Hacker News: alwyn

New comment by alwyn in "Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)"

alwyn — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:37:23 +0000

May I ask what setup you used to run it on your phone and if it's satisfactory (it sounds like it)?

New comment by alwyn in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

alwyn — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:44:07 +0000

For the tap to pay I am now using my Garmin smartwatch. Still corporate, but not Google/Apple huge corporate.

Very content with GOS otherwise. I blame app providers for their ridiculous limitations, not custom ROM developers.

New comment by alwyn in "Astrological CPU Scheduler"

alwyn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:56:12 +0000

Very cool! I am guessing you never got around to making the Kubernetes controller you mention in the README? :D

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

alwyn — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:56:33 +0000

> That is their decision. Without any contract or promise, there is no obligation to anybody.

Even as a paying customer on a $1m/yr contract, still using the open source distribution because AIStor is not something we are keen on, we were not informed whatsoever.

They were well aware we were still using those container images, and we were by far the only paying customers doing the same.

This is malicious.

New comment by alwyn in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

alwyn — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:50:13 +0000

Not from the US, but I did see a missing word in the footer:

> There was a recent effort by the U.S. government *to* create a no cost,

New comment by alwyn in "Show HN: S3mini – Tiny and fast S3-compatible client, no-deps, edge-ready"

alwyn — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:30:43 +0000

In my view one reason is to ensure integrity down the line. You want the checksum of a file to still be the same when you download it maybe years later. If it isn't, you get warned about it. Without the checksum, how will you know for sure? Keep your own database of checksums? :)

New comment by alwyn in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

alwyn — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:50:36 +0000

Supposedly creators get a bigger share from YT Premium users' compared to regular, ad-watching views, simply because skipped ads mean no revenue. It's still marginal because most people don't have Premium though.

New comment by alwyn in "uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users"

alwyn — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:23:19 +0000

I quite really like pdm! I can see why maybe poetry but especially pipenv might be replaced with uv, but what's the value of uv over pdm beyond performance? It ticks all my boxes otherwise.

New comment by alwyn in "12 years of Backblaze data center storage drives, visualized"

alwyn — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:43:51 +0000

Works fine for me on Firefox Linux. Interestingly took a lot longer to load in Chromium and Brave but they all work.

New comment by alwyn in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

alwyn — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:33:14 +0000

bsky still lacks basic security features like 2FA (beyond an email code) (andOAuth implementation), which puts me off from actively using it...

New comment by alwyn in "Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker"

alwyn — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:51:52 +0000

Thank you for introducing me to Terminal Trove. So many tools to try and experience, loving it!

New comment by alwyn in "iTerm2 critical security release"

alwyn — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:26:41 +0000

The majority of configuration options in Windows Terminal are hidden in JSON. The GUI only exposes a fraction. They are doing work to expose more options in the GUI though.

Having tried various alternatives for prolonged periods, it is currently IMHO the best option when you have to work on Windows.

Mac and Linux options are just vastly ahead.

New comment by alwyn in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

alwyn — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:33:22 +0000

Or get an ODROID! Much more powerful for (nearly) the same price.

New comment by alwyn in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

alwyn — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:31:56 +0000

Instead of an error-prone SD card, use an SSD (internal, external doesn't matter).

OR create frequent backups that are pushed to a better medium.

New comment by alwyn in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

alwyn — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:45:58 +0000

My previous HP Envy x360 had such a switch on the side of the laptop that would electronically disconnect the webcam; it would completely disconnect according to the system. Enabling it would show a new device being connected in `dmesg`.

Not a great laptop otherwise, but that was pretty good!

New comment by alwyn in "J2ME-Loader: J2ME emulator for Android devices"

alwyn — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:59:18 +0000

Oh man I played a lot of J2ME games in the past.

Fishlabs games, Attack Chopper, various Gameloft games...

New comment by alwyn in "Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned"

alwyn — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:34:42 +0000

Cyberpunk != cyberpunk, unfortunately.

Cyberpunk 2077 is set in the Cyberpunk RPG universe that was created by Mike Pondsmith in 1988.

It was named after the vibe without changing the name...

Also a helpful article: https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/8/7/20756548/cyberpunk-...

New comment by alwyn in "Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions"

alwyn — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:04:54 +0000

This is configurable[1]. I am writing this from a laptop with a touchscreen using X. I can use the touch screen fine and _browse_ Firefox with it and don't select text.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Tweaks#Enable_touch...

New comment by alwyn in "Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia"

alwyn — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:28:46 +0000

You are the creator? Thank you for what you do! I've used it with pleasure for many years.

New comment by alwyn in "Show HN: Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)"

alwyn — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:47:44 +0000

In my head 3.000,00 is correct and I always get confused because it seems most(?) people use the other method.