Hacker News: astro1138

New comment by astro1138 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

astro1138 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:14:21 +0000

Is that going to accelerate copyright violations for AI training? https://cuiiliste.de/domains contains just a lot of piracy sites.

New comment by astro1138 in "Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers"

astro1138 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:48:14 +0000

After decades of a liberal and left senate, Berliners reelected CDU who bankrupted Berlin 25 years ago.

New comment by astro1138 in "New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS"

astro1138 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:10:17 +0000

If it is no longer closed, it might proliferate just like Linux once it gathers a critical amount of users. :)

New comment by astro1138 in "MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov"

astro1138 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:27:52 +0000

Hacked and defaced? Cyber security at a low point.

New comment by astro1138 in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

astro1138 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:18:25 +0000

When it comes to urban design, I consider balcony solar panels to be less of a nuisance than cars on the streets.

New comment by astro1138 in "Administration will review all 55M visa holders for deportable violations"

astro1138 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:46:14 +0000

Is Freedom of Speech only meant for US citizens?

New comment by astro1138 in "The uv build back end is now stable"

astro1138 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:45:27 +0000

So, this puts the Python runtime on Node.js' battle-proven libuv?

New comment by astro1138 in "XOR's Shader Arsenal: A collection of various tiny shaders"

astro1138 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:25:25 +0000

Very interesting. How do I view without X?

New comment by astro1138 in "Show HN: SVG Animation Software"

astro1138 — Sun, 25 May 2025 14:37:39 +0000

There's a Github link but there are no repos. How do I package this for my favourite Linux distro?

New comment by astro1138 in "SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces"

astro1138 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:21:16 +0000

fvwm95, or newer: https://github.com/jcs/progman

I'd love a similar compositor for Wayland.

New comment by astro1138 in "Comcast is rolling out 'ultra-low lag' tech that could fix the internet"

astro1138 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:13:30 +0000

> L4S pulls this off by giving internet packets an indicator that lets them know if they’ve run into congestion or queueing along any of the hops in their trip between a user and whatever they’re connecting to.

Sounds a lot like ECN (RFC 3168) which was specified in 2001.

New comment by astro1138 in "Can Germany Fix Facebook?"

astro1138 — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 03:32:27 +0000

Before FB had global world domination, a clone called StudiVZ was fairly popular in Germany. It was regarded at least as controversial.

New comment by astro1138 in "Is Arduino no longer open-source?"

astro1138 — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:55:45 +0000

There is no source code either for the WiFi stuff in the ESP8266.

New comment by astro1138 in "Most of Mars' air was 'lost to space'"

astro1138 — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:18:59 +0000

What does that mean for terraforming? Establish a magnetosphere first so that solar winds don't drag away an atmosphere?

New comment by astro1138 in "Deutsche Telekom says 900k fixed-line customers suffer outages"

astro1138 — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 10:34:24 +0000

For Deutsche Telekom fiber you don't need no special router. Dial in with PPPoE over VLAN 7 similar to VDSL, minus the VDSL modem.

New comment by astro1138 in "TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging"

astro1138 — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 23:02:48 +0000

Conversations.im

New comment by astro1138 in "Instant.io – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent"

astro1138 — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:19:20 +0000

You'd still have to wait for the first block of data (piece in BitTorrent lingo) to complete.

New comment by astro1138 in "Why is a Rust executable large?"

astro1138 — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 22:03:12 +0000

Why not link the Rust libstd dynamically?

New comment by astro1138 in "Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for"

astro1138 — Sun, 08 May 2016 23:36:20 +0000

archive.org

New comment by astro1138 in "Show HN: WOPR – A markup for rich terminal reports"

astro1138 — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:03:39 +0000

I wonder if it's manageable to build a converter to SVG with just XSLT?