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nticompass

371 karma · joined June 20, 2013

Just your average web developer with a totally normal sized vintage computer collection.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nticompass; my proof: https://keybase.io/nticompass/sigs/2gnRYJzlmWN_k-vE8u19W1kjSd1PFW38t-va6DX9MMQ ]

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nticompass··on Trump renames AI to 'super intelligence' and tells Americans they have no choice
Yet america.gov still refers to it as "AI" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> America.gov uses AI to get simple answers only from official government sources.

nticompass··on Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that
I can't hear "Ride of the Valkyries" without hearing "Kill the Wabbit" in my head. Also "Spear and magic helmet" :-)
nticompass··on Solitaire Alone Together
Author's blog post about this project: https://eieio.games/blog/solitaire-alone-together/
nticompass··on Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019)
I still have my T430, but I use my X270 more often now.
nticompass··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Get mad at me if you want, but whenever I see a new program/project posted, my first thought is "that's cool, please don't be AI slop."
nticompass··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
I have a Bluesky account (that I rarely use), and I had no idea they used the term "skeet".
nticompass··on Stockfish 19
Obligatory Tom7 video/papers: https://tom7.org/chess/

This was all I thought of when I read "Stockfish"

nticompass··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
Man, am I happy that I deleted my Facebook. No regrets.
nticompass··on Grok Bot
they should probably kill grok
nticompass··on Grok Bot by SpaceXAI
No thanks.
nticompass··on They Killed Old Reddit
redlib is a thing and has been around for a while.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/ins...

nticompass··on Recycle – Floppydisks
What do you mean? I was able to click "add to cart" on their website and was taken to a PayPal page to check out. I think the issue is on your end (some type of ad/tracking/cookie blocker messing up the page).

I've bought many floppy disks from these guys and I can say that they are 100% legit.

Also, destroying old technology is no way to progress into the future.

nticompass··on My server is a phone now
As someone who just installed FreePBX on his home server, I guess I basically did that.
nticompass··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
I used LTT's 40 Gbps cable to connect my ThinkPad X270 to a USB-C monitor and it worked fine. I guess neither device there is TB5, but just wanted to share that those cables do at least support DP-alt mode (or whatever it's called).
nticompass··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
I've noticed this with obvious scam ads on the YouTube app or even Google search results. I've determined that (much like Twitter/X) the "verification" (or "moderation") is simply just "did they [the advertiser] pay us?"
nticompass··on Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
I ran Windows XP x64 Edition on a computer for a while and some software didn't like it. Since it was technically NT 5.2 (Server 2003) and not NT 5.1 (XP), some programs/installers would complain that it wasn't compatible. So, it was cool to have a 64-bit Windows XP, it was annoying to get stuff to run on it.
nticompass··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
We all know what the word was, it was a joke to replace it with another word that has the same first/last letters that obviously wouldn't fit here. A joke about how words are censored all over the internet as a way to appease advertisers on various platforms.
nticompass··on Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
It's VBScript/macro worms all over again!
nticompass··on Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
You've never heard of "the most funded project in Kickstarter history"?

This project is the continuation of Pebble watches after they sold their assets to Fibit, Fitbit got bought by Google and Google open sourced Pebble software.

nticompass··on Starlink from 1984
Is that related to StarLAN?

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

nticompass··on Every postcard tells a story
Spatie (creators of a bunch of Laravel/PHP packages) is postcardware, too! https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards
nticompass··on Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter
This post just makes me realize that one day I need to buy myself an oscilloscope.
nticompass··on Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
+1 for ControlD. I've been using for a while, and whilst it does have false positives sometimes and I need to manually add a site to the allow list, it works great for me. Also, their support has been very helpful whenever I needed something.
nticompass··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
I read it as "how much is actually assembled in Finland versus arriving pre-assembled?"
nticompass··on Jolla Phone (October 2026)
Yes, but which pieces are put together there and which are already assembled elsewhere?
nticompass··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
> Hiding filename extensions was one of the capital sins in computer history

Amen. The first thing I do on any (Windows) OS installation is make sure file extensions are shown. I guess Microsoft did that for "simplicity", but it also made for easy "virus.jpg.vbs" files.

nticompass··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
.vbs
nticompass··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
Wait, which Copilot is this? :-P
nticompass··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
Wait, which Outlook is this? Is it "new Outlook" or "Outlook (new)"?
nticompass··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
> recruiter at a small crypto startup

That's your first red flag right there.

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