Hacker News: aivisol

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

aivisol — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:38:35 +0000

I have my 9300 still in a drawer ( checked ) . Interesting if it is possible to find a replacement battery for it and what functionality would still be usable? A physical SIM, 3G still works…

New comment by aivisol in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

aivisol — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:57:42 +0000

Checked life expectancy in Finland: I guess you use booze to offset the positive effects of sauna :)

New comment by aivisol in "You can't cURL a Border"

aivisol — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:14:22 +0000

> To apply for British citizenship, you need to prove you were physically in the UK on your application date but five years ago.

I am confused whats British citizenship application to do with his, or any travel at all? That's not what you do regularly, I mean most people do not apply for citizenship in other countries ever in their lives? Or am I missing something?

New comment by aivisol in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

aivisol — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:22:51 +0000

Disappointing that EU signed it. I guess they are trying to push chat control by all possible means.

> The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention, which lays out new mechanisms for governments to coordinate, build capacity and track those who use technology to commit crimes.

EU will coordinate with Russia on cybercrime?

New comment by aivisol in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

aivisol — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:43:33 +0000

Yes I did pay for extra licenses. I also paid for the cameras to Reolink and disks to WD.

New comment by aivisol in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

aivisol — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:35:59 +0000

Reolink with Synology NAS using their native Surveillance app. All stored locally, no cloud. One issue with Reolink I haven’t solved is that it is unable to detect approaching cars in the night. Departing cars work fine though. Otherwise no complaints.

New comment by aivisol in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

aivisol — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:18:59 +0000

Can you please tell what kind of therapy you did ?

New comment by aivisol in "Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes"

aivisol — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:06:34 +0000

Can confirm this. I think it was sunflower oil which went through the roof when war started not vegetable though.

New comment by aivisol in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

aivisol — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:43:47 +0000

Here where I live many insurance companies are subsidiaries to the banks.

New comment by aivisol in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

aivisol — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:41:30 +0000

> “Here is your Sparkasse. A very important document is waiting for your signature. Please visit paperless.io/548fkjgd7f to continue.”

I mean this is just ... incredible. Are they living on the moon? Many real phishing messages are even more sophisticated than this.

New comment by aivisol in "How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived"

aivisol — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:40:18 +0000

If I remember correctly it came very useful during US Airways Flight 1549 accident?

New comment by aivisol in "Why does Switzerland have so many bunkers?"

aivisol — Tue, 06 May 2025 08:00:57 +0000

That is how you ensure your neutrality.

New comment by aivisol in "Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen"

aivisol — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:31:14 +0000

yep, happened to my Fenix 7 as well immediately as soon as I activated workout mode (i.e. started GPS).

Ended up with factory reset and restore from Connect App backup.

New comment by aivisol in "Garmin Connect services were down"

aivisol — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:23:00 +0000

Can confirm, everything runs in the watch, no connection to the app is needed. All your workouts are stored in the watch locally and synced to the Connect App once it is available. I never take my phone with me while doing workouts because its not really needed.

New comment by aivisol in "Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History"

aivisol — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:35:25 +0000

And Canary Islands as not part of Spain.

New comment by aivisol in "Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016)"

aivisol — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:23:37 +0000

NTP server.

New comment by aivisol in "How old is your globe? [pdf]"

aivisol — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:40:33 +0000

> Also Bangladesh seceded from Pakistan, not India and in 1971 not 1972.

Yep, I have some old map where it is called East Pakistan

New comment by aivisol in "How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?"

aivisol — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:24:20 +0000

I think as it was mentioned in the article it was mostly due to lack of need to travel: they were poor and didn’t have things to trade to justify seagoing. And then the other additional factors: lack of iron, the fact that shores were less habitable than mountains ( lack of freshwater), wind and currents between islands.

New comment by aivisol in "How did the settlers of the Canary Islands survive a millennium of isolation?"

aivisol — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:03:27 +0000

>Really interesting is, that that they came there by boat, but lost the ability to build boats or stopped doing so for whatever reasons, that they could not even travel between the islands anymore.

Maybe due to lack of access to iron?

New comment by aivisol in "Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center"

aivisol — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:47:36 +0000

Strange that you say that. I am also at the point where I can pretty well figure out the plane of ecliptic regardless of where I am. It is just you pay attention to it and it comes with time. Never occurred to me to look for center of Galaxy, but now I know what I will do next.