Hacker News: kn100

New comment by kn100 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

kn100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:05:52 +0000

Oh and another fun thing! I eventually just emptied the OneDrive so Microsoft would stop bothering me. This was maybe six months ago or so. Microsoft confirms I am storing nothing there. Just a week or two ago I got yet another email begging for money because my OneDrive was apparently full. It was a genuine email, I went as far as checking the headers for SPF/DKIM. When I signed into onedrive, still empty!

New comment by kn100 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

kn100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:02:32 +0000

I got caught out by exactly this, and I'm not exactly tech illiterate. what made it even more annoying is by the time I'd realised what had happened, it was practically impossible to get the files back out of OneDrive (since I decided that this was enough Windows for me, and went back to Linux), since the webui does NOT handle downloading lots of small files well, and you just end up getting a partially complete zip file. I gave up in the end as nothing in there was particularly important. This is an incredibly annoying default.

New comment by kn100 in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

kn100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:11:28 +0000

Thundermail is a great idea! I'd be more than happy to switch over assuming the migration path from say Gmail, Fastmail, etc was easy enough, and it supported custom domains.

New comment by kn100 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

kn100 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:27:08 +0000

Recently built https://entrycast.com/ - there are other products kind of like it on the market already but I had some specific use cases I wanted personally, and decided rather than making it just for me, I'd for the first time in my life make it something others could buy too. No customers so far, but I don't really mind, to be honest!

New comment by kn100 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

kn100 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:55:02 +0000

I would argue that we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Adding a cost to commenting that requires aging accounts I think might discourage fly by night operations and "experiments".

New comment by kn100 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

kn100 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:04:17 +0000

Gnome Shell in particular offers a ridiculously coherent, sane window management. Nobody agrees with all the choices the Gnome Team took to get here, but it sure is nice there being one way of doing everything that makes sense contextually.

New comment by kn100 in "Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?"

kn100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:22:27 +0000

defeated it by running gemini in split screen and voice dictating the response into the tool. got 80%.

New comment by kn100 in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

kn100 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:07:25 +0000

literally the only two reasons I still have windows on my laptop currently are fusion360 and apex legends. I was happily playing Apex Legends on Linux for years until EA decided to disable Linux support due to "cheating". While I understand their concerns, I can't say as a regular player the cheating problem is any better or worse than it was before they removed Linux support.

As for fusion360... Freecad is getting mighty good these days...

New comment by kn100 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

kn100 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:18:29 +0000

and suddenly Bose is on the list of consumer products I will consider for my home. Good job!

New comment by kn100 in "List of domains censored by German ISPs"

kn100 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:59:10 +0000

What a handy list the Germans have prepared

New comment by kn100 in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

kn100 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:47:26 +0000

I love this sorta stuff! I once had my blog hosted on a docker container on my Robot Vacuum. I switched back to a saner host when I started getting uptime alerts when the vacuum went under my bed and lost wifi signal!

New comment by kn100 in "Native dual-range input"

kn100 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:09:44 +0000

totally pointless to implement this honestly but I was disappointed it didn't support multi touch :p

New comment by kn100 in "Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer"

kn100 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:02:58 +0000

I discovered this in the most amusing way ever accidentally a few years ago.

https://x.com/normankev141/status/1146547923758538755?t=oZrj...

text of tweet: So I bought a networked printer recently and as you do decided to try connecting to it a few different undocumented ways. I tried telneting to it. It turns out that whatever you type, it prints typewriter style. That was a pleasant and hilarious surprise. #internetofshit

New comment by kn100 in "AMD GPU Inference"

kn100 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:12:25 +0000

Sad that RDNA2 cards aren't supported. Not even that old!

New comment by kn100 in "What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?"

kn100 — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:32:20 +0000

a slightly different (but close enough) Hitachi CPU also powered the Cybiko - a wacky games console few have heard of. I tried writing a disassembler for that particular cpu a while back. Was an interesting platform and oh man the documentation at least to me was gorgeous: github.com/kn100/cybemu/

New comment by kn100 in "Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage"

kn100 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 03:56:56 +0000

Can we for a second appreciate how freaking cool it is that a government agency published this?

New comment by kn100 in "Ask HN: What is your favorite rolling Linux distro?"

kn100 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:48:14 +0000

Tumbleweed. I've also experimented with NixOS which I enjoyed but it was just too disruptive to my workflow.

New comment by kn100 in "CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux"

kn100 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:15:40 +0000

could you tell me a bit more about what you're doing?

New comment by kn100 in "Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem"

kn100 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:20:14 +0000

Great read, and fantastic investigation. Also nice to see a story of some big corp not going nuclear on a security researcher.

I can't say for certain, and the OP if they're here I'd love for you to validate this - but I'm not convinced requests to the local admin interface on these Nokia routers is properly authenticated. I know this because I recently was provisioned with one and found there were certain settings I could not change as a regular admin, and I was refused the super admin account by the ISP. turns out you could just inspector hack the page to undisable the fields and change the fields yourself, and the API would happily accept them.

if this is the case, and an application can be running inside your network, it wouldn't be hard to compromise the router that way, but seems awfully specific!

New comment by kn100 in "Show HN: Peanut Butter Spinner"

kn100 — Sat, 18 May 2024 19:56:56 +0000

afaik they're basically the same thing. The need to stir comes from peanut butter that is literally nothing other than minced peanuts. Brands like Jif and the such add a bit of palm oil, salt, and whatever else which I guess helps to stabilize the mixture and make oil separation less likely. "pure" peanut butter like the kind the author likes here is available just the same in the UK with exactly the same problem!