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New comment by MasterYoda in "The big church move in Kiruna Sweden(40x40m, 672ton, distance 5km)[live slow-TV]"

MasterYoda — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:01:27 +0000

In Sweden's northernmost city, Kiruna, north of the Arctic Circle, the city must be relocated so that the mining company LKAB can continue mining iron ore because the mining undermines the existing town centre. [1]

¨SVT is broadcasting live coverage of the unique relocation of Kiruna Church from the old city centre to its new location five kilometres away. The major church relocation will take two days and is part of the extensive urban transformation. The iconic church is 40 metres wide, 35 metres high and weighs 672 tonnes. The work requires extreme precision and nothing can go wrong.¨

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna#Moving_the_town

The big church move in Kiruna Sweden(40x40m, 672ton, distance 5km)[live slow-TV]

MasterYoda — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:50:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.svtplay.se/den-stora-kyrkflytten

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948922

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by MasterYoda in "Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet"

MasterYoda — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:41:44 +0000

If this is a privacy first browser, why wasn´t Firefox used when it is much better out of the box for this approach? All security and privacy focused webbrowser use Firefox. Like Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser, LibreWolf etc.

Also, I think it is super important we have different "webbrowser engines" and that are independent from big tech companies. If we only have chromium it would be really bad and hurt use consumer really bad and also stop inovation.

We really need to support independentCbrowsers like Firefox more.

New comment by MasterYoda in "Python: The Documentary [Official trailer] [video]"

MasterYoda — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:49:39 +0000

"From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, our upcoming full-length documentary traces Python’s slow-but-steady rise, its community-driven evolution, and the language’s impact on... well… everything."

Python: The Documentary [Official trailer] [video]

MasterYoda — Sun, 18 May 2025 16:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBqdNIPrbo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022630

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by MasterYoda in "Flattening Rust’s learning curve"

MasterYoda — Wed, 14 May 2025 06:17:33 +0000

What is it that make that rust is said to have steep learning curve compared to other programing languages (in the same category)?

New comment by MasterYoda in "SpacetimeDB"

MasterYoda — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:39:06 +0000

Which tradeoffs does elixir have?

New comment by MasterYoda in "IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol"

MasterYoda — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:56:03 +0000

Which good free open source alternatives for remote desktop on win 11 are there where you can install both a server ()for win11 home that have the rdp server) and have a client you connect with? Knows only about VNC, but never liked it? And ironrdp just looks like the client. Whant to selfhost the server.

New comment by MasterYoda in "ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air"

MasterYoda — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:46:34 +0000

Which good alternatives to esp32 are there? Thinking most on functionality, dont care so much about the cost.

New comment by MasterYoda in "Buy European Made. Support European Values"

MasterYoda — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:33:45 +0000

https://european-alternatives.eu/

https://isitamerican.eu/

New comment by MasterYoda in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

MasterYoda — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:14:58 +0000

Is there any simple FOSS alternative to tailscale that you can self-host?

The only thing I need is to simply connect to the home network and I dont want to need to open and forward ports etc in routers and firewalls for it to work, just something simple plug and play and is secure.

New comment by MasterYoda in "Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea"

MasterYoda — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:01:20 +0000

According to experts, there have been no cable breaks of this type for over a decade in the Baltic Sea and now suddenly there have been about 5 in just 1,5 year, at a time when ruzzia is conducting aggressive hybrid warfare and the last 2 ships discovered were also Chinese ships, a country that supports ruzzia and one ship had a ruzzian captain and they also seem to belong to the ruzzian shadow fleet.

Several of the ships have also gone to / from ruzzian ports and behaved strangely, for example zig zagged over the cable before, turned off the transponder, drifted around etc. which ships do not normally do.

Suddenly, cable breaks in the Baltic Sea are 26 times higher than in the rest of the world, it can not be dismissed as "accidents". These cables have not broken by chance, according to experts, but this is a deliberate act.

Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings and historic tech

MasterYoda — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-40-auction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43001882

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by MasterYoda in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

MasterYoda — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:25:32 +0000

The last time it happened, the Russian ship had also been seen unnaturally going back and forth over the cable where the damage occurred. These damages do not happen by themselves. Considering the current international situation and the fact that it happened in a short time in several places unnaturally in a limited region, the Baltic Sea, you have to be very naive if you do not see this as probable sabotage.

New comment by MasterYoda in "Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager"

MasterYoda — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:42:11 +0000

How do you set the shortcut? When I press cmd-j the Library in Firefox opens. I have checked "Disbale javascript" in settings in uBO. I guess that setting will be disable for just the site i visit when i click cmd-j?

New comment by MasterYoda in "ESPHome"

MasterYoda — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:50:19 +0000

Is there something similar but for STM32?

New comment by MasterYoda in "Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG"

MasterYoda — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 16:41:20 +0000

I have collected so much information in text files on my computer that it has become unmanageable to find anything. Now with local AI solutions, I wondered if I could create a smart search engine that could provide answers to the information that exists on my personal data.

My question is.

1 - Even if there is so much data that I can no longer find stuff, how much text data is needed to train an LLM to work ok? Im not after an AI that could answer general question, only an AI that should be able to answer what I already know exist in the data.

2 - I understand that the more structured the data are, the better, but how important is it when training an LLM with structured data? Does it just figuring stuff out anyways in a good way mostly?

3 - Any recommendation where to start, how to run an LLM AI locally, train on your own data?

New comment by MasterYoda in "White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)"

MasterYoda — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:20:24 +0000

Fun fact!? TIL: UTC = Coordinated Universal Time but the abbreviation is not CUT that would be "logical", but UTC.

"It came about as a compromise between English and French speakers. - Coordinated Universal Time in English would normally be abbreviated CUT. - Temps Universel Coordonné in French would normally be abbreviated TUC.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Astronomical Union wished to minimize confusion and designated one single abbreviation for use in all languages.

UTC does not favor any particular language. In addition, the advantage of choosing UTC is that it is consistent with the abbreviation for Universal Time, UT"

So the reason it's called UTC is because the French and British couldn't agree, who could have guessed? :)

New comment by MasterYoda in "LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices"

MasterYoda — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:12:59 +0000

Sounds great, will test it out directly an andoid app is released :)

Be able to transfer folder and not just files between devices wireless easy without internet would be amazing.

New comment by MasterYoda in "LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices"

MasterYoda — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:20:56 +0000

Does anyone knows if it is possible to send folders (includings subfolders) or is just files?

Have been looking for a simple way to share files between pc and android wireless but not via internet, but seems it always is just file/s you could transfer, not folders with everything in them.

If LocalSend is the same and can only transfer selected file/s, have anyone any tips on a alternative app that do the same but also with folders?