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New comment by predakanga in "Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute"

predakanga — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:24:19 +0000

Jonti Picking (aka MrWeebl) did a more in-depth interview last year as well: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame...

New comment by predakanga in "Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server"

predakanga — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:32:19 +0000

It does include a fairly full-featured DVR system - I used to use it with Kodi to record shows off DVB-T.

New comment by predakanga in "Murderbot, she wrote"

predakanga — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:28:36 +0000

I saw someone recommend a site called "The Storygraph" recently - haven't tried it yet, but it seems like an interesting alternative to Goodreads.

In particular the "moods" feature caught my eye.

New comment by predakanga in "YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads"

predakanga — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:47:38 +0000

I had no idea that was an option, thanks for the tip!

New comment by predakanga in "Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind"

predakanga — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:48:54 +0000

> As soon as I try to add more detail the previously imagined details dissapear and I have to circle back and reimagine them. Like having a very limited amount of draw calls every frame.

This matches my experience - I think of it a bit like a really slow CRT, the phosphorescence fading before the image can be composed.

New comment by predakanga in "Forget spaceships; I just want my music"

predakanga — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:50:24 +0000

I was amazed to discover, a few months ago, that iPeng is still under active development!

I went to set the alarm on my Squeezebox Boom one night and the time picker widget was completely broken. By the next week they'd pushed out an update to fix it.

That kind of dedication in a developer is fantastic to see.

New comment by predakanga in "Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation"

predakanga — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:23:22 +0000

You can play Island of Dr Brain on archive.org! https://archive.org/details/msdos_Island_of_Dr._Brain_1992

They have Lost Mind as well, but not emulated because it's a Windows game. I wouldn't be surprised if it still runs, though.

New comment by predakanga in "Going back to the old (pre-X) Twitter iOS app"

predakanga — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:33:49 +0000

If you can find the .ipa, you can sideload them, no developer account or anything needed.

The downsides are that you can only have 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to reinstall them every 7 days.

https://sideloadly.io/ automates the process and can automatically reinstall them for you - I use it to keep the Pebble app installed and my watch synced.

New comment by predakanga in "Faster filesystem access with Directfs"

predakanga — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:00:14 +0000

Systemd has a mechanism[0] for configuring those limits.

I believe you can limit a unit to 1 vCPU and 256MB of memory by using something like the following:

[Service]

CPUQuota=100% # 100% of a core

MemoryLimit=256MB

Red Hat has some documentation[1] as well if the systemd stuff is too oblique.

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.res...

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

New comment by predakanga in "Lisp Game Jam – “Wireworld” in WebAssembly Using Spritely's Hoot Project"

predakanga — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:48:04 +0000

Small correction for the author:

> Copper stays copper, unless there are one or two electron heads in any cardinal direction, in which case it becomes an electron head

should be

> Copper stays copper, unless there are one or two electron heads in any neighboring cell, in which case it becomes an electron head

I spent ages trying to figure out how the generators were working in their example before I looked up the rules elsewhere.

New comment by predakanga in "Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers"

predakanga — Wed, 31 May 2023 11:57:55 +0000

Same here - it's a shame because I'm happy to continue supporting the developer, but I won't pay for a functional downgrade.

New comment by predakanga in "Pixel Tablet"

predakanga — Fri, 12 May 2023 05:04:56 +0000

You make a good point - there are loads of third-party magnetic charging cables out there, but I never saw the point when I have a wireless charger.

I might have to give the cables a try next time I replace my battery, see how it affects longevity.

New comment by predakanga in "DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request"

predakanga — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 02:56:20 +0000

> How long before Grafana has these capabilities in OSS?

They've already started down that path with Grafana Tempo[0]. It's functional, but their UX and discoverability need a lot of work.

[0]: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/

Adjusting pricing, introducing annual plans, and accelerating innovation

predakanga — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:25:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/adjusting-pricing-introducing-annual-plans-and-accelerating-innovation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797620

Points: 2

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New comment by predakanga in "PC wakes from sleep when changing clothes"

predakanga — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:30:48 +0000

The same effect was used to make stickers that lit up when you were receiving a call, with no battery needed!

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/26/heres-how-those-battery-free...

New comment by predakanga in "Better visibility into Linux packet-dropping decisions"

predakanga — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:11:06 +0000

I recently came across another useful utility for debugging unexpected packet drops - PWRU[0] (Packet, Where Are You) by Cilium.

It uses eBPF to try to trace the path of the packet through the kernel. Haven't needed to use it yet, but it could have saved me a lot of trouble in the past.

[0]: https://github.com/cilium/pwru

New comment by predakanga in "Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux"

predakanga — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:12:25 +0000

> Also, once you've got per-user encryption on ~/.ssh/authorized_keys you'll need some other mechanism for users to log in.

OpenSSH supports this through the AuthorizedKeysFile directive - it'd be quite simple for the homedir mounting tool to sync that file from the user's authorized_keys file on unmount.

You could also use SSH certificates, but that requires a CA - not ideal for the home user.

New comment by predakanga in "You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free"

predakanga — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:56:17 +0000

Thanks for the correction - complete brainfart.

New comment by predakanga in "You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free"

predakanga — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:14:38 +0000

You might still be able to - check out "WordPerfect for DOS updated": http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/.

If you want spreadsheets as well, Corel 1-2-3 works under dosemu at least (see https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/lotus123.html).

New comment by predakanga in "iPad Camera Multitasking"

predakanga — Sun, 09 May 2021 02:09:11 +0000

The thing that bothers me is that it's not even restricted to iDevices.

I was recently looking into replacing Time Machine on my MBP (which has a tendency to corrupt over SMB) with APFS snapshots, synced to ZFS snapshots on my NAS.

Unfortunately, I quickly found that Apple has locked the relevant API (fs_snapshot_create) away behind a private entitlement, only to be granted to select backup software that abides by their rules.

It's gotten to the point that I want to "jailbreak" my laptop. Just give myself the ability to grant any entitlement, for local use only.