Hacker News: neilo40

New comment by neilo40 in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

neilo40 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:08:01 +0000

Mormonism is a branch of Christianity

New comment by neilo40 in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf"

neilo40 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:55:25 +0000

I had that issue. I just created a new account solely for YouTube

New comment by neilo40 in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf"

neilo40 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:54:13 +0000

I haven’t seen a single ad in over a year. You still get paid sponsorships depending on the channel though

New comment by neilo40 in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

neilo40 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:52:58 +0000

I paid for a family subscription a couple of years ago. It is very reasonably priced. Probably one of the least regretted subscriptions I have given the amount of use I get out of it

New comment by neilo40 in "I'm Done with Ubuntu"

neilo40 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:24:02 +0000

I’m in a similar boat. I jumped to pop!os from Ubuntu for the nvidia gpu support (and snapectomy) which has worked pretty well. I think I’ll be upgrading to an AMD gpu next though so will likely go Debian after that too. My other non-gaming machines are on bookworm

New comment by neilo40 in "It's pretty easy to cut $2T from the federal budget"

neilo40 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:49:04 +0000

The article even uses them interchangeably between the title and the first paragraph

New comment by neilo40 in "Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated"

neilo40 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:09 +0000

Same in Scotland. And our tax burden is even higher (if you’re a middle or high earner at least)

New comment by neilo40 in "Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia"

neilo40 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:16:41 +0000

I’m fairly certain L2 caches were external (and could be purchased separately) on 486 and earlier systems

New comment by neilo40 in "CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there"

neilo40 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:29:35 +0000

Yes. That’s the race condition

New comment by neilo40 in "I like the RP2040"

neilo40 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:42:35 +0000

Although it looks like BGA, it actually uses a QFN package where all the contacts are accessible at the edge. With a little practice they are relatively easy to hand solder (I've done many, not just rp2040)

New comment by neilo40 in "One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence"

neilo40 — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:26:12 +0000

I think they would have just brought you another. They unclip from the seat very easily (in a safe way of course)

New comment by neilo40 in "Bungie Devs Atmosphere 'Soul-Crushing' Amid Layoffs, Cuts, Fear of Sony Takeover"

neilo40 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:46:34 +0000

They did. My wife plays it constantly

New comment by neilo40 in "UK Address Oddities (2018)"

neilo40 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 12:04:51 +0000

I live in an Edwardian street and my house should have been 13 except it isn’t. They skipped it and my house is 15 instead. Hopefully the universe doesn’t spot this deceit!

New comment by neilo40 in "The FAANG Market Is Fading"

neilo40 — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:55:42 +0000

FAANG is dead. Long live MANAMA! (Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon)

Silly, I know but I’ve always wondered why Microsoft was left out of the original 5

New comment by neilo40 in "Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)"

neilo40 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:49:21 +0000

I had almost exactly the same career arc. Perl became Python, Sun became Linux and I eventually moved beyond sysadmin work into automation, then API development and now I lead software development teams. Are you still doing sysadmin work?