Hacker News: saltymug76

New comment by saltymug76 in "The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)"

saltymug76 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:42:50 +0000

Wouldn’t be a hacker news post without shoehorning chatbots

New comment by saltymug76 in "Pi-hole v6"

saltymug76 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:01:37 +0000

On the pihole subreddit there's a wiki with lists of domains you can whitelist for certain services. I had to whitelist something for xbox live to work.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Pi-hole v6"

saltymug76 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:52:17 +0000

Pihole catches a lot of the trackers and crap coming out of my android tv. On my pc I see it as an extra line of defense after ublock.

New comment by saltymug76 in "U.S. math scores drop on major international test"

saltymug76 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:53:20 +0000

Great even fewer tech jobs!

New comment by saltymug76 in "US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward"

saltymug76 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:54:46 +0000

I dont think anyone's arguing against generic alternatives of name brand items. The issue here is Amazon using up-and-coming and popular products as fodder for them to generic-ize and push to the top of results, essentially knee capping the original seller.

New comment by saltymug76 in "ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface"

saltymug76 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:28:22 +0000

Most TVs with a tuner can still listen to analog signals, I'm assuming for legacy device support (game consoles, VCRs, etc.)

New comment by saltymug76 in "Device Tree Patches Posted for Review to Boot Linux on Apple A7 to A11 Devices"

saltymug76 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:00:55 +0000

Otherwise useless phones would be cool as battery backed raspberry like devices

New comment by saltymug76 in "Company offers unofficial security patches for Windows 10 until 2030"

saltymug76 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:15:41 +0000

I don't think he's spreading FUD. It's a lot of trust you're placing in a 3rd party who doesn't have the source code to patch your system. Independent reviews and A B testing would help sway a lot of people, IMO.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Below MI – IBM i for hackers"

saltymug76 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:39:43 +0000

My conspiracy brain thinks part of the reason for the red hat acquisition was to funnel disgruntled IBM i customers into that while bleeding the platform dry.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Below MI – IBM i for hackers"

saltymug76 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:38:34 +0000

Profits fine, its just not raking in billions and billions like IBM Z is, so IBM i always gets the scraps.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Below MI – IBM i for hackers"

saltymug76 — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 02:31:51 +0000

I can speak with confidence that its hanging on by a thread. IBM has bean counted the development and support staff to the point that entire critical sections of the OS have maybe one, two people working on it. Bugs take months or years to be addressed and security flaws sometimes take just as long to get patched. Not to mention features that were new 20 years ago get the IBM red tape and beuracacy treatment and never get implemented, alienating even more customers.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off"

saltymug76 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:48:19 +0000

Figured he was going to say 'diversity' as if that has something to do with any of boeings issues, but your D words are on the nose!

New comment by saltymug76 in "Boeing's starliner docks at ISS after five thrusters unexpectedly shut off"

saltymug76 — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:48:45 +0000

Come on, say it for everyone.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu"

saltymug76 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:30:13 +0000

Please seek help sad little man.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu"

saltymug76 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:29:34 +0000

New comment by saltymug76 in "Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu"

saltymug76 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:46:04 +0000

What a sad little world view you have. Of course it doesn't matter in the long run. But it matters to people alive right now. Which is why we do anything even though its all pointless. I guess you wouldn't care about your life or a family members life being taken by covid since its a nothingburger though huh?

New comment by saltymug76 in "Cows in Texas and Kansas test positive for highly pathogenic bird flu"

saltymug76 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:42:28 +0000

Yes the millions of deaths were a nothingburger. You showed them!

New comment by saltymug76 in "The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6"

saltymug76 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:27:06 +0000

Looks like they added an option for split view in dolphin if that's what you mean.

New comment by saltymug76 in "The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6"

saltymug76 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:18:20 +0000

That's basically why I stick to KDE. Feels like the natural evolution of the pre-vista windows ui.

New comment by saltymug76 in "Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu"

saltymug76 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:45:45 +0000

Emulation is legal in the US. Nintendo deserves to have their games pirated over this anti consumer overreach.