<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: balp</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=balp</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:44:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=balp" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me, I want to use orca for slicing there are many more additions to the local code. As both orca and Bambo are from the same open source, the current limitation in the Bambo version is breaking the licensing of the application, and my rights in that software are broken by this addition.
Then, during the print, I'm really happy to use the handy app to monitor the progress. This use case was supported when I got the hardware. Now I have to disable the app to get the slicer. I actually like to use both slicers to compare and see progress.
They are also terrible at software licensing, don't understand what open source is, and they found their main software on that. They probably should embrace the orca community and use their research for their own customers. Better slicing helps everyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 03:54:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117605</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a senior dev, when pairing with junious I get a more skilled team. Then I can continue to give new teams the skill and we all grow as people and companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:22:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948827</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "OpenPlotter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On commercial vessels, the colors have to follow the Solars standards. To make sure there are no misunderstandings in the charts. Many, software for no-comersical ships have much more fancy displays in random colors. Including 3d views of your route with sonar overlays. Satellite maps, but the clarity of the standard colors, or colors close to them as used by are much clearer in my view. For an overview of what Navionics, Garmin's chart brand, gives (<a href="https://www.navionics.com/fin/charts/features/garmin" rel="nofollow">https://www.navionics.com/fin/charts/features/garmin</a>).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:29:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676207</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "OpenPlotter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All commercial plotters have autorouting. There is automatic wind routing for sailing in OpenCPN (as a plugin). I'm not sure that adding it to a phone with carplay is a viable option. If you have a display to show it on, it's probably a display for a plotter with all the functionality, including map updates over the internet.<p>Thou for entertainment it's an other side, that would be useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:20:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676162</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "OpenPlotter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's an international standard so all professionals that read the maps never have to guess what the colors mean. In commercial vessels, you need to follow the Solas standards. This also means that you need certified hardware and software for the chart plotters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:14:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676140</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no mandatory government registration of non-profits in Sweden. You can get a like a tradename protection by registering like a company name. Suppose you would like to start a non-profit or any other organization. You need a yearly meeting to take the signed protocol to your local bank if you need an account.<p>If you like to have an organizationalnumber, you need to apply to the tax authority. If you do business activity and like a local name protection you need to apply to bolagsverket. Depending on the size of the app these steps might be helpful. I don't think our local chapter of FSF, has done any of the registrations just as an example. They run local conferences and other simular works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 05:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139245</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "The Big DevOps Misunderstanding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you try that you totally broken the DevOps idea, but now the whole world of ops and IT did that ages ago as anything that is configured in code, e.g. yaml, is devops.<p>The article suggests using a higher level abstraction with better tools suited for the developers than the low level tools as docker, Kubernetes etc. You can make this into a separate internal product and still keep the devops idea. But as soon you break out any of the core responsibilities for the product from the team. If that's business, security, stability or quality you are moving away from devops. Sure devops isn't the solution to all problems. But why call it devops when one doesn't like the basic devops idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 04:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621702</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They for sure intended to make an API, but also intended it only to be used between the two contractors involved in the application development. There was a requirement in the RFQ for the backend to have a well documented API. Almost all of the RFQ was about making an API.
In this case the indended user e.g. the parrent is using the API to get the data they are supposed to get. Thou using a different webb-app than the intended one from the city. I have a hard time seeing how the parent by accessing the same data they are supposed to get are doing any crime. The police investigation came to the same comclusion, and the internal investigation at stockholm city also came to this comclusion. That the police cited stockholms internal investigations i think is a nice little detail here.
Thou if the app would have given the parents access to data they ware not supposed to get over the API they situations might been an other. Now it's just the same information but persented in a user-friendlier way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2021 07:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128187</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29128187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agile and Scrum isn't the same thing. Even if Scrum in someways are agile. The "original" agile process, or the first videspread variant XP didn't mention any dailies. Scrum as such is much a way to adopt XP into a large cooperate environment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 05:55:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27947040</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27947040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27947040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Will Linux phones stay around this time?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can write most of your app in any language, it's only some UI and startup code that needs to be in the javalike languages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2021 05:04:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27012500</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27012500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27012500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or that the opensource hobby is much more longlived that something as temporary as an employer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407946</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I try to rememberf my local history view in the editor, it sometimes give a better overview.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 05:45:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26190169</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26190169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26190169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, more TomTom that openstreetmap, that was clearly show by the dataquality. Much less walk and vike information. If you don't drive a car all my sampling say OSM is way better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085967</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26085967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "tivoisation clause" also in many cases makes it against the law to use GPLv3 software in some consumer products, or parts of the products.
For example much embedded software that comes under radio transmission laws, much software in safety critical applications such as rail, or automotive use, software that have environmental impact at leat in the automotive industry. At leat in the way that automotive legislator reads the laws at the moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 05:25:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355651</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25355651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ECU is usually an Electronic Control Unit. Some OME's name one of there ECU's, Engine Control Unit to make stuff more complex. Not app manufacturers have Engine Control Unit or a Body Control Module. The electronic architecture of a Volkwagen, GM, Volvo or Tesla is very different. Hardly any of the ECU's have the same name.<p>It looks like Wikipedia agrees with me and in addition, the Engine Control Unit article state that they are usually called the Engine Control Module (ECM) to lower confusion.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_control_unit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_control_unit</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_control_unit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_control_unit</a><p>Different OEMs vary in architecture and naming. Making it a bit of a hassle working in a teir-1 with multiple customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 06:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516668</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That got my unix account suspended at university....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374591</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me: smr from 1995 ioccc, <a href="http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint" rel="nofollow">http://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr.hint</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374588</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21374588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "New Swiss studies claim 5G increases body temperature of insects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microwave oven is about 2.45 GHz, and I agree it's not optimal for heating water. But the middle of the free 2.4GHz to 2.5GHz band.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013156</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "New Swiss studies claim 5G increases body temperature of insects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really, there always is and been some kind of separations between the phones when they send data.<p>Most 2G systems used TDMA, so the phones inside a cell spitted the time between them. e.g. one phone could send almost all the time but 10 phones sent 1/10:th of the time each.<p>3G and laster used WCDMA (as some US system used even in 2G) for the radio. Where encryption of the data over a wide frequency span makes the signals mix in the air. But at the same time lowering the needed effect to get the signal across. With WCDMA you can send on an effect below the background noise and still get the signal across.<p>Lowering the effect of the radio is a big goal as it drains battery to send radio signals. An effect you can see it you travels in areas with bad receptions your phone battery drains significantly quicker. The best way to lower the radio exposure is to have loots of radio towers close to people. The alarmists scaring for cell-networks have made some problems in building enough towers, and by there fear of cell-radio transmission they increase the energy transmitted by the phones in there area.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 04:21:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013122</link><dc:creator>balp</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20013122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balp in "New Swiss studies claim 5G increases body temperature of insects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most, almost all animals are mostly water. About 2GHz you have a frequency that resonates with water, it's gets stopped by water, including rain. E.g. it's energy goes into the water, this is how the microwave operates.<p>For this reason it's traditionally considers useless as radio transmission. And turned into a global free frequency span. Making this radio space used by all kinds of devices that you have at home. Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. There is tons of research of how radio and other waves effect the human body.</p>
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