Hacker News: qmr

New comment by qmr in "Googlebook"

qmr — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:02:55 +0000

You are the product.

Hard pass.

New comment by qmr in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

qmr — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:43:04 +0000

Continue reading with a Verge subscription

New comment by qmr in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

qmr — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:55:49 +0000

The use case is off grid communications for whatever you might need.

95% of it is people just doing ping? Pong! In chat.

The cheapest devices are like $10. Order one and have a go.

A suspect is in custody after Trump is rushed from correspondents' dinner

qmr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:35:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5799544/trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907646

Points: 6

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New comment by qmr in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

qmr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:41:03 +0000

> So having a LLM split the text into manageable sections for you and provide a hint of what each lengthy wall-of-text paragraph will be about is actually a huge gain in readability.

Perhaps your attention span needs improvement.

New comment by qmr in "DIY Soft Drinks"

qmr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:23:11 +0000

What's the use in ice cream?

My ice cream is just ... ice cream. Cream, milk, sugar.

New comment by qmr in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

qmr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:34:40 +0000

I agree. A lot of commenters who have probably had privileged lives and never faced a situation where violence was, in fact, the answer.

New comment by qmr in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

qmr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:18:32 +0000

Very well said.

I agree this is a symptom of large systemic issues.

Long gone are the days a bumbling fool could get a well paying job at the local power plant and provide a good life for a wife and three children, with a large home, decent insurance and two cars.

New comment by qmr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

qmr — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:08:34 +0000

There's no way they're offering 24/7 KVM for this. Cheap colos you need to write / call to get an on demand KVM then wait some hours or days for a tech to plug it in.

The operator is in no way responsible for shipping damage, not sure why you imply they would be.

New comment by qmr in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

qmr — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:06:37 +0000

Laptop batteries are lithium ion not lithium polymer.

New comment by qmr in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

qmr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:41:29 +0000

Does this mean the Atom 8GB boxes I have laying about are now more valuable?

New comment by qmr in "Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner"

qmr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:11:58 +0000

> It lets you define deploy scripts and other remote tasks

Ok.

> run them from your terminal and watch every step as it happens

> and watch every step as it happens

Yes, this is usually how scripts work.

> When everything finishes, you get a summary table with timing for each step.

> If a task fails, its output is shown and execution stops right there so you can investigate.

Yes, I write my larger scripts to do such things...

> Writing plain bash instead of Blade

Yes, probably a good idea.

Call me crazy (you're crazy!) but I'm not seeing the point.

New comment by qmr in "Apple Business"

qmr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:28:58 +0000

Windows has far more spyware, and somewhat worse usability.

It also doesn't run iTerm.

I'm neither biased nor a fanboy.

I used desktop Linux for a decade or more, moved to MacOS for better usability, but it's kind of gone to shit.

Did up a home windows install for some "modern gaming", but disgusted with Microsoft's rapeware tactics.

Might be time to move to Linux again. Already have it on the kids PCs. Seems to run plenty of stuff from Steam just fine.

New comment by qmr in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

qmr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:24:37 +0000

If they can afford stupid "smart" glasses they can afford dumb glasses.

> There needs to be an industry wide agreement on a standard where something like a bluetooth beacon can shut off recording.

Yes, this is a great idea. Hardware hackers can then quickly clone these beacons and spam $5 glass hole blockers everywhere.

New comment by qmr in "Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs"

qmr — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:46:02 +0000

That's a no from me.

New comment by qmr in "Apple Business"

qmr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:58:17 +0000

... the Yoga doesn't run MacOS though.

New comment by qmr in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

qmr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:59:43 +0000

Another comment claims they record calls.

Big yikes.

New comment by qmr in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

qmr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:57:47 +0000

My six year old is a big Meshtastic fan.

New comment by qmr in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

qmr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:57:10 +0000

Nightmare? Maybe you need to work on telling your children no.

Instead of being bitter for 7 years perhaps you should not have purchased such an absurd thing.

New comment by qmr in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

qmr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:45:19 +0000

Victim blaming.