Hacker News: pschastain

New comment by pschastain in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

pschastain — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:28:06 +0000

Attention all planets of the Solar Federation We have assumed control

New comment by pschastain in "Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog"

pschastain — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:23:03 +0000

Gotta say that I agree with @evnm's reply on the original post that timestamps are fundamental to microblogging and maintaining a timeline. I love the philosophy behind textlog but I do disagree with this particular aspect; seems like something the author of a note/post should have choice and control of.

New comment by pschastain in "Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?"

pschastain — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:24:53 +0000

MS's core product is and always has been Office, specifically Excel. Windows is simply the delivery method

New comment by pschastain in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

pschastain — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:38:51 +0000

Well that's 5 minutes of my life I'll never get back

New comment by pschastain in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

pschastain — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:23:48 +0000

I've used Evolution for years but lately it's started choking on gmail OAuth support. The solution appears to be installing Gnome keychain support, which then messes with KDE Wallet. For now I'm just using the web and the mobile app

New comment by pschastain in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

pschastain — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:15:15 +0000

He wasn't lying, someone got into my account here. The mods got after it pretty quickly, kudos to them, definitely appreciated.

New comment by pschastain in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

pschastain — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:51:25 +0000

Deflection rather than addressing the actual accusation

Pay attention to this type of behavior, folks. It's revealing

New comment by pschastain in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

pschastain — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:52:29 +0000

Still lost screen real estate

New comment by pschastain in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

pschastain — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:49:03 +0000

Except that Google would then get the profits

It's not about Google, it's about OP's personal values

New comment by pschastain in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

pschastain — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:46:17 +0000

And I'd say you don't understand how state-sponsored tracking and spying operates

New comment by pschastain in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

pschastain — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:06:18 +0000

> Once you vibe code, you don't look at the code.

And therein lies the problem

New comment by pschastain in "G0-G3 corners, visualised: learn what "Apple corners" are"

pschastain — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:25:38 +0000

https://bsky.app/profile/freya.bsky.social

New comment by pschastain in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

pschastain — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:31:40 +0000

Or maybe Trump is a sociopath felon with a penchant for young girls who is acting solely in his own self-interest

Given his history of failed businesses and association with a known pedophile, what seems more likely?

Reggaeton Be Gone

pschastain — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:03:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackster.io/roni-bandini/reggaeton-be-gone-e5b6e2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39518785

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

$500 drone calculates its position with camera, Google Maps

pschastain — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://dronenr.com.au/2024/02/19/drone-position-gps-camera-google-maps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39513371

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

VSCode Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support

pschastain — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:35:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252982

Points: 48

# Comments: 22

Apostrophy OS could be the future of privacy

pschastain — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:19:09 +0000

Article URL: https://stuff.co.za/2024/01/16/apostrophy-os-is-future-of-privacy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084084

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pschastain in "Things to commit just before leaving your job"

pschastain — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:31:09 +0000

*whoosh*

New comment by pschastain in "Things to commit just before leaving your job"

pschastain — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:30:08 +0000

Some folks just don't like to laugh

For the record, I make coffee one large cup at a time via the pour-over method

New comment by pschastain in "Things to commit just before leaving your job"

pschastain — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:27:10 +0000

So you're saying that the HN front page should be humorless...