Hacker News: PaulKeeble

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:37:37 +0000

If you don't have to worry about replaceable sticks and users choosing their own memory manufacturer, speed and size then you can shorten the traces and improve connectivity including the bus width and its latency. I can't help but think the DIMM format is coming to an end.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:53:26 +0000

All this biometric data is setting people up for identity theft attacks. These types of attacks are going to grow enormously over the coming years as biometric data is gathered and leaked on a massive scale. Anything put on the internet has been leaked already, almost every company with a web presence has lost data. Biometrics unlike passwords, phone numbers and credit cards can not be changed.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

PaulKeeble — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:58:23 +0000

Plenty of Do Not Look Up in there as well on a lot of topics.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:43:09 +0000

It did so in direct violation of the licenses of the code held there as well and then sold code snippets they had no rights to and still do.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:50:57 +0000

The USA is threatening war with the the EU and its allies. A loss of trust doesn't quite convey the seriousness of relationship destruction this causes and the monumental shift that is now happening.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:08:06 +0000

The last one I did was using Fyne in Go, which is quite cross platform but its software drawn not native. Its targeting phones as well so its cross compatibility is very good but at the cost of giving you the full complexity of desktop applications, it does not have a highly capable table view for example. Since its written in Go this is what you will develop in.

Otherwise I think its QT and GTK on C/C++ as the other option across the desktop operating systems, neither is native on anything but Linux but they also look OK but I think a lot of people would rather avoid C nowadays for application development.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Palantir's access to identifiable NHS England patient data 'dangerous', MPs say"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:56:09 +0000

Doesn't matter how many times they ask the UK public about sharing NHS data they always say no. This has been a continuous escalation of increasing selling NHS data over nearly 2 decades now. They don't work for the public interest at all, every signal they have on data sharing has told them stop. Thankfully at the moment NHS staff are refusing to comply but at some point government is going to ram this through anyway.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "OP's script shuts down every single computer in the company"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:54:25 +0000

Not sure that going straight to production with every change is really best practice for something that could have such a disasterous impact with no pair programming nor review. This process is going to create catastrophic errors sometimes its got zero guard rails, humans are going to make mistakes.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "I keep tripping over "true, false, true""

PaulKeeble — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:48:00 +0000

There is something to be said for the bitmasks that are so common in C, createUser(user, ADMIN | SENDMAIL); has a lot more clarity than createUser(user, true, false, true);

I don't mind the object approach used here but its quite verbose in comparison even in Javascript. Having to name the variable and set whether its true or false is a lot more than needs to be done. Booleans in general have quite poor readibility and maintenance especially if a third possibility arrives.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:09:02 +0000

The past few years has also had Solar continuing to decrease in price so its increasingly going to be the primary choice. On top of that battery prices have been plummeting too so that now Solar + battery is cheaper than other options like Nuclear and especially Gas. Most of the EU will be running on Wind and Solar in the coming years, its a change that is now rapidly occuring based entirely on the rare economics. Solar and Wind are half the price of anything else.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:13:53 +0000

Ubuntu has fallen out of favour with quite a lot of Linux recommender sites and reviewers and its mainly about flatpak and Gnome, but also gaming support by default. Other Linux distributions do things better now for the influx of gamers to Linux and with SteamOS being on Arch a lot of Arch deriatives are becoming increasingly popular. I don't think its Fedora picking up users, its Cachyos and Bazzite.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

PaulKeeble — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:58:42 +0000

CGNat even more so because its added ~16 more bits and taken away full functioning connections form the ISP customers to do it.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:26:44 +0000

There was a period when development and system adminstrators were really concerned about vendor lock in and would choose on the basis of the ease of moving to a different platform, Java and J2EE was clearly based on this mindset. I have always found it odd people have been willing to adopt AWS with no apparent easy route off given its price.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

PaulKeeble — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:02:08 +0000

Its done substantially better than more common diseases like ME/CFS which very few have even heard of let alone know the symptoms of and receives almost no funding at all. Alzheimer's received a further $100 million of NIH funding earlier this year (https://www.alz.org/news/2026/100-million-dollar-alzheimers-...). That is 6 times the total funding for ME/CFS federally which is currently just 15 million and planned to decline.

The research went awry in Alziemer's due to fraud but its being funded at a reasonable level, a level many with Long Covid or ME/CFS or Fibromylgia would be very happy to see but doubt will ever happen. Funding of diseases is not "fair", it isn't based on number of sufferers * quality life years lost and we should be spending more on medical research generally. Alzeimers is one of the better funded diseases in the world.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

PaulKeeble — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:07:09 +0000

USB is just a complete mess. I don't mind so much ports having different capabilities if they are well documented in the specification sheets of the hardware because then at least I can find out what they are capable of, but alas it never seems to be the case. Its very hard to work out whether a port can do Displayport and to what extent/performance or its true power capability or just its real data transfer speed. More often than I like I have just hoped that something works. Anything above 5W charging and 5gbps transfer is optional.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:22:55 +0000

[1] is a summary of the impact on the brain of Covid-19 infections including IQ reduction but many others besides. Its best understood that there is no such thing as a consequence free Covid infection, it always damages something and the early british experiment where they intentionally infected young men resulted in all of them loosing IQ and none of them being aware of the loss. This finding has been built on substantially in the past 6 years and we have a much large list of issues now, none of it treatable.

[1] https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-cov...

New comment by PaulKeeble in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

PaulKeeble — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:46:30 +0000

Batteries have been used as part of planned obsolescence for too long and a whole small business industry of replacing phone batteries has appeared because of it. Next the EU are going to have to address security patches because its another aspect being used to sell new phones.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

PaulKeeble — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:45:02 +0000

In many regards IPv6 was a change that went too far and didn't go far enough all at the same time, although slowly but surely it is being adopted. Something like this had a better chance at adoption precisely for how little it changed things. The most radical part is the merging of all services into one central blob and I think that is going to be the part most people take exception too especially oauth. It doesn't solve fundamental issues like roaming with mobile devices, something that now is really important to get rid of a lot of complexity that has built up.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

PaulKeeble — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:30:27 +0000

They dropped that a long time ago, at least a decade ago. Which is really an odd thing to do, what company would think that not being evil was holding it back but Google clearly did.

New comment by PaulKeeble in "The exponential curve behind open source backlogs"

PaulKeeble — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:27:47 +0000

Ultimately if the new contributor brings in others to the project to also review and progress the project then it will quickly outpace the development on jellyfin and become the successful fork. No maintainer can cope with the workload of something like jellyfin and if they wont assign maintainers there isn't much else to be done.

The key to the success is dealing with the outstanding merges by bringing maintainers onboard that are trying to contribute, build up the team and then the merges will get processed a lot faster.