Hacker News: Neikius

New comment by Neikius in "PHP 8.2.35"

Neikius — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:29:38 +0000

Much worse. Log4j was hard to exploit and worked only in specific condions. And it was bad. This is something else.

New comment by Neikius in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

Neikius — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:01:27 +0000

Biggest problem of leds is we have no good standards. Classic screw in bulb makes no sense with LEDs. Other formats usually mean you are screwed when you have to replace. So far LED strips seem the best way. A bit of soldering but you can replace them by parts.

New comment by Neikius in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

Neikius — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:59:44 +0000

Read about Dubai light years ago. I am happily surprised someone else knows about this too :)

New comment by Neikius in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

Neikius — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:58:10 +0000

Early LEDs were fine. Then they overclocked them a bit too much and they just break now. Too much current and so on. You can make a very simple led very bright but it won't last. If you undervolt them instead they are dim but last forever. So the deal is to have many undevolted LEDs. Ofc that is pricier...

New comment by Neikius in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

Neikius — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:03:59 +0000

The OS is no longer a product they care about. Brings no money compared to Azure.

New comment by Neikius in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

Neikius — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:00:52 +0000

I remember a Windows update pushed through SBS that bricked all machines in company overnight. Boot up to bsod. Was that Windows 7?

New comment by Neikius in "European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy"

Neikius — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:02:15 +0000

Been using matrix for years now. Even operating a server for a small community. It is slightly more involved for regular users though so that is not the best but otherwise works. Setting up your own federated instance is quite simple, there is an Ansible playbook around to make it even easier. You could even isolate it and have it only for your org. From what I know there is some traction to get it adopted in a bunch of agencies eu-wide.

New comment by Neikius in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

Neikius — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:10:59 +0000

LoRa is not fast enough?

New comment by Neikius in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

Neikius — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:10:24 +0000

Sounds like it fills the same niche as LoRa. Never heard of it though, thanks.

New comment by Neikius in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

Neikius — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:41:53 +0000

I wonder how many people died of heart attack when they saw this.

New comment by Neikius in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

Neikius — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:46:38 +0000

On the other hand having 10 times as many bridges could prove to be an impossibility when maintenance costs come knocking.

New comment by Neikius in "Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)"

Neikius — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:58:24 +0000

Iirc in java I managed to parse those just fine. Ages ago though.

I also recall actually seeing some web pages somewhere using semicolon, possibly IBM stuff.

New comment by Neikius in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

Neikius — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:11:19 +0000

School system was created to increase productivity.

It is also and equalizer. Unschooled kids from bad backgrounds now start even lower.

New comment by Neikius in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

Neikius — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:07:57 +0000

Just ban the phones from schools. Because with that you cannot compete. Instant gratification vs hard work?

New comment by Neikius in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

Neikius — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:34:10 +0000

As you yourself said. Your load is so light you keep it in free tier. Their entire business model is for them to capture you while your load is light and then when you scale the price goes up.

New comment by Neikius in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Neikius — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:19:43 +0000

Leaking school or medical record can have serious personal consequences that cannot even be enumerated

New comment by Neikius in "The smelly baby problem"

Neikius — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:24:00 +0000

Haha I love explaining things. It gets challenging and sometimes you have to stop the train...

What kills me is when I have to convince them of sometand they just are incapable of listening to any kind of reasoning. Sometimes you can let it slide but some issues are just too big like road crossing for example.

New comment by Neikius in "The smelly baby problem"

Neikius — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:19:35 +0000

I find smelly things easy to deal with as the solution is clear and the path to it is simple.

Other problems may not have a clear path to solution and are not as simple.

New comment by Neikius in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

Neikius — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:29:20 +0000

This.

And alternatively just making hydrogen but storage is a problem with that.

So simple with negative peak energy prices...

New comment by Neikius in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Neikius — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:13:56 +0000

Just moved our stuff from gitlab to forgejo. Gitlab is fine. Just too much stuff for a small org. And I hated the upgrades. And they kept adding things and none of those were what I wanted :) guess a different audience or something. very good to have some options though!