Hacker News: rockooooo

New comment by rockooooo in "Introduction to Obsidian"

rockooooo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:03:41 +0000

I've tried obsidian so many times and want to love it but the sync situation - either the expensive official one, the approved options for mixed iOS/Windows clients (icloud) and third party tools like obsidain-livesync - were all way too issue-prone for me to ever trust it. I hope they figure this out

New comment by rockooooo in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

rockooooo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:46:21 +0000

the dollar cost he's talking about does not include the large dollar cost the externalities burning gas creates

New comment by rockooooo in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

rockooooo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:43:28 +0000

Flightly is really popular on iOS, there's not really a comparable android version. Gentler Streak and a lot of fitness app also don't have comparable android versions - most of the examples I can think of are apps that focus (and charge for) good design

New comment by rockooooo in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

rockooooo — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:11:52 +0000

There's many iOS only apps that either don't have anything comparable on android or the alternative is just nowhere near as good (a lot of it is more creative-focused stuff)

New comment by rockooooo in "The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia"

rockooooo — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:09:36 +0000

A lot of people question the "effective" part of effective altruism, and simply saying "we support more effective giving" is not convincing, especially when the most public figurehead of the movement is/was a convicted fraudster.

New comment by rockooooo in "My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)"

rockooooo — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:32:12 +0000

I don't use beancount but if you're already in sheets, Tiller might be easier to switch to to get lots of built-in dashboards/metrics

New comment by rockooooo in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

rockooooo — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:44:45 +0000

1) technically? yes, absolutely- apps like explorer or photo viewer should only use public APIs so other companies can make comparable apps on the OS with 90% market share 2) these are all OS utilities, not workplace apps - there's a big difference between Adobe/Microsoft Office/Google bundling their apps where there's a very clear, very powerful disincentive to compete vs something like explorer.

New comment by rockooooo in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

rockooooo — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:59:11 +0000

It shouldn't be! Forcing big companies to unbundle product pricing would give new entrants to the market a fighting change at success.

New comment by rockooooo in "More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work"

rockooooo — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:43:16 +0000

multiple people at previous jobs joked about how using FMLA would get you fired or at minimum banned from promotion

New comment by rockooooo in "Bossware is a big legal risk"

rockooooo — Thu, 16 May 2024 14:45:14 +0000

If your company is even halfway legitimate they will have what they collect / monitor in your employee handbook or a privacy policy somewhere.

New comment by rockooooo in "The best way to have complex discussions?"

rockooooo — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:17:30 +0000

Zulip is more of a Slack-like instant chat system with threading as a first class citizen; CQ2 looks like threads only exist in the context of one "root" document vs a channel in zulip where threads can intermingle.

New comment by rockooooo in "Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance"

rockooooo — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:10:12 +0000

$24 a year is too much?

New comment by rockooooo in "FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor"

rockooooo — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:07:22 +0000

There are downsides to over-medicating, even if your personal budget for health is ~unlimited. Nobody wants to be a false positive.

New comment by rockooooo in "Stable Diffusion 3"

rockooooo — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:24:53 +0000

no AI company wants to be the one generating pornographic deepfakes of someone and getting in legal / PR hot water

New comment by rockooooo in "Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime""

rockooooo — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:28:52 +0000

Open-source projects where all the developers work for one company tend not to do too well when that company dies, especially if there isn't a large ecosystem around the software yet.

New comment by rockooooo in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

rockooooo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:49:22 +0000

It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.

New comment by rockooooo in "I [Cory Doctorow] Got Scammed"

rockooooo — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:41:00 +0000

They do, he says so in the article.

New comment by rockooooo in "Chrome experimental AI features"

rockooooo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:20:29 +0000

AI theme generation really seems like a solution looking for a problem

New comment by rockooooo in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

rockooooo — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 23:40:05 +0000

I use Tiller, which ingests my transactions but doesn't categorize them for me (except by a rule set that I manually defined)

New comment by rockooooo in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

rockooooo — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:33:04 +0000

sure, but when there's a dozen apps that will do it automatically, why?