Hacker News: efdee

New comment by efdee in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

efdee — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:26:05 +0000

I've been with DO since checks mailbox 2014. Honestly never experienced an unannounced outage.

New comment by efdee in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

efdee — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:19:55 +0000

I can only speak for my countries, but almost all payment terminals now have the option to scan a QR code with your mobile banking app to pay using Wero.

New comment by efdee in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

efdee — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:18:47 +0000

If they haven't been redirected to their bank, verifying with their mobile banking app using a QR code will not work.

New comment by efdee in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

efdee — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:11:30 +0000

That's why you can mark any WiFi connection as "metered" in Windows.

New comment by efdee in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

efdee — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:40:41 +0000

Surely it will wait when the connection is marked as metered.

New comment by efdee in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

efdee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:53:46 +0000

That is about production. The story that you don't get from these graphs is that Belgium is highly dependent on imported energy because the production is just too low.

New comment by efdee in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

efdee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:50:43 +0000

Strictly: Engie was forced by a previous Belgian government to decommision the nuclear power plants.

New comment by efdee in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

efdee — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:38:49 +0000

If it's not working on Chrome nor Firefox, it's safe to say it's incompatible with almost all browsers.

New comment by efdee in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

efdee — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:54:58 +0000

Already banned in several European countries, mostly because of the betting on political events.

New comment by efdee in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

efdee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:46:49 +0000

In his defense, he built the entire language :-)

New comment by efdee in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

efdee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:16:25 +0000

The guy built the "shitty web app" (that's actually pretty cool, not shitty) from scratch.

New comment by efdee in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

efdee — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:19:23 +0000

I hate to be that guy, but HELO/EHLO is smtp, not pop3

New comment by efdee in "FVWM-95 (2001)"

efdee — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:42:11 +0000

It actually still works to this day. Doubleclick the top left menu button (the one with the app icon) and your window closes.

New comment by efdee in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

efdee — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:52:07 +0000

"abusive", "silly", "couldn't care less", "nonsense", "literally illegal". I don't think you'll find many people want to join your cause if you are this aggressive.

More on topic, I agree that you should be allowed to do with your computer what you want. That includes defeating their anti-cheat measures. Your computer, your rules. In return, they can refuse to support you or ban them from their servers. Their stuff, their rules.

But this idea that you are entitled to tell them they have to provide you with a version that does not have their anti-cheat measures, that is pretty far out there. That is where most people will stop following your reasoning.

YMMV.

New comment by efdee in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

efdee — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:32:34 +0000

It's not clear what freedom you are sacrificing. Nobody is forcing you to play those games. If you don't want to let them run their anti cheat system, don't do it. This is not some unavoidable measure.

What a strange hill to want to die on.

New comment by efdee in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

efdee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:19:24 +0000

Why would AGI not be possible?

It might be hard, it might be difficult, but it is definitely possible. Us humans are the evidence for that.

New comment by efdee in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

efdee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:18:34 +0000

I respectfully disagree, but disagree hard.

a) Nothing about letting AI do grunt work for you is "not being a craftsman". b) Things are subcontracted all the time. We don't usually disrespect people for that.

New comment by efdee in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

efdee — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:15:53 +0000

For me, AI is definitely a table saw. YMMV.

New comment by efdee in "Async/Await is finally back in Zig"

efdee — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:52:31 +0000

C# had async/await long before Javascript/node. Not that big a revelation ;-)

New comment by efdee in "From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds"

efdee — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:57:51 +0000

The people destroying the seeds are not the ones building the vaults.