Hacker News: mattowen_uk

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Open-source tests of web browser privacy"

mattowen_uk — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:03:35 +0000

Where would I put this file on my Firefox install ?

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Titanic: Honor and Glory"

mattowen_uk — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 14:48:02 +0000

I really hope this will support VR when it comes out.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "My Many Girlfriends"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:34:43 +0000

I refer to myself as 'Daddy' when talking to my cats. I don't there's any hope for me.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Unix in the Browser Tab"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:31:58 +0000

Based on how we see so many 'OS in the Browser' links here on HN, am I right to be underwhelmed by this one?

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Best Pens for 2022: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:24:25 +0000

I use:

https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/PL00019/pilot-g2-07-gel-ink-rol...

Perfect for my scrappy always-upper-case chicken scratch. I've tried so many other types of rollerball pens (as a leftie with dyslexia, fountain pens are completely off the menu), and how found these to be the only type of pen I can actually write with.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "My Many Girlfriends"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:53:32 +0000

Agreed. I feel sorry for Sten, not the company or the other employees.

That said, even as shortly back in the 90s, mental illness was still ridiculed and something to be ashamed of, at least we've made progress in that area these days.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Simple Dungeon Map Generation"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:46:36 +0000

The dungeon generation shown is the same as Brian Sawyer's 'Dungeon' game from 1979:

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/02/game-85-dungeon-1979....

Not sure if Brian Sawyer is the original designer of this approach though?

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:40:15 +0000

This one...

http://www.roysac.com/asciinudes/default.html#Joan

...is the all time classic. Every time I logged onto a new mainframe/DEC-VAX system, it'd be sitting in a folder somewhere.

I even had a personal copy printed out on several sheets of paper[1] that has now alas, been lost to time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery

New comment by mattowen_uk in "BlackBerry held the tiny keys to my heart"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 09:12:21 +0000

Unless you have a Android Blackberry device (KeyOne or Key2 etc) the free version of the hub is feature restricted, so you have to pay (an ongoing sub) to get the full Hub experience.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "I Miss RSS"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:56:03 +0000

The main problem is that a lot of sites no longer show a link to their RSS feeds, or include a meta tag for it.

So I've resorted to trying the following until the RSS reed comes up:

  example.com/feed
  example.com/feed.xml
  example.com/rss
  example.com/rss.xml
  example.com/xml
  ...etc

In most cases the feed WILL be there somewhere as the feature is still in the web framework that's being used.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Top Hacker News commenters of 2021"

mattowen_uk — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 10:30:22 +0000

#1194 here, same situation. I feel slightly less irrelevant now. ;)

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Ask HN: How do you cope with being interupted?"

mattowen_uk — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 12:15:03 +0000

I tried this, but my work uses MS Teams, which doesn't honour do-not-disturb. When you set DnD on, the app STILL flashes it's taskbar icon, creating a distraction. The only way around it is to mute all the noisy teams channels, and to remember to unmute them later. Also, being @-ed in a chat totally overrides DnD as well, and the sales guys have worked this out, and @ people constantly all day long.

I even tried not having Teams running when I was 'in the zone' only to end up being called on the phone to check 'whether I was working today'... :(

New comment by mattowen_uk in "You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)"

mattowen_uk — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:11:39 +0000

Dead link (HN hug of death?)

Cached copy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eZI_am...

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Other sites like HN?"

mattowen_uk — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:27:21 +0000

I can - send me an email.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder"

mattowen_uk — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 10:55:57 +0000

Then maybe search engines should show a little 'paywalled' tag next to the result so the user is aware before they click?

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder"

mattowen_uk — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 10:52:25 +0000

Care to explain this?

Rocky Mountain Basic

mattowen_uk — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:18:24 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648904

Points: 55

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New comment by mattowen_uk in "Ask HN: Is it even worth reading news outside of HN?"

mattowen_uk — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:34:26 +0000

As much as I love HN, it is an echo chamber on some topics. Also sometimes people are too afraid to post a contrary opinion for fear of getting voted down to oblivion, as such some threads just become full of 'me-too' type comments.

My wish is for more text centric HN-alike forums, which cover the topics that HN doesn't, but is populated by the same type of people that HN has - i.e. mostly polite and knowledgeable, with a desire to contribute to the discussion.

Reddit is not it, nor are any of the other forums I've found so far.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System"

mattowen_uk — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:32:00 +0000

Thanks for the offer but... I know there's torrents of the whole lot out there, but for me part of the enjoyment is buying the discs (at a slow pace, due to budget), ripping them, and watching them.

New comment by mattowen_uk in "Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System"

mattowen_uk — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:52:20 +0000

I'm now using ffmpeg to transcode 'acquired' h265 media to h264 for my Pi. It would be nice if a future Pi could support h265.