Hacker News: doctor_lollipop

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "The Who Cares Era"

doctor_lollipop — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:58:11 +0000

This, very much.

My employer has no bonus system whatsoever for regular employees so even if I did put in extra effort and the company made more profits, all of that would go into management's pockets.

And as you said, even if I miraculously made 20% more, I still wouldn't be able to afford a house.

So why bother? Of all the things I can do with my energy, making management richer is very much not a priority.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "I figured out how DMARC works, and it almost broke me"

doctor_lollipop — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:45:46 +0000

In my case, sending to Gmail works via IPv4 but they reject anything I send via IPv6. That was fun to figure out.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "SSH over HTTPS"

doctor_lollipop — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 11:34:29 +0000

Personally I use https://github.com/jpillora/chisel as a reverse Proxy through nginx, then connect through it using OpenVPN to bypass a similarly restrictive firewall. But this discussion is filled with other, similar hacks, I may have to try some of them.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans"

doctor_lollipop — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:07:32 +0000

FYI, you can use oathtool on your PC for 2FA, you don't need custom apps for that.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry"

doctor_lollipop — Wed, 03 May 2023 21:43:06 +0000

... or about needing a Microsoft (GitHub) account to publish Rust packages (on crates.io).

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton"

doctor_lollipop — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:17:47 +0000

My operator terminated its 2G network last year, forcing me to upgrade to a 3G phone. Let's hope your operator won't do the same thing.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades"

doctor_lollipop — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:13:22 +0000

> There are ath9k wifi cards with open source firmware

I use these almost exclusively for laptops and routers, I keep ripping Intel wifi cards out of laptops and replacing them with ath9k cards.

Ever since I started doing so things "just work" - no more random disconnects, lockups, need-to-reboot-to-get-wifi-working-again etc.

Technology can be so nice if it's open.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game"

doctor_lollipop — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:26:00 +0000

Hard to tell. It's Steam that refuses the refund, no idea how the decision is made. Apparently others managed to eventually get the refund by trying again and again; maybe I gave up too soon.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game"

doctor_lollipop — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:31:46 +0000

I'm still upset with them: A couple of years ago, Linux support for Rust (the game) was discontinued and the publisher said that all Linux users would get a refund on Steam, regardless of play time. I tried several times but all my attempts at getting a refund were rejected.

Not much you can do - if the machines decide you don't get a refund, well, then you don't. I haven't bought anything on Steam since.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "The integrated timetable of Switzerland"

doctor_lollipop — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:45:00 +0000

Thanks, that clarifies things. The number makes sense as a rough average (which would make sense for the taxes), calling it a 'minimum' was what confused me a little.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "The integrated timetable of Switzerland"

doctor_lollipop — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:53:38 +0000

Would you mind sharing your numbers? I recently tried to figure out how much my car costs me but it was less than half of your 10'000, so I'm wondering - either I missed something, or you have a rather expensive car.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "We will never have enough software developers (2020)"

doctor_lollipop — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:42:35 +0000

How does the language matter? I write software (mostly) in C for a living (the simple man's "embedded" as in "Linux on an ARM board", not the "bits on a micro controller" kind) and I made sure we use test-driven development with proper version control and CI.

We have been trying to use Rust for some new projects but cross-compiling is still much more hit-and-miss with Rust (i.e. third-party libraries) than it is with C. I imagine it would be worse for proper embedded projects.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux"

doctor_lollipop — Mon, 02 May 2022 11:37:43 +0000

I'm still using my N9, great little phone...

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)"

doctor_lollipop — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 10:59:50 +0000

In Switzerland you can lose your driver's license when cycling drunk. I think I prefer your system.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "A career ending mistake"

doctor_lollipop — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:27:14 +0000

> I changed careers at 40+ years old. I'm very happy that I did it.

Would you mind sharing a bit more about that? I.e. what did you do before, what are you doing now?

I ask because I'm looking for inspiration; my current job is comfortable and okayish but not leading anywhere. And I really dislike the company that I work for.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority"

doctor_lollipop — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:36:18 +0000

> No cloud services, no Office 365 or Google Workspace

I'm so looking forward to that.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy"

doctor_lollipop — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:49:22 +0000

I wouldn't say that it's completely transparent, at least not when you use multiple clients (eg. a PC and a phone). I frequently get messages that some device cannot decrypt.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "XMPP: The secure communication protocol that respects privacy"

doctor_lollipop — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:03:38 +0000

Not the OP, but I also keep running into issues with OMEMO. It's bad enough that I usually just disable it for all conversations.

My problem is that I'm using several clients (mostly profanity on several machines, occasionally dino) for the same account and it seems that my contacts keep forgetting some of my OMEMO keys, so I often receive messages that some of my clients can't decrypt and I have to start multiple machines just to find one that can decrypt the message.

So far I haven't figured out how to debug this.

New comment by doctor_lollipop in "Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil"

doctor_lollipop — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:57:53 +0000

Not the OP, but no, I have not. Nor do I intend to. Ever.