Hacker News: digital_voodoo

New comment by digital_voodoo in "The Slow Collapse of MkDocs"

digital_voodoo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:27:02 +0000

As a non-technical person (not a dev, not a SWE, just a curious and selftaught tinkerer), I only want my _local_ markdown files to render as a beautiful - or at least, clean - webpage, to ease reading and sharing. No Github involved, no contorsionism needed. Just local md files. It should not be that complicated, at least that's what I felt.

Those were the only requirements that made me settle with Material MkDocs, and that are driving me towards the fork MaterialX. The comparison the latter makes with Zensical [0] is _exactly_ how I feel it (again, as a non-technical person).

[0] https://github.com/jaywhj/mkdocs-materialx#differences-from-...

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Opencloud – An alternative to Nextcloud written in Go"

digital_voodoo — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:31:17 +0000

Nice to read these points/warnings;)

The product seems more 'focused' than Nextcloud, for sure.

But their docker choices are quite opinionated: no longer than yesterday I've tried (once again!) to make it run, and the fact that I have Caddy + Authelia in front of seems to be rather detrimental. I dropped the ball, and will try again in a few weeks or months.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "RSS is awesome"

digital_voodoo — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:08:59 +0000

Same here, tried both and sticked with Miniflux that seems on the lighter side. I don't really need the web interface or an app, because I channel everything towards a Telegram bot, where I read the feeds: a glance at the title, "Instant View" or long read if needed.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Study mode"

digital_voodoo — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:00:26 +0000

At a system level, this totally makes sense. But as an individual learner, what would be my motivation to do so, when I can "just" actually learn my subject and move on?

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Fintech dystopia"

digital_voodoo — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:14:29 +0000

It's high fees, burdensome sanctions/AML checks (especially if the said country has been recently or is still on a GAFI list), plus the suboptimization of the core banking systems regarding international transfers, that make the whole things happen in weeks (or sometimes never happen if the end beneficiary doesn't start pinging, emailing or phoning its bank every now and then). The whole unreliability/unpredictability of the thing makes it undesirable for regular operations.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS"

digital_voodoo — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:22:57 +0000

Oh, is there a way to switch to the beta channel? I love and use Swinsian, I know they're actively working on the next major version, but can't get interim ones.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

digital_voodoo — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:50:40 +0000

> unceasing growth

As someone with a finance background and job, this deeply annoys and irritates me. Even made me quit a market finance path for something more realistic. As the saying goes, "you can't have infinite growth on a finite planet". I don't know why we need to explain something so obvious to people who (1) have the power to make and (2) are making decisions with large scale impact, every minute. Unless there's something (pure evil, maybe?) I haven't uncovered yet.

New comment by digital_voodoo in ""Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers""

digital_voodoo — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:38:10 +0000

A customer shouldn't be the one going through such hops in order to "satisfy" a provider who can't bother to accept a widely used mean of payment

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Please just stop saying "just" (2019)"

digital_voodoo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:39:37 +0000

Amen to this (no religious meaning implied)

I'm a self-taught tech savvy, I'm aware of where I come from and how far I've come. And I'm deeply annoyed when I see this almost condescending expression in various tech communities online.

Very reassured that I'm not the only one feeling that way.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

digital_voodoo — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:15:23 +0000

Interestingly, password syncing is one of the most reliable things I've seen Firefox doing during the last years. If you don't even have to think about it, that means it "just works"

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys"

digital_voodoo — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:03:42 +0000

Not a fabricated memory, I've noticed the same trend. And I thought, maybe it's because being controversial is the norm lately. I hoped HN would be immune to it though.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled"

digital_voodoo — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:27:24 +0000

Worth mentioning that Syncthing doesn't have a cloud part, while DB does. That said, I've been running it since the very beginning, even before it became public/known, and it had never failed me so far.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?"

digital_voodoo — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 13:45:14 +0000

Yes.

Thanks to Firefox + uBlock Origin, _the name of the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX_ name has completely vanished from my everyday browsing.

I can do the same for ChatGPT. Or any other thing or topic that swtiches from initial hotness to constant noise.

edit: it is so effective that if even affects my own commenting here. I had to replace its actual name by "he name of the CEO of Twitter and SpaceX" to be able to post my reply.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?"

digital_voodoo — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 13:41:54 +0000

Yes.

Thanks to Firefox + uBlock Origin, "Elon Musk" has vanished from my everyday browsing.

I can do the same for ChatGPT. Or any other thing or topic that swtiches from initial hotness to constant noise.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "How to disagree with someone more powerful than you (2016)"

digital_voodoo — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 15:51:21 +0000

I feel you, totally. I also feel the same about many many other subjets, revolving around 'mordern' corporate culture.

Take recruitment, for example: if the candidate has the required degrees, experience and skills, recruiters or companies don't need to go through loads of interviews, tests, forms to fill, and so on. Candidates don't need to play guess games, find out what exact word or sysnonym they're expected to say/write, resort to sacrifice to the gods /s, etc.

Yet that's where we are right now.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?"

digital_voodoo — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 10:44:22 +0000

Something that can't be solved by PUID/PGID in the command or in Compose?

New comment by digital_voodoo in "No Fixed Address Bank Account"

digital_voodoo — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:29:00 +0000

Regulator here, previously in the industry. I'm utterly appalled at how much 'useless'(1) info banks require to provide a service as simple as opening an account. neither the Rgulator/Supervisor nor AML bodies require them to collect so much before providing so little. Most of the time, regulation = proportionality.

(1) unless they do data mining, but that's another story.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Foobar2000"

digital_voodoo — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 17:27:18 +0000

That was and still is the main way I use music players. On any (new) platform I always look for the one that provides such possibilities.

I was a Winamp guy on Windows, now I'm using Swinsian on Mac and both GoneMad and PlayerPro on Android.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying"

digital_voodoo — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:16:22 +0000

Are you sure about the re-uploading part? I've had an issue like that last week, and am currently stuck with my mails locally, not able to 'put them back' to the IMAP server. Not Gmail though.

New comment by digital_voodoo in "Summary of Atomic Habits"

digital_voodoo — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 06:34:40 +0000

I feel exactly the way you described. And considering that I'm on a self-improvement track and have a few books like this to read, adding the day to day life (job, family, other skills, etc) to the mix makes me wonder what's the best way to ingurgitate 250 pages or 11 hours-long audio. Especially when you quickly notice the (almost) same thing is being repeated over and over.

Summaries like this one are a godsend, I'll look for the same for other similar books.