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New comment by Maakuth in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

Maakuth — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:56:36 +0000

Solaris lives on as Illumos. Wherever the Solaris developers go, they build on that. Currently they are on it at Oxide.

I'm sure Oracle milks commercial Solaris efficiently, but I imagine it's hard to find new customers for it.

New comment by Maakuth in "A simple web we own"

Maakuth — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:34:46 +0000

The ISPs are a natural monopoly, or oligopoly at least, because it's expensive to lay cable for each home. Their business is quite profitable even when they don't get to control their customers traffic.

New comment by Maakuth in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

Maakuth — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:17:15 +0000

Yes, I think it's the same in here, you have been able to ignore the letters without any consequence. Also from what I hear, the letters have been very inaccurate. I doubt the IP based proof would hold in the court of law.

New comment by Maakuth in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

Maakuth — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:06:43 +0000

How is the anti-P2P enforcement these days? I think there are companies gathering bittorrent swarm data and selling it to lawyers interested in this sort of bullying. In Finland at least you can expect a mail from one of them if your IP address turns up in this data. However I think it is mostly focused on video and music piracy.

New comment by Maakuth in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

Maakuth — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:42:59 +0000

Since the Tapani storm of 2011 there's been a massive undergrounding of the power grid, so much of the rural areas are now also quite safe from outages. But there are still a lot of the old type of grid left and the economics for undergrounding those are increasingly unfavorable. Perhaps grid connected batteries next to the transformers might soon be more economical for many of these areas. They could serve other functions beside backup power, after all.

New comment by Maakuth in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

Maakuth — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:08:51 +0000

Your sound card works perfectly.

New comment by Maakuth in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

Maakuth — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:43:37 +0000

It's a reference to a classic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

New comment by Maakuth in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

Maakuth — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:33:25 +0000

Modern air-to-air heatpumps heat at over 100% efficiency even at those temperatures, they are very widely deplyoed in the Nordics for heating. And even where it is sometimes that cold, most of the year it is warmer than that. Still yes, you should have another source of heat just in case.

New comment by Maakuth in "CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years"

Maakuth — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:30:50 +0000

This is largely a misconception that's caused by the fact that EV fires are hard to extinguish with normal water sprays. That is because the bettery packs are designed to be water proof, so it is hard to get the fire patrol's water in. If you can immerse the pack in water, the fire is extinguished without much trouble. That's unlike petroleum fires, where the fuel is lighter than water and liquid, so water spray will boil and spread the fire instead of extinguishing it.

New comment by Maakuth in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

Maakuth — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:14:41 +0000

You can also recharge your geothermal well or ground heat collection field by heating the outgoing thermal collection liquid with either cheap electricity (rooftop solar?) or direct solar heat collection. I think this will be a growing thing as the earliest mainstream ground source heat wells start to be a few decades old. Many of them are sized so that they don't fully recover during the summer, so the heat output slowly drops.

New comment by Maakuth in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

Maakuth — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:02:41 +0000

These weather systems are quite big indeed. It's cold and calm in the neighboring Scandinavian countries as well and typically in Central Europe too.

New comment by Maakuth in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

Maakuth — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:57:52 +0000

Z2 means you'll have two parity disks, like in RAID-6. That should be okay. The trouble with RAID-5 are the rebuild times that rise to multiple days with modern disk sizes. The duration of time you run effectively without redundancy grows uncomfortably large. Especially if you don't have a hot or even cold spare around.

New comment by Maakuth in "5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows"

Maakuth — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:21:34 +0000

Here in rural Finland, 4G/5G is the only option available to me. I'm getting 50-150Mbps download speed, but often just a dozen Mbps upload. On the night hours it's better and that's when I my game downloads and backup uploads. I think there's going to be another municipal FTTH program, let's see if I get a fixed line at that point.

New comment by Maakuth in "Fair Pricing"

Maakuth — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:55:27 +0000

AFAIK it never pans out really. People turn out very stingy if they're faced with a decision to pay or not to pay for every article, so the revenues end up a lot lower than what the subscription model would pay.

New comment by Maakuth in "Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit"

Maakuth — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:37:46 +0000

What is the performance in ML workloads like on AMD APUs compared to Apple Silicon?

New comment by Maakuth in "Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs"

Maakuth — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:06:53 +0000

There are operations that put cryptominers into any unauthenticated remote desktops they can find. Ask me how I know... Way friendlier than wiping your data though.

New comment by Maakuth in "Four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' (2021)"

Maakuth — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:25:09 +0000

Cameras unintentionally left open would be much more typical if this was not the default. I agree that it still should be possible to have it off in every meeting after changing some setting, though.

New comment by Maakuth in "Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money"

Maakuth — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:38:21 +0000

In Germany I believe the tradeoff is that you don't need to do any paperwork with your grid operator when you add a balcony powerplant, but then you're not reimbursed for the power you sell either. If you would do the paperwork, you would be paid with the excess power and could install bigger plant too. The _balcony_ implies that this is for small scale.

New comment by Maakuth in "Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck"

Maakuth — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:02:05 +0000

It's a real KDE Plasma desktop too, not some joke that is just there to check a box!

New comment by Maakuth in "Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly"

Maakuth — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:56:56 +0000

They send everything to archive.org and the data is eventually included in the Wayback Machine.