Hacker News: sjs382

New comment by sjs382 in "Gateside by TSA Precheck"

sjs382 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:57:36 +0000

It is. With Global Entry, you have a KTN.

> Who is Eligible

> TSA PreCheck members and those with Known Traveler Numbers (KTNs).

New comment by sjs382 in "Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths"

sjs382 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:25:41 +0000

Malicious compliance strikes again.

Alternatively, they could have designed booths without unnecessary steps. But sure, blame it on the ADA.

New comment by sjs382 in "Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage"

sjs382 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:56:24 +0000

I use Grimmory, too. It feels a bit "heavy" for me[0] but I like it a lot.

Not necessarily re: resource usage but rather: it does a lot more than what I have any interest in using. I just use it to expose books to my 2 ereaders (via OPDS) and to sync reading progress (via koreader-sync).

New comment by sjs382 in "Pixel Watch 5"

sjs382 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:55:11 +0000

I have a Galaxy Watch 7 that I keep on silent ("Mute all sounds"). I think I'd be considered a heavy user. I don't use it to do a lot, but I've come to rely on the things I do use it for and I use it frequently.

I use it:

  - To tell the time
  - Set one-off timers/alarms
  - Recurring silent/vibration alarms throughout the day
    Wake up, start work, mid-morning break/checkpoint, lunch, end lunch, mid-day break/checkpoint, 30 minutes before "clock out", end of work day, and medication reminders
  - For silent/vibration notifications (HEAVILY filtered. Mostly messages from VIPs, security camera notifications, reminders, "rain in 15 minutes")
  - Set reminders "Remind me tomorrow morning to schedule a vet appointment"
  - Add things to different shopping lists (grocery list, shopping list, etc)
  - Quick, short-term notes ("10 M4x20mm screws")
  - Casual health tracking: sleep, step count, activity minutes, etc

Almost every one of my interactions with it is via voice/Gemini.

New comment by sjs382 in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

sjs382 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:32:15 +0000

> I'd use Brave if someone made a fork with all the BAT token stuff removed but I haven't seen one.

https://brave.com/origin/

New comment by sjs382 in "A directory of people who love RSS"

sjs382 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:39:52 +0000

Flashback to a memorable bug report complaining that "the JPEGs I'm uploading don't work" but upon further investigation, they were trying to upload HEIC photos. The field was explicit about the formats supported, but to this user, "JPEGs" just meant "images".

New comment by sjs382 in "EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2"

sjs382 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:24:59 +0000

"The law is not autistic"

New comment by sjs382 in "Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal"

sjs382 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:09:41 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/meta-data-cent...

New comment by sjs382 in "Claude Opus 5"

sjs382 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:37:46 +0000

Just leaving this for anyone that says a design like this doesn't work: https://riceboxed.com/

New comment by sjs382 in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

sjs382 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:35:25 +0000

I learned about it from HN, a while ago.

New comment by sjs382 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

sjs382 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:21:52 +0000

Whether you're expecting to have contributors that all have GitHub accounts already. And whether you expect to use the network-effects (follows/stars/activity feed) to have your project be more discoverable.

New comment by sjs382 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

sjs382 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:16:00 +0000

I mean, they have every right to adopt that policy... but because of the policy, I can't see myself CHOOSING to use Codeberg.

I don’t currently use LLMs for any significant part of my work but I’m not willing to put myself in a position where I might someday have to prove that something WASN'T written with an LLM because someone is making spurious accusations to troll or "DoS" a project.

It's unlikely to happen, but there are plenty of alternatives where this isn't a concern at all. Why open yourself or your projects to this?

New comment by sjs382 in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)"

sjs382 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:31:06 +0000

Don't incapacitate yourself during a major weather event.

New comment by sjs382 in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip"

sjs382 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:23:14 +0000

You define "spiritually" differently (more narrow, for one) than the person you're replying to.

New comment by sjs382 in "I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned"

sjs382 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:39:18 +0000

Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?

Yes

New comment by sjs382 in "Dumber Mini: A Nokia-Style Phone with WhatsApp and Maps"

sjs382 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:18:19 +0000

Not sure how you define "first class" but:

Do you support WhatsApp, Messenger and Signal?

Yes we do! These also work with push notifications via MicroG or Google Play Services to ensure you get instant updates!

Do you support X app?

In general, we support almost all apps that work on Android, only really having difficulty with banking apps or digital id apps (due to Google Play Integrity Check). We ship with either Aurora store or Google Play Store to have full access to the apps on the Google Play Store

New comment by sjs382 in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

sjs382 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:32:52 +0000

I bought a trashcan Mac Pro on a whim last week ($120 in eBay!) and did some reading about them—it turns out people recently started using the GPUs to run models @ 20-30 tok/s.

I'm excited to get my mitts on it on Friday when it finally arrives.

Here's some of the resources I came across if you're interested in reading.

https://echalupa.com/blog/mac-pro-6-1-llama-cpp-firepro-d300...

https://matthewgribben.com/blog/mac-pro-6-1-llama-cpp-firepr...

New comment by sjs382 in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

sjs382 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:16:02 +0000

I use these USB-C rechargeable batteries in my travel kit, too. I love the flexibility of being able to pickup some AA/AAAs, charge the ones that just died, or swap in the 2 spares I travel with.

Hacker News: sjs382

New comment by sjs382 in "Gateside by TSA Precheck"

New comment by sjs382 in "Christmas Village shoppers no longer will be allowed to enter booths"

New comment by sjs382 in "Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage"

New comment by sjs382 in "Pixel Watch 5"

New comment by sjs382 in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

New comment by sjs382 in "A directory of people who love RSS"

New comment by sjs382 in "EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2"

New comment by sjs382 in "Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal"

New comment by sjs382 in "Claude Opus 5"

New comment by sjs382 in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

New comment by sjs382 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

New comment by sjs382 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

New comment by sjs382 in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)"

New comment by sjs382 in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip"

New comment by sjs382 in "I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned"

New comment by sjs382 in "Dumber Mini: A Nokia-Style Phone with WhatsApp and Maps"

New comment by sjs382 in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

New comment by sjs382 in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

New comment by sjs382 in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

New comment by sjs382 in "Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool"