Hacker News: welly

New comment by welly in "Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI"

welly — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:04:42 +0000

"Most of your friends will be AI"

No they won't.

New comment by welly in "Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API"

welly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:59:03 +0000

How is it freeloading when they have literally offered it for free?

No more free API access, says Twitter: You pay for that data

welly — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:26:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/twitter_eliminating_all_free_api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34628818

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by welly in "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text"

welly — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:34:35 +0000

Also signed up. They can have my phone number. What are they going to do with it? Target advertising at me?

To be honest, I'm a bit past caring about companies selling my data. They've built up enough of a profile of me in my 30+ years of being online, I'm not getting away from that. There's a multitude of my namesakes online who are much more interesting and successful than me and I'm pretty well hidden generally.

This sounds interesting enough to me that they can have my phone number. In 10 years time I'll be living in a forest in a cabin, living off the land and staying well offline.

New comment by welly in "Ask HN: What to do when someone clones your site?"

welly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:18:29 +0000

Essentially yes. I guess in a similar way US companies are required to care about GDPR, if they want to operate in other regions.

There's a bit more info here: https://www.copyrighted.com/blog/dmca-guide

New comment by welly in "Ask HN: What to do when someone clones your site?"

welly — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:12:23 +0000

Nice try, Cloudthread.

Yes, the design is fairly generic but if you can't see that someone ripped off someone here then you must be trying a bit too hard to not see it.

New comment by welly in "Deep JavaScript"

welly — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:19:24 +0000

Why do you think this? I'd be interested as to why you came to this conclusion.

New comment by welly in "Why this expert says to fight ransomware, we need to ban cryptocurrency"

welly — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:24:29 +0000

If we ban cars, we'll see less deaths on the road too.

New comment by welly in "ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login"

welly — Sun, 30 May 2021 09:36:43 +0000

I've been using protonmail as my mail email service for probably close to 6 years. Earlier iterations of the UI were obviously basic but it's perfectly functional now and works very well and certainly not for "occasional use". The web client UI is great and has come on leaps and bounds particularly of late.

The mobile app has some way to go but more than adequate for daily use because I'm using it daily.

New comment by welly in "PHP 3.0 Final is out (1998)"

welly — Sun, 23 May 2021 08:54:30 +0000

Monstrous? It couldn't be any more simple, if you even have to go through the process of setting up PHP. Hosting options that support PHP are two a penny, probably literally.

New comment by welly in "Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update"

welly — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:22:11 +0000

If the OP open sources his QR code reader app then the "free" model is absolutely sustainable.

New comment by welly in "Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update"

welly — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:19:49 +0000

I don't know if it differs from various vendor releases of android but certainly on my Samsung S20, QR codes can be read without an additional app just by pointing the camera app at one. I seem to recall my Pixel XL did the same.

New comment by welly in "Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display"

welly — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:08:18 +0000

Love the concept of that but you'd have to have children's hands to play it. I can only see frustration and the thing being thrown across the room if I had one.

New comment by welly in "PHP 8: Before and After"

welly — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:39:33 +0000

Is it? Why is that?

New comment by welly in "The Story Behind Markdown"

welly — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 08:08:05 +0000

I think you missed the opportunity to re-enforce a few more times how much you dislike the genre of music in question. Just so the reader knows.

Website has been designed to appear for searches of 'LoveFrom'

welly — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:51:07 +0000

Article URL: https://lovefrom.style/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24857031

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by welly in "No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (2015)"

welly — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:10:45 +0000

I'm not sure I'd refer to crows, a murder of or a flock of, in a beginner's textbook on the English language. I don't think crows are commonplace enough in every day conversation to justify their inclusion.

If I was needing to refer to a group of crows in this textbook then I'd refer to them by their proper collective noun, a murder of, because that would be correct.

New comment by welly in "One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020"

welly — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:16:54 +0000

"Gaming the system" is really NOT a cultural thing here in the UK. Not in the same way as described by the OP. Your two examples are not in any way, shape or form examples of gaming the system.

New comment by welly in "How often do you need to shower? A doctor argues, less often than you think"

welly — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:24:33 +0000

For me I like the feeling of cleanliness and freshness after having a shower in the morning before I start work. Clearly I'm not dirty or smelly after a hard day's work behind a hot Das Keyboard but l suppose it has become routine for me and unfortunately I can't abide the way I feel if I haven't showered for longer than a day.

A shame really because my inner hippy wants me to not be so reliant on showering and go for days if not weeks without bathing.

New comment by welly in "This Blog Is Now Running on Solar Power"

welly — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:52:18 +0000

I like this project a lot and am inspired to do something similar. I'm a liveaboard boater in the UK, I have a 55 foot narrowboat with 350w of solar on the roof and a 550ah battery bank. I could probably run my own little server similar to yours pretty much 24/7 as when I'm not using solar to charge the battery bank, I'm using the boat's engine to recharge.

So not quite as green but during the months from April to September, the solar panels are enough to charge the batteries every day.

My modem/router uses 4g, it's a Teltonika rut950 that is using OpenWRT and has GPS built in which I've been keen to make use of.

I'm definitely inspired to do something like you've built!