Hacker News: twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=twerkmonstaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:38:37 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Marsha P Johnson: A Chrome extension to highlight trans erasure"]]>How does this help anybody?

]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:48:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052911twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052911https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052911<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Make your electronics tamper-evident"]]>Very cool! This seems almost like physical cryptography. Maybe there is a better term for it, but I’d be very interested in other work along these lines.

]]>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 20:38:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149080twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149080https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149080<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Make your electronics tamper-evident"]]>I would love to hear more about the kind of work done by people that need this level of security.

Like is the NSA covering their laptop screws in glitter nail polish? Are covert CIA agents? SOF?

Who needs this level of secrecy that would not have the physical security in place to protect the device in the first place?

]]>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 20:34:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149055twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149055https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149055<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Foobar2000"]]>Yeah almost certainly plugin ecosystem

]]>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:19:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123576twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123576<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "[dead]"]]>tl;dr; 1. Don’t have kids 2. Put a scratchpad where they scratch

]]>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:21:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892961twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40892961<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Show HN: Envelope – A modern environment variable cli tool"]]>you probably don’t need sql

]]>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 17:54:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760812twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760812https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40760812<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue"]]>Apple can’t create any software as good as Procreate. They’d need to buy them.

]]>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:41:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723244twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40723244<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folks lost their devices"]]>They took them away to give them security updates. Non-story.

]]>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:06:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39651626twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39651626https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39651626<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic"]]>Wait, why are people not allowed to change their mind on something? If anything this would make it more explicit and understandable when people did change their mind on something.

]]>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:50:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487160twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487160https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39487160<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client"]]>Started downloading FLAC music after discovering how bad Spotify compression is even at the highest quality. I still subscribe to Spotify for discovery and convenience, but almost never use it.

]]>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:40:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069379twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069379https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39069379<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Will workers hired as Remote all be laid off in next wave?"]]>Yes.

]]>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:26:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791205twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791205https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37791205<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "256TB SSD from Samsung"]]>But practically don’t you reach a threshold where storing that much data on one drive makes it a bottleneck and safety risk until the speed of the surrounding systems catch up?

]]>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:33:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094315twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094315<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "256TB SSD from Samsung"]]>Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

]]>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:10:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093395twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093395https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37093395<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie"]]>Are you sure it’s not because it’s many times more efficient than any other source of electricity “generation”?

]]>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:51:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254550twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254550https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254550<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022"]]>ONO Roller

An elegant little fidget/stress tool that is silent so perfect for use during meetings.

https://onoroller.com/

]]>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:15:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280379twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280379https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280379<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?"]]>Genuinely curious what Microsoft products people actually like? VS code might be the only one I’ve ever heard of.

]]>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:46:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671170twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671170https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671170<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Ask HN: What search engines are you using?"]]>Yandex feels like google classic.

]]>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 14:57:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33670635twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33670635https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33670635<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Notion AI – waiting list signup"]]>Yes, I’ve been using Notion for years, but recently started migrating everything to Obsidian because it feels so much faster.

]]>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:57:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33625229twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33625229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33625229<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Meta Is Said to Plan Significant Job Cuts This Week"]]>https://archive.ph/1rY2A

]]>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:06:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501784twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501784https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501784<![CDATA[New comment by twerkmonsta in "Amazon Is Pausing Hiring for Corporate Workforce"]]>https://archive.ph/NEQJr

]]>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:34:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454517twerkmonstahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454517