, but the rest of the scam seems pretty normal. Why would the bank need to move your funds? They could just block the account I would assume.

And the whole "tell me all of your credit card details except the first 4 numbers that only identifies your bank"-thing should immediately scream scam.

New comment by kioshix in "Hardest problem in computer science: centering things"

kioshix — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:55:16 +0000

Even better, add this to block the websocket connection for the pointers:

  ! Annoying pointers on blog
  wss://tonsky.me/ptrs?*

New comment by kioshix in "HP Disables Printer Functionality Until You Install the HP Smart App"

kioshix — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:18:52 +0000

I would use a baseball bat to fix it, that's so evil.

New comment by kioshix in "Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted"

kioshix — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:20:43 +0000

https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard

  This application is in maintenance mode. What does it mean?
  
  Citing Wikipedia:

  In the world of software development, maintenance mode refers to a point in a computer program's life when it has reached all of its goals and is generally considered to be "complete" and bug-free. The term can also refer to the point in a software product's evolution when it is no longer competitive with other products or current with regard to the technology environment it operates within.
   - The author of this application is not actively developing any new major features (only small fixes)
   - New releases are published regularly depending on the contributions made by the community
   - Pull requests for new features and bug fixes are accepted as long as the guidelines are followed

New comment by kioshix in "Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted"

kioshix — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:17:21 +0000

I also use Kanboard, it's pretty decent.

New comment by kioshix in "Secure Time Synchronization on macOS"

kioshix — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 14:13:33 +0000

Seems kinda overkill to run a Fedora VM on localhost for this.

New comment by kioshix in "Guy builds a CNC mill by himself,because he have no self control [video]"

kioshix — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:01:25 +0000

That kid was legendary, he even works for IBM now.

New comment by kioshix in "Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]"

kioshix — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:52:19 +0000

One of my favourite youtubers, a well-deserved break.

New comment by kioshix in "The .ing top-level domain"

kioshix — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:13:31 +0000

bor.ing

The whole TLD is just ugly in my opinion.

New comment by kioshix in "German court prohibits LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals"

kioshix — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:51:15 +0000

They know this very well, but marketing/legal etc. force them to display it anyway, because they want to annoy you into just clicking "Accept all".

New comment by kioshix in "Microsoft-signed “BGAUpsell.exe” pushes Bing on Windows and Chrome users"

kioshix — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:07:35 +0000

Windows is starting to look more and more like a virus.

New comment by kioshix in "micro – A Modern Alternative to nano"

kioshix — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:31:03 +0000

Seems like a really modern alternative to my 389K nano.

New comment by kioshix in "Microsoft will let you uninstall more built-in Win 11 apps soon for less bloat"

kioshix — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:41:13 +0000

But Chess.app is the keystone of the entire system!

New comment by kioshix in "Microsoft will let you uninstall more built-in Win 11 apps soon for less bloat"

kioshix — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:36:48 +0000

I can't exactly say that I'm grateful that Apple don't allow me to delete Chess.app. Apple does a lot of stupid stings too, and I'm not making any excuses for them.

New comment by kioshix in "Don't use Control Center to turn off Bluetooth on iPhone"

kioshix — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:46:43 +0000

I also use Shortcuts for this, but instead I saved it as an icon on the home screen. So now I have a dedicated "app" for turning wifi off, perfect.