Hacker News: ctm92

New comment by ctm92 in "Sandboxels"

ctm92 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:47:05 +0000

This looks a lot like Powdertoy

New comment by ctm92 in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

ctm92 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:31:03 +0000

Kids grow up with it and know everything way before the grown ups. They can't even stand up but already know how to unlock an iPhone (back in the days when there was slide to unlock)

New comment by ctm92 in "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"

ctm92 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:38:50 +0000

He usually does the videos in both german and english

New comment by ctm92 in "Helm 4.0"

ctm92 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:40:34 +0000

Kustomize with ArgoCD is my go to

New comment by ctm92 in "Laptops with Stickers"

ctm92 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:30:07 +0000

did you manage to clean it up? Sometimes stickers leave permanent discoloration of the case, especially on aluminium Macbooks

New comment by ctm92 in "Laptops with Stickers"

ctm92 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:28:06 +0000

It's all fun until you want to sell the machine and the stickers discolored the case. Some stickers adhesive seem to react with the coating on MacBooks and permanently discolor them.

Just be aware of that :)

New comment by ctm92 in "XSLT RIP"

ctm92 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:51:23 +0000

Recently had to grab content from a page that was layouted with tables. Just nested tables over tables, not even ids for the elements.

New comment by ctm92 in "Carice TC2 – A non-digital electric car"

ctm92 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:53:59 +0000

I thought this was removed due to abuse taking place with such phones

New comment by ctm92 in "Recall for Linux"

ctm92 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:50:39 +0000

It's an actual useful feature, it's just the tracking by microsoft that makes it meh.

I also track my activities with ActivityWatch (Open Source, https://activitywatch.net/) to remember missing time entries for billing clients. It's all local, so perfectly fine.

New comment by ctm92 in "You already have a Git server"

ctm92 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:29:39 +0000

you don't even need ssh, you can also just store the remote on a local or remote file system

New comment by ctm92 in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

ctm92 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:07:02 +0000

We are using hetzner-k3s, super solid and easy to use. I love that it also utilizes the Hetzner Cloud Controllers to utilize the native Hetzner load balancers, volumes, network

New comment by ctm92 in "Keyhive – Local-first access control"

ctm92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:18:04 +0000

That callout card on the top of the site really messed with my brain with it being slightly tilted

New comment by ctm92 in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

ctm92 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:40:05 +0000

Slack is doing questinonable things anyways. When we migrated away from it to Teams, I wanted to export the workspace to be able to look stuff up in case we need it. We are a very small company and had the smallest plan, no chance, export only with the expensive plan.

Since I'm located in europe, I thought of just doing a data request based on GDPR (at least for my messages). They declined it and referred me to my organization, since we are in charge of fulfilling such requests (how would we even do that if there's no functionality for it?). Absolutely ridiculous.

New comment by ctm92 in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

ctm92 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:21:40 +0000

it's not about CO2 emissions, it's about plastic waste that eventually degrades to microplastics

New comment by ctm92 in "Buypass discontinues issuance of TLS/SSL certificates"

ctm92 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:38:38 +0000

In Chrome you can click on the icon next to the address and then on security, it will show the name of the company the cert is issued to. Quite hidden though.

But yeah, Safari is always something i have trouble finding the cert, they are really hiding it.

New comment by ctm92 in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

ctm92 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:48:44 +0000

I am so happy to learn that I'm not the only one experiencing these issues! For me it was so bad at some times that the MacBook woke up in my backpack and somehow did some really CPU intense tasks, leading to the fan going full speed. When taking it out it was almost too hot to touch, I was scared at times that it would break or set the bag on fire.

New comment by ctm92 in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

ctm92 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:32:09 +0000

A tender is the cart that contains the coal in steam locomotives, so it's a burden you can't get rid of. Not sure if my wife would appreciate that (if I had one)

New comment by ctm92 in "Telefónica DE shifts VMware support to Spinnaker due to cost"

ctm92 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:35:26 +0000

Telefonica is the one with the worst coverage of the big threes. But they allow every Discount provider to use their network, so cost-sensitive people will mostly be on their network. Telekom and Vodafone have some discounters on their network, but it's not much more than a handful.

New comment by ctm92 in "Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”"

ctm92 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:25:15 +0000

When I see a website advertising a product without actual screenshots, I usually assume the product is absolute garbage. But that's for commercial products normally, not free software like Thunderbird

New comment by ctm92 in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

ctm92 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 06:07:36 +0000

They could publicly execute cute puppies, live stream this and force the users to watch it. They still won't lose significant user base.

I've given up on trying to get my non-tech network to use some other messenger, it's just too exhausting and wasted time.