Hacker News: snthd

New comment by snthd in "Angine de Poitrine – Full Performance (Live on KEXP) [27:53] [video]"

snthd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:04:38 +0000

Microtonal guitar/bass and drums.

Angine de Poitrine – Full Performance (Live on KEXP) [27:53] [video]

snthd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:04:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350677

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by snthd in "Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund"

snthd — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:39:44 +0000

Could floss.fund reach an agreement with foreign orgs with similar goals, and let them to the disbursement to individuals?

eg https://www.spi-inc.org/ https://nlnet.nl/

New comment by snthd in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

snthd — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:57:09 +0000

https://gpsjam.org/

New comment by snthd in "Open Infrastructure Map"

snthd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:39:09 +0000

Related - "The UK is wasting a lot of wind power" from 2023. https://archy.deberker.com/the-uk-is-wasting-a-lot-of-wind-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358795

New comment by snthd in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

snthd — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:51:18 +0000

>But what happens when authoritarianism does not come from the right, but from the left or center? (Not a contradiction:

That's the whole thing of the "political compass" both a left-to-right wing axis and a perpendicular authoritarian-libertarian axis:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

New comment by snthd in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

snthd — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:54:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-segregation

New comment by snthd in "US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry"

snthd — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:28:34 +0000

It's good to have real feeling behind the "abstract" incompatibility of EU data rights and US law.

"EU-US Privacy Shield" and similar are a crock of shit.

New comment by snthd in "Don't Download Apps"

snthd — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:18:56 +0000

Facebook & Yandex used apps to correlate browsing sessions to the app user.

https://localmess.github.io/

New comment by snthd in "Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects"

snthd — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:47:07 +0000

The idea that ecosystems naturally balance themselves is a pervasive myth.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_nature

>It’s much older than you and you are not its legal guardian.

A fair few cultures believe they are. NZ recognises the Whanganui River as having legal personhood.

New comment by snthd in "The internet is no longer a safe haven"

snthd — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:13:02 +0000

Bright VPN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Data

New comment by snthd in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

snthd — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:43:33 +0000

Despite the title, there's a windows build:

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/releases

New comment by snthd in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

snthd — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:00:53 +0000

Archive.is have previously blocked cloudflare DNS because it was anonymizing requests. It could be either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

>The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.

New comment by snthd in "Beets: The music geek’s media organizer"

snthd — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:14:35 +0000

Musicbrainz can do events

https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=glastonbury&type=event&...

Texas Sheriff Used Flock ALPR in Abortion Investigation

snthd — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:33:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45879151

Points: 27

# Comments: 10

New comment by snthd in "Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works"

snthd — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:28:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number

New comment by snthd in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

snthd — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:25:36 +0000

Don't smoke.

New comment by snthd in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

snthd — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:19:33 +0000

Fixed in "Remove custom keepalive intervals" merged 12 Aug 2024

https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde/-/merge_reques...

New comment by snthd in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

snthd — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:53:20 +0000

Maybe they're called parental controls because they control the parents (by limiting and bundling choices).

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

snthd — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45557599

Points: 476

# Comments: 198