Hacker News: seany

New comment by seany in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

seany — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:48:52 +0000

Well. I just changed my bl labels on 3 phones and wifi ap settings to variations of this. Done a million miles on aa in 1.5 years before.

New comment by seany in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

seany — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:42:05 +0000

On the plus side that kind of thing is getting more and more "printable"

New comment by seany in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

seany — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:54:27 +0000

anonymity was the main point of freenet... So weird

New comment by seany in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

seany — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:32:02 +0000

I don't think they exist at all. Even in 4x4 config. Keep in mind I want only dp 1.4 in out +serial control

New comment by seany in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

seany — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:56:43 +0000

I really wish some one made one of these as a DP 1.4 _matrix_ instead of a true KVM. 8in 8 out would be amazing

New comment by seany in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

seany — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:06:31 +0000

Does there need to be one? It's not clear to me where the moral good comes from AML in the first place. That's why things like Monero are so exciting.

New comment by seany in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

seany — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:42:51 +0000

To be fair ditching AML/CTF would be _good_, but that isn't what is going on in this article.

New comment by seany in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

seany — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:47:04 +0000

It make a lot of sense if you think of repo history as properly immutable, and dispose of the notion that brach is a first class object in the git sense. Bookmakers just pin a checkin hash to a name, and you can have many heads in an hg branch.

New comment by seany in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

seany — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:36:23 +0000

Are there any good open source implementations of these kinds of tools? They really are useful for things other than def deletes (though I support that too)

New comment by seany in "Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter"

seany — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Someone else could have answered. I found it eventually. https://x.com/dmitrygr

New comment by seany in "Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005)"

seany — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:57:07 +0000

There's also the pectin vs gelatin, and temperature of the test. Some of the precursors of things like Tonkotsu broth (lots of chicken/pig feet) can be fairly firm at 20°c, and nearly solid at 10°.

New comment by seany in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

seany — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:24:59 +0000

Seems like there has to be a tipping point coming soon where stuff like monero will start to make sense for "normal" people.

New comment by seany in "Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter"

seany — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:45:06 +0000

What's his x handle? It doesn't seem linked from his blog

New comment by seany in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

seany — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:24:49 +0000

One more reason to go off grid

New comment by seany in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

seany — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:50:15 +0000

Honestly, insider trading laws should be removed since they manipulate markets. If you know things, make moves that are public, that would price things _more_ accurately.

New comment by seany in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

seany — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:30:26 +0000

Seems like he needed more Op/InfoSec training...

New comment by seany in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

seany — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:48:17 +0000

In theory BGG should help here, but I agree there are discoverability issues. Not sure what a better plan would be though, the margins on some of the small games are not that great. Outside of working on distribution deals with big stores, going to cons with a booth and word of mouth ends up being the main way...

New comment by seany in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

seany — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:08:25 +0000

If you wander around the gencon halls this seems less true than people think. The number of innovative things or even kids ish games that are actually pretty interesting for all is _expansive_. The smaller stuff just doesn't get all the marketing splash.

I came back from last year with a few things but one of the hits was a physical area control game with just cards. The 2 play version is a pack of cards.

New comment by seany in "Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want"

seany — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:03:43 +0000

Doesn't this miss some of the big things that are being neutered? Cyber research? Chemical processes (eg: explosives), Bio (eg: weaponizing agents).

New comment by seany in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

seany — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:39:38 +0000

FWIW You can put a rpi in gadget mode and use nbd kit to mount nfs/smb shares..