Hacker News: chopin

New comment by chopin in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

chopin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:47:30 +0000

It presumably runs in a gazillion scripts.

New comment by chopin in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

chopin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:51:03 +0000

That's an illusion. Two days of location data and you can pin down the owner pretty well.

I thought about getting a SIM when Germany was about to introduce ID requirements. I quickly realized this being a moot point.

New comment by chopin in "India's surprise baby bust"

chopin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:56:31 +0000

Where in Europe should that be? I live in Germany and for example Stuttgart has a shortage of nurses because they can't afford living in a 1 hour commuting range (one way).

New comment by chopin in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

chopin — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:53:38 +0000

Same experience with Australia. Japan is very painless, as well. Friendly, helpful staff on both.

New comment by chopin in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

chopin — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:32:00 +0000

How can the third party not know I visited pronhub when pronhub verifies a token with the third party handed to me by the third party?

This may protect my privacy towards pronhub if I am not logged in. But not my privacy against the third party where I need to be logged in and who likely knows my real identity.

New comment by chopin in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

chopin — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:20:14 +0000

So, the trusted third party gets to know which sites you visit?

New comment by chopin in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

chopin — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:11:28 +0000

I just don't allow outbound connections for our HP printer.

New comment by chopin in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

chopin — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:49:04 +0000

Which options are faster?

New comment by chopin in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

chopin — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:24:44 +0000

Does Thunderbird have rules? I searched for this and didn't find them.

New comment by chopin in "Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack""

chopin — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:00:33 +0000

How do the mirrors get upgraded?

New comment by chopin in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

chopin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:08:18 +0000

Internal structures often require support. This makes postprocessing necessary which kills your margin or makes the part expensive.

New comment by chopin in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

chopin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:31:50 +0000

One can call Windows support? And get help?

New comment by chopin in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

chopin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:45:24 +0000

I just have been quoted 40k for an installation. So, no.

New comment by chopin in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

chopin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:43:41 +0000

Heat pump installations are far too expensive in Germany to make any sense economically.

New comment by chopin in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

chopin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:32:16 +0000

Rooftop solar is prohibitively expensive in Germany. My installation would only cover its costs if electricity becomes so expensive that it would lead to complete economic collapse.

New comment by chopin in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

chopin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:26:37 +0000

That's prohibitively expensive. And not possible everywhere. And Germany's grid is not ready for heating with electricity.

New comment by chopin in "A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging"

chopin — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:45:34 +0000

The main constituent of paper is wood, which consists of hydrocarbons.

New comment by chopin in "FreeCAD v1.1"

chopin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:42:14 +0000

I started with FreeCAD a couple of weeks ago. Parametric modeling is pretty hard and a couple of things are pretty hard to understand (no easy reuse of sketches between parts for one, one cannot extrude a binder is another one).

However, without it fine-tuning models for technical use would be untenable.

Unfortunately , refactoring is nightmare stuff.

New comment by chopin in "Refusal to Give the Govt Passwords to Personal Mobile Criminalized in Hong Kong"

chopin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:15:08 +0000

Isn't that law in the UK as well?

China takes the west as role model...

New comment by chopin in "Java is fast, code might not be"

chopin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:43:54 +0000

I worked with ORM (EclipseLink) and used SQL just fine.

When using JDBC I found myself quickly in implementing a poor mans ORM.