Hacker News: phusion

New comment by phusion in "Fastpotify"

phusion — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:45:02 +0000

Took a very long time to get it to sign in and play on my local machine... we'll see if it's worth switching from the official client.

New comment by phusion in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

phusion — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:43:01 +0000

I was so excited to install this and finally be rid of Win 3.11. I was 13 or so when this came out and really just coming into my own with IT stuff, building PCs and whatnot. It was really mind blowing back then.

New comment by phusion in "Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (2018)"

phusion — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:20:40 +0000

I think I was 11 or 12 when I first installed Win95, once I got some help, it was like a whole new world. Multimedia was finally a real possibility. Seeing Weezer in their "Buddy Holly" music video on the disc was pretty wild, and the "Start Me Up" spoof song about win95 "this windows ninety fiiiiiive, it's suckin' up my driiiive". Good times.

New comment by phusion in "How the Dreamcast Copy Protection Was Defeated"

phusion — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:14:01 +0000

I loved doing this on my Dreamcast back in '99. It was the first console I ever managed to "mod" -- even though it's completely a software mod.

At first we had to download loader discs, just a few hundred Kb on a disc, then pop in the 1:1 burned game. Eventually they managed to put the loader on the game ISOs and you could just burn a game and pop it in. Plenty of fun, lots of great games and it primed me to eventually crack open my Xbox for the 007 Nightfire exploit.

New comment by phusion in "Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game"

phusion — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:22:48 +0000

Yeah, the day I bought the game, along with my best friend and PC gaming buddy, after playing for hours, we stayed up really late as I read the manual aloud. Ahh memories.

New comment by phusion in "Diablo devolved – magic behind the 1996 computer game"

phusion — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:19:43 +0000

What a fantastic bunch of games those were, right? We eventually had such a blast playing Descent: Freespace at LAN's.. great game.. anyway.. the Descent devs are at it again!

https://playoverload.com/

New comment by phusion in "Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them"

phusion — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 22:23:04 +0000

It MAY not be that easy... femtocells and whatnot may make that a difficult task. I wondered this myself, since nearly all pirate radio stations are caught.. but cell sites don't work the same way. Just a thought.

New comment by phusion in "Adrian Lamo has died"

phusion — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:13:42 +0000

Seriously, I'm really surprised at some of the comments here. Some hackers have always been suits though, so I shouldn't be surprised.

New comment by phusion in "Adrian Lamo has died"

phusion — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:49:37 +0000

Chelsea is Bradley, she's trans.

New comment by phusion in "Adrian Lamo has died"

phusion — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:37:27 +0000

here's a documentary featuring Adrian prominently. This is the best you'll see Adrian, because some time after this film he went on (or off?) his meds, betrayed Chelsea Manning and various other things shitty humans do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYN6JuQGGX0

Hackers Wanted.

New comment by phusion in "Venmo can now instantly transfer money to your debit card for 25 cents"

phusion — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:12:36 +0000

Despite all the negativity, as a filthy degenerate, I missed the previous ability to get a Paypal debit card and instantly withdrawal money sent to my PP acct with it. This should be useful..

New comment by phusion in "The story behind the default Windows XP desktop background"

phusion — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:26:06 +0000

Nice, I grew up in Sonoma county, definitely looks like home. More so the area to the right that's almost cropped out, but still.. nice to know that winxp's iconic background is of home. Wish I knew that back in '01 when it was the talk of the town.

New comment by phusion in "Show HN: Summaread – Millions of Articles Summarized Daily"

phusion — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:41:03 +0000

This is AWESOME! Thank you! I'm a giant news junkie, while I work in IT and like/need to stay abreast of whats going on, I also used to work for an online gaming publication. Checking news sites is just wired into my everyday routine.. and it's nice to have these stories aggregated in one place so I don't have the big splashy front pages on my screen at work :) Thanks again!

New comment by phusion in "Show HN: Kooba, an interactive graph for finding new books"

phusion — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:07:33 +0000

Same... typed in a book title in a couple different browsers, just the red dots appear :/

New comment by phusion in "Show HN: Gopher Browser for Windows Client"

phusion — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 23:10:57 +0000

Oh man, I don't think I have much/any use for this today, but my first internet experience was on Gopher. They had it set up on what I'm assuming were some kind of *nix machines at the local library. I would search for comic book related material and generally "surf" around when my mother would drive me down there. Fortunately the Internet went public in '97, my jr high school had several networked computers, eventually all on the Internet blah blah netscape.

New comment by phusion in "Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors"

phusion — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:48:34 +0000

Good, I'm not the only one who thought this article was completely ridiculous.

New comment by phusion in "Famous Russian hacker Kris Kaspersky passed away"

phusion — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:06:33 +0000

Yeah, first response was "oh, Putin didn't like something they did and he 'died' "

New comment by phusion in "The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time (2012)"

phusion — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:30:59 +0000

I love these old write ups on classic Simpsons episodes. The first 7-8 seasons or so are pure magic and we'll miss John Swartzwelder always.

New comment by phusion in "Streama – A self-hosted streaming application with your own media library"

phusion — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:25:32 +0000

It is really great, I have it running on two cheapo linux VMs as well as my gaming box back home. It's great to be able to watch on my phone, iPad, netbook, laptop, desktop etc and the Fix Incorrect Match feature works just fine.. I don't even create the Season XX folders, just /media/TV/ShowName/Filename.SxxExx.mkv{or whatever} and most multi-worded series dont match correctly by themselves, editing it once and putting spaces in works 95% of the time.

New comment by phusion in "Show HN: An audio only social network"

phusion — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:33:59 +0000

After discovering Discord and having a large group of Facebook friends who are on the other side of the country or out of the country, I'm intrigued... but that could just be the intriginol I took this morning.