Hacker News: luke2m

New comment by luke2m in "Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c"

luke2m — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 21:46:43 +0000

I run MX Linux on my T60.

The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps

luke2m — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950188

Points: 68

# Comments: 94

New comment by luke2m in "Android 13"

luke2m — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:37:42 +0000

There are many brand tlds. Many large companies have them, even if their main site is not on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

https://icannwiki.org/.toyota

‘No more car for me’: will a $23 toll finally rid Manhattan of gridlock?

luke2m — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/11/manhattan-congestion-pricing-charge-transportation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430165

Points: 16

# Comments: 4

New comment by luke2m in "Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?"

luke2m — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 02:10:41 +0000

Except it seems true

New comment by luke2m in "Ask HN: Good private email host with IMAP?"

luke2m — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:01:55 +0000

https://purelymail.com/ has no hard limits and roundcube (a modern looking webmail) but is a smaller operation.

New comment by luke2m in "World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)"

luke2m — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:05:29 +0000

>More resources are used. Yes. However, thinking of it on a universal scale, even resources are "infinite".

That's what people thought about oil, trees, etc. before.

New comment by luke2m in "The Seiko TV watch"

luke2m — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 01:34:35 +0000

Casio's solar models are even better -- you don't need even the once every few year battery change.

The US Army Planned a Nuclear Version of Its Already Crazy Off-Road Land Train

luke2m — Thu, 19 May 2022 14:57:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-us-armys-very-real-plan-for-a-colossal-nuclear-powered-off-road-land-train

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31435500

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

2023 Nissan Z First Drive Review: Old School in the Best Ways

luke2m — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:03:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/2023-nissan-z-first-drive-review-old-school-in-the-best-ways

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31395961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by luke2m in "MenuetOS"

luke2m — Sat, 07 May 2022 17:40:04 +0000

The author was not happy with their code being used in KolibriOS, a fork.

http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=216272#216272

New comment by luke2m in "The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”"

luke2m — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 02:43:26 +0000

It's still around now.

New comment by luke2m in "Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (2009)"

luke2m — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:50:04 +0000

Most cars do this based on weight.

New comment by luke2m in "Ask HN: Netlify service quality degraded recently?"

luke2m — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:56:03 +0000

According to my monitoring emails, my site was down for 3 at least 5 minute intervals, but that hasn’t happened for months.

New comment by luke2m in "Review: HP's smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up"

luke2m — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:35:00 +0000

Most popular 3D printers are open source hardware. I would love to see some conventional printers as well. Does anyone know the limitations or challenges that make it hard to do this?

Fedora Workstation Brainstorming a Possible GUI-Based Linux Recovery Environment

luke2m — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:56:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-GUI-Based-Linux-Recovery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30909824

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

General Motors EV1

luke2m — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:05:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906150

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other platforms

luke2m — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22995431/european-union-digital-markets-act-imessage-whatsapp-interoperable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30800576

Points: 127

# Comments: 141

New comment by luke2m in "US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel"

luke2m — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:18:04 +0000

I'm in high school in the USA and am on multiple interscholastic sports teams, and am also interested in transportation. I have yet to see a single CNG school bus

New comment by luke2m in "XBUS Modular Electric Vehicle"

luke2m — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:37:11 +0000

Looks like a Kei truck/bus/step van

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck