Hacker News: nticompass

New comment by nticompass in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

nticompass — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:47:20 +0000

Man, am I happy that I deleted my Facebook. No regrets.

New comment by nticompass in "Grok Bot"

nticompass — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:09 +0000

they should probably kill grok

New comment by nticompass in "Grok Bot by SpaceXAI"

nticompass — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:38:05 +0000

No thanks.

New comment by nticompass in "They Killed Old Reddit"

nticompass — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:03:14 +0000

redlib is a thing and has been around for a while.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

New comment by nticompass in "Recycle – Floppydisks"

nticompass — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:48:12 +0000

What do you mean? I was able to click "add to cart" on their website and was taken to a PayPal page to check out. I think the issue is on your end (some type of ad/tracking/cookie blocker messing up the page).

I've bought many floppy disks from these guys and I can say that they are 100% legit.

Also, destroying old technology is no way to progress into the future.

New comment by nticompass in "My server is a phone now"

nticompass — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:30:58 +0000

As someone who just installed FreePBX on his home server, I guess I basically did that.

New comment by nticompass in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

nticompass — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:23:10 +0000

I used LTT's 40 Gbps cable to connect my ThinkPad X270 to a USB-C monitor and it worked fine. I guess neither device there is TB5, but just wanted to share that those cables do at least support DP-alt mode (or whatever it's called).

New comment by nticompass in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

nticompass — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:01:53 +0000

I've noticed this with obvious scam ads on the YouTube app or even Google search results. I've determined that (much like Twitter/X) the "verification" (or "moderation") is simply just "did they [the advertiser] pay us?"

New comment by nticompass in "Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage"

nticompass — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:54:54 +0000

I ran Windows XP x64 Edition on a computer for a while and some software didn't like it. Since it was technically NT 5.2 (Server 2003) and not NT 5.1 (XP), some programs/installers would complain that it wasn't compatible. So, it was cool to have a 64-bit Windows XP, it was annoying to get stuff to run on it.

New comment by nticompass in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

nticompass — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:35:29 +0000

We all know what the word was, it was a joke to replace it with another word that has the same first/last letters that obviously wouldn't fit here. A joke about how words are censored all over the internet as a way to appease advertisers on various platforms.

New comment by nticompass in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

nticompass — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:18:04 +0000

It's VBScript/macro worms all over again!

New comment by nticompass in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

nticompass — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:04:02 +0000

You've never heard of "the most funded project in Kickstarter history"?

This project is the continuation of Pebble watches after they sold their assets to Fibit, Fitbit got bought by Google and Google open sourced Pebble software.

New comment by nticompass in "Starlink from 1984"

nticompass — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:24:46 +0000

Is that related to StarLAN?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarLAN

New comment by nticompass in "Every postcard tells a story"

nticompass — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:11:16 +0000

Spatie (creators of a bunch of Laravel/PHP packages) is postcardware, too! https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards

New comment by nticompass in "Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter"

nticompass — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:00:28 +0000

This post just makes me realize that one day I need to buy myself an oscilloscope.

New comment by nticompass in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

nticompass — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:55:00 +0000

+1 for ControlD. I've been using for a while, and whilst it does have false positives sometimes and I need to manually add a site to the allow list, it works great for me. Also, their support has been very helpful whenever I needed something.

New comment by nticompass in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

nticompass — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:09:15 +0000

I read it as "how much is actually assembled in Finland versus arriving pre-assembled?"

New comment by nticompass in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

nticompass — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:08:32 +0000

Yes, but which pieces are put together there and which are already assembled elsewhere?

Show HN: Network-Attached Serial Mouse

nticompass — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:27:19 +0000

I was messing around with a terminal server, I liked being able to access my home server's and managed switch's console/rs-232 port over telnet. That got me thinking, though.

Does it just have to be text/consoles that can be accessed over the network? What if I connected some other serial device to the terminal server?

I decided to see what would happen if I connected a serial mouse and tried to access/read it over the network. Long story short, I wrote a small python script to let me read a serial mouse over the network on Windows (and Linux, but on Linux you can just use socat and inputattach).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673031

Points: 2

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New comment by nticompass in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

nticompass — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:33:22 +0000

> Hiding filename extensions was one of the capital sins in computer history

Amen. The first thing I do on any (Windows) OS installation is make sure file extensions are shown. I guess Microsoft did that for "simplicity", but it also made for easy "virus.jpg.vbs" files.