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New comment by ohuf in "More random home lab things I've recently learned"

ohuf — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:53:06 +0000

> Turns out, you don’t need an SD card at all↑ > What I didn’t know, however, is that Raspberry Pi 5s can actually support NVME drives!

...turns out you don't need local storage at all: if you already run a NAS you can bootp the RasPi over the network!

This also makes backups super easy.

New comment by ohuf in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

ohuf — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:13:34 +0000

Thank you for making this, @usernameis42: I was still looking for my 2025 "to sponsor" project. I'm donating to SomaFM now!

New comment by ohuf in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

ohuf — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:33:18 +0000

Question: any chance I can have this as a radio station in my Alexa??

New comment by ohuf in "Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats"

ohuf — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:57:28 +0000

As a German citizen, the amount of times I heard from the "Piratenpartei" can be counted on one hand. In the early 2000s that party suffered immensely from being hijacked by Neo Nazis, losing a lot of support from voters. Since the Nazis went off and joined the AFD, the Pirate Party is more or less silent.

The worst part was when they hardly commented on Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks!

New comment by ohuf in "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

ohuf — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:43:18 +0000

I must have missed the Blockchain/Bitcoin printers

New comment by ohuf in "Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain"

ohuf — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 06:15:35 +0000

The subdomain explorer may be fun, but their Exploit Observer is really useful: https://www.exploit.observer/

New comment by ohuf in "Thunderbird 115"

ohuf — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:31:36 +0000

The only issue I have with TB search is the setting for the results presentation: why is there not a preferences option to set if the results show as list or in the current default 'verbose' view?

switching to list view manually seems so inefficient

New comment by ohuf in "A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]"

ohuf — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:08:33 +0000

...that would void the warranty! ;)

New comment by ohuf in "Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?"

ohuf — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:36:46 +0000

...only in big cities. Rural areas including the suburbs of the 100k's still depend heavily on individual transport...

New comment by ohuf in "Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2"

ohuf — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 05:32:25 +0000

I'm wondering what DALL-E would make out of the descriptions in classic text adventure games from the 1970s-90s like, for example the ZORK series?

New comment by ohuf in "Car Seats as Contraception (2020)"

ohuf — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 05:07:48 +0000

View it like this: 8000 happy parents vs 57 grieving ones.

New comment by ohuf in "SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way"

ohuf — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 06:17:57 +0000

The question is: what good is a security system that tells me to "just allow whatever the problem is", once a problem comes up? Without being able to see the specifics of a request and blindly following the whitelisting I could end up allowing some hacked module access to critical files without knowing. Opening the system to exactly the dangers I'm seeking to stop.

New comment by ohuf in "Tried to charge my phone (with USB-C), but my laptop started getting charged"

ohuf — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:28:28 +0000

What do you mean by "first device plugged in"? If I connect two devices with an USB-C cable, which one is the "first device" then?

New comment by ohuf in "Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password"

ohuf — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:13:57 +0000

I keep my password database in a Google Drive directory. Clients exist on Windows, Mac, Android, IOS.

New comment by ohuf in "A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design"

ohuf — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:53:18 +0000

I don't think this is a good idea: when I'm searching on the web I want to get results with a high relevance to my search query. I don't care a lot about the presentation.

New comment by ohuf in "Show HN: Forlater.email – an email-based bookmarking service"

ohuf — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:49:20 +0000

Read about forlater.email and learned about Ko.Fi. I love the web.

New comment by ohuf in "A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (2019)"

ohuf — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 09:27:27 +0000

I just read "Black Ice" and it comes to my mind that William Gibson once more was way ahead of his time in 1984, writing "Neuromancer" ;)

New comment by ohuf in "In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row"

ohuf — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 20:46:23 +0000

apologies: I was watching the YouTube video that's in the bottom of this article, where graduates were asked "what causes summer and winter" that's what my comment above is about!.

New comment by ohuf in "In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row"

ohuf — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 20:41:14 +0000

But that's the problem with these students as well: their intuition tells them that when it's warmer the sun has to be nearer. the fact that the amount of sunlight throughout the day (timespan) causes warmer seasons is an indirection in thinking.

Of course they should know what causes seasons if they had payed attention in class.

I wonder how they reacted if you'd ask them about the hemispherical difference in summer/winter, e.g. how can the southern hemisphere have winter when the whole earth is nearer to the sun...

New comment by ohuf in "TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability"

ohuf — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:08:00 +0000

... which is pretty convenient for you and guys, because if you look at it that long-term way, nobody can tell that your whole product is a useless scam