Hacker News: bergie

New comment by bergie in "Ask HN: What did you replace pocket with?"

bergie — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:07:03 +0000

Wallabag

New comment by bergie in "We are entering a period of overlapping crises"

bergie — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:07:29 +0000

Crisis of the 3rd Century is another big Eurocentric one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century

New comment by bergie in "A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over"

bergie — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:28:43 +0000

IoT did happen, too. You just won't notice it unless you work in specific industries. Just couple weeks ago I chatted with a dairy farmer who had crazy amount of telemetry from each of their cows.

New comment by bergie in "Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry"

bergie — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:32:50 +0000

That fanfic ending of the Bayeux Tapestry in Reading is an obvious Victorian fabrication. The original depicts the c-base space station crashing on earth. It can be viewed in Berlin:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/46619220061/

New comment by bergie in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

bergie — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:50:24 +0000

Having your own solar can be "too cheap to meter", though it is definitely a feast and a famine kind of a thing.

We had batteries full and were spending electricity on all kinds of luxury things like whole-day internet and desalination for several weeks, and now that it has rained for over a week we're starting to turn non-critical systems off to keep the lights on.

New comment by bergie in "Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage"

bergie — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:03:26 +0000

What was the classic joke on this one?

"What happens if we train these people and they leave?" "What happens if you don't and they stay"

New comment by bergie in "German Hospitals Prepare for War, Drones and Mass Casualties"

bergie — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:15:18 +0000

They've been helping Ukraine defend itself. Every Russian (and Ukrainian) death in this "special military operation" is on Putin.

New comment by bergie in "OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework"

bergie — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:10:23 +0000

I'm simply using rngit work documents for this. In planning sessions (or sometimes by hand) I produce working a work document.

Then for implementation, I tell Pi to read the appropriate work document. Pi can also post updates as we go along.

https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html#work-documents

New comment by bergie in "One Phone. One Computer"

bergie — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:30:44 +0000

That's basically Samsung DeX, or the other Android desktop systems that started appearing recently.

New comment by bergie in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

bergie — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:51:45 +0000

> Sadly, in CA, charging at home (minimum $0.26/kWh) isn't that much cheaper.

Just get some solar panels. We live on a sailboat and charge the electric outboard of our dinghy (kind of our "car", this is what we use to go to stores etc) with the surplus on sunny days.

Solar panels are ridiculously cheap now.

New comment by bergie in "I changed my license"

bergie — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:49:05 +0000

Fair point, but "making billionaires multi-billionaires" didn't have quite the same ring to it :-D

(I'm the author of that blog post)

I Changed My License

bergie — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:32:42 +0000

Article URL: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574441

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bergie in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

bergie — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:54:18 +0000

I'm nowadays hosting my projects on rngit (git over Reticulum). But also pushing a mirror to GitHub via a cronjob to increase visibility.

https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html

I don't think moving to another forge is much of a solution, at most it is buying a bit of time. We've seen this happen with SourceForge, with Tigris, and now with GitHub.

New comment by bergie in "50k Boat Names"

bergie — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:01:04 +0000

My favorite so far was a motorboat named "Maday". Imagine hailing them on VHF...

New comment by bergie in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

bergie — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:56:29 +0000

In Europe flying is subsidised and ridiculously cheap. That would need to end.

Further than removing subsidies, if flight cost would include its negative externalities, few would fly.

New comment by bergie in "Samsung reveals Galaxy Z Fold 8 that will compete with the iPhone Ultra"

bergie — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:40:38 +0000

They did match it to the _released_ Pixel

New comment by bergie in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

bergie — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:49:35 +0000

Yes, on a boat you have to wash the panels periodically to get rid of salt and bird poop.

The latter can be a surprisingly big problem. Southeast of Galapagos we had a booby sit on our spreader for a day, and it managed to cover our two 100Wp panels in the bow almost completely.

New comment by bergie in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

bergie — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:22:49 +0000

Git over Reticulum is another option. You get git, issue tracking (work documents), release management

https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html

Distributed Development with Reticulum

bergie — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:03:35 +0000

Article URL: https://reticulum.network/manual/distributed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003278

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bergie in "Ask HN: What are your personal websites?"

bergie — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:56:07 +0000

http://bergie.iki.fi is my personal site. Has been updated quite sporadically, but has a post history stretching back to late 90s.

https://lille-oe.de updates whenever we go sailing.