Hacker News: nullify88

New comment by nullify88 in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

nullify88 — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:29:18 +0000

I have a 2025 Renault 4 etech and I frequently enable bluetooth thethering so I can access Spotify, HBO etc via the in car entertainment system (It runs a flavour of Android called OpenR Link) , not via android auto. Though I frequently need to enable the bluetooth tethering setting on the phone before the profile can be activated via the cars paired devices menu (where you can select other profiles such as Audio, calling, etc)

While the car has a sim card already, I can't use it for general purpose apps without a subscription. Only updates, remote control and I suppose telemetry.

I usually opt for choosing a bluetooth tether instead of wifi since I already establish a connection for calls, or music / audio books.

It isn't hard to imagine Android being able to transmit vehicle telemetry via the same means.

New comment by nullify88 in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

nullify88 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:40:48 +0000

This will make a good office prank for those that leave their desktops unlocked and unattended.

New comment by nullify88 in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

nullify88 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:36:15 +0000

> I notice that my contribution was evaluated based on my identity rather than the quality of the work, and I’d like to understand the needs that this policy is trying to meet, because I believe there might be ways to address those needs while also accepting technically sound contributions

Wow, where can I learn to write like this? I could use this at work.

New comment by nullify88 in "Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production"

nullify88 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:17:01 +0000

I was a huge fan of the Activision remake, and the Battlezone 2 sequel. The mixture of FPS and RTS was really appealing to me.

I had to beg my parents for an ATI Rage LT Pro AGP 8MB card to play the sequel.

New comment by nullify88 in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

nullify88 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:14:57 +0000

I'm very impressed by the range of shows available on DR (Danish broadcasting). Shows about emotion, social etiquette, animals, machines and other intrigue. We do limit time, use it to reward good behaviour, and use it to recuperate after a day at nursery. Each night the kids get a book, and we usually play music as we prepare and eat dinner.

I believe a balance of all mediums is healthy. I look forward to introducing video games to them.

New comment by nullify88 in "Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)"

nullify88 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:21:15 +0000

The game also had support for mods. After the first playthrough I've always played the game with the kongfu mod enabling wallrunning, kicks, additional weapons such as Sticks, and various other action orientated changes.

Additionally, I believe Rockstar gave the go-ahead for work on a remake for 1 & 2. Hopefully they have James Perry McCaffrey's voice work in good enough quality. RIP.

New comment by nullify88 in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

nullify88 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:06:05 +0000

I've been running Kea at dayjob in production for the last 5-ish years, setup in a HA manner. It's worked solidly.

New comment by nullify88 in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

nullify88 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:01:42 +0000

A possible answer as to why this is happening. https://thememoryguy.com/some-clarity-on-2025s-ddr4-price-su...

New comment by nullify88 in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

nullify88 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:30:33 +0000

https://www.versity.com/products/versitygw/

I haven't tried it though. Seems simple enough to run.

New comment by nullify88 in "Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas"

nullify88 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:32:20 +0000

That scene really cracked me up. The show is shot very well. It's good to have Vince Gilligan back on the TV again.

New comment by nullify88 in "Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150"

nullify88 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:54:52 +0000

While the N100 document a 16gb limit, they are known to have no problems with a 32gb module. I run one myself.

New comment by nullify88 in "Helm 4.0"

nullify88 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:57:35 +0000

Running my home lab at home, I've grown sick of constant Renovate PRs against the helm charts in use. I recall one "minor" update not long ago recently in CoreDNS was messing with the exposed ports in the service and installs broke for a lot of folks. If I need to run some software now, I `helm template` the resources and commit those to git. I'm so tired of some random "Extended helm chart to customise labels / annotations in $some resource" change notes. Traefik and Cilium are the only helm charts I use, the rest I `helm template` in to my gitops repo, customize and forget.

At Dayjob in the past, we've debugged various Helm issues caused by the internal sprig library used. We fear updating Argo CD and Helm for what surprises are in store for us and we're starting to adopt the rendered manifests pattern for greater visibility to catch such changes.

New comment by nullify88 in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

nullify88 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:54:35 +0000

I don't think HN is a social media site. The goals of a social media site is to keep you engaged for as long as possible with the assistance of various algorithms, dark patterns while your data is sold to businesses so they can have a slice of your attention pie via ads and supported content.

I dont feel as if any of that applies here. In fact HN has gotten further from a social media site by not displaying comment points.

New comment by nullify88 in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

nullify88 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:27:11 +0000

Lets not forget Ubisofts uPlay which was absolutely shambolic. Blizzard's / Activision launcher was alright though. It did the job but no where to the likes of Steam which is really feature rich.

New comment by nullify88 in "Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time"

nullify88 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:06:55 +0000

As mentioned in their writeup, they are following documentation and best practices from Google themselves.

New comment by nullify88 in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

nullify88 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:41:06 +0000

I do think that JetKVM software is more polished, and has more frequent updates. Stuff like streaming images over the network is something that is handy.

Nano KVM commits have stagnated a bit, but the form factor is really nice to have everything tucked away. I wish I could run JetKVM on the Nano KVM.

New comment by nullify88 in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

nullify88 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:25:23 +0000

Something like Intel AMT? Some prosumer motherboards like ASRock Rack have out of band management controllers in them.

New comment by nullify88 in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

nullify88 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:09:20 +0000

Something like the NanoKVM-PCIe? I have both JetKVM and NanoKVM-PCIe, its nice to have options.

New comment by nullify88 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

nullify88 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:22:07 +0000

I would say even if not using Talos, Argo CD or Flux CD together with Renovate really helps to simplify the reoccuring maintenence.

New comment by nullify88 in "California law forces Netflix, Hulu to turn down ad volumes"

nullify88 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:25:19 +0000

Maybe its possible to feed everything in to a model that can identify the situation or context in audio or video and block a section out because its an ad. We would not be short of training material. Latency would have to be low enough to be attractive to users.