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New comment by yakk0 in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

yakk0 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:30:55 +0000

I have a Vizio TV that was advertised as a Chromecast TV, and I got it because of that. It was HDMI and Chromecast only. A few years later they did a silent update that added apps and generally made the UI much slower. I mainly use it with an AppleTV or game consoles, but it still irks me that they completely changed what was in my mind a nearly perfect TV.

New comment by yakk0 in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

yakk0 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:16:55 +0000

looking forward to see Action Retro's shenanigans on YouTube with this.

New comment by yakk0 in "Animated Knots"

yakk0 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:26:16 +0000

Knots 3D is also on iOS. It's great and I have used to help teach knots to Scouts quite a few times.

New comment by yakk0 in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

yakk0 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:50:49 +0000

I haven't used it in years, but when I was first using Linux I used Gentoo for a long time. Building Gentoo from scratch really helped me learn a lot and probably more quickly than dual-booting a system like I had been. I'll always have a soft spot for Gentoo.

New comment by yakk0 in "Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail"

yakk0 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:55:04 +0000

I have firstnamelastname@gmail.com and it surprises me how many other people have my same name. I get so much unintended mail, usually to firstname.lastname at gmail. I have found that in a lot of cases they have forgotten a middle initial. I usually let it go as spam unless it looks important like a credit card. What frustrates me is that these companies will not interface with me at all, sometimes not even leaving a note on the account.

I understand from the security side why they wont, but I wish there was something they could do. I could easily log in and change a password then cancel the account, but I figure there's probably some legal trouble if I did that.

New comment by yakk0 in "Merlin Bird ID"

yakk0 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:50:04 +0000

Another parent in my kid's Cub Scout pack told me about this a few years ago. It's been really cool to use on camping trips, and lately I've been using it while walking the dog. There's a lot more different types of birds around me than I had realized.

New comment by yakk0 in "Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom"

yakk0 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:38:55 +0000

It think it's been changed, but I believe the Transformers wiki on Fandom started out as a copy of the superior [TFWiki](https://tfwiki.net). TFWiki has been referenced by many official creators and Hasbro designers themselves and has proven to be a great resource. I have no idea what their infrastructure or backup plans are, but I dread the day they go down.

New comment by yakk0 in "The fishy death of Red Lobster"

yakk0 — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:52:46 +0000

Just like Toys 'R Us. Same playbook.

New comment by yakk0 in "PfSense Software Embraces Change: A Strategic Migration to the Linux Kernel"

yakk0 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:18:12 +0000

their previous April Fools joke (https://www.netgate.com/blog/building-a-behemoth-router) actually said "Happy April Fool's Day" at the end. This doesn't. It's a poor attempt at a joke if it is one.

New comment by yakk0 in "Windows CE's final day"

yakk0 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:33:43 +0000

I read almost all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy on a Windows Mobile phone in the 2000s. They were a great tool for the time, and I much preferred them to the Blackberrys that were more popular with many of my coworkers.

New comment by yakk0 in "ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console"

yakk0 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 03:15:57 +0000

Tying into game streaming services would be nice. A low end PC can run Geforce Now or Gamepass more easily than some of these games.

New comment by yakk0 in "Witch – macOS window switcher replacement"

yakk0 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:35:09 +0000

There are Mac users like myself that don't have a trackpad or touchpad. After trying the Magic Mouse when I got my Mini I reverted back to my 20 year old Microsoft optical mouse. I long for the Windows style of app switching where you can go through each window instead of the Mac style where you go through each app.

New comment by yakk0 in "JFK Assassination Records – 2022 Additional Documents Release"

yakk0 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:55:19 +0000

Growing up in the 80s in the southern US we had earthquake drills and tornado drills. I feel lucky that those were the biggest threats I felt as a child.

New comment by yakk0 in "Show HN: Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves"

yakk0 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:55:05 +0000

Correct, but also with 1, there is a way to embed chapters into a mp3 file that's a part of the ID3 standard. We use Forecast (https://overcast.fm/forecast) to do it. I've found that most podcast applications either parse these chapters or timecodes in show notes (or support both), and that would be another way to identify moments that as a producer we've called out in the file.

for 2, the RSS feed would include show notes and greatly speed up the process for bulk production.

If you'd like to get in touch with me, I'm on twitter as @yakk0dotorg. thanks again!

New comment by yakk0 in "Show HN: Podcast Audiograms – Make clips with captions, title and audio waves"

yakk0 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:37:53 +0000

Compared to other Audiogram tools I've used, this is really easy. Processing time is a bit long, but I did test it with a 2 hour podcast.

I have a couple feature suggestions that I think would be really helpful to podcast producers. Our show has mp3 chapters, and we also include matching time codes in our show notes. If you could read one (or both) of those you could suggest segments for users to clip out.

It would also be great if you could read a RSS feed and use that as an input in addition to uploading single files.

New comment by yakk0 in "IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district"

yakk0 — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:13:01 +0000

That's funny, I worked for a school district about 10 years ago and our IT director was also the transportation director. He knew nothing about IT but I guess they had to give the role to someone at one point and it was him. I think I lasted 2 years before finding my current job.

New comment by yakk0 in "Apple TV 4K Gets A12 Bionic"

yakk0 — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:09:13 +0000

I dropped my remote the first night I had my Apple TV 4K and shattered the glass on it. Good riddance.

New comment by yakk0 in "Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account"

yakk0 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:39:20 +0000

Ramses?

New comment by yakk0 in "Tweeting “Memphis” autolocks your Twitter account"

yakk0 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 20:38:01 +0000

As a fan of the University of Memphis basketball team, this is not the weekend I'd like this to happen. Though with how our weekend is going maybe it's a good thing...

New comment by yakk0 in "Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses"

yakk0 — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:23:34 +0000

Same. The ones that surprise me are the credit card information or cell phone plans. I was able to contact the phone company and tell them to remove my address, but the credit card was an exercise in frustration. You can't get through without account or personal info. I just mark most of them as spam these days.