Hacker News: temp0826

New comment by temp0826 in "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields"

temp0826 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:02:50 +0000

Being able to actually drag a hole makes it a little easier as well..! (Didn't even realize that was a thing as it was broken on mine...playing on desktop now)

New comment by temp0826 in "What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers"

temp0826 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:36:34 +0000

> blood donations to the server gods

It really bothered me that for how much enterprise gear costs, the manufacturers couldn't be bothered to deburr the edges of rails/servers/etc.

New comment by temp0826 in "On Really Trying (2009)"

temp0826 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:59:22 +0000

I've worked at an ayahuasca retreat center the last few years and have worked with several of what I'd consider very successful people. What I've noticed is that there are a couple types- those who are successful despite their traumas and those who are successful because of their traumas. The people I've seen successful because of their traumas tend to have difficulty making real progress (which sometimes comes off has actually having wonderful experiences...possibly all projections or other forms of dissociation/resistance). I think with them there is a subconscious fear that if they heal, they will lose the drive that made them "successful". It's a tough pill to swallow. (The other camp tends to do really well, continues to be successful with even more appreciation and compassion, despite difficult experiences if they decide to face their traumas).

New comment by temp0826 in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

temp0826 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:03:39 +0000

"Invite only", ok I get they're rich but I wonder about the airbnb potential for recouping some of that cost.

New comment by temp0826 in "Don't Use a gmail.com Address"

temp0826 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:22:15 +0000

I've been a proton user for a while but have always shied away from their other offerings...feels like too many eggs in one basket to use them for both email and password management (things I consider to be the most critical of all services I use). Vpn as well! Am I being paranoid? It would be nice to not pay for 3 separate services but I have kind of a blockage about it

New comment by temp0826 in "Models Don't Go Rogue"

temp0826 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:16:16 +0000

Pfhor what reason?

New comment by temp0826 in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

temp0826 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:39:34 +0000

Just mentioned in another comment, but I'm not sure Firefox on iOS can actually use webkit content blockers? (I thought it could but have been using Orion exclusively for a while now)

New comment by temp0826 in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

temp0826 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:36:46 +0000

I was under the impression that firefox could already use the Safari "content blockers" (as it uses webkit) like Firefox Focus and uBO Lite, but I'm not seeing that option actually. Been using Orion for a while now so not sure if that changed or I'm just misremembering it.

New comment by temp0826 in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

temp0826 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:29:38 +0000

I get the nostalgia factor, but is it actually a good idea to use screensavers on modern monitors rather than letting them sleep?

New comment by temp0826 in "Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug"

temp0826 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:33:52 +0000

Or eat more plants!

New comment by temp0826 in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

temp0826 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:26:37 +0000

The main reason anyone chooses cloudflare is for their CDN (which I suppose is a "reverse proxy"...not a way I'd refer to it but technically yes that's essentially what it's doing). If you don't need the CDN or any of the other fancy features there are plenty of straight DNS providers out there (and often provided by the registar these days).

New comment by temp0826 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

temp0826 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:05:45 +0000

My current excuse? Android (the only current realistic alternative; I don't have the time nor care to fiddle with technical details on a device that I need to be a reliable tool. I'm not afraid of going deep on something less standard, Linux has been my daily driven OS for literally decades) is trash and untrustworthy in my experience. Browser extensions alone are not nearly enough to tip the scale for me to go back to it. As mentioned I use something that provides extension support already (from a browser that has far fewer developers working on it!), which is why I find it stupid that Mozilla won't figure out a way to do it themselves.

New comment by temp0826 in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

temp0826 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:35:07 +0000

What's the current excuse for not supporting extensions on iOS? Orion on iOS does and it's the reason I dropped FF ages ago.

New comment by temp0826 in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

temp0826 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:21:08 +0000

ICANN might have set some rule for .com/.net/.org but it's not universal for all tlds

New comment by temp0826 in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

temp0826 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:01:02 +0000

Scapegoat team (when working for an obviously unethical company).

New comment by temp0826 in "The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert"

temp0826 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:54:20 +0000

I seriously don't know who would be unhappy about it. Pure 5-meo is a more reliable experience and no endangered toads need to be harmed. I don't know that one would even be able to liquify straight bufo properly to put in a cart for one...also pure 5-meo is maybe 3-5x more potent per weight so that probably makes it all easier too. Anyone pulling the "butttt it's unnaturalllll" card on this one is a fool.

New comment by temp0826 in "_for-sale DNS records"

temp0826 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:42:07 +0000

This would have been great for a 2-letter .st domain I had been wanting for years (which appeared to be parked and just redirecting towards ticketmaster or something, with no contact info available). I was bummed about it for a long time, as the .st nic had a sale on 2-letter domains which made me want to pull the trigger, but it got scooped up a day or two prior apparently. I lucked out this year and saw they let it lapse! (I did have a yearly calendar reminder telling me to run whois :)

New comment by temp0826 in "Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way"

temp0826 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:37:19 +0000

Picturing the crust of the earth being pulled off like an orange peel. But maybe seen too much scifi so it's probably a lot more boring :/

New comment by temp0826 in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

temp0826 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:17:27 +0000

I guess it depends on what "derail" means (meaning, do you actually know one's internal state and if they are happy?). Is something wrong with living alone in a rural area if you are happy? (This sounds great to me, for reference!).

I've watched hundreds of people take them in great containers with great support. It's never a good idea to make big changes right away, but we take small steps to adjust our lives so we can actually be happy. Yes, even if that is less "productive". Why do we do the things we do anyways?

New comment by temp0826 in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

temp0826 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:46:00 +0000

Why would you want your brain to ravel back up? I've worked at ayahuasca retreats and know many people who do it for a living (who are many of the most grounded people I know). Using these things in a therapeutic manner is a completely different thing than using them recreationally, might as well be a different substance. I'd guess those people who "permanently changed their brain" (whatever that means) were not in a context for actually healing.