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you're not as intelligent as your hacker news comments make you out to be.
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distantsounds··on AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
because people on HN think they are far more important than they really are
distantsounds··on Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
web1.0 - read only (consumption only, very few self creation/publishing tools) web2.0 - read/write (forums, communities, cheap/free hosting) web3.0 - read/write/own (blockchain)
distantsounds··on Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media
I would absolutely love to run my own little TOC/OSCAR server and host my own private AIM community. The only implementation I found is the closed-source AIM Phoenix project, is anyone aware of one?
distantsounds··on Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
The example is mimicking the Office Ribbon toolbar which is obviously taking up a lot of space. It's almost as if those little triangles in the corner of the toolbars allows you to change the size. Who would have thought!

This is a horrible, cherry picked example that can be fixed with less than a minute of customization.

distantsounds··on The 90s Developer Starter Pack
you'll never get it again, nobody wants to recreate its magic for the modern web / operating systems.
distantsounds··on I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
you can't search hashtags yet, once when that works I'm sure it will be much better. discoverability on the platform sucks right now, for sure.
distantsounds··on I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
Yes, when you have no followers/new posts from followers the feed with fill itself with what it thinks you might like. It's not very good right now because it probably needs more data points, but if I can suggest one thing, it's this: Get More Friends. That way the feed has people you want instead. Algorithms can only help so much in that space. I can't believe this isn't obviously pointed out.
distantsounds··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
previous HN articles linking to instances has caused them to become overloaded. this instance just seems to know how to handle it
distantsounds··on FBI obtains Kolektiva.social database while executing warrant on administrator
did you even read RTFM? the admin had a local copy of the database stored on his personal PC.
distantsounds··on Python GUIs
This is a constant ask every time a thread about desktop UI design comes up. Everyone wants a new Visual Basic, nobody wants to use the alternatives. The VB language itself likely doesn't appeal to people nowadays but the building blocks the UI provided is still unparalleled and everyone has fond memories of how easy prototyping applications is with it.
distantsounds··on How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
please point me towards literally _any_ text editor that dynamically remaps shortcuts on you.
distantsounds··on The Prime Video microservices to monolith story
microservices? to sling video files over the internet? tell me you're over-engineering without telling me you're over-engineering
distantsounds··on Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
not only is the title misleading and click-baity (connecting to wifi is the only pre-requisite) the format of the blog doesn't format correctly (text and media is cut off on the right) . maybe spend less time writing misleading articles and more time fixing its viewability?
distantsounds··on Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
And then you hit CPU bottlenecks whenever you do literally anything bandwidth intensive. The limits of using hobbyist hardware, you get hobbyist level performance. A Raspberry Pi is a horrible solution for running Wireguard. You can get a tiny 1L PC running on an actual Intel or AMD processor with far more perf/$.
distantsounds··on Please release nano under less restrictive license so we can use it
if anything it teaches apple users a bit of humility, how to exit out of vim.
distantsounds··on Mastodon is doomed?
He's not wrong. I'd love to join the fediverse but I want to do so on my own terms with my own server, and I don't want to set up an entire mastodon instance just to do that. Making activitypub synonymous with mastodon is dangerous and i am sure is not what the intention is.
distantsounds··on Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH
lrzsz is one of the first packages i install when configuring a new system. being able to send and receive files between remote and local without needing a separate ssh session is such a time saver. it's really fast as well. i do wonder if anyone has developed something more modern to make it even more performant?
distantsounds··on Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM
We had one. It was called Pebble. And then they kickstarted a watch for 3 million and decided to sell themselves to fitbit instead.
distantsounds··on AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (2010)
Now open source TOC/OSCAR, dammit. I want my open-source AIM clone. Please!
distantsounds··on Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS
the "SSO tax" is literally the entire SSO product, a solution to a legitimate problem that businesses face and gladly shell out $$$ to not deal with. if your suggestion is to not pay said $$$ and instead roll your own solution, more power to you, but you're not "skipping" the SSO tax, you're simply passing it onto a different team to do the work of what SSO would provide you.
distantsounds··on My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
OP spent next to no time exploring Linux, which is a shame. running modern Debian on a Core 2 Duo is barely a better option than running a modern version of Windows. Alpine would likely run far better.
distantsounds··on S3 as an Eternal Service
Business will stop existing, websites will disappear. In the era of people not paying their AWS bill, we as the human race will somehow survive. Sorry OP, I'm almost certain there is no S3 bucket worth keeping eternally.
distantsounds··on Push notifications are now supported cross-browser
yes, everything about this. for websites that still use forums (yes they are out there!) push notifications for quoted replies and direct messages would be extremely helpful. i believe push notifications are one of the largest reasons why forums died out in days of early smartphones - not having that instant feedback of interaction caused their own interactions to diminish as well.

the need for dedicated apps on your smart phone is now almost unnecessary at this point, unless you're doing something extremely niche. what a win.

distantsounds··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
if you don't want to be down voted, don't say "I'm not a crypto guy" and then proceed to write an essay on a news article about crypto
distantsounds··on Little Snitch Mini
Imagine putting IP blocking behind your paid product.

And here we have every problem with the Mac software ecosystem summed up.

distantsounds··on We're Drowning in Subscriptions
https://archive.is/Yi331
distantsounds··on Changes at YC
just mere days after SVB crashes and burns, wonder how much pg had tied up there.
distantsounds··on Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?
"your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
distantsounds··on The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners
oddly this doesn't take into account my extremely low IQ friends who mined a bunch of bitcoin early on
distantsounds··on QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format
oh, you mean things like the ESP8266, which costs mere dollars and can definitely can already decode and play MP3s? 40 lines of code to play MP3s on an ESP32 as well.
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