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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 A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
You'd be surprised how little you need from a basic desktop application, and how much of that is provided by Visual Basic out of the box.

Also, have you used VB before? having Timer icons all over your form while not being visible at runtime is fairly par for the course.

distantsounds··on Pi 1.0
"hundreds of thousands" of people are not using this. i want to see the this claim backed up.
distantsounds··on Jellyfin 12.0
oh, i don't know, an easy means of sharing your library with friends, one of the best features of plex?
distantsounds··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
the single 2.5gb port kills me. you may as well just have 2 gigabit ports at that point. and don't tell me the wifi is the selling point either, you won't get much more than a gig off 6e.
distantsounds··on Native all the way, until you need text
do you miss Hypercard yet?
distantsounds··on A HN post with negative points – how?
When you press the downvote button, the points decrease. This number can go below zero, into the negatives.
distantsounds··on Men who stare at walls
is meditation just not a form of staring at a wall? i've never been able to keep a staring at a wall habit, but my understanding that staring at a wall often features opening your eyes and focusing on breathing, body parts or some other irrelevant thing, it sounds like meditation would serve the same purpose.
distantsounds··on Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
Okay, so, where do you get the music from?
distantsounds··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
because saying "i used a split tunnel to access geo-blocked resources" doesn't get you those sweet sweet internet points on hacker news, ofc
distantsounds··on Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)
if you own a domain you can likely update a dynamic DNS record through the registrar's API
distantsounds··on How to live on $432 a month in America
this dude _literally_ wrote about a neighboring town that's dying and the government isn't helping them out. https://shagbark.substack.com/p/obituaryland

Convincing people to move to a remote area while at the same time seeing literal ghost towns develop, is not something I would recommend. What happens when the public utilities fail? The roads need repairing? One of the _many_ blizzard-like seasons can knock out critical infrastructure.

distantsounds··on Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site
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distantsounds··on Cohere Launches Embed 4
so which stolen properties were used to train this model?
distantsounds··on Goblin.tools: simple, single-task tools to help neurodivergent people with tasks
So how many neuro-divergent people did you test this on before you made the claim that it would help them?
distantsounds··on Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?
I love it when James Bond plots come to life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies

distantsounds··on RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games
is that MAME in the backend?
distantsounds··on Apple Invites
Brilliant? Launching an app for creating events that requires you to 1) own an iDevice and 2) pay into, just to create events?

I'll send an email for free, thankyouverymuch.

distantsounds··on The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
We all knew The Chinese government was going to censor it. The censoring happening in ChatGPT is arguably more interesting since they are not beholden to the US government. I'm more interested in that report.
distantsounds··on Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
consider a different remote access option i.e. sunshine + moonlight instead of using steam remote play
distantsounds··on Das Blinkenlights
welcome to hackernews, where every article posted has something made up about it and the points don't matter
distantsounds··on What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?
I'd love to know! Too bad this website only gives a small selection of what those items are, despite the entire lists already being published elsewhere! Very useful, thanks Hacker News!
distantsounds··on 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
developers will do anything but actually recreate visual basic
distantsounds··on pg_flo – Stream, transform, and re-route PostgreSQL data in real-time
https://github.com/eulerto/wal2json has existed for this purpose for many years, just transform the incoming records into JSON and parse with literally any standard tool that reads the format. There's a literal postgres extension for this.
distantsounds··on Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
why is every social media network now just "post something with varying levels of correctness because it farms engagement"

it's so exhausting needing to just read comments to get the actual, real truth

distantsounds··on Sticker on caption phone says that using the captions can be illegal. Why?
"you mean to tell me AI can't just replace a human?"
distantsounds··on Open Source FPGA Expansion Card for the Apple II
720x480 is not 720p, that's 480p (assuming progressive scan and not interlaced).
distantsounds··on East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
ah, you can get bongs made in the USA with similar strength.

https://tankglass.com/

distantsounds··on SteerMouse
mmm, $20 for the privilege of re-binding your mouse buttons! I sure do love the Apple software community!

(there are _so_ many ways to do this on Windows for free.)

distantsounds··on Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
OVH and Hetzner have offerings at that price range. you can use a tool like serverhunter.com to find all sorts of economically-priced servers.
distantsounds··on Launch HN: CommodityAI (YC W24) – Shipment management for commodity traders
Curious what your AI is telling you now that a major US port is out of commission.
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