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New comment by trevithick in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

trevithick — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:11:08 +0000

Thank you. I heard about The Guns of August when I was looking for related books after reading A World Undone. Then I forgot about it. I never heard of March of Folly but I'll read them both.

New comment by trevithick in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

trevithick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:54:03 +0000

How does that book fit in the timeline? It was published in 1984.

New comment by trevithick in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

trevithick — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:24:07 +0000

Thanks. I like the spirit of this.

I will not assume any liability for damage caused from running this code. Especially if you are running it as root. In fact, we both know that this will cause damage to the system, and that's why you want to try it. You have been warned.

New comment by trevithick in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

trevithick — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:15:26 +0000

I need to know more about this.

New comment by trevithick in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

trevithick — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:40:16 +0000

Topton makes a lot of those router mini PCs. I have an N100 with 4 2.5Gbe ports. It has a serial port too, which is nice. It's been running great for about a year now. Then again, it's from Aliexpress, so who knows if it's even really a Topton.

New comment by trevithick in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"

trevithick — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:55:20 +0000

Interesting, thanks for posting. I never heard of this either and read EDM as

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

Which kind of makes sense.

New comment by trevithick in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"

trevithick — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:13:07 +0000

This is really cool. I'm glad people are out there making this stuff even if I'll never have a use for it.

What are the use cases for this? I'm guessing retro computing and possibly very old machines tied to very obsolete hardware that can't be virtualized (e.g. manufacturing controls).

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

trevithick — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 12:57:56 +0000

They're referencing this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZhPuDYqbU

New comment by trevithick in "How to fix subsystem request failed on channel 0"

trevithick — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:54:37 +0000

Sometimes the message is different. I think it depends on the recipient server. Trying to scp to a dropbear ssh server on a router gives

   sh: /opt/libexec/sftp-server: not found
   scp: Connection closed

The -O resolution works.

New comment by trevithick in "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening"

trevithick — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:39:37 +0000

Yes. I've always planned to stay dead forever after I die. AI is not changing that.

New comment by trevithick in "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening"

trevithick — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:18:58 +0000

True, my question assumed AI "progress" and adoption follow the hype trajectory. Reality could be closer to the scenario you laid out. The bubble pops, some AI tools maybe improve things in some areas, societal disintegration gets kicked down the road a few years.

New comment by trevithick in "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening"

trevithick — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:47:15 +0000

I have not heard or read anything about AI that could be construed as positive for an ordinary person. Step one is "lose your job with no possibility of finding another one, but still have to buy stuff to survive." That will also be the last step for a huge number of people. Is there a bull case for some hypothetical regular person with a desk job? I haven't seen one.

New comment by trevithick in "Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client"

trevithick — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:48:53 +0000

I had the same question. I briefly joined the Slackware IRC a long, long time ago when I had questions, but now I wouldn't even know what to do with this client.

New comment by trevithick in "Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much"

trevithick — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:06:14 +0000

People on HN are younger than you think.

New comment by trevithick in "Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target"

trevithick — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:11:14 +0000

Six pack rings were the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture. The article says they made the parachutes out of paper and cardboard too, but if history is any guide they'll end up making them from plastic. "What if it rains!?"

New comment by trevithick in "Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target"

trevithick — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:52 +0000

I hope the paper and cardboard construction they mention is feasible for commercial use. Otherwise I'm picturing a future where drone deliveries are commonplace and these plastic parachutes litter our streets and waterways.

New comment by trevithick in "How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets"

trevithick — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:36:35 +0000

Very minor nit: "It's clear that we this structure,..."

Cool article, it's a clear explanation of something I never knew about.

New comment by trevithick in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

trevithick — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:52:48 +0000

Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

New comment by trevithick in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

trevithick — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:57:07 +0000

Why blur what's almost guaranteed to be RFC1918 private network info? My IP is 192.168.1.56, come and get me hackers.

New comment by trevithick in "XNEdit – fast and classic X11 text editor"

trevithick — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:06:43 +0000

Why do you not want those features? What is your use case?