Hacker News: derkades

New comment by derkades in "Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished"

derkades — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:06:33 +0000

I agree with you, but unfortunately it seems big tech can already scrape people's data without permission and without paying license fees.

New comment by derkades in "Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane"

derkades — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:30:04 +0000

Even without NAT, the same hole punching techniques must be used for IPv6 since there is usually a firewall blocking inbound traffic. Only in CGNAT type scenarios where the network behind NAT is still "WAN" will be helped by IPv6.

New comment by derkades in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

derkades — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:15:30 +0000

Instead of the client sending the user's age to the server, why not make the server send a minimum age to the client? The client is welcome to block content without disclosing personal information to the server. This is as secure as sending an unverified age to the servet.

New comment by derkades in "The lost joy of music piracy"

derkades — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:10:34 +0000

When downloading a torrent you usually also start seeding (distributing).

New comment by derkades in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

derkades — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:00:42 +0000

Existing hardware can fail. 1.25x is very reasonable given the current insanity.

New comment by derkades in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

derkades — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:43:54 +0000

ctrl+click works too!

New comment by derkades in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

derkades — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:56:28 +0000

This AI generated article is not about vulnerabilities in KeePass, rather about malicious KeePass clones.

New comment by derkades in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

derkades — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:08:43 +0000

A genuine Pixel battery costs €38 from iFixit

New comment by derkades in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

derkades — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:36:19 +0000

The part about stories is not true. When sending a story you can choose who to send it to. To make it easier you can even put people in groups

New comment by derkades in "Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks"

derkades — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:42:49 +0000

The US company only does software development, hosting is still done by Logius in NL.

New comment by derkades in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

derkades — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:48:34 +0000

K-9 mail (aka Thunderbird) is a nice 12MB, 70MB installed.

New comment by derkades in "VSCodium – open-source Binaries of VSCode"

derkades — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:30:04 +0000

This has been my editor for a long while. I can highly recommend it; it is VSCode but without the bullshit.

It should be noted that VSCodium uses a different marketplace for extensions. This third party marketplace does not have (obviously) proprietary Microsoft extensions. Some extensions can still be installed by downloading the .vsix from the official marketplace, but other extensions actively block being installed on "non-official" VSCode.

For Python I recommend basedpyright as an alternative to Pyright/Pylance.

New comment by derkades in "Linux kernel security work"

derkades — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:12:48 +0000

Huh, how do you unintentionally ship a Linux kernel in a container image? The common base images definitely don't contain the kernel.

New comment by derkades in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

derkades — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:51:25 +0000

Do you know about BOSL2? It can do rounding or chamfering very easily.

cuboid([20, 20, 30], chamfer=5);

New comment by derkades in "Backing up Spotify"

derkades — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:31:16 +0000

It is not hard. But please don't misuse it and ruin the fun for everyone. It is nice to be able to use the music relatively easily for hobby projects. My music server has functionality to play tracks from Spotify this way:

https://codeberg.org/raphson/music-server/src/branch/main/sp...

New comment by derkades in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

derkades — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:19:09 +0000

KDE has Super+.

New comment by derkades in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

derkades — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:58:47 +0000

Isn't that the SSD controller's job?

New comment by derkades in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

derkades — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:13:27 +0000

ING? You can choose to receive a hardware device instead of using the app.

New comment by derkades in "Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release"

derkades — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:27:39 +0000

Czkwaka is another good tool for finding duplicate photos

New comment by derkades in "A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser"

derkades — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:48:18 +0000

Cool idea and well designed model. Nice!