Hacker News: carlos22

New comment by carlos22 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

carlos22 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:29:29 +0000

And it has much less users, I would say its max 1-5% of X users.

New comment by carlos22 in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

carlos22 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:40:33 +0000

Its not. Especially when using US Cloud services. And people do that. Hell even government run schools us GDRP-violating software and force the students to BUY them. The law is nice, the reality is different...

New comment by carlos22 in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

carlos22 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:57:41 +0000

Not really sure what you mean, I saw people on 10mg THC wring crazy code in a crazy speed. Some of them need it to be able to focus and think clear. Drugs never work "one way" for everybody. And its not only people its many things that affect how they work (setting, culture, education etc.). And if you think man kind does not need any drugs (including alcohol), if you look at it from a historic perspective we might even need it.

New comment by carlos22 in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

carlos22 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:45:51 +0000

in the beginning yes, but VCs want to cash out eventually. Look at mongodb, redis and whatnot that did everything to get money at a certain point. For VCs open source is a vehicle to get relevant in a space you would never be relevant if you won't do open source.

New comment by carlos22 in "Facts about throwing good parties"

carlos22 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:57:36 +0000

Roughly the same is true for sexual interactions. Was posted on HN a while ago. And I think it makes perfect sense, if you look at Japan they have all that development and are like 10+ years ahead.

New comment by carlos22 in "FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

carlos22 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:01:21 +0000

Not ducks, but chickens, was very popular in Germany back in the day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Chicken

New comment by carlos22 in "Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite"

carlos22 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:08:21 +0000

That is the capitalism' playbook all along. Its just much faster because its just software. But they do it for everything all the time.

New comment by carlos22 in "Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)"

carlos22 — Mon, 26 May 2025 06:12:35 +0000

Especially in non common law countries like Germany or France. Not sure about drivers and other vendors but 3rd party ink or even patches to counters, hw modifications to "repair" (better to remove the planned obsolescence) are legal.

New comment by carlos22 in "Zig's comptime is bonkers good"

carlos22 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:45:41 +0000

Well C++ has a history of not really being convenient and makes it easy to shoot you in the foot.

New comment by carlos22 in "Windows 11 is amazing, I left Linux"

carlos22 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:10:29 +0000

I'm not so sure about which W11 hype they are talking about. But the numbers tell different, in Germany win10 was growing faster then 11.

New comment by carlos22 in "SumatraPDF Reader"

carlos22 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:21:55 +0000

Well Android 6 is like Windows 95 ;-)

New comment by carlos22 in "JMAP – a modern email open standard"

carlos22 — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:42:23 +0000

That's a bit harsh given all the problems SMTP and IMAP have. They are very dated and have some exotic "features". There is not a single mail client that gets everything right!

New comment by carlos22 in "Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative"

carlos22 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 08:08:31 +0000

Syncthing can do this and much more. Its the absolute best option to sync anything anywhere. It is very flexible, uses local connections, can only sync on wlan/certain wlans. The only thing that could be better is UX - for novel users its not so easy to understand. But people hanging out on HN should choose it as its just great!

New comment by carlos22 in "Spin – WebAssembly Framework"

carlos22 — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:11:30 +0000

It is also hard to contain the DLL/SO, every system has different mechanisms to ensure it can not access 'everything'. Wasm, as build for the browser, has it in its DNA.

New comment by carlos22 in "TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant"

carlos22 — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:40:14 +0000

Oh thats so not true. The Brandenburg (the state) Ministerpräsident (like Gouverneur) and his team really like to be a big car producing Bundesland. We have Baden-Württemberg (Mercedes, Porsche), Bayern (BMW, Audi) and Niedersachen (VW HQ) and to some extend also NRW (biggest EU plant of Ford) and Sachsen (VW plant). But there is not a single plant Brandenburg. So to be in the game is something they really wanna happen. Especially with something that hyped like tesla. But still there are rules, and you have to follow them.

New comment by carlos22 in "Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration"

carlos22 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:05:26 +0000

Thats true, Telegram has very good UX. But bullshit crypto with a closed server etc. :-(

New comment by carlos22 in "Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban"

carlos22 — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:56:57 +0000

Yes that helps but brings in other problems. For example many many security problems in the thousands of used npm packages of meteor and its dependencies.

New comment by carlos22 in "Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban"

carlos22 — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 08:39:05 +0000

Wekan uses meteor.js which is really one of the worst frameworks out there. It breaks on so many ocasions and has really bad OS support. Event he current maintainer kind of dislikes the framework... The worst part about metor is that it forces you to use MongoDB!

New comment by carlos22 in "Qt 5.15 Alpha"

carlos22 — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 17:40:45 +0000

Yes but they can add commercial and GPLv3 only modules. Like they did with Qt Charts.

New comment by carlos22 in "Open-source apps removed from Google Play Store due to donation links"

carlos22 — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:01:06 +0000

The question should be: When will society accept that capitalism always will kill any form of "don't be evil". There is no choice.