<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: samspot</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=samspot</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:25:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=samspot" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are not wrong, but I just don't have time. My choices are pay someone or throw my hands up. I have been paying backblaze. But I recently had a drive die, and discovered the backups are missing .exe and .dll files, and so that part of the restore was worthless.<p>What time I do have, I've been using to try and figure out photo libraries. Nothing is working the way I need it to. The providers are a mess of security restrictions and buggy software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:52:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768097</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Apple Just Lost Me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can get by just fine in the US without a credit card too. At least if you have a debit card (which can pretend to be a credit card in most situations). We were actually unscored by the credit bureaus for several years when we didn't own a house.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:43:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519805</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They said go every day, not do intense workouts every day. Plenty of things you can do at a gym that don't require recovery days. Being there so much should confer some social benefits too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:13:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311009</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I envy your life of peaceful routine. For me every evening is a trip into the unknown. Sure some things repeat on the same days. But there is always something new. This week the one I'm aware of is daily Soccer tryouts. I have to check my spouse's paper calendar every day to keep up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:37:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125645</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Posting like this is an anti-pattern. "Everyone wants what I want, and if you don't build it my way you are stupid." Props to teams that can find some value in feedback like this, but I think I would have stopped reading. If you have really valuable feedback for a product the last thing you want to do is deliver it wrapped in ignorance and entitlement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:36:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991999</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read the bug as notepad can launch unsafe links by delegating them to the OS to open.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:15:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991610</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think we overestimate the amount of reading, writing, and thinking that occurred before LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978117</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hard for me to imagine anyone balking at this feature. My core note taking workflow frequently involves:<p>1. Note about blah
2. Paste link to blah
3. Open that link later when reviewing my notes.<p>Blah is sometimes a web link, sometimes a link to a doc on my system, and sometimes a link to an item in my todo tracker.  The better analogy is this is like a pencil having an eraser built in.<p>I use Drafts instead of Notepad, but if I used Notepad I would want to be able to easily open links in my notes. When I do find myself in Notepad, it's because I double clicked on a readme file that often contains links to resources I need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:35:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978030</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "America has a tungsten problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If we use our tungsten to make quality Big Mining Drills (<a href="https://wiki.factorio.com/Big_mining_drill" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.factorio.com/Big_mining_drill</a>), we can improve the efficiency of known resource patches.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963345</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Accessibility is for all user experiences, not just websites. WCAG is still a good resource for native apps even where some specifics do not 100% apply.<p>If Qwasm is referring to Quake, it absolutely should have, for example, legible color contrast and be usable if you are colorblind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903420</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's good to know that "Linux is only free if your time is worthless" still holds true after all these years. From the way many talk, I honestly thought it might have changed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:06:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636863</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "On loyalty to your employer (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article points are mostly all valid, don't give your loyalty in return for abuse, etc. etc.<p>But I've been at my employer 11 years now and I have greatly prospered. They took care of me in many ways that aren't required by law, and gave great benefits. They didn't abuse me or take undue time from my family. They constantly invest in my career -- for their ultimate benefit, yes, but I benefit too. If and when I get transactioned out, I'll have no regrets.<p>It's ok to reward an employer with some loyalty for treating you well.<p>But also, this quote needs to be here :)<p>Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty, In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty, But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly… I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most. — Dwight Schrute</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:50:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784841</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you never pick up a pen to sign a birthday card, thank you note, or wedding album, that's a symptom you are too isolated!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784736</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A common mistake in accessibility is to assume accessibility is mostly for users who are blind. I've rarely seen the opposite approach, calling something accessible that is very much not accessible to a person who is blind. A url is much more accessible for many people with disabilities than the postal mail.<p>Even if you mean access instead of accessibility, presumably a person who can find a way to acquire stamps can just as easily make it to a library with public computers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:33:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784662</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "You wouldn't steal a font"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Copyright, and patents, are not based on moral principles. It's a temporary government license meant to encourage innovation and hustle. Whether it works or not, I don't know. But the only question of morality is if it's immoral to break an arbitrary law, or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:19:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776237</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you achieve expertise you know when to break the rules. Until then it is wise to avoid premature optimization. In many cases understandable code is far more important.<p>I was working with a peer on a click handler for a web button. The code ran in 5-10ms. You have nearly 200ms budget before a user notices sluggishness. My peer "optimized" the 10ms click handler to the point of absolute illegibility. It was doubtful the new implementation was faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:04:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754083</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43754083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My wife uses this solution. When I am at work and someone wants to know if I can do a team dinner, I have to call her if she's at home, or tell them I'll get back to them. I never know if I'm free and finding out is inefficient at best.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645423</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "AI 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great comment, and I love the thought process. My answer to the question: What is the difference? Humans and corporations are exceedingly predictable. We know what they both want, generally. We also rely on human issues as a limiting factor.<p>For an AI controlled corporation, I don't know what it wants or what to expect. And if decision making happens at the speed of light, by the time we have any warning it may be too late to react. Usually with human concerns, we get lots of warnings but wait longer than we should to respond.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:43:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43623105</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43623105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43623105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "What if we made advertising illegal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of niche things I want cease to exist in this advertising-free world. If the interest isn't mainstream enough to get a word-of-mouth recommendation then it can't survive. The services we use to find these things, Google, Etsy, Fan sites, none of them exist without advertising. I'm sure you can think of something that was never explicitly advertised to you, that you wanted, that you wouldn't be able to find anymore if this came to pass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:54:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613474</link><dc:creator>samspot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by samspot in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This makes AI image generation very boring. I don't want to generate pictures I can find on google, I want to make new pictures.<p>I found apple's tool frustrating. I have a buzzed haircut, but no matter what I did, apple was unable to give me that hairstyle. It wants so bad for my avatar to have some longer hair to flourish, and refuses to do anything else.</p>
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