Hacker News: retrobox

New comment by retrobox in "Canonicals Interview Process"

retrobox — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 20:44:24 +0000

I remember applying for a position a few years back. After I saw a bunch of questions related to high school I noped out due to weird vibes. Sounds like it was a good call

New comment by retrobox in "I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription"

retrobox — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:24:50 +0000

I’d never considered using a reference manager for bookmarks but looking at the feature set, it’s kinda perfect

New comment by retrobox in "People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason not to"

retrobox — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:43:52 +0000

I envy those with a solid plan to get out. I feel age is going to start to count against me and my passion for programming is dead. But I can’t deny the compensation in this career is great, which makes me not want to move on, for now

New comment by retrobox in "Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites"

retrobox — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:01:59 +0000

You triggered a memory from when I bought Avatar on blu-ray.

PC at the time had a blu-ray drive. Booted up Windows. Opened up one of the few dedicated software options I was forced to buy for blu-ray support. Disc doesn’t work properly?? Check software’s support forum and the software hadn’t been updated with the most recent DRM.

I felt burned at that point. Pirate copies already existed but I couldn’t play my legally acquired copy. So yeah, +1 on fuck DRM.

New comment by retrobox in "We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl (1993)"

retrobox — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 09:13:21 +0000

Perl was one of the first languages I learned and also the first language I used commercially. I have a huge soft spot for it as a language. Still love Perl regular expressions like no other. I loved the camel book and its various footnotes with both humour and deeper knowledge on a topic.

New comment by retrobox in "Ask HN: How's your job search going in this current economy?"

retrobox — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:33:15 +0000

Poorly thus far. I’ve got stats from when I applied for jobs two years ago and it’s a very different picture. Previously: 19 applications and 4 solid offers.

Same number of applications this year. I’ve been ghosted, told my skills and experience don’t match salary expectations or level of seniority, and at times not made it past the initial application due to some short tenures on my CV.

I haven’t used any one specific strategy. I’ve been networking, reworking my CV to better present my experience, and building a small personal website to talk about some projects.

It’s a more competitive market for sure.

New comment by retrobox in "Free Public WiFi"

retrobox — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:31:52 +0000

Thank you! That’s very helpful to know. First time I’ve even heard of things like this but when using low quality networks I can see how this would be great!

New comment by retrobox in "Free Public WiFi"

retrobox — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:55:47 +0000

Can you share more details on the setup of the error correcting tunnel? That sounds very interesting!

New comment by retrobox in "Some blogging myths"

retrobox — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:14:19 +0000

This is really great advice and I appreciate it. You're right about having something to start writing in immediately. It's funny getting tied up in the process when I haven't really even discovered if I have much love or knack for writing yet!

All the replies to my comment have been super helpful but the mindset to write immediately is important. I'm grateful for the suggestions and one of the other replies also sound positive for bearblog - it could work out well and I'm going to check it out :-)

New comment by retrobox in "Some blogging myths"

retrobox — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:38:53 +0000

This is nice advice. I ended up with choice paralysis even deciding how to set up and publish blog posts. Static site generators with deployment pipelines? Something more traditional like Wordpress? Other?

New comment by retrobox in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

retrobox — Sun, 21 May 2023 22:14:14 +0000

More than 1000. More than I'd like. I can't help but wonder how many websites my personal information is on at this point between random shopping, forums, and all the rest.

New comment by retrobox in "Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices"

retrobox — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 08:41:02 +0000

> and I haven't seen Apple discontinuing support for 6 years old computers.

You mean the way macOS Ventura is only for their hardware released in the last six years? [1]

Apple’s absolutely do discontinue support for older hardware all the time when they release new macOS and iOS versions.

You can keep running the older operating system but it will stop receiving updates. It doesn’t seem hugely different to having to stay on Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.

1. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213264

New comment by retrobox in "ManyCam dishonored my lifetime license"

retrobox — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:50:58 +0000

I had a lifetime license with a forum software company that switched to a subscription model. I questioned the fairness, but they claimed the new product was built on an entirely new foundation different, the forum utilises that foundation, and that's why the lifetime license no longer applies. Since then, I've been skeptical of lifetime licenses. Business model pivots often leave early adopters with a negative impression due to poor handling of the switch

New comment by retrobox in "Pgrok – Poor Man’s Ngrok"

retrobox — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:58:40 +0000

I love seeing alternatives but one thing I really appreciate about ngrok is the web UI. The log of incoming requests, headers and payloads, is very helpful during development. Do any of these alternatives offer something similar? Or is there an additional tool that can be leveraged?

New comment by retrobox in "CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010)"

retrobox — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:17:45 +0000

Given the bug was reported 13 years ago and still isn’t resolved, that leads me to wonder what workaround they presumably did use

New comment by retrobox in "Play Windows Pinball (Space Cadet) on the Web"

retrobox — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:46:54 +0000

I think it’s more that Edge follows Chromium’s version numbers

New comment by retrobox in "Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging"

retrobox — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:25:59 +0000

I think it supports both. There’s options for off grid that includes Bluetooth and multipeer connectivity, and options for multicast dns and relay servers. As for the why: it supports Android and iOS so if you don’t have an Android device, Briar is basically out.

New comment by retrobox in "uBlock Origin Lite"

retrobox — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:48:51 +0000

The “Lite” version is an experimental release that supports Manifest V3. Unfortunately, that has various limitations

New comment by retrobox in "uBlock Origin Lite"

retrobox — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:47:01 +0000

New comment by retrobox in "Rsync.net"

retrobox — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 09:09:29 +0000

Given the title for the 1 cent option is 100-999 Terabytes, it’s presumably 100+ terabytes as the minimum. Took me a minute though!