Hacker News: baumschubser

New comment by baumschubser in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

baumschubser — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:52:25 +0000

i earned myself a notice in the local newspaper in 8th grade for hacking the public library. what i did: on the PC terminal right click, show source, edit the HTML to leave a "i was here" note, click save :)

New comment by baumschubser in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

baumschubser — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:02:26 +0000

To me, these reflections upon my aggressive and violent behavior in a game are much more impactful than games that put me into dilemma situations, where you are already presented with a nicely arranged moral problem in the moment.

These are two distinct techniques and I feel the latter almost always failed to impress me much, while the first one is where I feel caught, even shocked by myself and the cold-bloodiness to (virtually) follow any suggestion to kill.

New comment by baumschubser in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

baumschubser — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:09:48 +0000

I understand that you want the location of the photo and not the location of the user uploading that photo, but given that both are identical in many cases, getting the location with the regular geolocation API might be an acceptable solution that is also transparent to the user.

Show a location picker with the user's current location and the option to select an alternative location. Not as smooth as using EXIF data, but doable.

New comment by baumschubser in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

baumschubser — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:48:57 +0000

I am SO close to switch to Android to buy and properly use a Pebble watch. I love the hacker attitude, the retro tech, the quirkyness.

Seeing them introducing One More Thing on the other side of the spectrum, deep in big-corp, locked down, consumerist throwaway territory makes me reevaluate that.

I guess they might overestimate the fanboyness of their clientele. I hope enough people find this as laughable as I do and ignore this.

New comment by baumschubser in "Turtletoy"

baumschubser — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:44:37 +0000

I got an Amstrad PCW handed down to me from my dad as my first PC around the same time.

Booted always with disk 1 and that was Locoscript and learned typing on that thing.

When I discovered there is a second disk that boots you in some dark and hidden alternative mode (read: CP/M) I felt like a hacker.

Hidden inside this cave was the only program the manual mentioned in this section: Logo! I did not know that my PC could display anything except characters and it was. so. amazing. to see self-drawn lines on that thing.

New comment by baumschubser in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

baumschubser — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:36:07 +0000

I would say Telegram is communicating their level of encryption pretty good ("client-to-client" and "client-to-server" is a good way to avoid the ambiguity of e2e).

https://telegram.org/faq?setln=en#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-da...

New comment by baumschubser in "Show HN: Awesome J2ME"

baumschubser — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:03:41 +0000

Corecursive had an interesting episode with a good story. https://corecursive.com/mobile-ui-with-shai-almog/

New comment by baumschubser in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

baumschubser — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:22:22 +0000

Meanwhile in southern Germany.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bavaria-wants-to-move-to-Micros...

German state Bavaria goes all-in on Microsoft cloud

baumschubser — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:24:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bavaria-wants-to-move-to-Microsoft-cloud-by-year-end-11066929.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833582

Points: 34

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New comment by baumschubser in "Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse"

baumschubser — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:12:49 +0000

"All information should be free"

"Mistrust authority—promote decentralization"

("A hackers ethic" in Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, 1984)

I think it fits.

New comment by baumschubser in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

baumschubser — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:25:20 +0000

snibbetracker is an example of a C/SDL iOS app. <1MB from the app store which is really wild. https://apps.apple.com/de/app/snibbetracker/id1065797528

New comment by baumschubser in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

baumschubser — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:41:13 +0000

New comment by baumschubser in "GNU Midnight Commander"

baumschubser — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:00:14 +0000

In the Left/Right menu in mc, you can select FTP, SFTP and SSH URLs to browse. Is this not what you mean?

New comment by baumschubser in "Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code"

baumschubser — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:03:10 +0000

I’m all in for diagrams in discussing software! When there is no whiteboard, I literally draw in the air to explain my point. However, doing real, orthodox UML/BPMN requires everyone to understand the official notation, the difference e.g. between an „association“ and a „message flow“ (and then the differences between UML 1.4 and 2.0) etc. Do people really work in environments where all stakeholders have that kind of knowledge? Big corps I could imagine, probably where heavy machinery is involved. Aside from those „we build a cruise ship“ megaprojects I have the impression that people say UML and mean the much more approachable „squares connected by diamonds and labeled arrows“-diagrams.

Wondering how no-code tools like this handle those discrepancies between the super-detailed specs and the real world diagrams

New comment by baumschubser in "Nnd – a TUI debugger alternative to GDB, LLDB"

baumschubser — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:25:16 +0000

It does say so right in the readme:

> Linux only > x86 only > 64-bit only

New comment by baumschubser in "Writing C for Curl"

baumschubser — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:41:52 +0000

> The reality is that we spend FAR more time reading code than writing it. That is why readability is far more important than clever, line saving constructs.

In JS sometimes chain two or three inline-arrow-functions specifically for readability. When you read code, you often search for the needle of "the real thing" in a haystack of data formatting, API response prepping, localization, exception handling etc.

Sometimes those shorthand constructs help me to skip the not-so-relevant parts instead of mentally climbing down and up every sort and rename function.

That being said, I would not want this sentiment formalized in code guidelines :) And JS is not C except both have curly braces.

New comment by baumschubser in "A love letter to the CSV format"

baumschubser — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:30:34 +0000

Just last week I was bitten by a customer’s CSV that failed due to Windows‘ invisible BOM character that sometimes occurs at the beginning of unicode text files. The first column‘s title is not „First Title“ then but „&zwnbsp;First Title“. Imagine how long it takes before you catch that invisible character.

Aside from that: Yes, if CSV would be a intentional, defined format, most of us would do something different here and there. But it is not, it is more of a convention that came upon us. CSV „happened“, so to say. No need to defend it more passionate than the fact that we walk on two legs. It could have been much worse and it has surprising advantages against other things that were well thought out before we did it.

New comment by baumschubser in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

baumschubser — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:11:33 +0000

Angela Merkel was known to text during parliamentary sessions, sometimes with multiple phones, with colleagues about the ongoing debate.

Other anecdota: Nowadays it is only part of Green Party folklore from the past, but to knit in political sessions was a common sight. What is not so silly but just stupid is conservative delegates watching football during a sex work debate (2018, https://twitter.com/BoehmeMarco/status/1012001444302598146). In German Bundestag, parliamentary rules forbid to photograph "personal documents" (including phones and tablets) in a way that the content is recognizable.

New comment by baumschubser in "Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE"

baumschubser — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:42:02 +0000

OT, but for a moment I read that as netbook with Win 11 and got way more excited about that headline than I expected.

I want netbooks back I think.

New comment by baumschubser in "LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab"

baumschubser — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:35:23 +0000

At least the executable is still named "soffice"