HN user

lvturner

1,481 karma

I think I'm done with the internet.

Posts29
Comments515
View on HN
mouseless.click 1y ago

Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard

lvturner
271pts120
www.crowdsupply.com 3y ago

Milk-V Pioneer A 64-core, RISC-V workstation for native development

lvturner
27pts8
absinthebbs.net 3y ago

Absinthe BBS

lvturner
1pts0
www.wired.com 4y ago

Hackers Targeted Apple Devices in Hong Kong for Widespread Attack

lvturner
5pts0
www.abertay.ac.uk 4y ago

Abertay study finds Vitamin D and milk gives athletes boost

lvturner
2pts1
retrogames.biz 4y ago

Amiga A500 Mini Announced

lvturner
8pts5
hey.com 5y ago

HEY World (blogging direct from HEY email)

lvturner
3pts0
thenextweb.com 5y ago

Germany wants to permit driverless cars across the country by 2022

lvturner
2pts0
thenextweb.com 5y ago

The next standard iPad might finally ditch its bezels

lvturner
1pts0
www.aepistle.com 5y ago

Digital Utopia: Aepistle Manifesto

lvturner
1pts0
www.theregister.com 5y ago

Judge says Apple can't revoke Unreal Engine dev tools

lvturner
1pts0
back7.co 5y ago

Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here

lvturner
100pts73
www.cnbc.com 5y ago

New Zealand's exchange (NZX) down for fourth day after cyber attacks

lvturner
3pts0
medcitynews.com 5y ago

Amazon tries its hand at wearables

lvturner
2pts0
arstechnica.com 5y ago

Reports: “4K” Nintendo Switch revision slated for 2021 launch

lvturner
12pts2
www.scmp.com 5y ago

World’s first Covid reinfection case confirmed in University of Hong Kong study

lvturner
2pts0
www.kickstarter.com 5y ago

Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers

lvturner
4pts0
thenextweb.com 5y ago

Instagram wants suspected bot accounts to provide government IDs

lvturner
7pts5
www.japantimes.co.jp 5y ago

Putin says Russia has successfully tested coronavirus vaccine – The Japan Times

lvturner
6pts0
www.youtube.com 5y ago

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

lvturner
1pts0
www.cnet.com 5y ago

Trump issues executive orders with effective bans of TikTok, WeChat

lvturner
24pts5
www.whitehouse.gov 5y ago

Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat – The White House

lvturner
71pts1
news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Recommended Laptops for Linux?

lvturner
3pts5
www.scmp.com 6y ago

China closes WeChat account in crackdown on anti-American fake news

lvturner
4pts3
www.otandp.com 6y ago

Perspective on the Cornavirus by an HK Doctor

lvturner
1pts0
news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: My hand writing sucks, what can I do about it?

lvturner
3pts4
github.com 7y ago

Show HN: An iOS Gopher client, written in/for iOS/Pythonista

lvturner
3pts1
github.com 12y ago

Show HN: A zero-conf HTTPS webserver in node

lvturner
2pts0
news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Where can I get some tasteful desktop wallpapers?

lvturner
2pts10

And there it is.

Sorry, you are just selfish.

I've no desire to persecute anyone, yet once again you assume I do.

All I ask is that my neighbours use a fan, it doesn't bother me enough to interfere with them, I just WISH they could be a little less selfish. They aren't, and in the grand scheme of things it's fine.

You seem to intentionally misrepresent what I state and play the victim.

Indeed cannabis is fully legal in many jurisdictions and it's becoming more and more common - I'm not convinced by your "life and death" narrative here in the slightest.

No - I don't care much what happens to you, I don't know you from Adam. However, nor do I care how much or how little of your sacred herb you smoke.

I merely ask that if you find yourself around others, have some consideration for them. Wishing someone would put a fan on while they smoke, out of good will is hardly a conspiracy scale persecution.

If you can't grant others this courtesy, I'm still going to leave you alone. I may however post a vague post on the internet indicating displeasure for certain people's lack of manners and respect for others.

While I do enjoy both sex and travel, this doesn't seem the appropriate forum to discuss it in.

You assume I have not tried it, you assume I have not tried other substances. You assume a lot while pushing a narrative of your own.

If your mind is so open, why are you so closed and selfish towards other's view points?

You make a lot of very strange assumptions about who I am and what I've done with my life.

And you'll note, I don't stop them, nor complain - I merely WISH they were a little more considerate in their partaking of the herb, I'd be less irritated.

Additionally, they don't have "every right" it's entirely illegal here, but I've no interest in calling the police over it - as again, I just wish they were naturally a little more considerate over their use of shared space than having a desire to punish them over it.

"Just leave then"

Fine, I'll take the bait.

I moved here by choice, my "ancestors" have nothing to do with Hong Kong.

I also don't wage a war against my neighbours who are simply trying to "enjoy a smoke".

