Hacker News: slmkbh

New comment by slmkbh in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

slmkbh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:47:25 +0000

Google Talk and Facebook Messenger both used to be XMPP, and I used Pidgin for both, wonderful times...

New comment by slmkbh in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

slmkbh — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:35:35 +0000

A lot of Shelly devices use ESP chips: https://www.shelly.com/ - And they are hackable!

New comment by slmkbh in "OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework"

slmkbh — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:59:03 +0000

Lack of self irony... I was also looking for this :)

Having just re watched the show, it is remarkable how little changed for the better...

New comment by slmkbh in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

slmkbh — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:55:56 +0000

Fairphone os _is_ android...

New comment by slmkbh in "Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices"

slmkbh — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:05:23 +0000

I did something similar with pulseaudio about 15 years ago, had an old thinkpad running Debian, and then multicast activated on my source. Worked surprisingly well!

New comment by slmkbh in "The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet"

slmkbh — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:25:54 +0000

fbpurity.com works quite well for me on desktop, on m.facebook.com, it does not.

It also makes it painfully clear how little user interaction there is publicly on the site...

New comment by slmkbh in "The Intenet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)"

slmkbh — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:08:01 +0000

My brain swapped the second zero to a two... But I did think the 1990 reference a little odd..

New comment by slmkbh in "DongleHider+ Framework Laptop Expansion Card"

slmkbh — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:51:29 +0000

I use the 2S and the 3 over Bluetooth (Windows 10 and Linux (Pipewire/pulseaudio)) and they generally work well. But on Linux I sometimes get lagging sound on my bt headphones, when I use the mouse heavily, and on Windows I get a rubber band effect on the mouse when I use a headset for calls, but not music. ymmv

New comment by slmkbh in "Our Super-Secret Plan to Bring the Internet Back (Part 1)"

slmkbh — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:31:26 +0000

Why not Matrix?

New comment by slmkbh in "Why more PC gaming handhelds should ditch Windows for SteamOS"

slmkbh — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:24:50 +0000

SteamOS literally has a desktop mode, standard KDE, and you can install any applications that are in Arch repos or served as flatpaks.

New comment by slmkbh in "Firefox on the brink?"

slmkbh — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:46:14 +0000

Could we get numbers from the rest of the world before we make a verdict? There is 10 times the people outside the US, as inside...

New comment by slmkbh in "We have used too many levels of abstractions"

slmkbh — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:27:14 +0000

I talked to a guy who "managed software development", and when I asked him about the resources om their developer machines (some kind of VM), he got angry at me when I laughed nervously when he didn't know what RAM was.

No wonder a lot of modern software is terrible.

New comment by slmkbh in "Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations"

slmkbh — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:39:42 +0000

Black Mirror was not a manual for the future.... Just watch S02E01 from 2013(!), I know the llms are not quite there yet, but still.

New comment by slmkbh in "Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease"

slmkbh — Wed, 17 May 2023 12:20:34 +0000

My only gripe is that they chose not to put the USB-C connector on a separate, easily exchangeable PCB. but other than that, best gadget in a looong time. And the advantages it gives to Linux gaming in general is very nice (I have gamed exclusively on Linux for 5 years, and it has never been better).

New comment by slmkbh in "Anatomy of a Drum Machine (2012)"

slmkbh — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:42:56 +0000

Deaht metal drum machine has a very power metal vibe to it, ironically enough :D

New comment by slmkbh in "Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)"

slmkbh — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:00:34 +0000

Written by Donald E. Knuth. Pretty interesting!

New comment by slmkbh in "Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”"

slmkbh — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 10:31:38 +0000

I have a couple of AP AC Lites running openwrt and 802.11r, works fine except on Xiaomi phones apparently... I never tried the unifi though, flashed openwrt within 15 minutes of receiving the APs

New comment by slmkbh in "I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System"

slmkbh — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 19:50:28 +0000

not GP, but I use Xiaomi 2-gang switches, IKEA 5 button remotes, the old IKEA dimmers, and their on/off remote. At the moment I'm eyeing LIDLs remotes as well... In Denmark

Everything is controlled via Homeassistant+Deconz and a Phoscon Zigbee Dongle.

It's even possible to hack the IKEA switches into the danish wall switches.

New comment by slmkbh in "Ask HN: Any job boards and age-friendly companies for older developers?"

slmkbh — Wed, 27 May 2020 11:33:30 +0000

In my company (DK Based), the youngest SW dev(not based in India) is 38, so the companies are out there. I'm one of the youngest HW engineers at 35. My guess is that we average close to 50 in R&D. Granted, we are in Medical Devices, so young gun speed is not our thing, but still.

Nice site if you have forgotten the basic geometric formulas for area and volume