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New comment by robotmachine in "Television is 100 years old today"

robotmachine — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:52:45 +0000

Funny you bring Leon Theremin up. I just showed a friend of mine The Thing[0] today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

New comment by robotmachine in "IMG_0001"

robotmachine — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:09:42 +0000

Many moons ago an acquaintance did a somewhat similar project finding default title "mic in track.mp3" files on music sharing services that were created using MusicMatch Jukebox.

> https://www.stark-effect.com/mit.html

New comment by robotmachine in "Okay, I Like WezTerm"

robotmachine — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:10:34 +0000

Seconded ^

New comment by robotmachine in "Roblox has ported the entire front end JavaScript stack to Lua"

robotmachine — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:12:09 +0000

Offtopic, but `zack_overflow` is an excellent username.

New comment by robotmachine in "Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS"

robotmachine — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:28:38 +0000

Seconded.

New comment by robotmachine in "Ubooquity: Free home server for your comics and ebooks library"

robotmachine — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 12:52:25 +0000

A watch folder is a feature of Calibre as well.

New comment by robotmachine in "Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake"

robotmachine — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:35:29 +0000

The new CEO's last name is Bowser which is less amazing, but more amazingly apropos.

New comment by robotmachine in "Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard"

robotmachine — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 22:16:56 +0000

This was very similar to my experience when cancelling my Amazon Prime account a week ago. It was at least five pages of trying to talk me out of it and the 'continue cancelling' was similarly the more obscure/non-obvious button.

It makes it feel like a very shady process without being outright deceptive.

New comment by robotmachine in "Stamos says the US must ‘come together to protect’ democracy from misinformation"

robotmachine — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:50:33 +0000

Have mercy.

New comment by robotmachine in "VNC Roulette"

robotmachine — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 02:04:35 +0000

Well, this made me do a sweep on my servers to make sure I didn't have VNC running. Tag as PSA!

New comment by robotmachine in "Ledger, a command-line accounting system"

robotmachine — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:50:32 +0000

To my knowledge I am the sole user of my QuickLedger project -- so I'd be very interested to hear how it works for another's use case. Any feedback would be great! If you fork I'd like to know so I can see what someone does with it.

New comment by robotmachine in "Ledger, a command-line accounting system"

robotmachine — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:22:20 +0000

Sorry, I am not used to commenting here and didn't realise it wouldn't notify me.

I use Prompt by Panic http://www.panic.com/prompt/ on my iPhone to do SSH sessions. Since it was hard for me to type in entries to my Ledger data file I put together a script with Python that could have stored merchants and just sort of make the process easier.

I can type in `ql -m sd -t 50` and it will add a full entry for the grocery store that I frequent. The project on Github is here: https://github.com/robotmachine/QuickLedger

To clarify, it is just a command line tool that I made with mobile SSH in mind-- not a mobile app. Hope that helps.

New comment by robotmachine in "Ledger, a command-line accounting system"

robotmachine — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:36:10 +0000

I have been using Ledger for a long time and it has really been a wonderful tool. The reports are great. I even made a little Python script so I can easily make entries from terminal on my phone!

New comment by robotmachine in "Do you have a secret?"

robotmachine — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:56:23 +0000

No, I don't have a secret. That isn't really what privacy is about. You don't have to have something to hide in order to not want everything you do/say and everywhere you go tracked. This makes it seem like everyone is hiding a folder full of kiddie porn or emails from their other girlfriend and therefore that is why you should care about privacy protection.

New comment by robotmachine in "Find Out if You’re a Target in the Biggest U.S. BitTorrent Lawsuit Ever"

robotmachine — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:22:20 +0000

It is joke. When there is bad news, some people make light. It helps them cope with reality.

New comment by robotmachine in "Find Out if You’re a Target in the Biggest U.S. BitTorrent Lawsuit Ever"

robotmachine — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:33:05 +0000

I don't think I'll be giving Wired my IP. The lawsuit probably has a 'guilty conscience' clause and I'll be added just for thinking that I might be involved.

New comment by robotmachine in "The page is live to request an invite to Google Music"

robotmachine — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:54:07 +0000

They lost me at 'upload your music'. I'd rather not put everything on their servers...

I'll stick to subsonic.org

New comment by robotmachine in "Sony loses 12,700 credit card numbers"

robotmachine — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:38:00 +0000

Can someone please remind me to only deal with Sony in cash from here on out?

If they 'lose' that it isn't my problem.

New comment by robotmachine in "Automatically Solving a Sudoku Puzzle Using a Webcam and MATLAB [video]"

robotmachine — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:55:45 +0000

The Google app for iPhone also has 'Google Goggles' and it works just as well. Quite impressive!

New comment by robotmachine in "Ask HN: f & t logos are everywhere, but for how long?"

robotmachine — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:41:59 +0000

So was MySpace. So will be the next big thing and the one after that.