Hacker News: sellmesoap

New comment by sellmesoap in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

sellmesoap — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:29:39 +0000

The first that comes to mind is that they want the surveillance to stay in the region.

New comment by sellmesoap in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

sellmesoap — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:01:03 +0000

Some come here to sit and think, but I come here to...

New comment by sellmesoap in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

sellmesoap — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:55:33 +0000

20 years ago a malformed packet to winsock would crash the computer, 5 years later installing win2k on my buddies computer (no router/firewall) a few minutes after we finished the install "windows will reboot in nn seconds" whelp time to re-install without a network connection... we've added a lot of layers since win2k, mostly in the name of ease of development, and I don't feel like we've met that goal but we sure found a way to get a million monkies behind a million typwriters, and now we're aiming to replace the monkies with simulated monkies. Time to smell my fingers and fall out of the tree ;-D

New comment by sellmesoap in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

sellmesoap — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:55:38 +0000

The main trick is getting the pad/component hot enough that you're adding solder to them, not to the iron. The end result should look like the solder is a smooth fillet, not jaggy/crystalized bumps. Now to tweak my nixos gaming rig with your settings thanks to your research!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

sellmesoap — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:51:18 +0000

I appreciate the article, it's cool to see such small differences across all those settings! It says they learned to solder, if you see solder joins that look like those in the first picture, keep learning! Those are some dry joins, which can easily lead to failure, or intermittant signal loss. Soldering can be a touchy sport!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)"

sellmesoap — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:25:38 +0000

GhostBSD DragonflyBSD pf/opn sense even funky hybrid stuff like Chimera Linux, out of curiosity I had a quick search and the list goes on https://github.com/DiscoverBSD/awesome-bsd

Linux has a lot of corporate sponsorship and its own legal hurdles of the past (SCO le sigh.)

New comment by sellmesoap in "Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii"

sellmesoap — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:23:23 +0000

I haven't read about the details, but a sea anchor can really put the breaks on. It also woulden't surprise me if they spent a a fair bit of effort doing weather routing, making course adjustments to take advantage of weather systems as they evolve.

New comment by sellmesoap in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)"

sellmesoap — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:50:00 +0000

As a mouse with diabetes sometimes you have to wonder how did I get here?

New comment by sellmesoap in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

sellmesoap — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:01:31 +0000

Ahh the classic bootlicker's bias, this is how oppressed developers move and click their sad cursor hoping to keep their job while they train their AI replacement!

>"For people who are comfortable, that's great, they can contribute to this kind of great human survey. To people who are not, it is not an issue,"

New comment by sellmesoap in "Spain's cadastre API is SOAP from 2003, so I built a JSON wrapper (+MCP)"

sellmesoap — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:15:19 +0000

Me too!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

sellmesoap — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:25:32 +0000

I'm thinking of the classic 4chan "make sure I'm in the caption" meme.

Anproto would fit the bill for a simple "I was here, you may have seen me elsewhere" https://anproto.com/

New comment by sellmesoap in "Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD"

sellmesoap — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:50:03 +0000

I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

sellmesoap — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:39:51 +0000

No jugement, but I'm seeing an up-tick in pro snake activities on this site!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

sellmesoap — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:04:43 +0000

User/admin discretion for software they use should be a big factor, sometimes getting burned is how you learn to play with fire. Or decide that having your data/participation disrespected means you need to set harder boundaries. My solution is to try things in isolation, run very few services, try to avoid becoming dependent on the online, appreciate the offline and local first.

New comment by sellmesoap in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

sellmesoap — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:51:02 +0000

^^^ Proof that IVM block was very effective!

New comment by sellmesoap in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

sellmesoap — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:25:58 +0000

Time to flip the Samuel Jackson quote upside down, we need more mf'in snakes on the mf'in plane!

New comment by sellmesoap in "'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York"

sellmesoap — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:30:30 +0000

Passive aggressive behavior around hiring and HR is a big reason I prefer self employment, I ununderstand some of the CYA reasons but I always find it yucky in the extreme.

New comment by sellmesoap in "PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher"

sellmesoap — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:34:41 +0000

Ye olde cyberpunk kill switch, are your teched out goons out of date? Flush em and print new better goons fresh from the vats!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

sellmesoap — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:26:50 +0000

The brand new BMW I last drove has network issues, it's been to the shop 10+ times the infotainment system glitches worse then skrillix and adjusting the side mirrors crashed and the car had to be turned off and on again to regain functionality. My friend is pulling teeth to get a new replacement, I had nightmares that it would glitch and emergency break us to death on the highway, not confidence inspiring!

New comment by sellmesoap in "Law Enforcement's "Warrior" Problem (2015)"

sellmesoap — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:04 +0000

As an urban farm nerd I've experienced this first hand in western Canada, "the chickens smell" indeed and??? "Our bylaws are so poorly written we can fine you $10,000 a day for your 6 urban chickens subjectively having a smell" ... Plus bylaw officers can enter property without a warrant, they've got more rights then the police! And yet they don't know how to determine if animals are kept in appropriate conditions/can't tell if animals in your care are healthy etc. It's like a montey python sketch IRL!