Hacker News: ryanmentor

New comment by ryanmentor in "Facts about throwing good parties"

ryanmentor — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:04:34 +0000

Go make some friends.

I invite people to events almost every time I go out and talk to people.

New comment by ryanmentor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

ryanmentor — Mon, 26 May 2025 06:29:53 +0000

Most of what I'm working on ends up being social clubs.

Tech Pizza Mondays has been going well, as the Toronto HN meetup. If you're reading this on HN, you're welcome to join us -> URL Mondays.Pizza details on fedi.

We just finished Toronto's Pizza Day, our fifth year in a row and most successful so far. toronto.pizzadao.xyz will eventually get updated to next year's event invite.

I threw a fun experimental comedy party, and I plan to throw another in August. Having a volunteer cast was great, the clown burlesque was shockingly great. I hope to find some team members who want to join forces and put on the greatest talent show this town has ever seen!

Working on founding a school in Toronto has been very difficult, feels like I'm making zero real progress over time. If anyone cares deeply about education, I'd be happy to talk. I'm extremely enthusiastic about the Sudbury Valley School model.

And this last week I started a fitness club, where most weekdays we do strength training with giant wooden swords. Looking for people who want to join up and get strong and have fun!

New comment by ryanmentor in "France Endorses UN Open Source Principles"

ryanmentor — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:26:53 +0000

Free and Open Technology for a Free and Open Society

New comment by ryanmentor in "Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps"

ryanmentor — Mon, 05 May 2025 19:09:09 +0000

Are there any realtime games or apps we can try out...?

Tell HN: Toronto Meetup

ryanmentor — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:37:09 +0000

This is an invitation to you - our Monday evening social group is ready to add a new member or two.

We have been meeting in Toronto every Monday for a couple years now, and it has been a really nice consistent part of life. We focus on thoughtful conversation, usually centered around using technology for a better life and a better world.

There's no corporate sponsor to mess up the vibe, and any presentations are projects and demos brought by individual members. Most demos are Free and Open tech, sometimes research papers, sometimes just whatever is on our minds.

We'll be at Victory Cafe 6pm tonight Monday October 7th, and we hope you'll join us :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767811

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New comment by ryanmentor in "Social Web Foundation launches, supported by Vivaldi"

ryanmentor — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:33:44 +0000

As a cat of nine lives, there are many hills I intend to die on

New comment by ryanmentor in "Aux: An Alternative to the Nix Ecosystem"

ryanmentor — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:06:19 +0000

Why was this created?

New comment by ryanmentor in "Descent 3 Source Code"

ryanmentor — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:07:03 +0000

Amazing!!!!!!! Thank you so much for making this happen!

New comment by ryanmentor in "Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth"

ryanmentor — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:10:52 +0000

There is at least one star trek episode where this happens :)

New comment by ryanmentor in "You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID"

ryanmentor — Wed, 31 May 2023 23:14:20 +0000

> Germany has had a constitutional restriction in place explicitly prohibiting an SSN equivalent.

Very interesting! Thank you for this

New comment by ryanmentor in "Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers"

ryanmentor — Thu, 11 May 2023 22:14:40 +0000

The comparison is direct and apt, as a comment on a story about devices delivered with hostile software on them.

From a consumer POV, they are indistinguishable, are they not?

At least third party malware works silently and efficiently. First party hateware puts ads in the start menu.

New comment by ryanmentor in "SpaceX, Rogers to connect mobiles phones to satellites in remote Canadian areas"

ryanmentor — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:36:14 +0000

This is a wild take that actually makes too much sense.

I agree, let's do it!

New comment by ryanmentor in "Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)"

ryanmentor — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 04:27:37 +0000

Even something as simple at 'eating pizza' is enough of a frame to be useful

New comment by ryanmentor in "The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023"

ryanmentor — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:43:14 +0000

ZSA has some openness in their software, but their hardware (and it is a hardware company) is closed.

That's part of the reason why my ZSA gear is gathering dust in silence, but my Prusa gear runs 24 hours a day and everyone who will listen knows about it.

Principles matter.

New comment by ryanmentor in "The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023"

ryanmentor — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:24:23 +0000

I bought a MK3S+&Enclosure this year instead of 5 clones. I'll be buying a MK4 and an XL, again instead of 15 chinesium clone machines.

Free Openness, reliability, trustworthiness - that's what I paid a multiple for.

Joseph puts his name on every machine, every spool of filament. I trust that if and when something goes wrong, it's his neck on the line to make it right.

I welcome a newer, stronger, toothier approach to Free and Open hardware and software.

If that means a patent trust, or a consortium for enforcement, or whatever collaboration between large players can become, it would be great if this could be the catalyst.

New comment by ryanmentor in "Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company"

ryanmentor — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:56:30 +0000

I have heard first hand from trans hires that they KNOW their job is to 'be diverse', and there's no reason to grow technically or professionally - just coast and fail to get fired.

Everyone reasonable hates that shit.

New comment by ryanmentor in "(In)Security of the “Pass” password manager"

ryanmentor — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:18:11 +0000

The Admiral's wisdom comes from experience.

New comment by ryanmentor in "Quitting the rat race"

ryanmentor — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:32:05 +0000

Bravely coming out against... rape victims?

New comment by ryanmentor in "A Linux Evening"

ryanmentor — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:45:45 +0000

You conclusion for your second point seems to include a lot of unstated assumptions.

Which principles do you think are at play?

New comment by ryanmentor in "Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?"

ryanmentor — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 04:06:27 +0000

I applaud you, but it sounds like this isn't really a 'startup'.

Who will pay for this? I imagine the recipients aren't rich.

Looking forward to seeing your announcement of a fund to deliver these charitably at zero cost to patients. :)

Good luck!