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New comment by cheschire in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

cheschire — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:23:39 +0000

“OwnCloud infinite scale” is written in Go. But ownCloud 10 is php.

I tried for weeks to get OCIS working but gave up and went back to ownCloud 10.

They’re committed to security updates for 10 but it’s a small company. I doubt it will get much attention sadly.

New comment by cheschire in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

cheschire — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:58:48 +0000

https://archive.is/0WxtP

New comment by cheschire in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

cheschire — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:33:56 +0000

In my experience the resistance seems to come from the sense of “waste” that comes from buying a specialized vehicle. Anecdotally the folks I talk to (all blue-collar “commoners”) are overly focused on buying the eierlegende Wollmilchsau[0] vehicle. They view specialized vehicles, especially luxury-priced specialized vehicles, as an unnecessary waste.

Does this relate with your experience? It sounds like your perspective is broader than mine and more informed.

Edit: oof two downvotes for trying to have a conversation and expand my understanding of a culture. Vielen dank.

0: definition for the English speakers: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eierlegende_Wollmilchsau

New comment by cheschire in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

cheschire — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:09:14 +0000

I mean, you can see how a kastenwagen nutzfahrzeug is a very different vehicle from a consumer mid-size pickup, right?

Sure, technically some would call the vehicle you linked a pickup, and technically German law still identifies the consumer pickup truck as a nutzfahrzeug instead of a PKW, but it doesn’t feel like you’re making a best effort to meet GP in the middle.

New comment by cheschire in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

cheschire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:04:49 +0000

Network storage does not handle the online/offline switching as transparently as OneDrive (or other cloud storage).

For large enterprises that old architecture you refer to means long lead times on network and storage outage notifications, and huge fallout if an outage window is blown.

And if the building network goes down, or if your storage servers are located off site because you’re too big for one building and the commercial internet goes down, etc etc

But it doesn’t have to be OneDrive. There are many other options. I run ownCloud 10 for my personal files. If I were a small to medium business, I would look hard at OCIS.

New comment by cheschire in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

cheschire — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:29:06 +0000

its shocking people don't realize you're being ironic

New comment by cheschire in "Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners"

cheschire — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:40 +0000

related from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314136

Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners

cheschire — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:40 +0000

Article URL: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/06/04/bricks-and-minifigs-salem-joshua-johnson-brandon-best-resignation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406328

Points: 24

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New comment by cheschire in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

cheschire — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:23:28 +0000

Don’t fall for the hype cycle. Just wait till the blogosphere confirms that it’s useful stuff.

I doubt you’ll feel so strongly in a month or two.

New comment by cheschire in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

cheschire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:38:18 +0000

Yep. Lived for multiple decades in the US and also in Europe.

But, as with most things, the US is too big for any one persons experience to be universally applicable.

As I said, it’s what most people express that I talk to. But that doesn’t mean I think it’s true for every area of the country.

New comment by cheschire in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

cheschire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:10:12 +0000

I must be the weirdo for not wanting to feel unsettled like that. Doesn’t reality have enough unsettling stuff? Why pile onto that?

Give me comedy. Oh how I miss the 90 minute comedy movie.

New comment by cheschire in "Chuwi Minibook X"

cheschire — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:10:34 +0000

50Hz is what European power runs at, as opposed to North American 60Hz. This had some correlation to the analog film frame rates being 25 fps in Europe and nearly 30 fps in America, though I’m not entirely sure what the cause was.

Nowadays it’s probably a performance / battery saving “feature” attempt.

New comment by cheschire in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:55:44 +0000

Zero mention of wait times in the US compared to other countries. Pretty sure that's the chief complaint in most countries that have free-ish healthcare.

New comment by cheschire in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:28:48 +0000

moving all of the fast and breaking all of the things

New comment by cheschire in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:19:18 +0000

Feels like a sign of the times that I expect half the comments here to be paid astroturfing about how amazing creatine is.

New comment by cheschire in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:05:10 +0000

Absolutely. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a conversation and halfway through a sentence I need to whip out AI to scratch the mental itch so I can continue with the conversation.

But prior to this I would rabbit hole. I would try desperately to remember some nuance, or I would not be able to move off a point until I got the validation I was looking for.

The worst is when speaking a foreign language and I hit some complex word in my native language that isn't present in my foreign lexicon. My brain just halts. It wants THAT word or phrase, not a 3 minute detour describing a whole concept.

AI has empowered me to move past these unnecessarily difficult speed bumps in my thinking.

New comment by cheschire in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:48:23 +0000

I’m interested what you believe the intent of your message to be. You’re talking to a COO that just raised money as if you’re mentoring someone about to approach VCs for the first time. Hugely patronizing attitudes often just get a pass here on HN, but what is your purpose for using one here?

New comment by cheschire in "Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:02:30 +0000

Not hotdog. But eight octopus recipe.

New comment by cheschire in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

cheschire — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:59:27 +0000

It’s also the day before SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 (both considered office products) fall out of support and have to be replaced by SharePoint subscription edition.

New comment by cheschire in "The dead economy theory"

cheschire — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:40:42 +0000

Buying back shares it sold at a lower price, right? The lifecycle of a share starts with the transfer of money to a company in exchange for a share. It ends with a buy back, ideally at a higher price.

But still, at the beginning it is a transfer into the company’s coffers.