Hacker News: encom

New comment by encom in "Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share"

encom — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:45:19 +0000

>the light hits it and the electrons jump the gap

Yes, but the circuit is way more complex than that. You're dependant on the OEM for spare parts, support, software and whatever else, not to mention the problems inherent in putting this junk on the internet (which it will be). I am not fond of the idea of giving the CCP access to our infrastructure.

New comment by encom in "British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled"

encom — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:58:56 +0000

They have no other purpose.

New comment by encom in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

encom — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:51:42 +0000

It's funny, I have heated steering wheel in my car (2022 Leaf), and when I bought it I didn't think anything of it. However, being in Scandinavia, when the first snow+ice came, I tried it and loved it instantly. Now I even use it on not very cold days, just because it feels nice. :)

New comment by encom in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

encom — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:00:14 +0000

>Lets find the scrollbar

Related: Whoever decided to allow to websites style browser scroll bars, should have their teeth kicked in.

New comment by encom in "Passkeys are not a trap"

encom — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:23:32 +0000

But the sites where I actually care if my account gets compromised - Steam, FastMail, DigitalOcean etc. - are very unlikely to screw up password storage.

I'm never going to bother with paranoid security inconveniences for the crappy website my local pizza place uses.

New comment by encom in "Thunderbird for iOS"

encom — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:54:08 +0000

Many such cases. Duckduckgo is practically unusable because it just decides for itself which of my search terms it actually searches for. I have to explicitly quote every word to get it to function like a search engine.

Meanwhile, Netflix search (on Apple TV at least), is not only practically unusable, but literally so. Doesn't matter what you input, it just returns a random selection of films. I saw Kill Bill the other day, and wondered if there were any other Tarantino films on there. "Tarantino" returned things like Indiana Jones and other completely nonsensical results.

Am I the only one around here who knows SQL?

New comment by encom in "New Apple TV 4K"

encom — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:15:48 +0000

Well I, for one, have wanted more AI and microphones in my Netflix device for years, and I'm glad Apple is courageous enough to deliver.

New comment by encom in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

encom — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:47:26 +0000

>new

New comment by encom in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

encom — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:55:19 +0000

I promise I'm not simping for Danfoss, just because I'm danish, but... Is it really their fault the customers aren't putting these things behind VPN? Yes, the thing should be secure ideally, but why take the risk?

New comment by encom in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

encom — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:48:28 +0000

Please find me a new car that isn't Internet-connected, genius. You're assuming consumers have a meaningful alternative.

New comment by encom in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

encom — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:02:56 +0000

The Signal desktop app is complete and utter garbage.

New comment by encom in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

encom — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:59:15 +0000

This is the fate of every online review site. Every single one. Including IMDB as I realised yesterday while trying to find something to watch.

The most egregious example I've found was that the Danish postal service had something like a 4,8/5,0 rating on Trustpilot. You'll be hard pressed to find a more inept, corrupt and universally hated company. So in an attempt to improve their public image, they decided to game the ratings, instead of actually delivering mail properly.

New comment by encom in "Orkut.com"

encom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:42:00 +0000

Anyone who consents to giving Discord their phone number, and installing literal spyware.

New comment by encom in "Orkut.com"

encom — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:38:06 +0000

I don't know a single person who used Google+, unless you mean in the sense that Google forced it on everyone with a Google account.

New comment by encom in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

encom — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:05:34 +0000

When your flashing app starts getting bigger than the operating systems it's writing, you should start asking yourself some questions.

  ~$ du -h $(which dd)
  76K     /usr/bin/dd

Etcher truly is the clowniest Electron app of them all.

New comment by encom in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

encom — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:06:49 +0000

1.1 is enough.

  ~$ ping -c1 1.1
  PING 1.1 (1.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=7.89 ms
  
  --- 1.1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.888/7.888/7.888/0.000 ms

New comment by encom in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

encom — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:26:09 +0000

But a state financed news outlet is no better, because it invariably ends up being government propaganda, since that's the hand that feeds it.

New comment by encom in "Web Search API"

encom — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:12:18 +0000

>impulsive, emotionally-motivated

Yes that's precisely how I want infrastructure to operate.

New comment by encom in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

encom — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:47:29 +0000

If you own a danish domain name (.dk), unless you have protected address, all your info is a whois lookup away. Example lookup of ft.dk (danish folketing).

  Domain:               ft.dk
  DNS:                  ft.dk
  Registered:           1995-07-04
  Expires:              2027-09-30
  Registration period:  1 year
  VID:                  no
  DNSSEC:               Signed delegation
  Status:               Active
  
  Registrant
  Handle:               DATA REDACTED
  Name:                 Folketinget
  Address:              Christiansborg Slot 1
  Postalcode:           1218
  City:                 København K
  Country:              DK
  Phone:                +4533375500
  Email:                webmaster@ft.dk
  ID status:            ID verified via electronic ID
  
  Nameservers
  Hostname:             maleah.ns.cloudflare.com
  Hostname:             yichun.ns.cloudflare.com

This is why I've never posted anything from my own shitty website here. All of this is available from [myname].dk with my info on it. Also it's horrifying that our government is restricting access to its website behind fucking CloudFlare.

EDIT: I didn't redact anything from the lookup, this is the exact data I received.

New comment by encom in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

encom — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:37:17 +0000

>I feel like this should be the default.

The autorities do not, and the guy who "leaked" the CPR number of Mette Frederiksen was thrown in jail.

On an unrelated note, I recently read about voyage of the Mayflower across the Atlantic. It's a captivating piece of history.