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superkuh
Personal blog · superkuh.com/blog · on HN as superkuhwebsystems
superkuh is a personal blog at superkuh.com about web and systems. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
47mentions?
6HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link superkuh.com for a page on modifying RTL-SDR software, a personal blog post, a note about Blogger account deletion, and a downloadable Perl script. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Trading feed lists is handy. I'm in. Mine covers all the sciences/tech/etc plus a little politics/entertainment. Everything is sorted into categories. http://superkuh.com/feedlist.opml (93KB) As long as Firefox can still render feeds I don't care if they take out the bits to manage subscriptions to third party services. That seems like fluff to me. I think most people who use RSS use native readers or, at the least,…
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on “Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds”Submitted Are websites embassies of foreign soil inside your own hardware? (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's a software modification here which is also interesting: http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html#directsample The whole idea of the community figuring out hacks to use this hardware in ways that were never intended by its original designers, including exploiting bugs/artifacts, reminds me of the demoscene.
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on “Receiving Weather Satellite Images With An £8 Dongle”Wow. I'm you in both respects. I just had the same problem with my dad and even though he can send and receive email from his gmail account they still won't tell him the password. All he has is the fragile oauth token on mail.app on his apple smart phone that can only connect via wifi due to the loss of the old phone number. Additionally, my mail from my independent mailserver just started being marked as spam by go…
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on “My Google Traffic Has Fallen to Zero”I couldn't agree more. On this subject, I'm still seeding the leaked Opera 12 source w/presto. http://superkuh.com/opera12v15presto-source.torrent (full torrent dl'd is 222.6 MB) But... browser engines are no longer browsers like they were in Opera's prime. They are operating systems with all the complexity that brings. I don't think presto could fill that role. That said, it'd make a great actual browser.
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on “Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?”Sure. Here is the opml file and an HTML listing of the feed URLs and their website URL/name organized by categories: http://a.superkuh.com/feeds9.html and http://a.superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml This is my script to convert .opml to html unordered list, http://superkuh.com/regexopmltohtml.pl.txt Most HN sourced feeds are in the "Computing but not spammy" category. The first load of the big opml into QuiteRSS…
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on “Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)”Cory Doctorow wrote this story in a number of ways but the most obvious one was back in 2007 called "Scroogled". http://superkuh.com/scroogled.html is a mirror because the https://craphound.com/scroogled.html version is garbled.
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on “EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]”I've been doing large sessions ever since Opera introduced tabs in my teen years (2000). It's how I grew up and second nature now. Tabs are great because they provide context both as a span of tabs showing how I got from point A to point B and as individual tab due to tab history backwards. I've been regularly saving my session files since ~2001 although I only have data from 2003 onward. It's great to load up an ol…
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on “Firefox 60 released”You can still find them all on archive.org if you dig deep enough. For about 10 years there was no e-sheep site at all. I've kept a copy of the original "The Guy I Almost Was" (slightly different images in the ending, and no javascript) on my local mirror ( http://superkuh.com/almostguy/ ) for decades. Almost Guy is still my favorite but "Night at the rave" is just so wholesome I love it too. "A Suitable Seed"s mess…
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on “The Guy I Almost Was (1998)”Are you sure about that? It doesn't fit what I understand and I've talked to a friend who works for Comcast and he says the only difference is the customer support. The rep I talked to and the price I gave $156/mo does not include a static IP. That was something like $10/mo more. Sure, the firmware they tftp to my modem will be different but it's not giving me dedicated RF bandwidth on the exact same RF hardware pat…
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on “FCC forced by court to ask the public again for feedback on net neutrality”Here's a categorized HTML unordered list of all of my feeds as of about a month ago, http://superkuh.com/feeds6.html . The RSS icon links to the feed, the text to the right links to the associated website. If you want the straight opml: http://superkuh.com/rss-feeds-2021.opml
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on “Over twenty subreddits have gone private”Webmentions are pretty cool as is covered in the article under discussion. I recently implemented a static webmentions receiver for my static site and got a pingback implementation as a side effect ( http://superkuh.com/blog/2020-01-10-1.html ). Pingback is old and well known so it gets a lot of spam. But webmention is still new enough it's still useful. Sure, it'll eventually get spammed out to but this is the life…
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”http://superkuh.com/radio/ . In that directory you'll find most of the recorded radio history as well as the bash script and depends to do it yourself ( http://superkuh.com/radio/deps/ ). The top of the bash script has a readme in the comments. For 70-1000 MHz it's just a homemade discone antenna hooked to an rtlsdr dongle running rtl_power. I have written a little bash script that automates calling heatmap.py to re…
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on “5G Advocates Renew Attempts to Poach Wi-Fi’s 6GHz Spectrum”That or using discontinuities in impedance intentionally. I've designed and had built a handful of successful UHF planar PCB filters using Sonnet. In a lot of them I use very small changes in trace width as the place to put resonating elements. ie, http://superkuh.com/stepped-impedance-bandstop-filter.html The difference between square corners and compensated is real. And it gets more real if you're working in gener…
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on “What's the deal with square traces on PCBs?”And gtk3 for those running newer distros that kneecap themselves by not having gtk2 distributables, http://superkuh.com/connmap-perl-gtk3.pl.txt
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on “Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map”connmap wouldn't run on my retrocomputer with ancient Xorg 1.7.6 so I vibe coded a janky perl gtk2 version and it works. http://superkuh.com/connmap-perl-gtk2.pl.txt + http://tuvixdiedforoursins.org/w1000-old.png (baked black background map) It looks pretty similar: http://tuvixdiedforoursins.org/connmap-perl-gtk2-screenshot.... vs http://tuvixdiedforoursins.org/connmap-original-screenshot.j...
