Hacker News: Gabrys1

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

Gabrys1 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:56:12 +0000

> I must apologise that I haven’t so far open-sourced any part of this that I don’t have to. Mainly that’s because I think this would be an awesomely sticky web property for a printer consumables firm to integrate with their sales site. And I’d much prefer it if they paid me to white-label it for them, rather than just forking a repo and getting it all for free.

They might be interested if they cared at all about the ease of use of their printers

New comment by Gabrys1 in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

Gabrys1 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:11:44 +0000

well, I mean, why can't this ship with an X server? Or maybe it does and then I'm not sure why it is said that only Haiku apps are supported

New comment by Gabrys1 in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

Gabrys1 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:55:09 +0000

why no X11?

New comment by Gabrys1 in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

Gabrys1 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:54:14 +0000

For my daily machine, I need Docker, terminal, Firefox (for private browsing), Chrome (for work), VS Code and/or JetBains IDE. If this can feel a bit like I remember BeOs felt, that'd be awesome

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

Gabrys1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:50:57 +0000

Brilliant way to expose your company's secret data on the Internet :-)

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

Gabrys1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:22:59 +0000

you can put your password to a yubikey, then it's always a long press of a button away

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

Gabrys1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:05:32 +0000

BTW, you can also enable the PW feedback on the classic sudo. I've done that on one of my hosts

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

Gabrys1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:06:07 +0000

I tried using this to handle my 10-ish Docker containers, but I ended up using Portainer. Sure, not the same thing, but if someone (like me) thought Cockpit might be nice for managing a small Docker host, this didn't work for me

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

Gabrys1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:28:45 +0000

I think what the comment meant was that it's harder for an individual to lose their paper documents compared to losing the electronic ones. It just shifts who's responsible for keeping them safe

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

Gabrys1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:02:31 +0000

Can use AI to detect that

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly"

Gabrys1 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:33:25 +0000

not per capita though

New comment by Gabrys1 in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

Gabrys1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:48:31 +0000

Makes it easier to parse by automatic tools too

New comment by Gabrys1 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

Gabrys1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:43:05 +0000

I would say, the proper response to this question is not "walk, blablablah" but rather "What do you mean? You need to drive your car to have it washed. Did I miss anything?"

New comment by Gabrys1 in "A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)"

Gabrys1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:33:40 +0000

For this purpose, I think it would be nice to access the raw data, to see any errors that would be otherwise masked. As someone in the comments suggested, one might compare number of corrected errors in 1, 2, 5 years and compare to the number of redundant bits stored to estimate the expected longevity of the medium

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version"

Gabrys1 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:14:34 +0000

calc(1.42 * 100vmax)

is the same as

142vmax

Just saying :-)

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

Gabrys1 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:50:55 +0000

What if someone unironically wants to automatically click all the ads to support the websites they visit

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

Gabrys1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:45:01 +0000

Visa/Mastercard take like 1 or 2%. That's why they cannot compare to Apple...

New comment by Gabrys1 in "Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite"

Gabrys1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:39:32 +0000

if your data isn't mostly read-only, then you're going to have an issue with SQLite. It doesn't nicely support parallel writers

New comment by Gabrys1 in "RTS for Agents"

Gabrys1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:25:53 +0000

then, you would automate that

New comment by Gabrys1 in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

Gabrys1 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:54:02 +0000

defaults matter a lot!