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New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

mooncakes_ooohh — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:32:39 +0000

Be gone scammer

I tried using Google's Gemma 3 to automate houseplant care: it went poorly

mooncakes_ooohh — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:19:19 +0000

Article URL: https://011.sh/posts/plantmom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836162

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Can an LLM take care of my plants (or at least kill them slower than I do)?

mooncakes_ooohh — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://011.sh/posts/plantmom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794122

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4"

mooncakes_ooohh — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:40:38 +0000

The more reliable way of using Stremio is through real-debrid anyway - meaning the torrents are cached on a server for direct streaming.

Exposing a Windows 2000 machine to the Internet [video]

mooncakes_ooohh — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zao2CUAP3dU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345866

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Show HN: Tell YouTube Ads to Fuck Off"

mooncakes_ooohh — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:52:21 +0000

It's a pity that using uBlock Origin means I'll never see this.

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery"

mooncakes_ooohh — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:09:52 +0000

I'll take a second look at it :) Thanks for pointing that out

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Beekeeper Studio SQL editor 4.0 – Import. backup, restore, and bigquery"

mooncakes_ooohh — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:57:18 +0000

Migrated to Pop OS and one of the first suggestions for a DB manager in the Pop Shop was Beekeeper. I tested it out since I'd only used DBeaver before. Upon finding out it didn't save my connection by default, I instantly went back to DBeaver.

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Google search for a local restaurant returns scammer’s ad as top result"

mooncakes_ooohh — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:47:12 +0000

Also it could have been a friend or family member finding it first. I use browser based adblockers on all my devices. My partner doesn't always. Luckily I have Pi-hole setup to at least block these links on my home network.

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down"

mooncakes_ooohh — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:11:09 +0000

Sitting in Africa and I have clients in Europe - some things just don't lend themselves to email coms.

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "HP Accidentally Uses macOS Screenshot in Ad for Windows Laptop"

mooncakes_ooohh — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:44:59 +0000

What bothers me more is the use of only two ellipses leading the tagline.

Making an X-ray machine in your backyard

mooncakes_ooohh — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiXMR69C3F0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32319649

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Ask HN: Why do I get different Google Maps Results on Different Accounts?"

mooncakes_ooohh — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:21:54 +0000

Coordinates here for those interested:

50°45'12.7"N 14°36'22.4"E

Ask HN: Why do I get different Google Maps Results on Different Accounts?

mooncakes_ooohh — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 10:21:22 +0000

I came across a meme which made reference to a longitude and latitude. Being curious, I entered it on Google Maps and it took me to a building in the Czech Republic. Nothing was immediately apparent so I switched to the satellite view. My juvenile sense of humour was satiated and I immediately decided to forward the coordinates to a couple of friends with equally juvenile taste.

I got one reply back asking me what the significance of a blank building was? First I thought they had totally missed the joke but it occurred to me that this image was rather hard to miss.

I fiddled around for a bit and tried on my different Gmail accounts and I was able to replicate different satellite images being displayed. One set of images clearly new and crisp, whilst the other rather blurred and dark.

Now I warn you, this a bit NSFW but the comparison is below.

https://imgur.com/a/v9yLpZb

So my question is: does anyone know what factors go into displaying different results to different accounts?

My first thought would be some form of timed rollout of new imagery to prevent any glitches and naughties reaching the masses. But that clearly slipped through the cracks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29837411

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

Ghost riders: the invisible lives of Johannesburg food couriers

mooncakes_ooohh — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 08:44:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/13/ghost-riders-the-invisible-lives-of-johannesburg-food-couriers-photo-essay

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537875

Points: 52

# Comments: 64

South African talent marketplace OfferZen gets $5.2M to deepen European growth

mooncakes_ooohh — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:25:12 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/01/south-african-talent-marketplace-offerzen-gets-5-2m-to-deepen-european-expansion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29402162

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "I like e-readers now"

mooncakes_ooohh — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:14:27 +0000

Came into this thread looking for anything to make my Kobo more tolerable. Gladly going to give this a go. I had an original Kindle and it felt just seamless at the time. I broke the screen and had to migrate to a Kobo Touch. It does the job but it's not nearly as responsive and the battery life is abhorrent.

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Useful Spy Books"

mooncakes_ooohh — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 06:03:28 +0000

I've always been a fan of espionage related stories but I was born sometime after the fall of the Berlin wall, so anything Cold War just seems like a tale from a time long ago. Does anyone have recommendations of books dealing with espionage in the contemporary age? Bonus if it's cyberespionage related.

New comment by mooncakes_ooohh in "Putting Raspberry Pi Online with Caddy and SSH Tunnel"

mooncakes_ooohh — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:26:39 +0000

I'm going to give this a try for personal use. For larger scale management alternative to ngrok I've been eyeing Shellhub for it's self-hosted capabilities and dashboard.