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New comment by berlam in "The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise"

berlam — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:39:00 +0000

> In July 2023 there was a fight between David and Fredrik which resulted in Fredrik being turned onto his back and left to die, in an area where his plight would not have been visible from the house or the tortoise viewing area. Fortunately he was spotted in time by visiting vet Joe Hollins, who turned Fredrik the right way up with no long-lasting ill effects. This is apparently not the first time recently when a tortoise has been turned over, though in the other occasion it was David who finished the wrong way up, not after a fight but after an unsuccessful attempt to mount Emma for mating purposes…

His companions. Never thought tortoises have such a wild life.

https://sainthelenaisland.info/jonathan.htm

Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models

berlam — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04124

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358753

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by berlam in "International YouTube Premium price increase underway in these countries"

berlam — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:19:40 +0000

They will also end the YouTube Music early adopter price benefit for long-time customers.

> Update on the price of the YouTube Music Premium single tariff. Hi, thank you for joining and choosing to become a member. YouTube Music Premium offers entertainment without interruptions - with more than 100 million songs and other content. In order to continue offering you premium services and features, we're raising the price of the YouTube Music Premium plan to €10.99 per month. We made the decision to increase the price after careful consideration. It will allow us to continue to improve Music Premium membership and properly support the artists whose music you listen to. As a valued member, you currently pay less for Music Premium than new subscribers. As a thank you for your loyalty, you will receive at least three additional months at the current price before the price increase for your plan goes into effect. The price won't increase until after your April billing date. But don't worry, we'll notify you again at least 30 days before the new price goes into effect. We would be happy if you continue to be a member. You can cancel your membership at any time here. Thank you for choosing YouTube Music Premium. Best regards The YouTube Music Team

TypeScript Without Transpilation (2021)

berlam — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:19:12 +0000

Article URL: https://incrementalelm.com/typescript-without-transpilation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086686

Points: 44

# Comments: 43

New comment by berlam in "How to leave Google and why"

berlam — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:35:24 +0000

> However, approximately 52.5 million non-public profile fields were exposed to alternative apps that requested access to individuals Google+ ID, and created access to other profiles that had shared information with each other.

It's not on the same level as CA but should remind you that even a corporation like Google can have such data breaches, regardless of whether they were gaps or poor design. The investigations were initiated only after the CA scandal. Would the gap have been discovered in time without CA? Who knows. Even if it is assumed that this gap was not exploited, 52 million affected users is not a small number.

New comment by berlam in "How to leave Google and why"

berlam — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:24:24 +0000

I agree, but would like to remind you of the Google+ data scandal in 2018, which did not increase my confidence in Google's security measures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach

New comment by berlam in "Jelly 2, World's Smallest Android 10 4G Smartphone"

berlam — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:44:35 +0000

Actually I have the Jelly Pro and am taking it almost every time with me while doing sports wrapped around my upper arm. It is lightweight and I can have and use (almost) any android app on it. It is just nice to have a tiny device for playing music from Google Play Music/ YouTube Music and to have GPS tracking in that format. But I can only recommend it as a second or third device... for browsing, navigating or texting the display is too small and the apps are not optimized for that format.

New comment by berlam in "New Pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions"

berlam — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:30:09 +0000

I am a long-time user of GSuite/ Google Apps for Work and have a custom domain with accounts for my family members. I updated my free tier account from 2009 to a paid subscription in 2014, which I must say now, was a big mistake. The biggest drawback I see currently is that some features will never come to GSuite, like family subscriptions for Google Play Music and sharing of purchased apps and movies. Every purchase made with my GSuite account will be gone, if I choose to cancel my subscription and decide to go somewhere else. This is what really bothers me currently and prevents me from switching to another service. It would be fair, to have a GSuite-to-Free account functionality somewhere for the Google Play purchases. I would also be happy, if they would keep a cheaper GSuite subscription for families with less features but all the family sharing options.

Beside that, I am not completely sure, if it is legal to have purchases/ paid digital goods linked to a monthly/annually paid account.

New comment by berlam in "Wine 3.0 Released"

berlam — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:27:53 +0000

On my list is a GPU passthrough setup, which is described in following blog post [1] (with screenshots). I did not set up it yet, but I will try it out next time I build up my home desktop from ground up.

[1] https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/

New comment by berlam in "Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS"

berlam — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:20:21 +0000

Interesting setup. I found myself looking for a static site deployer a few months back and decided to build my static website with hugo [1] and deploy it from my private GitHub repository with the help of github-bucket [2]. So far it is working fine and I can even move away from GitHub and even AWS with just a few modifications.

The c9 setup is really nice for online page editing and to compile the static pages. I am not quite sure, if I would really use it in my current workflow.

Disclaimer: I am the author of github-bucket.

[1] https://gohugo.io/ [2] https://github.com/berlam/github-bucket

ThinkPad 25 Anniversary Edition

berlam — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lenovopartner.com/documents/197/22487027/notebook4.png/f72cb2b5-d68f-4b1f-ac71-c7c33a8f0c22?t=1502958352000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237172

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by berlam in "Connecting a Git Repository to Amazon S3 and AWS Services"

berlam — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:12:49 +0000

A few months back I created a tool [0], which deploys static content from GitHub to S3, with GitHub push events and AWS Lambda. This was more like a PoC but worked quite well for me. During development I was very happy with the usage of jgit, which allowed me to stay in the Java stack (even if it is not the perfect choice for Lambda imho). There was and still is much on the ToDo list. If you are interested in the sources, you can take a look at it.

[0] https://github.com/berlam/github-bucket

New comment by berlam in "Moom removed from sale due to patent violation claim"

berlam — Mon, 15 May 2017 06:32:06 +0000

Years ago, when OS X was my preferred platform, I was really impressed from the fast and really good support of "Many Tricks". Always felt like I was supporting one of my colleagues emerging side projects and I felt quite good as he was actual taking customer care serious by trying to solve things in direct communication and not just redirecting to a FAQ or similar.

I just want to say thank you, Rob! Keep fighting the trolls.

New comment by berlam in "GitHub is down"

berlam — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:44:18 +0000

Yes, that's right, for sure. You just need enough people talking about something in a scary enough way to then become apprehensive about it yourself. Once that happens it’s very easy not only to worry, but also to tie all minor negative events that could happen at any given time to the superstition.

New comment by berlam in "GitHub is down"

berlam — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:20:44 +0000

There it is again: Friday the 13th. Well, it's time for home and side projects.

New comment by berlam in "Lessons Learned While Building Microservices"

berlam — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:43:04 +0000

If you prefer books, than I can recommend "Building Microservices" from Sam Newman [1]. You get some basic information and pitfalls you should avoid when building microservices.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033158.do

New comment by berlam in "The Dropbox hack is real"

berlam — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:10:29 +0000

This feature is called sub-addressing, but it is also known as plus addressing or tagged addressing.

I also use it but some services do not allow the plus sign in their registration form. Very frustrating.

New comment by berlam in "The Dropbox hack is real"

berlam — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:53:41 +0000

I also actively watch my unique-per-service email addresses but have not started with a list, yet. Might be a good idea.