Hacker News: antalis

New comment by antalis in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

antalis — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:05:09 +0000

QuickJS works fine for yt-dlp and is way smaller: less than 1 MB vs 34 MB + its many dependencies for Deno.

See https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/9811

New comment by antalis in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

antalis — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:27:39 +0000

Cameron did get what he wanted before the referendum: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...

New comment by antalis in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

antalis — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:24:44 +0000

That's wrong, he did get what he wanted before the referendum: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...

New comment by antalis in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

antalis — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:22:47 +0000

You've got it wrong: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...

New comment by antalis in "Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training"

antalis — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:03:30 +0000

They can get fined for up to 2 or 4% of their global annual revenue depending on the violation severity.

New comment by antalis in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

antalis — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:55:37 +0000

The screens are missing and the lips don't move, but it's pretty close!

New comment by antalis in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

antalis — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:57:02 +0000

To be clear: a big disadvantage of permanent magnet motors (PMSM). https://youtu.be/BFmp9ODkCA8?t=725

New comment by antalis in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

antalis — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:27:03 +0000

The parent post says it’s the high economic activity that attracted people even though the US has been more hostile than average by every other measure. So it's as if the US was a honeypot with a flyswatter.

By the way, your [2] is useless to prove your point: you can't compare absolute numbers (for instance Iceland vs the US).

New comment by antalis in "OpenTrafficMap"

antalis — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:01:14 +0000

The repos are there: https://codeberg.org/opentrafficmap

https://codeberg.org/opentrafficmap/its-g5-receiver: "Current ordering situation

(as of 2026-04-23)

After the talk on Grazer Linuxtage (media.ccc.de, youtube.com) we got many responses from people also wanting to buy this receiver. We fixed a few issues of the first revision and ordered 200pcs of Revision 2.

We expect the 200pcs to arrive in the first week of May, 2026. The cost of one complete receiver (excluding case and mechanical parts) is about 20 €.

If you want to purchase a receiver PCB, please contact us at the email liked in the Imprint/Impressum of opentrafficmap.org"

New comment by antalis in "OpenTrafficMap"

antalis — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:58:40 +0000

Fun fact: OpenStreetMap started out with maps of only the UK. OpenTrafficMap does support data from all around the world.

New comment by antalis in "Obsolete Sounds"

antalis — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:40:42 +0000

Yes, there are two players, and often the bottom one plays and it's a different song than the one we selected, which is loaded in the top one.

New comment by antalis in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

antalis — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:26:59 +0000

That's not surprising: https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/the-official-microsoft-teams-...

New comment by antalis in "Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack"

antalis — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:24:31 +0000

I don't think Russia is a superpower or that all superpowers act like that. Russia is just a mafia state.

New comment by antalis in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

antalis — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:04:01 +0000

I don't think that the author could have conveyed the same thing with less text and more images and videos. I agree that many project pages (all those about an app with a GUI) could use a screenshot though.

New comment by antalis in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

antalis — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:20:32 +0000

You may have to wait some time as Mint 19 (2018) actually removed KDE support.

New comment by antalis in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

antalis — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:23:24 +0000

Most people choose a theme for all the windows in the system settings.

New comment by antalis in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

antalis — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:11:55 +0000

Konsole has that feature too. https://itsfoss.com/konsole-terminal-tweaks/#4-split-the-ter...

New comment by antalis in "Firefox moves to GitHub"

antalis — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:57:28 +0000

Searchfox didn't exist back then, "there [was] only xul", I mean MXR of course.

Then MXR got replaced by DXR, itself replaced in 2020 by Searchfox (introduced in 2016).

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/decommission-dxr/69475

https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/searchfox/

New comment by antalis in "Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo"

antalis — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:02:36 +0000

Firefox Mobile (Fenix) had just moved to Mozilla's Mercurial mozilla-central repository after using GitHub including for issues. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/wiki#upcom...

Now, both the desktop and the mobile version will be on Github, and the "issues" will stay on Bugzilla.

This will take advantage of both GitHub's good search and source browsing and Git's familiar system.

As a former Firefox and Thunderbird contributor, I have to say that I used local search instead of trying to find something on the mozilla-central website.

Of course, when you're actively developing software, you search inside your IDE, but allowing to find things easily on the website makes it more welcoming for potential new contributors.

New comment by antalis in "The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution"

antalis — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:59:03 +0000

They may not attack the US directly like the Japanese did, but China may want to take over its neighbours to expand. Just like Russia could.