Hacker News: miah_

New comment by miah_ in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

miah_ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:53:33 +0000

This happens with any TV or Movie that has music, and its incredibly frustrating. Always best to download to not confuse yourself as to why the media is somehow different than you remember.

New comment by miah_ in "OpenBSD 7.9"

miah_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:53:55 +0000

syspatch and sysupgrade have made things substantially easier these days.

New comment by miah_ in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

miah_ — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:02:47 +0000

At that point you've re-invented emacs.

New comment by miah_ in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

miah_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:17:02 +0000

No thanks.

New comment by miah_ in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

miah_ — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:05:12 +0000

I've worked in tech since the late 90's and recently became an apprentice potter. My work in pottery is so much more fulfilling than any tech work I've done. I wish I had started sooner.

I'm still working in tech, and likely will forever in a much reduced capacity. But pottery is my life now.

New comment by miah_ in "My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?"

miah_ — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:13:06 +0000

0% AI, 80% YAML Jockey, 10% SSH Shenanigans, 10% Python programming

Been doing sysadmin since the 90's. Why bother with AI, it just slows me down. I've already scripted my life with automation. Anything not already automated probably takes me a few minutes, and if longer I'll build the automation. Shell scripts and Ansible aren't hard.

New comment by miah_ in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

miah_ — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:12:27 +0000

Similarly that people are interested in running anything made by him after he's repeatedly shown his true colors.

New comment by miah_ in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

miah_ — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:28:07 +0000

Maybe, but carpentry, plumbing, electrician, mechanic, etc all typically have apprenticeship opportunities and its extremely rare to encounter anything in the tech field like this.

Additionally, the trades above don't have new tooling that comes out every few years that completely changes things, while the tech industry loves to re-invent the wheel frequently.

New comment by miah_ in "iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess"

miah_ — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:25:18 +0000

If they sold replacement parts and batteries we'd be fine and they're have their recurring revenue.

New comment by miah_ in "UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts"

miah_ — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:30:05 +0000

Scumbag companies continue to be scum.

New comment by miah_ in "How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop"

miah_ — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:19:29 +0000

Clearchannel (which became IheartRadio) owns most radio stations (>850) in the US. They fired hundreds of DJ's in ~2011.

https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2...

When I was a kid in the 1980's I used to call the DJ and request songs A LOT. When I was a teen I used to call in to win contests. Now when I listen to a 'I<3Radio' station in the garage, its clear all the DJ segments are pre-recorded and everything is automated. Its all soundbites. Its all garbage. Its all advertisements. Its the same ~30 songs on rotation.

New comment by miah_ in "Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?"

miah_ — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:15:00 +0000

I feel like I'm one of the few people who won't touch the tech for anything work related. I've used it to generate character backstories in Dungeons and Dragons, but I wouldn't trust it for anything reality based. I don't know what everybody is smoking.

New comment by miah_ in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

miah_ — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:53:45 +0000

New comment by miah_ in "A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband"

miah_ — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:54:50 +0000

Whatever this link was, all it does now is download a randomly named 0 byte file in Firefox.

New comment by miah_ in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

miah_ — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:17:01 +0000

Like Cambridge Analytica (who used Facebook to do exactly this for the 2016 election).

New comment by miah_ in "Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown"

miah_ — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:16:13 +0000

Surely China can just buy all the data that's being collected by US companies and sold. So whats the difference here?

New comment by miah_ in "I ditched the algorithm for RSS"

miah_ — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:11:00 +0000

Yes. I'd love to find other nerds into retro computing, UNIX, and pottery in my area without wading into groups or joining a forum. They know everything about me, match me up with some people I'd most likely get along with!

New comment by miah_ in "Walgreens replaced fridge doors with smart screens. It's now a $200M fiasco"

miah_ — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:18:14 +0000

Thanks. Can we also have a article about how the web was replaced by bullshit popovers and invasive javascript much to the dismay of people who use it?

New comment by miah_ in "Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch"

miah_ — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:41:55 +0000

I don't want to touch my phone to stream music in my home. I don't want a app involved, apart from maybe setup. I don't want 'cloud' involved _at all_.

I want to point my music 'streaming' device at a NFS or SMB directory and play music. Would be better if it supported some OSS streaming protocol so I could just stream off my LAN (think mpd/dlna but I have no idea what protocols are "best" here).

I'd love to open up foobar2000 or whatever, and point it at what speakers I want and let loose.

Ya, some rpi solution is "probably best here". I know they're(Sonos) going for 'this works for people who dont know what a rpi is", but stereo gear works for a long time. I don't want to be on some 'upgrade cycle' because they've decided I need to upgrade hardware so they can harvest more dollars from my wallet.

Maybe the problem is that ["I have a stereo", "mp3's", "CD's"] and they are targeting people who want to play Spotify from some 'i-device' to a speaker and don't have a stereo. Either way, the hardware is 100% avoid for me. Its a gamble on 'will it work' and 'will they support it?'.

New comment by miah_ in "Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch"

miah_ — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:47:46 +0000

Sonos hardware is the stuff I see at thrift stores for ~$8 and won't even bother with. When you're as user hostile as they are you end up in landfills.

Wish somebody would figure out how to unlock them and convert them into general purpose music streaming systems.