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on “Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map”>In my case, that quite rapidly exhausted my curiosity. I've been exploring the world of radio emissions with rtlsdr since 2013 ( http://superkuh.com/rtlsdr.html ) and I'm still finding plenty of new things to do. IMO, the newest cool stuff with rtlsdr are computational hacks to align multiple non-coherent receivers in time to do distributed direction finding and the like.
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on “Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio (2016)”Daemon and Freedom are top class hard scifi. The plot hinges on technical detail that is both completely plausible and a natural extension of existing information technology. It's obvious that Suarez really understands what he's talking about in a deep way. I'd say "Daemon" is top twenty for best hard scifi books. http://superkuh.com/hardscifi.txt Delta-v is good scifi and I love this kind of background detail.
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on “Delta-V: Designing the Asteroid Mining Ship 'Konstantin'”Pretty formalized for being weird. But I think the most important thing for human beings continuing to have websites (and so weird websites) is to keep HTTP/1.1 and HTTP+HTTPS alive. Without those thing websites are just too fragile for humans to keep going more than a few years. Whereas with those things websites have indefinite lifespans even unmantained. I know the pieces fit, because I watched them fall away: ht…
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on “WEIRD – a way to be on the web”I'm there with you (1500+ in one browser instance). But I don't consider it a problem. I have tab suspend and full text tab search via add-ons, I group my tabs linearly by topic and date, and the older 1/3 of tabs I know position by heart. Because I use a single process browser+noscript instead of a "modern" JS-engine-centric browser (ie, Chrome/FF) even with 600 tabs of 1500 loaded in my ram usage is still under 3…
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on “On Browser Tabs”I started tabbed browsing with Opera 5. It was amazing then back when I could do 50 tabs, and it's amazing now with firefox forks when I can do 500 tabs with less than 3GB of ram used (with Noscript on for most websites not whitelisted). But don't try this in a multi-process browser, not even modern Firefox can handle truly large session files like Palemoon or Seamonkey classic can. I have saved my Opera->Firefox->P…
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on “I have 218 browser tabs open”I was going to upvote this but it turns out outline.com hides it's content behind a computational paywall. You have to execute their code in order for text to display. Here's a version that is just accessible text: http://superkuh.com/twitchsues.txt
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on “Twitch Sues Troll Streamers over Violent Videos, Pornography”Yep. OPML is the way. http://superkuh.com/2022-04-27-feedlist.opml And this is the same list but with categorized HTML descriptions and RSS links, http://superkuh.com/feeds8.html . "Computing" and "Computing but not spammy" categories apply here.
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on “Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?”Yes. It's a rebranding. But I've used the term before myself when trying to highlight the two classes of web that exist today. http://superkuh.com/blog/2020-02-22-1.html
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on “Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet”There was a source leak a while back talked about here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417307 . I'm still seeding this torrent and you may find it elsewhere. http://superkuh.com/opera12v15presto-source.torrent
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on “What is going on at Opera Software?”I implemented webmentions for my static site back around the end of 2019. My solution for receiving on my static site was to just log POSTs and review them with my eyes. Then if someone has actually sent a webmention (as opposed to pingback spam) I just use curl to respond. There's no need to have anything automated at all. ref: "A static, manual system for receiving webmentions (and pingback) with nginx" http://sup…
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on “Automatically sending Webmentions from a static website”Cory Doctorow wrote a short story on this (google search information and online postings being searched at airport customs) back in the early 2000s called, "Scroogled": http://superkuh.com/scroogled.html
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on “US 'extreme vetting' kicks in forcing visitors to hand over social media details”Here are the ~thousand feeds I subscribe to formatted in HTML with links to the site and the RSS feed: http://superkuh.com/feeds9.html Here are the ~thousand feeds I subscribe to formatted in opml for direct import into feed readers: http://superkuh.com/2022-11-04-feedlist.opml
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on “This is the year of the RSS reader”http://www.sonic.net/~n6gn/ and my own write-up http://superkuh.com/blog/2019-11-05-1.html on the subject.
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on “Learning from Cows: Community Owned WiFi-Mesh”We get that you don't like various parts of the US government Example: http://superkuh.com/blog/blog.html but, probably best to let this play out in the courts.
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on “Kash Patel says FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE”