I still don't appreciate when my house smells of cannabis when I leave the window open and don't turn on the fans I have in the balcony.

My neighbours could turn on a fan to dissipate the smoke, they don't it's inconsiderate, but I'm not going to ruin their day over it.

Moving over this, does not make any sense, the whole argument of "If you don't like it then leave" reeks of ignorant entitlement.

YOU are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I've been off and on them for years, usually my doctors seem to prefer if I'm off them and indeed treat them more as short term "stabilizers" so that my brain has a bit more space to deal with things.

This has been true across two countries (Scotland, Hong Kong) and multiple doctors, with a third country's (China) doctor suggesting I try out sleeping tablets for a few weeks - and only giving me a very limited supply of them - to try out instead.

I wonder if the "here take these" is a predominantly American phenomenon due to the weird incentives around health care costs (I'm being genuine here - maybe it's predominant in other countries too, I honestly don't know!)

Qwen3-Max-Thinking 6 months ago

Chinese model censors topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government... Here's Tom with the weather.

I'm not so sure... Where I grew up there was no arcade.

It's easy to say that we are more connected but far apart, but only if you ignore the democratization that has come with that connectivity.

Your point reads strangely, it's almost like saying "Why even bother when CO2 emissions are so high" - surely ANYTHING that they are doing to turn that around should be celebrated and encouraged rather than saying "Yeah but..." - Rome wasn't built in a day and all.

Silver Snoopy Award 9 months ago

The back of them really are stunning, sadly the listing doesn't seem to shown that it also has snoopy in a rocket which sweeps round as well as the earth rotating - they aren't limited edition either so not impossible to obtain! (Though... Not cheap either)

ChatGPT Pulse 10 months ago

Same, I created a todo list with a simple MCP and it's been game changing, just being able to talk/discuss with my todo list somehow seems to keep me coming back to it rather than after 3 weeks it just becoming a sterile and abandoned list of random things

Having just paid a small fortune to renew my passport. I'm not super excited about this, especially as I live outside the UK.

I also don't trust them not to make a complete hash of all this, removing all potential utility while simultaneously increasing the chances of my ID being stolen.

sigh

Raspberry Pi 500+ 10 months ago

It gives me somewhat more Amiga A500 and A500+ vibes... ;)

I see it as a spiritual successor to my much loved childhood Amiga A500 which partially spurred my life long love of computing.

The GPU pins on the back are nice, as is the fact that all IO is cleanly at the back of the device.

That being said, my only real desk is almost entirely consumed by workstation/gaming PC and it's associate monitors that ironically this more convenient form-factor is less convenient for my use cases.

I have a bunch of Pi4s at home they work well as I can power them over PoE, don't spit out too much heat, have a well supported stable OS and are great for running small personal projects and workloads. (Home assistant, DNS, a few other docker containers that power things internal to my network) - sure a NUC would be more powerful, but then I have to find a way to route power in to it, and I'm running out of wall sockets!!

Interesting!

I've never thought alcohol tastes like bleach, though in some I can now certainly get a taste of "ethanol", same with the charcoal coffee thing -- many flavours I've found in coffee, but never charcoal.

I wouldn't be surprised if we all have some kind of genetic marker/mutation (I'm not a biologist, sorry!) that impacts the way we taste certain foods.

I've eaten all sorts of strange and exotic things... but most seafood, I simply... cannot.

Most of it smells like it is rotting to me and the taste is overpowering[0]. Trust me, I've tried countless times. Something that my wife will insist has no or little seafood in will taste like I am eating the entire ocean.

People would tell me "Oh you don't know what you are missing out on!" so I would try to get myself to eat it again. I've now learned that the only thing I am missing out on is suffering - I don't like seafood. I'm ok with this.

[0]I have occassionally managed if it's exceptionally mild or watered down, but even then there is usually a sense that something taste a bit "odd" while not being wholly unpaletable.

I've taken to using an LLM to organize my Todo list (self hosted interface with a little MCP server I wrote and a postgrss db on my network), it's still very simplistic however for someone with ADHD just having fast and unorganized data go in and structured data come out, is a real win.

It isn't perfect, and still lacks a lot of features that other people may consider a must have, but so far it's been the best Todo app I've ever used.

I want to care, but I also want money to eat, and the guy that isn't caring and doing a fifth as much work as me, is making more than me and getting promoted ahead of me.

Welcome to enterprise, it's not shit because people don't care. People don't care because they are incentivised not to, and those that do care, burn out.

Hulk Hogan Has Died 12 months ago

I don't ever remember Kotaku being a gaming site, even back in 2008 (give or take my memory may off) - always just seemed full of circlejerking garbage back then.

I don't see the difference to how it's ever been, just a new product name.

Zuck isn't paying $200m per employee he's spending $200m on marketing and the droves of talent that will come and work for far less on the promise of a big pay out and prestige...

The only thing that has changed is the phrasing of the headlines.