Hacker News: thowawatp302

New comment by thowawatp302 in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

thowawatp302 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:38:46 +0000

Your analogy is terrible. GET requests can be denied.

New comment by thowawatp302 in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

thowawatp302 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:27:09 +0000

That’s how google set up this relationship with their users.

“What goes around comes around,” shouldn’t be surprising.”

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Joining Apple Computer (2018)"

thowawatp302 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 04:01:06 +0000

Idk 2003-2009 was very much the days of the sort of malware and spyware that showed developers in a company didn’t deserve rights anymore

New comment by thowawatp302 in "The scientific “unit” we call the decibel"

thowawatp302 — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:55:49 +0000

Exactly! It makes sense in context.

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"

thowawatp302 — Sat, 03 May 2025 16:22:30 +0000

If AI isn’t either of those things, then what is it?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

thowawatp302 — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:57:57 +0000

Wait which innovations were these?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "What Is Entropy?"

thowawatp302 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:33:05 +0000

Over long enough scales there is no conservation of energy because the universe does not have temporal symmetry.

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Garfield Minus Garfield"

thowawatp302 — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:50:11 +0000

> Waiting ages for basic serif pages to load over your 56k (or 128k connection if you were rich and had ISDN)? Nope.

> Downloading tracks from KaZaa/WinMX/Limewire/Napster for a million hours only for them to be some warped shit that the studios planted? Nope.

I was there too, and realized that these sort of reductions in speed made one far more mindful of what one was doing

> Almost everything about using the Internet is better today IMO. Faster, prettier, more secure and more cross-platform

This too is particularly debatable. Applications are thin wrappers around web browsers, there are constant annoyances (want to receive notifications for this webpage? Not now? We’ll ask you later.) I bet if I pulled someone from 2005 they’d look at a lot of things on a current website and see malware. And is it really more cross platform when we’ve achieved that by having less platforms?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "I don't like traveling anymore"

thowawatp302 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:15:42 +0000

My traveling taught me that people are the same everywhere, but now that I know that, I no longer want to to travel just travel.

It’s more of a reminder of that

New comment by thowawatp302 in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

thowawatp302 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:44:44 +0000

Nah, personally? I know it’s possible, I’ve done it, and I just do not care anymore.

not worth it

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure"

thowawatp302 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:14:26 +0000

I’ve had the idea of recreating tv channels on my plex server by using tv guide data from the late 90s early 00s

The insurmountable part of that project would be getting the guide data.

You don’t know what other people will want in the future

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

thowawatp302 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:35:37 +0000

Why is it less cynical, what does the scale of the US have to do with it?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car"

thowawatp302 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:14:41 +0000

> One is that not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view.

That is such a tiny minority I’ve never even heard of that until now

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL"

thowawatp302 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:05:39 +0000

It’s really not, I’ve had disproportionately more USB-C ports go dodgy because there was repeated tangential force on the cable plug than I had with lightning

New comment by thowawatp302 in "ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving"

thowawatp302 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:53:05 +0000

Cool you have more than the one canard from IBM for five computers that became triple the amount?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to "Take Off""

thowawatp302 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 06:51:21 +0000

Browser toolbars came from shady websites, not limewire. Limewire was for Trojans Source: I was doing amateur mallet research 20 years ago

New comment by thowawatp302 in "'More than a hint' that dark energy isn't what astronomers thought"

thowawatp302 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 07:55:40 +0000

> Dark energy, the new measurement suggests, may not resign our universe to a fate of being ripped apart across every scale, from galaxy clusters down to atomic nuclei.

Wasn’t ‘the universe won’t end in a “big rip” the widely held idea?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "What made the Irish famine so deadly"

thowawatp302 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:26:52 +0000

Low compared to what? How much is low?

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Bispecific antibodies potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern"

thowawatp302 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:17:38 +0000

None of the titles of studies provided on that page support the assertion that the money was spent “for making mice transgender.”

New comment by thowawatp302 in "Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water"

thowawatp302 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:13:44 +0000

What does “problematic” even mean here?