Hacker News: zf00002

New comment by zf00002 in "The Amazon tax"

zf00002 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:09:22 +0000

Etsy is even worse for sponsored ads, way worse.

New comment by zf00002 in "Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI"

zf00002 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:02:57 +0000

The idea that they got an archive of my coworkers tickets that just say "its broke", is amusing.

New comment by zf00002 in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

zf00002 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:15:39 +0000

I remember Microsoft had a time limited version of Office on cd-rom that was sold for a couple bucks at Kinko's. You could replace a .dll in it and that removed the time limit.

New comment by zf00002 in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

zf00002 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:47:09 +0000

Steams policy means that Marvel Heroes, a game that was shutdown and its developer closed, can still be downloaded by prior owners and used on the private servers.

Kind of interesting but I also had a game on GOG that got delisted and had to get a refund because it got removed.

New comment by zf00002 in "Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks"

zf00002 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:44:18 +0000

I recall installing Slackware from floppy.

New comment by zf00002 in "I Don't Maintain My Homelab"

zf00002 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:39 +0000

I used to think of my home setup as a homelab but I've realized for about 4 years now I barely do anything with it beyond what it's supposed to do. I just have some basic services running, most time spent over the last 4 years has to do with broadcom acquiring vmware so I had to switch to Proxmox, and then just moving houses and having to setup again.

New comment by zf00002 in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

zf00002 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:37:04 +0000

There was some problem with the first gen that you would hear static, Apple replaced those if you contacted support. Happened to me just before end of 1 yr warranty and kinda funny but they had me mail in my airpods to be replaced and lost them. So they ended up sending me a new pair and iirc $100 gift card for the trouble.

New comment by zf00002 in "I Fired Google"

zf00002 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:52:24 +0000

Stopped after repeating the false claim that bmw charges a subscription for heated seats.

New comment by zf00002 in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

zf00002 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:53:06 +0000

I find the "wrong" FN keyboards annoying like OP, but the Home/End to Pgup/Dn grouping of keys is what really makes or breaks a great keyboard layout for me.

New comment by zf00002 in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

zf00002 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:23:08 +0000

I read the whole thing, found this fascinating.

New comment by zf00002 in "Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)"

zf00002 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:57:48 +0000

Anyone else scan their random junk that has QR codes to see where it goes? I've found a fair number of stuff has codes that do nothing. Bought an extra garage door opener remote, qr code on it does nothing. Got some SwitchBot gear, qr codes do absolutely nothing.

New comment by zf00002 in "The MacBook Neo"

zf00002 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:08:49 +0000

I have M2 Air with 8 and don't have problem either. Even runs WoW ok.

New comment by zf00002 in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

zf00002 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +0000

Snow Crash's Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities.

New comment by zf00002 in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

zf00002 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:55:12 +0000

As an IT person, I wonder what it's like to work for a company like this. Where presumably IT stuff has a priority. Unlike the companies I've worked for where IT takes a backseat to everything until something goes wrong. Company I work had a huge new office built, with the plan it would be big enough for future growth, yet despite repeated attempts to reserve a larger space, our server room and infrastructure is actually smaller than our old building and has no room to grow.

New comment by zf00002 in "Game design is simple"

zf00002 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:16:29 +0000

To me I really liked the fact that when you made your character in SWG (1 per server too), you are just a civilian. There's no light/dark side or rebellion/imperial choice to make, you're just a regular person in the galaxy. You are NOT the hero.

New comment by zf00002 in "Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX"

zf00002 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:32:17 +0000

A bunch of the mech eng at my work have switched from 2 monitors to big tvs for doing their CAD stuff.

New comment by zf00002 in "Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores"

zf00002 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:53:53 +0000

Reading on my 8gb M2 Air that I have not once ever felt is lacking.

New comment by zf00002 in "A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023)"

zf00002 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:50:34 +0000

Why is there always a comment on everything from somebody who has to proclaim "its not new"?

New comment by zf00002 in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

zf00002 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:43:54 +0000

Makes me think of an episode of Better off Ted, when the company sends out a memo that employees must NOW use offensive language (instead of NOT).

New comment by zf00002 in "uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari"

zf00002 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:43:21 +0000

It's like Youtube adding a section of videos you've already watched and have nothing to do with your search, in search results.