Hacker News: Eriks

New comment by Eriks in "Apple's Aperture site is still online in 2026"

Eriks — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:37:03 +0000

I expect it will be updated once Apple renames Photomator to Aperture and adds it to the Creator Suite

New comment by Eriks in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

Eriks — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:47:20 +0000

As of data (photos, contacts, files etc.), you should have rights to request all that for download. GDPR etc that grants you that.

New comment by Eriks in "Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine"

Eriks — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:16:26 +0000

dezoomify-rs https://byte.tsundoku.io/byte_files/10/0_0.jpg

Found the following zoom levels:

0. byte (Deep Zoom Image) (868480 x 453747 pixels, 376956 tiles)

...

I think, I'll skip downloading this

New comment by Eriks in "Every V4 UUID"

Eriks — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:18:24 +0000

perfect website for mouse scroll wheel benchmark

New comment by Eriks in "Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature"

Eriks — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:29:50 +0000

Set dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled to false in about:config and problem solved. Not the first thing you should disable there and not the last.

New comment by Eriks in "Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models"

Eriks — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:18:36 +0000

Browsers are for browsing internet. So many of them are now turning into bloatware..

New comment by Eriks in "Use Git and GitHub in this way to better collaborate"

Eriks — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:21:38 +0000

Aaaand it's gone. Site Not Found

New comment by Eriks in "Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day"

Eriks — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:36:49 +0000

At first thought - 4-second reboot sounds great! But at "more than 10,000 times" it's more like a bootloop.

Gitlab Security Release: 15.7.2, 15.6.4, and 15.5.7

Eriks — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 15:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2023/01/09/security-release-gitlab-15-7-2-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34326690

Points: 17

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New comment by Eriks in "Deere to allow farmers to repair their own equipment"

Eriks — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 08:32:24 +0000

hell has frozen over

New comment by Eriks in "The hacking of Starlink terminals has begun"

Eriks — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:44:14 +0000

Relevant presentation on DEFCON Media server:

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2030/DEF%20CON%2030%20pre...

New comment by Eriks in "Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot"

Eriks — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:49:19 +0000

Maybe that's because he is acting as a troll sometimes. Troll, bot. What's the difference.

New comment by Eriks in "You can read my blog posts using curl"

Eriks — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:34:46 +0000

Pipe output to mdless (or similar) and it will be readable even more

New comment by Eriks in "[dead]"

Eriks — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 22:55:09 +0000

How is this on first page?

New comment by Eriks in "Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox"

Eriks — Sat, 28 May 2022 11:20:55 +0000

I have only one issue with Firefox - Google Streetview is sluggish for GeoGuessr use. Otherwise it is my default browser on my Linux box. On Macbook Safari is still the best.

New comment by Eriks in "Fetch API has landed into Node.js"

Eriks — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:04:39 +0000

eleven

New comment by Eriks in "The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor"

Eriks — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 08:55:37 +0000

good reason to not use comma when destructuring an object

New comment by Eriks in "Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time"

Eriks — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:16:36 +0000

any combination is possible but, e.g., all blue videos with g3 will have same g segment.

New comment by Eriks in "Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time"

Eriks — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:44:59 +0000

3 different segments per key/argument, 4 keys/arguments, 2 colors = only 24 random segments inserted

New comment by Eriks in "Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time"

Eriks — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:26:06 +0000

Looks like there are just two resolutions - "high" 1080p, "low" 720p

h = ["high", "low"]