Hacker News: Lukas_Skywalker

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:17:35 +0000

I did the same and am a big fan of their services. Still, a word of caution: their policy states that they delete emails in folders named „Trash“ and similar after 30 days. It is documented, but I realized it too late. And the list of folder names in the docs is „non-exhaustive“.

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2351/understanding...

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:28:40 +0000

That's probably unrelated. The date of a commit in git can be modified to whatever you want. I once backdated commits because my timezone was off, and I wanted the timestamps to match the ticketing system. Github displays the date stored in the commit, since there is not really a way to verify it.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:26:08 +0000

I understood it as a phishing page imitating their own system, targeting their own employees. Nothing related to AWS, except for being hosted there.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

Lukas_Skywalker — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:18:13 +0000

But the Ubuntu update servers are necessary to serve the update. Taking them down prevents the users from downloading the update. I don't know whether the update servers were affected though.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:21:00 +0000

I have a Prusa MK3S and it has been very very reliable. There's also a ton of mods you can download and print, which modify or extend the printer for specific use cases. They are a bit more expensive then their Chinese counterparts, but in my opinion, it's definitely worth the extra cost for the peace of mind.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Rotten Dot Com"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:20:58 +0000

People who want to see it can search for it, but posting without a disclaimer is unnecessary.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "The Physics of GPS"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:08:21 +0000

True. But the GPS receiver doesn't know whether you are on the surface or not (and at what elevation), so it must always assume 3d space, hence a sphere.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "The Physics of GPS"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:54:31 +0000

The explanation about the spheres is slightly inaccurate. With one satellite, you won't get a circle on the earths surface, but a sphere.

GPS is not constrained to earths surface (or the oblate spheroid approximating it), luckily.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "FreeCAD v1.1"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:21:59 +0000

Oh. I didn't even know there were macros. But that looks very useful!

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "FreeCAD v1.1"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:49:52 +0000

The only issue I have with the Spreadsheet is that I need to add an alias for every value I want to use in the Sketch or Part Design workbench. In practice, this usually looks like

    A       B
    width   2mm
    length  3mm

and for every cell in B I add an alias with the same value as in column A. Is there a way around that?

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Chuck Norris has died"

Lukas_Skywalker — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:53:07 +0000

I did something similar when Microsoft gave away Windows Phones for every app published on the app store. I used the Chuck Norris API though. The one I used is sadly no longer available (I think it was called CNDB). But there's a new one: https://api.chucknorris.io

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

Lukas_Skywalker — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:56:51 +0000

I also think it's the opposite, since the dependencies are almost guaranteed to be compatible with each other. And I think Ruby libraries in particular are usually quite stable and maintained for a long time.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:28:46 +0000

I think we can flag those comments now that the new guidelines are published: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

Notepad++ v8.9.2 Release – Double‑Lock Update Security

Lukas_Skywalker — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v892-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048143

Points: 5

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New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users forum"

Lukas_Skywalker — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:37:48 +0000

Aren‘t the LLMs going to starve if there is no more organic data to feed off?

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:19:17 +0000

I disagree. This case is very controversial, at least from the point of view of the parent.

Being reported may be seen as betrayal by the parent, even if it is objectively justified. That could also be the reason why „everyone around“ failed to act, even if they agree.

Being anonymous certainly helps.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in ""Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987)"

Lukas_Skywalker — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:41:10 +0000

For context: Erich von Däniken died on January 10, 2026 at the age of 90 years: https://x.com/vonDaeniken/status/2010314306894828023

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Avoid Mini-Frameworks"

Lukas_Skywalker — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:18:55 +0000

I don‘t like dismissing technologies on the basis of being „magic“, since the magic could often just as well be called abstraction, and the line between them is often personal preference.

The abstracted-away logic in a Laravel application can either be called magic or abstraction, but so can the optimizations of a database query planner.

I think often you still need to know the underlying mechanism, but it is still useful to get the innards out of the way.

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Is your AI system illegal in the EU?"

Lukas_Skywalker — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:50:21 +0000

Do you care to elaborate or write down some arguments?

New comment by Lukas_Skywalker in "Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables"

Lukas_Skywalker — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:49:53 +0000

Even less is correct: outdoor fibers (G.652.D) have a minimum bend radius of about 30mm. The indoor counterpart (G.657.A1 and A2) have 10mm and 7.5mm.