Hacker News: rascul

New comment by rascul in "Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can't be replaced"

rascul — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:23:10 +0000

Steam can be replaced. Doesn't mean it will be anytime soon. And probably not by Epic.

New comment by rascul in "I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy"

rascul — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:20:23 +0000

Various things probably need the air for cooling.

New comment by rascul in "eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media"

rascul — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:36:31 +0000

> only trust other US citizens with my security

Can't use a computer then.

New comment by rascul in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

rascul — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:18:55 +0000

We still do

https://bendblockbuster.com/

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Blockbuster

New comment by rascul in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

rascul — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:35:18 +0000

pass can use git

https://www.passwordstore.org/

New comment by rascul in "Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says"

rascul — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:29:26 +0000

Noon doesn't actually happen at noon

New comment by rascul in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

rascul — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:03:33 +0000

NASCAR Cup series has been using EFI since 2012. The other series still use carburetors.

New comment by rascul in "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"

rascul — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:24:27 +0000

Years later, Netflix is still having issues. Maybe it's not as easy as you claim.

New comment by rascul in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

rascul — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:32:00 +0000

> 1. Now you just have a blank screen. Sure some people might like that but others will think there's an issue with the stream.

NASCAR has a separate feed for international broadcasts without their ads. During the ad break they'll just show an overhead camera or maybe an in car camera.

New comment by rascul in "Don't Just Say Hello"

rascul — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:03:25 +0000

I feel like it's fine for social chat but for technical chat I feel similar to the article.

New comment by rascul in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

rascul — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:42:38 +0000

The kernel has a cache used for block devices.

If you want to be more targeted:

    blockdev --flushbufs /dev/sda

New comment by rascul in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

rascul — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:15:32 +0000

I'm pleasantly surprised at how often someone will use jitsi when the alternative is not communicating with me in such a fashion.

New comment by rascul in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

rascul — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:01:57 +0000

Jitsi is an excellent free and open source alternative.

New comment by rascul in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

rascul — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:37:56 +0000

I don't understand why people are still using Google search generally. It's so bad nowadays.

New comment by rascul in "Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead"

rascul — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:13:41 +0000

I'll consider it when zfs in in tree.

New comment by rascul in "You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules"

rascul — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:20:03 +0000

Governments lie all the time. This is not new.

New comment by rascul in "You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules"

rascul — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:09:38 +0000

Isn't that what the safe drinking water act is for?

New comment by rascul in "Hayes AT command set"

rascul — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:44:41 +0000

They're still used today for cellular modems

New comment by rascul in "Notes on Private Trackers"

rascul — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:36:38 +0000

> I don't even know if it's possible to torrent on a phone.

Very possible for over a decade.

New comment by rascul in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

rascul — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:14:13 +0000

There's lots of US sports content. That's all I use it for.