Hacker News: Timshel

New comment by Timshel in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

Timshel — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:11:22 +0000

Not sure where you are in Europe, but in France, Macron would bend over backward.

New comment by Timshel in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

Timshel — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:46:00 +0000

Did it recently, took 3min to receive confirmation, the warning it might take longer than on the app is bollocks.

CryptPad Funding Status January 2026

Timshel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cryptpad.org/2026/02/18/CryptPad-Funding-Status-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087269

Points: 1

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New comment by Timshel in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

Timshel — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:16:18 +0000

> Just like the average American who drinks 10 alcoholic beverages a week, every single week. They’re adults, they aren’t alcoholic, they just need a drink

Drinking every day and "needing" a drink look like good indication of alcoolism to me.

New comment by Timshel in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

Timshel — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:29:25 +0000

Did you check that all those issues were classified as "Good first issues" ? Otherwise like the LLM you are missing the point.

New comment by Timshel in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

Timshel — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:10:31 +0000

Issue was for first time contributor, It's kept open to onboard peoples not train agent ...

New comment by Timshel in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

Timshel — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:57:50 +0000

Seemed as closed as Discord ?

New comment by Timshel in "Where did all the starships go?"

Timshel — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:46:03 +0000

Like none of The Expanse books would appear...

New comment by Timshel in "Our approach to advertising"

Timshel — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:04:09 +0000

Paying YouTube means giving even more personnal information to an ad empire ...

New comment by Timshel in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"

Timshel — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:07:49 +0000

? in the second video and others you can see the car never hit him ...

New comment by Timshel in "Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting"

Timshel — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:46:48 +0000

The current flag system is crap. You can't vouch for something until it's dead and has disappeared ...

New comment by Timshel in "Four Million U.S. Children Had No Health Insurance in 2024"

Timshel — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:56:42 +0000

You can if not every actor in your system is trying to gouge the others ...

New comment by Timshel in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

Timshel — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:44:26 +0000

10TB external harddrives are relatively affordable.

New comment by Timshel in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

Timshel — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:11:21 +0000

Anecdotal but running a server with multiple bridges for multiple years. Had such issues initially but none recently.

New comment by Timshel in "PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1""

Timshel — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:21:14 +0000

Yes but shit like this still means that if your hardware is in a minority category you will lose access to services.

For a time I couldn't access a number of website because Linux+Firefox was apparently too rare, with Linux+Chrome at least I could pass a captcha (was Akamai I believe).

New comment by Timshel in "Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes"

Timshel — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:52:11 +0000

Not sure where you extract is supposed to come from, the paper argue that

> Many have blamed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the 2003 Global Settlement’s effects on analyst coverage for the decline in IPO activity. We find very little support for the conventional wisdom, and offer an alternative explanation

No wonder you got ignored ..

Edit: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1954788

New comment by Timshel in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

Timshel — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:29:13 +0000

Not necessarily, cf: https://lammotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/YASA-400R.jp...

From https://lammotor.com/yasa-axial-flux-motor/

the shape is due to the change to the motor layout: https://www.thedrive.com/news/why-axial-flux-motors-are-a-bi...

New comment by Timshel in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

Timshel — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:05:05 +0000

There is the "--ignore-scripts" option and had no issue using it for now.

New comment by Timshel in "Cheap DIY solar fence design"

Timshel — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:22:48 +0000

> but then you have freezing temperatures and snow covering the panels which makes them useless.

When vertical not much of an issue and the reflection from the snow appears to work well with bifacial.

New comment by Timshel in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

Timshel — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:26:27 +0000

Well removing any distribution after a CVE is a nice touch ...