Hacker News: temp0826

New comment by temp0826 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

temp0826 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:58:58 +0000

Looks great. Subscription? Big ol nope.

New comment by temp0826 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

temp0826 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:05:30 +0000

Is this better odds than sailing across the Atlantic in the 1400-1500s?

New comment by temp0826 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

temp0826 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:17:59 +0000

One time cost? This should be a subscription that raises spikes when you don't pay

New comment by temp0826 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

temp0826 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:52:01 +0000

It still whips the llama's ass.

New comment by temp0826 in "The Importance of Being Idle"

temp0826 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:24:29 +0000

I've never seen it mentioned anywhere in their histories but I always suspected the messaging apps Slack and Discord were references to Church of Subgenius and Discordianism respectively

New comment by temp0826 in "Some Unusual Trees"

temp0826 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:01 +0000

One of my favorite trees is Couroupita guianensis, known by a few other names (ayahuma, cannonball tree). When mature the trunks grow some beautiful flowers that can cover the trunk (wiki link has a few good pics). Native to South America, it's a revered tree in Amazonian plant shamanism (all parts of the plant can be used medicinally; spiritually it is one of the big ones, an entire school of its own). It made its way to India in the 1800s where it holds a lot of renown and importance now.

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

New comment by temp0826 in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""

temp0826 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:01:27 +0000

I'm reminded of the ads when logging into Ununtu in the motd...nothing infuriated me more (I only used it for a short period).

New comment by temp0826 in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

temp0826 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:04:25 +0000

I implore you to read 17776

New comment by temp0826 in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

temp0826 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:50:43 +0000

Step 0- don't use a browser created by an ad company

New comment by temp0826 in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

temp0826 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:49:42 +0000

The bar is a lot lower- it was practically implied that you were already an enthusiast if it was in your awareness at that time I think.

New comment by temp0826 in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

temp0826 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:41:54 +0000

Working with ayahuasca for several years in a traditional (Shipibo) context has showed me just how bad cannabis can be- it is more difficult to clean out of the body (energetically/spiritually) than any other drug. It creates so many associations in our mind- memories, relationships, pains, emotions, etc.. When "on the path" (meaning, apprenticing and learning how to work with ayahuasca), it really needs to be cleaned out for useful visions to open up (to work on other people) and to be able to cleanly connect to and call in the medicinal spirits/doctors (through the icaros/songs). It can really blunt dreams, intuition and senses.

(Yah this probably sounded woo-woo, but I am speaking from a different, non-western context/lens that views this as a spiritual malady. So take that as you will)

New comment by temp0826 in "Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg"

temp0826 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:53:22 +0000

It's hugely more efficient, if you're on a battery powered device it could mean hours more of play time. It's pretty insane just how much better it is (I go through a bit of extra effort to make sure it's working for me, hw decoding isn't includes in some distros).

New comment by temp0826 in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

temp0826 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:29:02 +0000

Afaik ".internal" isn't reserved/defined anywhere, it's just a convention some people/devices use, and doesn't have anything to do with the root cause here (a custom resolve.conf or whatever it is called in macos changing after an update), no?

New comment by temp0826 in "World Happiness Report 2026"

temp0826 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:06:25 +0000

I guess a Buddhist point of view would be that any emotion/feeling should not be held on to. (It is best to feel and let all things pass, I think, but to consider it a disorder to "hold on" to happiness doesn't seem right...I am not well-read enough about it to know if it can in fact cause suffering)

New comment by temp0826 in "Have a fucking website"

temp0826 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:03:11 +0000

Maybe I'm just surprised by and not accustomed to the amount of anger that has been normalized in many people.

New comment by temp0826 in "Have a fucking website"

temp0826 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:24:29 +0000

Unnecessary vulgarity makes you look stupid.

New comment by temp0826 in "FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code"

temp0826 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:57:33 +0000

Am I reading it right that this is just about the installer not being ported? I guess I'm old but I feel like packaging is a long-solved problem. Bizarre...

New comment by temp0826 in "Offloading FFmpeg with Cloudflare"

temp0826 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:57:48 +0000

Some linux distros (e.g. fedora) don't include hw decoding for licensing reasons. I decided I wanted all the latest goodies at some point and ended up duct taping together a copr repo with mesa/ffmpeg/mpv (latest from git) with all the hw stuff enabled (though I'm probably breaking some of their rules by doing so...I've labeled it in such a way that I hope nobody comes across it and decides to use it). Anyways, my main goal with it all was to extend battery life on my laptop while watching things, it makes a pretty big difference to use proper codecs.

New comment by temp0826 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

temp0826 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:59:59 +0000

Maybe a bit clunky but there exist some very good and tiny DACs/dongles now (and have seen a couple creative cases/riggings that present the jack in a good/manageable way)

New comment by temp0826 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

temp0826 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:07:42 +0000

Re: noise canceling... recently got a pair of IEMs (Etymotic ER2XR) with good foam tips and their isolation blows away any ANC I've ever tried. The only thing is noise from touching the cable but that was solved with some ear hooks to put the cables behind my ears.