Hacker News: artisinal

New comment by artisinal in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:27:27 +0000

Then hide the NVR in a locked utility room of the apartment complex.

New comment by artisinal in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:48:46 +0000

Money and personal data going out of the country is not a good thing.

New comment by artisinal in "Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:12:49 +0000

In the USA, is it really that easy to find the home address of a business owner?

The EU briefly had a similar registry but that got shut down quickly.

New comment by artisinal in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:50:50 +0000

Then go for a CCTV system with local storage for the whole apartment complex instead of a cloud based personal surveillance system.

Then you don’t need 5 cloud services and people can go back to knocking.

New comment by artisinal in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:43:38 +0000

We are talking about burglars.

New comment by artisinal in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:36:03 +0000

I fail to see the relation between a video doorbell and stopping a burglar. Burglars wear masks.

Also, a doorbell ringing on the outside of the door is not only silly but in case of an apartment complex highly annoying for your neighbors.

And make sure your neighbors like being monitored through your five services.

Personally I have a button outside my front door. It is connected with a copper wire to the other side of the door to a small device that sends out an audible notification. No cloud required.

New comment by artisinal in "It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:30:09 +0000

> the upcoming Samsung SmartThings API pricing

Imagine paying a Korean company five bucks a months so you can get a notification on your phone that your fridge needs a new water filter.

People really need to touch grass.

New comment by artisinal in "Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:28:08 +0000

4800km by car.

That’s an additional 1400km just for rail overhead. I knew it was bad but that is shocking.

New comment by artisinal in ""A big win for Android interoperability""

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:19:46 +0000

Would love it if the EU forced an alt-store on game consoles. Would be nice to install my own applications on a PlayStation or Xbox.

Would also be cool if they could force fee-free bank transactions and card payments within the EU.

That is more useful to me than wake words on Android.

New comment by artisinal in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

artisinal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:09:53 +0000

That doesn’t change the fact that the millionaire megafarmers completely screwed over Dutch water management for personal gains. Did you know that farmers are basically completely in control of waterschappen despite only bringing in a couple percent of the GDP.

New comment by artisinal in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

artisinal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:57:19 +0000

The 2003 European heatwave had a death toll of 70,000. That should have been a warning for us to get AC.

New comment by artisinal in "Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU"

artisinal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:51:52 +0000

4.5 days for 4000kms. Sad state of European rail.

Your average work migrant does 2000km in a day with a Golf TDI and a tray of energy drink. One fuel stop. I’ve seen plenty of Romanians and Bulgarians do this. Turks and Moroccans are also known for their long drives.

To give some useful advice. You can shave off some time by using busses here and there. Helsinki to Lisbon with FlixBus is 75 hours.

New comment by artisinal in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

artisinal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:26:01 +0000

The 30,000 preventable yearly deaths already remind us of that.

New comment by artisinal in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

artisinal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:19:21 +0000

Drought in The Netherlands is artificial though. Millionaire farmers are pumping up water to water their crops during the day. Due to the heat most of the spray evaporates before it touches the plants. During the winter they artificially lower the ground water level for personal benefit.

Also of this so they can gain even more millions by exporting all the food across the border. Time to block some more highways, destroy some more property and kill some more people in order to secure those sweet EU subsidies.

New comment by artisinal in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

artisinal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:35:19 +0000

My mind immediately went: I’m sure there is some German law or ordinance or regulation against hiding your Gaszähler. This surely goes against die Niederdruckanschlussverordnung.

Now that you have published this online, police will visit you to remove the Billy!

Perhaps I am too pessimistic with German laws.

PS: It looks much better this way.

New comment by artisinal in "OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco"

artisinal — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:52:41 +0000

The federal government should step in. Give San Francisco four years to build the 76,000+ homes it needs. If the city fails, impose a substantial penalty for every unit missed and authorize the federal government to take over suitable public land and build the housing itself. At some point, housing shortages require consequences.

New comment by artisinal in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

artisinal — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:18:09 +0000

I’m curious about the original comment now

New comment by artisinal in "Dolly Parton has died"

artisinal — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:29:39 +0000

I tend to visit the local museums, drink coffee at a cute coffee place and hit up the town square instead of doing hardcore drugs.

New comment by artisinal in "How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer"

artisinal — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:07:05 +0000

As a European that’s a great way to get paid for a two year holiday.

New comment by artisinal in "I Dream of Quieter Computing"

artisinal — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:10:21 +0000

Yes, GDPR with the right to be forgotten and being able to request which of your data is being processed is very hard on small organizations and volunteers.

You get a request for which data is processed from a user and suddenly you have to spend 8 hours in paper archives to find if the weekly charity mailing has ever mentioned this person by their full name.