Hacker News: Squeeeez

New comment by Squeeeez in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

Squeeeez — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:44:19 +0000

They might not be doing it on purpose, remember that microsoft windows "take a screenshot every few seconds and send it to an llm" thing?

New comment by Squeeeez in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

Squeeeez — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:18:24 +0000

There are aspects about cultures which can be fascinating, not (only) because they are foreign and new, but because dedicated and intelligent people have been improving them for generations, centuries even. I have a friend who is from Korea and who is a wood worker, and we have compared the different approaches to what, in the end, solves the same problems. Not everything can be incorporated into the other way of doing things, but I have found it eye-opening. My brain still tries to find ways, comparing, like a constant ping. Maybe one needs to dedicate 100% to the new way for a while to understand it fully before a genius brain would be able to find the spark how to meld both methods into a single improved Way of Doing Things (tm).

New comment by Squeeeez in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

Squeeeez — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:36:15 +0000

How would you implement no-downtime hot swap with only one item?

New comment by Squeeeez in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

Squeeeez — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:57:28 +0000

For three generations, unless you watch re-education videos.

New comment by Squeeeez in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Squeeeez — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:46:54 +0000

The Android build is a re-branded (and some might say, crippled) K-9 Mail, which AFAIR did not support NNTP. Adding it might be more work than they are willing to do.

New comment by Squeeeez in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

Squeeeez — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:09:28 +0000

Sharing in case this can help you in the future, this is what works for me with Termux in .ssh/config

  ServerAliveInterval 120
  ServerAliveCountMax 30
  TCPKeepAlive yes

New comment by Squeeeez in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

Squeeeez — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:30:20 +0000

Have you looked into enabling ssh keep alive/server alive?

New comment by Squeeeez in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

Squeeeez — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:09:51 +0000

Nothing against that per se, false alarms should be kept in check.

If you have a system where, as I understand it, the main point is to check who is standing in front of your door, and that system now is one automatic update away from dipping into your bank account... How long until the police departments figure out that donations to a specific company could be very profitable?

New comment by Squeeeez in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

Squeeeez — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 01:12:03 +0000

Slight tangent: on top of that, I just read an article yesterday (which of course I can't find again right now) about how false automatic alarms from such cameras will incur a fee from the owners when the Police comes to check it out. It was from somewhere in Texas.

New comment by Squeeeez in "One thing has been holding back the Middle East"

Squeeeez — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:30:00 +0000

It happens everywhere, not only in the middle east, not only with religion. People who crave control rise to the top, apply tight control to stay there, kill creativity in the process.

New comment by Squeeeez in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

Squeeeez — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:30:20 +0000

And so, instead of having an open port for ssh, (ideally) with certificate-only authentication, optionally MFA, you trade it for an open port for tailscale/wireguard, handing over "all" your data to a company who is offering you a service for no monetary compensation.

Also, why do you think that it is better to not change the root password? It sounds like a very suspicious recommendation.

New comment by Squeeeez in "Swiss voters back e-ID legislation"

Squeeeez — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:48:48 +0000

Note that when the Swiss government says "handled by the state" it means it will usually be handled by the lowest-bidding consulting company.

New comment by Squeeeez in "Swiss voters back e-ID legislation"

Squeeeez — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:45:47 +0000

Swiss here, and I do not agree. We used to be able to trust our government, but more and more, as the years go by, tech-savvy people realize how laws have accumulated into surveillance.

Now there are much worse cases out there, sure. But most Swiss citizens are not even aware of those laws.

Nor are they aware of how much the Swiss government has been trying to hide its incompetence regarding anything IT-related. Like data leaks happening several times per year.

So yes, a big percentage of those almost 50% of "no we don't want this" responses were about lack of trust in the different branches of the government.

New comment by Squeeeez in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"

Squeeeez — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:41:00 +0000

Looking at the examples on the website, I can see the appeal regarding the input. The output makes my head slightly dizzy - not sure why, but like the letters are all slightly off, in both dimensions. Is it just me, or the font/screen combination, or did it occur to anyone else also?

New comment by Squeeeez in "Florida deploys robot rabbits to control invasive Burmese Python population"

Squeeeez — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:45:47 +0000

From my understanding, hunting is already allowed, and they also have a bounty program: https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program

As an aside, and in a different, "Python Removal Agent" is certainly a worthy title for any of us.

New comment by Squeeeez in "Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV"

Squeeeez — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:55:50 +0000

Why the downvotes?

Conversation instead of anonymous bashing would be appreciated.

Unless you have no good arguments, so I dare you, random aggressive strangers, I triple dare you!

New comment by Squeeeez in "Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV"

Squeeeez — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:12:00 +0000

As my grandma used to say, regarding speaking a foreign language: "enough to get you beat up, not enough to get them to stop"

New comment by Squeeeez in "Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position"

Squeeeez — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 22:23:47 +0000

Yes, the change from not being pressed into your seat to being pressed into your seat is jerk. Basically the difference between two acceleration "levels".

Snap is how abrupt those changes between accelerations are. If you accelerate a bit, and then suddenly the light turns orange and you floor it, and the turbo kicks in, and your passengers go "woaaaaaah going to need a barf baaaaag" for example, it was probably not very smooth.

Sometimes instead of linear accelerations, those concepts can be easier to understand as changes in angular motions. You're on a curve of a certain radius, and suddenly the radius changes. The change is the jerk. How sudden the change happens is the snap.

New comment by Squeeeez in "The AI Job Title Decoder Ring"

Squeeeez — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:29:03 +0000

Weell, you probably don't want to serve "Backwards Deployed Engineers" to your clients

New comment by Squeeeez in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

Squeeeez — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:44:16 +0000

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