Hacker News: Perepiska

New comment by Perepiska in "Iroh 1.0"

Perepiska — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:28:07 +0000

And bypass all the firewalls if secret key of target machine is known?

New comment by Perepiska in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

Perepiska — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:33:06 +0000

Like "partially pregnant" :)

New comment by Perepiska in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

Perepiska — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:22:03 +0000

It's impossible to know this behavior on first installation. I prefer opt-in fior sharing my disks to wine.

New comment by Perepiska in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

Perepiska — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:58:28 +0000

to save time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn

New comment by Perepiska in "Should QA exist?"

Perepiska — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:29:58 +0000

> with their bugs

This is funny.

New comment by Perepiska in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

Perepiska — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:37:46 +0000

I've tried to use Wine in order to play Steam Windows games on Mac. Wine silently exposes all my macos drives as D:/F:/etc that was open to any game I started. Immediately removed Wine. Awful experience.

New comment by Perepiska in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

Perepiska — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:25:03 +0000

echo "porn"

New comment by Perepiska in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

Perepiska — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:04:33 +0000

I've heard about some home internet provider in Georgia (country, not US state) which has the same default password on all of it's fiber routers. It could easily found in internet just by googling router model name.

New comment by Perepiska in "SETI@home is in hiberation"

Perepiska — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:02 +0000

Wow! My screensaver was some guy's project to invent running and walking creatures from leverages and wheels via genetic algorithms. I can't remember project name neither .edu domain connected to it.

New comment by Perepiska in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

Perepiska — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:53:09 +0000

They were denied any attempts to put them on mass market laptops.

New comment by Perepiska in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

Perepiska — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:57:27 +0000

I worked for a company with a large website. The designers were elite and worked in a darkroom on expensive Apple equipment. At some point, it turned out that users couldn't see a certain color on the website because it could be seen on an Apple monitor, but not on a mass-market laptop's TFT screen.

New comment by Perepiska in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

Perepiska — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:17:26 +0000

I used to work for one big company. Every newly hired design director desperately wanted to create a new design for the corporate portal because it would add a new line to his resume.

New comment by Perepiska in "Announcing the Beta release of ty"

Perepiska — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:23:23 +0000

So I've decided to give it a try. Open installation instructions and went thru "easy install with uvx" / "get and run our sgell script" until get "pip install ty". I do not want use other tools so I started it in pet project directory as "ty check". Is shows me progressbar and "98/99 files" then hang. I restarted it and it hung on "68/99" and started using 100% of cpu core. I waited for 15 min and killed it. Try to get more information about current file but there is no verbose mode but colorful "ty --help" output. Lets wait for a year then try again.

Edit: +"then try again"

New comment by Perepiska in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

Perepiska — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:54:16 +0000

There are two 40-floors buildings nearby to each other in Tbilisi, Georgia, that are missing on Google Maps. All businesses have to put POI just "somewhere". One man from Google told me that there are staff members responsible for Georgia maps but they are chilling :)

New comment by Perepiska in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

Perepiska — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:05:55 +0000

JetBrains products had colorful and useful pictograms on menu items and panels. One day they replaced them by B&W versions and it was fail. Few years later they introduced purple icons. For promoting some internal AI companion.

New comment by Perepiska in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

Perepiska — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:46:20 +0000

There's a simple solution: anyone who posts AI-generated content can label it as "AI-generated" and avoid misleading people.

New comment by Perepiska in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

Perepiska — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:31:09 +0000

> They invented loot crates

It looks like false without sources.

New comment by Perepiska in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

Perepiska — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:27:42 +0000

Caching some API call because it is expensive and use cached data many months later because of bash suggestion :(

New comment by Perepiska in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

Perepiska — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:42:37 +0000

A month ago, I opened an old PDF file on MacOS Monterey and found that Preview couldn't display the images in it. Chrome browser on Monterey shows inlined images. I've read this PDF on Windows for years. For Monterey I had to convert it with some online converter in order to watch inlined images.

My favorite "the worst PDF reader" is MacOS Preview.

New comment by Perepiska in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

Perepiska — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:16:54 +0000

So What's The Solution?

... 3. allow user to feed application with fake data for every requested permission, e.g. false geoposition, dummy random generated address book etc.