Hacker News: oofdoof

New comment by oofdoof in "Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?"

oofdoof — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:54:42 +0000

I also really like Reeder but use miniflux as the backend

New comment by oofdoof in "Crypto Wars: Hungarian Presidency continues fight against encryption"

oofdoof — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:24:59 +0000

The title is terrible. I was also misled.

New comment by oofdoof in "60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively cured from HIV"

oofdoof — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:32:40 +0000

The people who use patriotism for every reason except actually caring for their fellow citizens.

New comment by oofdoof in "User reports metallic taste in mouth when using laptop"

oofdoof — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:21:11 +0000

Some years ago when I still had my 2009 Macbook Pro I noticed that if:

- The laptop was charging

- I was touching the laptop with one hand, and either (my memory is fuzzy on the details by now but it was one of these two circumstances):

- A friend was touching me on the side of the forehead with one hand and touching a crack on the wall with the other hand

- I was the one touching the crack on the wall with my other hand.

Again, I don’t remember which of these last two. BUT I remember the result: I would see banding with my eyes (very similar to what you see with cameras when their shutter doesn’t sync with AC power).

Now, our eyes don’t have shutters so I have no idea what was going on but I saw it.

New comment by oofdoof in "Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge"

oofdoof — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:24:37 +0000

Exactly. Binarymax, spill the beans.

New comment by oofdoof in "Programs written in Golang have no secrets"

oofdoof — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:26:42 +0000

It’s still a valid strategy and it makes sense in the current economic system.

New comment by oofdoof in "RSS was released 25 years ago today"

oofdoof — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:00:03 +0000

I use Reeder on iOS connected to a miniflux instance (via a google reader compatible API). Reeder has a feature where it can mark an article you scroll past as read which for me is a must - with most items I have titles are enough and I don’t want to open every single article to mark it as read.

New comment by oofdoof in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

oofdoof — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 13:09:12 +0000

It’s crazy to me that platforms like these don’t have a reasonable spend limit set by default or easily configured.

I understand it can be difficult to stop spending exactly at a certain amount to the cent or event to the dollar or, hey, tens of dollars if traffic is really crazy. But hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Your system should be able to measure that and stop it in time.

New comment by oofdoof in "Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional"

oofdoof — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 21:54:04 +0000

Which they would win because they have the money to get themselves a well equipped army if they need to.

New comment by oofdoof in "Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says"

oofdoof — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:48:55 +0000

It could. In the same way that when fossil fuel companies found out their business is destroying the planet they could have pivoted into renewables. But they didn’t.

With profit being the deciding factor it’s anyone’s guess what the people who are in charge of these companies will do to avoid bankruptcy.

New comment by oofdoof in "Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app"

oofdoof — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:39:29 +0000

Something where this immediately has an advantage over Obsidian is not having to pay for the sync feature to have the notes synced between your phone and your laptop.

New comment by oofdoof in "Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses"

oofdoof — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:54:18 +0000

The solution is to support these people if they are unable to work so that they don’t have to fear for their livelihood if they come down sick.

If the expectation is for people who are sick to further worsen their condition by becoming unemployed and discard themselves then the system is broken - simple as.

New comment by oofdoof in "Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content"

oofdoof — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:20:04 +0000

That won’t make sense forever. Already barely does. Giving people access to their stuff without DRM is the way.

New comment by oofdoof in "Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content"

oofdoof — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 12:18:50 +0000

This and things like inheritance when someone passes away are things that will have to be regulated since we can’t trust these companies to do the right thing.

Allowing people to download what they purchased and allowing account transfers to your kids when you pass away should become legal rights.

New comment by oofdoof in "Show HN: Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration"

oofdoof — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:01:29 +0000

I’ve been wearing these in public with prescription lenses and in Germany, of all places. The only person who has mentioned something so far was the guy at the door in the apple store. He recognized them immediately but I could tell he was into tech, so not an average joe and we had a nice chat about the glasses for a bit.

I always make it a point to explain that I’m not recording and that if I was the light would be on. And that if you try to cover it it actually will not allow you to record (which is true).

New comment by oofdoof in "Impending Collapse: Our System Is on the Cusp of Failure"

oofdoof — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:27:14 +0000

The “nation” is a fairly new concept and what was there before did have owners.

The future he talks about might be one where workplaces don’t have an owner either.