Hacker News: nosioptar

New comment by nosioptar in "Childhood Computing"

nosioptar — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:47:36 +0000

It's been a long time, but I remember it a bit.

I also remember running over to the neighbor's to make a copy of a working config file after effing up my config file. (Himem.sys?)

New comment by nosioptar in "When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court"

nosioptar — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:45:00 +0000

No worries.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely blame the republicans for the state of the court. I'm just saying the dems have some shit on their hands too.

New comment by nosioptar in "When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court"

nosioptar — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:33:17 +0000

Clearance Thomas was confirmed 52-48, with 11 dems voting in favor [0]. He wouldn't have been confirmed without dem votes.

(The other five shitheads would have been confirmed without dem votes if I'm not mistaken.)

[0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

New comment by nosioptar in "Don't Roll Your Own"

nosioptar — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:47:28 +0000

It should be legal to cut off a dev's fingers if they fuck with the scrollbar.

New comment by nosioptar in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

nosioptar — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:32:47 +0000

Firefox 150 android w/ ublock: images don't load, rest of page works fine.

I'd guess I'm probably more aggressive in what I block?

New comment by nosioptar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

nosioptar — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:31:34 +0000

While Calibre makes it easy, it's even easier to just download a copy someone else has already stripped of DRM.

If publishers/authors want my money, they can release a version without DRM.

New comment by nosioptar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

nosioptar — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:31 +0000

Not always obvious. I've stopped several relatives from making that mistake.

For some reason, they're inclined to trust Amazon.

New comment by nosioptar in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

nosioptar — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:58:58 +0000

I had an old kindle that I never connected to the net or with an amazon account. I loaded books by USB.

Damn near impossible to find DRM free books to purchase though.

New comment by nosioptar in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

nosioptar — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:56:34 +0000

Gog.com only sells games without DRM.

Most games on itch.io are not DRMed.

New comment by nosioptar in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

nosioptar — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:54:29 +0000

Dude, nothing they said had anything to do with left handedness...

New comment by nosioptar in "Flipper One – we need your help"

nosioptar — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:32:20 +0000

I wish HN would do that, especially on show hn posts.

Personally, I'd skip clicking on any slop links, which eliminates any anti slop comments I'd make.

New comment by nosioptar in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

nosioptar — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:54:01 +0000

Both just give me a recaptcha. Start page doesn't:

https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?q=test

New comment by nosioptar in "WordPress 7.0"

nosioptar — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:02:04 +0000

I'm probably going to use classic press next time I need a wp like cms (assuming its security doesnt suck).

https://www.classicpress.net/

New comment by nosioptar in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

nosioptar — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:45:18 +0000

I can't overstate just how much I love seeing a NES game developed in 2026. It looks great. I really like the music too.

Have you considered also releasing it to itch.io? (I don't do business with Steam due to DRM and their inaccessible website.)

I would happily purchase a NES ROM file so I could play it on my pitendo (RPi3 in a case that looks like an NES).

I'm not well versed in video editing. That said, the people I know who are tend to use Da Vinci Resolve.

New comment by nosioptar in "Think Linear Algebra (2023)"

nosioptar — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:01:49 +0000

Seconded, not only is Downey quite generous, his books are every bit as good, if not better, than expensive counterparts. Think Stats bailed my ass out of failing a stats class because it was so much clearer than the assigned book.

New comment by nosioptar in "Think Linear Algebra (2023)"

nosioptar — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:56:08 +0000

Here's a newer version (2023 vs 2012).

I'm pretty sure there are also some forks where people adapted the book to other languages than Java or Python.

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/

New comment by nosioptar in "Null ID – A local daemon for age restrictions without surveillance"

nosioptar — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:01:37 +0000

With all the age restriction stuff lately, I'd like to point out that Mageia has parental controls that are easy to use and don't surveil users. (Other Mandrakes might also have it too.)

https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/4/en/content/drakguard.html

New comment by nosioptar in "Mostly the first breakup AI agent that delivers your breakup over iMessage"

nosioptar — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:10:20 +0000

Wow. I hate everything about this.

It looks like any other ai slop app.

Even if it'd been built competently, what kind of piece of shit breaks up via a text, much less getting an AI to send said text?

New comment by nosioptar in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

nosioptar — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:14:24 +0000

What an awful site. I suggest you read about prefers - reduced - motion [0]. People who set this preference have a good reason for doing so, you should respect your users a bit.

(I set this preference because motion while I'm trying to read makes me nauseated.)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

New comment by nosioptar in "Show HN: Free C course called "C Systems Lab""

nosioptar — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:07:50 +0000

It's a bummer the site looks like low contrast slop, the grey text hurts my eyes.

(Admittedly, HN also uses slop grey, but I use custom CSS to unfuck hn's bullshit colors.)