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Teknomancer

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Teknomancer··on Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps
This doesn't properly parse open graph meta data. It's inaccurate.
Teknomancer··on Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps
Came here to say just that. Totally inaccurate depiction using facicon.
Teknomancer··on Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals
Two helping words: Cast Iron.
Teknomancer··on Something's Poisoning America's Farms. Scientists Fear 'Forever' Chemicals
Welcome to capitalism fellas.
Teknomancer··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
F-droid might be a solution. ProtonVPN, possibly others can be installed.
Teknomancer··on Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
Wow. A perfect example of Silicon Valley's detachment from reality. Burn ass loads of VC to solve problems that don't exist while creating a host of new ones? Awesome.

A leak or accident in one of these deep-buried reactors could contaminate vast underground water reserves, rendering them unusable for generations. The environmental and human cost would be catastrophic and irreversible.

This should never be attempted.

Teknomancer··on A symbol for the Fediverse
It's Unicode... Of course it works.
Teknomancer··on Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them
Bosco
Teknomancer··on Ask HN: What code editors or IDEs are easily scriptable?
Emacs ≥ VIM ≥ Neovim

Started on Emacs because that was what Prof required, after leaving school with a BS in CS, switched to VIM, years afterwards found a comfy place in Neovim managed in NixOS via Flakes & Home-Manager. A purely scriptable and declarative setup that can be reproduced on nearly any machine one might wish to work on. Scriptable interaction with Language Servers, Linters, Formatters and Debuggers in any language that is needed for work or fun (C, C++, Go, JavaScript, Lua, Python, Ruby, Rust, etc.)

Highly recommend.

Teknomancer··on Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts
Love to see things like this on HN.
Teknomancer··on It's lights out at a cosmic restaurant
Used to live on Mt. Palomar just below the Observatory. Magical place and time in my life. Sometimes I would drive my old Benz down the hill to Pauma valley or further south through Valley Center into Escondido or sometimes north to Temecula. But often I found myself going up over the hill into the small and quaint town of Julian.

The Observatory was a place I often found myself visiting at night, to enjoy star watching events and the dinner services were equally excellent and magical.

Fond memories. Sad to see it go.

Teknomancer··on The Orgasmatron: tale of a pleasure implant (2014)
Sounds like a good time! Now I'm off to eBay...
Teknomancer··on Greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
Use a greaseweazle often, absolutely necessary kit for archiving esoteric data from old floppies. Finding a working drive is often the hardest task.
Teknomancer··on Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart
Ditched Xylitol for Monk Fruit Sugar. No more upset stomach, and it tastes better. Same benefits as Xylitol but none of the risks.
Teknomancer··on Oh man! Our entire team has been replaced by Vietnam developers.
Starlink in Nairobi City high rise, soon the Africans will be stealing the Vietnamese Devs work.

Life is a cycle. Karma is a bitch. So be nice and diversify your skillset.

Teknomancer··on Arch is a gateway drug to NixOS
Daily drive NixOS (Hyprland) with totally seamless biometric (face/fingerprint) lock/suspend and Bluetooth.

If one takes the time to learn the Nix language (and set up a working LSP), it's a totally painless experience, and if you are a fan of systems that just work, it's life affirming. It's stability is unparalleled.

I would never go back to any other distro.

Teknomancer··on California Gov Newsom issues executive order for removal of homeless encampments
He maybe should have issued an executive order banning AirB&B instead. That would be just as preposterous, yet may actually have some short term returns that reduce the cost of housing. The high costs make it incredibly difficult to obtain and maintain housing in CA for low and median income earners.
Teknomancer··on Visual explanation of SAML authentication (2020)
Nothing Hackernewsworthy here.
Teknomancer··on Llama 3.1
This is actually a promising endeavor. Id love to see someone try that.
Teknomancer··on Llama 3.1
That was the punchline of a joke.
Teknomancer··on Llama 3.1
Be careful what you wish for.

A Gibsonesque global Turing Police is a sure sign of Dystopia.

Teknomancer··on Windows 3.1 saves Southwest Airlines during CrowdStrike outage
Ummm, yeah.
Teknomancer··on Polychromatic Pixels
OLED tech has been very transformative for lots of my old gear (synthesizers and samplers mostly) that originally came with backlit LCD displays. But the OLEDs are offered in static colors, usually blue or amber. Sometimes white red or green

It would be very cool to have a display with adjustable color.

Teknomancer··on Ask HN: Every day feels like prison
I read three pages down in the comments and not a single person has suggested that you see a therapist.

What the hell is HN going on about with all of this; Have a family BS. It sounds like you're suffering some burnout, and it might be time to seek some help from a psychologist/psychiatrist.

Change up your training routine. Spend more time outdoors. Quit the dead-end tech job. Downsize and travel more.

Good luck!!

Teknomancer··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
Berlin, Germany is inland, with an elevation average around 34 meters above sea level. The ground soil composition in Berlin is primarily sandy, draining easily and lending itself exceptionally well to underground infrastructure development.

Houston, Texas, is coastal and has an elevation that averages around 13 meters above sea level. The ground composition in Houston is primarily made up of clay. Houston soil is notoriously heavy and has issues with drainage in construction. It's poorly suited for underground infrastructure development.

Teknomancer··on Daylight eInk Computer
$800 for a hobbled monochrome LCD Android tablet. Big NOPE.
Teknomancer··on Daylight eInk Computer
Nowhere.
Teknomancer··on A Mini Monitor for a Pi
At home, 3D printing is a highly skilled craft and takes lots of experience and expensive hardware. I have been doing 3D printing for a decade, and have been through all the pitfalls. It was a long hard road to get consistent quality prints. Sure, if I need something prototyped really rapidly then I'll print it at home. But if I want something done with exceptionally high quality, then for me its much easier to design the part, I use OpenSCAD, and then send the STL to one of the many 3D printing service providers to be printed. My personal favorite is JLC. They offer lots of different materials, and their commercial industrial 3D printing machines do a much better job than any DIY home printer.
Teknomancer··on The Urban Nomad: Portable, Mobile, Compact Lifestyle
Alvin Toffler was right.
Teknomancer··on First anode-free sodium solid-state battery
Chromium mining is crucial for the steel production industry because chromium is a key ingredient in the production of stainless steel. We've been hunting and mining it for a LONG time now. Stainless is important to so many preexisting industries, such as new construction, automotive, aerospace, and household appliances. Consequently, there have been shortages in the availability and mining of chromium and this has directly impacted the production capacity and quality of stainless steel in the recent market. Seems solid-state battery production will be in competition with these industries and I would hedge a bet that Stainless Prices will go high in the coming decades as a reflection of the pinch on chromium.
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