Hacker News: podiki

New comment by podiki in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

podiki — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:02:58 +0000

I thought the same. The "scheduled" part of the message is gone now, at least on the instance I use.

New comment by podiki in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

podiki — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:14 +0000

Ongoing. It is not "down" but purposefully offline for "maintenance." Main status does show the LMS (all the course stuff) down, and my instance shows "up" but that's because (I assume) you can reach it and the maintenance page. But that's not useful, if technically not "down."

New comment by podiki in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

podiki — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:37:52 +0000

And grades are due in the next week or so for many of these (usually a quick deadline at the end of the semester due to graduation happening)...

TerminalTextEffects: A terminal visual effects engine, application, and library

podiki — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:43:35 +0000

Article URL: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255873

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Alien: Earth Is a Much-Needed Defense of Humanity

podiki — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:51:44 +0000

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2025/08/alien-earth-television-sci-fi-dystopia-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45032175

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The IP Laws That Stop Disenshittification

podiki — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 05:45:17 +0000

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661667

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by podiki in "I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs"

podiki — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:54:47 +0000

I didn't have issues with sleep/wake until somewhat recently (not sure when) and found this post. Grabbing the patch from the commit referenced and using it on top of 6.12 and 6.13 kernels seems to have fixed it for me too (for the past couple of weeks and counting).

Great work!

Posse: A better way to post on social networks (2023)

podiki — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969039

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Consume or Create?

podiki — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:00:36 +0000

Article URL: https://9bladed.com/essay/2025-01-26-creation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834616

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by podiki in "Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down?"

podiki — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:07:16 +0000

Current incident status/updates: https://status.proton.me/incidents/wt2fwstm0rcg

New comment by podiki in "The CRPG Book Project (2023)"

podiki — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:38:17 +0000

My first HN post, in 2017 :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14145252

New comment by podiki in "Make Firefox Private Again"

podiki — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:17:21 +0000

What settings and why? Did they break some sites? Been meaning to try LibreWolf too.

Death by 1k Tabs: Confessions of a Tab Hoarder

podiki — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:05:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88adya/death-by-1000-tabs-confessions-of-a-tab-hoarder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41158309

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by podiki in "Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years"

podiki — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:05:26 +0000

Wow, that is a lot of tabs. I always thought it was funny when people would say they have "a lot" and it was dozens or hundreds at most, while I was in the 1500 range.

I did close them all: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88adya/death-by-1000-tabs-co... (but alas, the number creeps up again)

Darktable 4.8.0 Released

podiki — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 02:45:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.darktable.org/2024/06/darktable-4.8.0-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40755807

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by podiki in "Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments"

podiki — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 04:27:48 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this, hadn't heard of it and looking forward to watching!

New comment by podiki in "No One Knows What Universities Are For"

podiki — Fri, 10 May 2024 03:06:02 +0000

But isn't that exactly it, that these (and healthcare) are very much part of the "market?" The goal to make money and to provide healthcare are at fundamental odds if you ask me. (Or they don't have to be, but the natural "experiment" of for profit healthcare in places like the US tells us much.)

New comment by podiki in "No One Knows What Universities Are For"

podiki — Fri, 10 May 2024 03:04:03 +0000

I think there is a big piece that is left unsaid here: capitalism. If we had to boil down a university to one imperative, it sadly seems to make money (ideally, for some, as a means towards the true ends). Lots of good points raised, as I can say from direct experience, but too often capitalism is just assumed or ignored as the underlying principle at work.

New comment by podiki in "Leidenfrost Effect"

podiki — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:18:34 +0000

I've seen this in reference to knowing when stainless steel cookware is ready to put oil on it, so that you don't get sticking and burning, i.e. small droplet of water shouldn't sizzle and evaporate but Leidenfrost. But I have to admit to still not being able to get the best results like that (more oil? less heat?) and still need to figure out how to use stainless correctly.

Tips?

New comment by podiki in "The end of the dark universe?"

podiki — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 20:15:31 +0000

Fine, rather than "underlying theory" use some other words, basically does any new proposal give us predictions, solve some unexplained phenomenon, do something simpler and more compelling (sure, a matter of taste, but so is all of this to some degree), in short, does it tell us something new. Newton certainly did as he gave a law to describe and predict successfully the motions of the planets, for instance. I don't think we are saying anything different really. There wasn't a predicitve framework before (as far as I know), but then there was, so that is certainly progress. But the bar gets ever higher as we know more for what a theory should do. Just writing down an equation that can fit some data and can make predictions is great but is not the end of the story. We could just have some arbitrary functions that fit the data we have and call it a day.