Hacker News: onosendai

New comment by onosendai in "David Lynch has died"

onosendai — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:27:46 +0000

I'm incredibly saddened by his passing away, even if it was expected given the recent decline of his health.

I'm not going to touch on his films, which are all special and definitely worth watching, but if anyone who didn't know him wants a primer on his complex, sometimes surreal, but I think ultimately endearing personality, then this is a nice introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0

Waggle Dance

onosendai — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:10:31 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41205768

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by onosendai in "Mechanical Watch"

onosendai — Wed, 04 May 2022 19:55:37 +0000

The first Eco-Drives came out in the mid 90s. If you look around you'll find quite a few reports from people who bought the very first ones, and which are still ticking away virtually maintenance-free for 25+ years and counting. My own, a dive watch with around 10 years, which has actually been used for its stated purpose, is also still problem-free and with zero maintenance so far.

The only thing you need to be mindful of with Eco-Drives is that you can't let it lose all charge. It can keep functioning in complete darkness for around 6 months, according to the specs, but if you do this enough times the battery will lose the ability to hold charge and will need to be replaced, and there are plenty of reports to this effect. If you're not planning on wearing it, just leave it somewhere that it can get natural light, instead of a drawer, and you should be good.

While mechanical watches are undoubtedly cool and elegant, they're not perfect timekeepers, and when they do need maintenance it's not something trivial which you can perform yourself. For my day-to-day watch I'll take an accurate quartz movement with virtually zero maintenance any day. In other words an Eco-Drive, or something similar.

New comment by onosendai in "Lobotomizing Gnome"

onosendai — Wed, 30 May 2018 11:02:56 +0000

I've been using dnf to continuously upgrade my Fedora installation between 24 and 28, and it's worked pretty much flawlessly.

It's gotten to the point that system upgrades are as boring as the regular stream of updates that you receive daily, the only difference being that every 6 months you get more updates than usual being pushed.

Remember when the first real tool you had to perform system upgrades on Fedora was called FedUp? It was quite amazing, not to mention unexpected, seeing Fedora go from being one of the worst distros to upgrade to one of the best.

OK, US government – see you in court

onosendai — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:41:30 +0000

Article URL: http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2017/08/14/ok-us-government-see-you-in-court/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053974

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

Startup Sequences of Shells

onosendai — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 19:10:01 +0000

Article URL: https://dingyichen.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/startup-sequences-of-shells/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14972558

Points: 32

# Comments: 6

Ubuntu for mobile devices post mortem analysis

onosendai — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 12:45:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lieberbiber.de/2017/06/20/my-ubuntu-for-mobile-devices-post-mortem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14629749

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hackers can’t solve surveillance (2015)

onosendai — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:19:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dmytri.info/hackers-cant-solve-surveillance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450108

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Chapeau Is Exactly What the Linux Desktop Needs

onosendai — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:40:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linux.com/learn/chapeau-exactly-what-linux-desktop-needs-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12867259

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Notice of security breach on Ubuntu Forums

onosendai — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/07/15/notice-of-security-breach-on-ubuntu-forums/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101918

Points: 39

# Comments: 12

Do you trust this application?

onosendai — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:59:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/03/12/do-you-trust-this-application/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277064

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Why the Linux Mint hack is an indicator of a larger problem

onosendai — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:31:00 +0000

Article URL: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-is-an-indicator-of-a-larger-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11213180

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Mysterious collector opens world’s largest private Apple exhibition in Prague

onosendai — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:43:11 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/12/mysterious-collector-opens-worlds-largest-private-apple-exhibition-in-prague/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801024

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Jacob Appelbaum

onosendai — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:16:14 +0000

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2015/06/20/wikileaks-jacob-appelbaum-google-investigation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788813

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by onosendai in "Hack: A typeface designed for source code"

onosendai — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 19:47:29 +0000

They do acknowledge the source of the font:

"Hack has deep roots in the libre, open source typeface community and includes the contributions of the Bitstream Vera & DejaVu projects."

It's a bit disingenuous though. I'd call Hack a straight copy of Deja Vu Sans Mono, with a few very minor tweaks. On Linux using the TTF fonts I can't even see a difference in line height:

http://i.imgur.com/wxTr0at.png

http://i.imgur.com/OO1bJFE.png

The only glyphs I can tell which are slightly different are 'i', '0' and '_'.

New comment by onosendai in "A Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist"

onosendai — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:57:42 +0000

You can listen to Jean Shepherd himself tell the story of the "I, Libertine" hoax during a radio show here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html It's 40 min long, but well worth it and hilariously funny. I've always been fascinated by this story, it speaks volumes of the world we live in and how people are easily influenced and manipulated.

New comment by onosendai in "The NoScript Misnomer"

onosendai — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:32:20 +0000

It seems both NoScript and AdBlock Plus have become really permissive as of late regarding their whitelists. While ABP is a bit shady with their 'acceptable ads' deals, I believe in NoScript's case it's probably due to not wanting to break things too badly for less technically minded users.

Regardless, I've replaced both extensions with uBlock Origin. While UB in default deny mode is not as fine grained as NS, it does the job and doesn't compromise on default whitelists at the expense of a little breakage (gorhill is very adamant on this point).

New comment by onosendai in "The Virtual Moleskine"

onosendai — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 22:03:53 +0000

I've also noticed that I retain information much better when I'm actually writing it down on paper, than when I take quick notes on a laptop. I don't know the cognitive basis for this, but I suspect that it has something to do with it being a much 'slower' medium to register information in. Somehow your brain is forced to focus on the information that's at hand, instead of immediately trying to skip ahead to what's coming up next.

I don't use moleskines though, they're way overpriced for the poor quality paper they offer (i.e. it's not fountain pen friendly, which is what I usually use). Spiral notebooks are much cheaper, practical and usually provide better quality paper.

How I build stuff

onosendai — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:38:40 +0000

Article URL: https://levels.io/how-i-build-stuff/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8247356

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Russia publicly joins war on Tor privacy with $111,000 bounty

onosendai — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:43:07 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/russia-publicly-joins-war-on-tor-privacy-with-111000-bounty/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8089236

Points: 9

# Comments: 1