Hacker News: stzsch

New comment by stzsch in "Am I German or Autistic?"

stzsch — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:29:57 +0000

Not OP but my general approach is similar: "I see it as wrong but do not feel entitled to impose my standards on others".

New comment by stzsch in "YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom"

stzsch — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:39:06 +0000

You can either root it or enable developer mode to install an ad-free youtube.

New comment by stzsch in "GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP"

stzsch — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:43:42 +0000

Or as Raymond Chen likes to put it: "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...

(actually a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy quote, but I digress)

New comment by stzsch in "Firefox tab groups are here"

stzsch — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:45:37 +0000

I've been really happy with the winger addon for managing tabs. I really am closer than ever to complete control.

(no relation, just a user)

It adds a dropdown list of windows in the tab bar in which you can name each window, move tabs between windows, and save/restore windows into bookmarks.

Now instead of having 1000 tabs in 20 odd windows and eventually declaring bankrupcy, I have 1000 tabs in 20 _named_ windows alongside 500 bookmark folders of (named!) past sessions. Much better.

New comment by stzsch in "Writing C for Curl"

stzsch — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:02:13 +0000

Seems similar to the linux kernel coding style: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style....

New comment by stzsch in "Blacksmithing and Lisp"

stzsch — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:21:35 +0000

The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

New comment by stzsch in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

stzsch — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:54:26 +0000

Also radio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Landell_de_Moura

New comment by stzsch in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

stzsch — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:20:00 +0000

> The screen is yours, the content displayed is not.

Sure but traditionally this was a purely legal mechanism. There was no technological measure preventing you from copying a book, only a legal threat looming over _what_ you do with the copy.

Nowadays we have this very corporate-positive situation where copyright holders have their cake by embedding DRM and eat it too by leveraging the DMCA to prevent DRM circumventions. So you can be screwed even if you only want to take private screenshots, make backups, or exercise fair use.

New comment by stzsch in "VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles"

stzsch — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:10:44 +0000

You can setup a bazarr instance to use whisper as a subtitle provider.

New comment by stzsch in "FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant"

stzsch — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:48:31 +0000

See also selegiline, which partially metabolizes to levoamphetamine and levomethamphetamine. Not OTC though (antidepressant).

New comment by stzsch in "AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched"

stzsch — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:10:11 +0000

For those that dislike their change to substack, there is https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/10/11/amds-turin-5th-gen....

At least for now.

New comment by stzsch in "Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub"

stzsch — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:09:09 +0000

Nintendo's latest legal argument against emulators does rest on the DMCA's anti-circumvention provision. The letter from Nintendo to Valve in the Dolphin case makes it pretty clear.

New comment by stzsch in "LG TVs Start Showing Ads on Screensavers"

stzsch — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:18:21 +0000

It was already annoying to disable the (non-ad) screensaver on my (rooted) LG TV, I imagine it won't get any easier.

New comment by stzsch in "Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years"

stzsch — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 03:24:10 +0000

I can recommend the winger addon for managing tabs.

Allows for naming windows, moving tabs between windows, and saving tabs from a window as a bookmark folder.

New comment by stzsch in "The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)"

stzsch — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 22:54:35 +0000

"When art critics get together they talk about style, trend and meaning. When painters get together, they talk about where you can get the best turpentine."

New comment by stzsch in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

stzsch — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:30:43 +0000

My perspective as a subscriber for ~6 months:

Search just works, 90%+ of my searches are on kagi. Much better than google, bing, ddg, etc. Worth the $10.

I do use fastgpt and the summarizer sometimes. As with any of these AI tools, you have to get a feel for what suits it and when to use it.

The unbiased review idea _sounds like_ it would be ultimately fruitless as the requirements get philosophical, but it may very well lead to more useful tools in the process.

The GDPR perspective is unfortunate. I'm willing to wait and see if they eventually accept it.

Overall, I like their focus on user experience, customization, fast and light websites, and search quality. Sure it might not as objective as it's portrayed, but it is giving me great tools _today_.

New comment by stzsch in "Waking My Computer from Afar"

stzsch — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:22:38 +0000

I used a similar setup to reboot my home server remotely, with gpio pins instead of wakeonlan.

I eventually replaced it with an aliexpress tuya pcie power switch. I just wish I'd gotten the zigbee version. Homeassistant with local tuya wifi devices is quite janky.

New comment by stzsch in "Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 (2023)"

stzsch — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:16:52 +0000

I recently performed this exact procedure on a wifi card and yes, kapton tape works better. Electrical tape tends to tear or slide.

New comment by stzsch in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

stzsch — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:49:48 +0000

There might be allow lists, but I fine tuned the domains manually when setting up the TV, as they may vary by region.

My LG A1 does not hardcode addresses. I also rooted it to prevent updates from doing so in the future.

New comment by stzsch in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

stzsch — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:50:56 +0000

I got my glinet gl-axt1800 mainly for the adguard support out of the box, as a way to keep my smart tv experience sane. Works pretty well.