Hacker News: marcod

New comment by marcod in "Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies"

marcod — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:32:59 +0000

You don't understand why a site with the numbers of new and active bsky users is posted in response to the statement "Bluesky is still a thing?"

New comment by marcod in "Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies"

marcod — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:40:48 +0000

We have the data :)

https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth

New comment by marcod in "Faking a JPEG"

marcod — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:57:06 +0000

Reading about Spigot made me remember https://www.projecthoneypot.org/

I was very excited 20 years ago, every time I got emails from them that the scripts and donated MX records on my website had helped catching a harvester

> Regardless of how the rest of your day goes, here's something to be happy about -- today one of your donated MXs helped to identify a previously unknown email harvester (IP: 172.180.164.102). The harvester was caught a spam trap email address created with your donated MX:

New comment by marcod in "It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle"

marcod — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:10:00 +0000

Darn, I checked XDA but must have been in the wrong forum because that's really what I was looking for - thanks!

New comment by marcod in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

marcod — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:53:34 +0000

"eight megabytes and constantly swapping"

New comment by marcod in "It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle"

marcod — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:18:01 +0000

I just realized I had a few Kindle Fires lying around in a box.

I wanted to give one to a friend who didn't have a good phone so she could listen to audio books. Turns out those old Fires are no longer updated and Android is so old I can't even install anything current on it.

I hope to change that with https://kindlemodding.org/ which was mentioned, so appreciate the writeup :)

New comment by marcod in "Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail"

marcod — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:59:45 +0000

I found watching the trailer to The Beekeper quite therapeutic for my scammy call center dislike (it's the best part of the movie imho).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHKn-yDCE2w

New comment by marcod in "Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots"

marcod — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:21:05 +0000

> if you want to have your own self-hosted libre software bookmarking service for you and your community, give it a go

I haven't worked with go - where could I host that myself?

Could I do this with the free tier of https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/quickstarts/build-and-depl...

New comment by marcod in "Eli Lilly will soon release key data on its weight loss pill orforglipron"

marcod — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:24:12 +0000

Fun fact, Orforglipron got named when the lead scientist's cat sat on their keyboard. /s

New comment by marcod in "Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video]"

marcod — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:57:53 +0000

Check out this comment on the YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YIR39KeJMk&lc=Ugx8HYRxBkUrP...

New comment by marcod in "The German language broke my website"

marcod — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 05:29:40 +0000

Former QA from Germany here - some international companies supposedly develop their UI in German first because after that most other translations will fit ;)

Though, that doesn't help with bad translations. I often had a hard time explaining to my American business colleagues that just because I'm a native German speaker doesn't mean I will be good at translate their strings at 5pm so they could get out their launch... +1 for a professional translations!

New comment by marcod in "EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019)"

marcod — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:23:48 +0000

https://firekasina.org/

New comment by marcod in "Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day"

marcod — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:13:49 +0000

DEI is just their latest obsession, since the old ones don't poll as well anymore (gay marriage, woke, CRT, SJW, ..). I don't think there is a bigger rationale behind this than 'we need a wedge issue to rile up the masses'.

New comment by marcod in "Sudo for Windows"

marcod — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:09:04 +0000

It's part of the Windows 11 24H2 update

Sudo for Windows

marcod — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751444

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by marcod in "Faxlore"

marcod — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:33:40 +0000

Blinkenlights was always a fav of mine :)

ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

New comment by marcod in "Australia starts peanut allergy treatment for babies"

marcod — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:48:59 +0000

Sorry for being nosy, but did you do oral immunotherapy with or without professional support?

New comment by marcod in "Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing (2011)"

marcod — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:08:24 +0000

Off topic. Anybody else like Thursday Next? Had to think of "Time waits for no man!"

New comment by marcod in "200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown"

marcod — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:48:36 +0000

Dolce&Gabbana Casa Leopard Silk & Wool Throw $3,245.00 - Purchased

New comment by marcod in "200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown"

marcod — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:45:16 +0000

The other good news of the day was that the Sackler family lost much of their future prosecution immunity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813369