Hacker News: osobo

New comment by osobo in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

osobo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:27:20 +0000

I never thought I'd see FidoNet again.

New comment by osobo in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

osobo — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:53:16 +0000

Did you even read the article? They explicitly point out that it was the learned class that was so busy with their other important things that they missed all of it. The whole thing is about how that played out.

New comment by osobo in "25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite"

osobo — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:44:04 +0000

They got an estimate for the audit on expired copyrights and media use and though "fuck it". Probably going to monetize and re-release cleared highlights at a later date.

New comment by osobo in "Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward"

osobo — Mon, 06 May 2024 05:58:15 +0000

There really is no such thing as 'gamers', any more than there are 'movie-goers' or 'streamers'. Everybody does it. Some demographics will love to tribe up just for the sake of it. Some will just shrug and move on. One of the saddest things about game marketing is how it's still hyper-focused on horny teens.

That said: As long as companies can change their TOS, content or even the availability of their game, the review system should be equally flexible.

New comment by osobo in "Gas Trapped in Antarctic Ice Recorded the Mass Death of 56M People"

osobo — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:41:55 +0000

Linking a block of ice to colonization is so 2023.

New comment by osobo in "The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors"

osobo — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:15:57 +0000

I've been online since the late eighties and over time I've seen some nasty NSFL stuff. I am absolutely certain this has shaped my world view to some degree. Like some other GenX-er said: "Internet is our Vietnam".

New comment by osobo in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

osobo — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:51:32 +0000

I wonder what they were all doing. Their special apps, like the iWatch, are below par and they are pretty much the last service that doesn't offer HQ audio. AI does most of the editorial playlist generation. What are nearly 10K people doing?

New comment by osobo in "Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)"

osobo — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:35:43 +0000

Drykorn actually has a line of designer clothing made from sports materials.

New comment by osobo in "Anxious dogs, like anxious people, need help managing and reducing distress"

osobo — Mon, 15 May 2023 11:45:37 +0000

Some manner of obligation to care for your pet (any pet) should exist. This has nothing to do with religion and is all about honoring the commitment you entered when you decided to take care of an animal.

New comment by osobo in "Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070"

osobo — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:00:47 +0000

How does a population drop equal extinction?

New comment by osobo in "Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?"

osobo — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:41:51 +0000

I feel this might need some new form of 3D input to get it right. Our grasp of speech made us lazy: The core of what we want to communicate can be captured in sound and therefore words (and hence you can read and understand this). 'Communicating' with my dog is a multi-cue affair, involving pointed looks, head tilts, specific wags and a lot of emoting. I doubt you could consistently pick all that up from (2D) video alone.

New comment by osobo in "Even if you can't write assembly, you can read disassembly"

osobo — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:44:42 +0000

> You’re only one step away from the metal.

You can write about assembly like a poet, at least.

New comment by osobo in "Nuclear power is too safe"

osobo — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:13:18 +0000

It's not just about life-years. It's about the risk of making significant stretches of land uninhabitable for a serious amount of time. 26 Chernobyl-like releases would have punched some serious holes in the map of the Western world. Furthermore, the 30-year argument sounds disingenuous ("LNT-Worshipping"? Really?) and the CO2 waste issue is mentioned where the nuclear waste issue is not.

Honestly, the whole thing feels like cheap propaganda.

New comment by osobo in "Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there's a 30-year waitlist"

osobo — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 05:44:53 +0000

It's marketing, done well.

New comment by osobo in "Tell HN: Reddit does not allow comments post via old.reddit.com"

osobo — Fri, 20 May 2022 08:11:59 +0000

I'm grateful for this. It's a good incentive to finally quit Reddit completely. It's pretty much down there with Facebook these days but so far I've kept scanning it out of habit. But the new UI is so bloody toxic, I'd rather quit than undergo that.

New comment by osobo in "Spreading rock dust on farms as a climate solution"

osobo — Sun, 15 May 2022 11:42:03 +0000

So, I did exactly that and got a recommendation of up to 10lb per 100 sq feet, which is over 4kg/9sq meter, off the first hit.

New comment by osobo in "Europe is investing heavily in trains"

osobo — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:42:37 +0000

I'm fairly sure a mode of transportation that can carry thousands and doesn't fall out of the sky when something fails has other benefits, even if the fuel/passenger ration should be worse (which I doubt).

New comment by osobo in "How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020)"

osobo — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:09:50 +0000

I'm looking into making a house sustainable right now and the windows are actually a point of contention. One side thinks super-high insulated (triple pane) windows are a waste of money, the other swears by them. Assuming the frame doesn't leak, does triple really make that much of a difference?

New comment by osobo in "€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP"

osobo — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:21:22 +0000

In the last ten years there has been a significant change in mainstream content from information (what) to personalities (who). A major driver has been the adoption of social media by the mainstream: Uncle Bob pawing his cell phone while on the toilet. Both closed circle SM (checking on your friends and acquaintances) and public facing SM (checking the influencers) have created a whole new, uncontrolled feeding ground to some old vices: Jaleousy and greed. Watching other people's lives and see them spending money and enjoying fineries in an (supposedly) unedited, reality-like format makes a lot of people feel that it must all be real and they should be living that live themselves. Whether it's about wealth, ideologies or any other aspect of lifestyle: Suddenly it's right there, dangled in front of them. This, coupled with the ease of packing in actionable links and buttons, creates a whole new dynamic where people get lured in by shiny things (crypto/NFS/MLM etc) only to get duped. It's a really old phenomenon, though.

New comment by osobo in "Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%"

osobo — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:53:16 +0000

Actually: Yes.