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New comment by ent in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

ent — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:57:59 +0000

Please don't try to machine translate to my local language. The translations are terrible or outright incorrect.

New comment by ent in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

ent — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:31:38 +0000

Well, at least the Finnish laws against it aren't enforced at all and public drinking is very common. Judging by what I've seen, it seems to be the case in Sweden too.

New comment by ent in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

ent — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:15:03 +0000

As someone who lives and regularly drives in Helsinki, I feel that most kilometers I drive are on roads that allow 80km/h. The 30km/h limits are mostly in residential areas, close to schools and the city center (where traffic is the limiting factor and it's better to take the public transit).

So while 30km/h might be the limit for most of the roads, you mostly run into those only in the beginnings and ends of trips.

New comment by ent in "OpenERV"

ent — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:06:23 +0000

Thank you for the illustration! I was sitting here, wondering that the whole system sounds paradoxical but seeing it drawn down with the arrows really helped grasp how this works!

New comment by ent in "An Unusual Furniture Design Niche: Behind-the-Sofa Consoles"

ent — Thu, 09 May 2024 07:20:38 +0000

Not for watching tv, but you might need the entire room for doing stretching, doing yoga or other exercises.

New comment by ent in "Let me repeat that back to you"

ent — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:12:22 +0000

That sounds awfully much like something I might be doing. Do you have any specific books you would recommend?

New comment by ent in "Yurt Calculator"

ent — Tue, 02 May 2023 06:57:29 +0000

I'm not sure of other militaries but the Finnish army indeed uses very yurt-like tents, "puolijoukkueteltta"[0].

[0] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puolijoukkueteltta

New comment by ent in "Essential Climbing Knots"

ent — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 07:57:29 +0000

I used to have a piece of string on my desk as a type of fiddle toy. Much quicker to learn knots by tying them than trying to memorize the instructions.

New comment by ent in "Essential Climbing Knots"

ent — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 07:54:53 +0000

What makes it superior? Is it easier to adjust or untie?

New comment by ent in "Et Tu, Signal?"

ent — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:54:07 +0000

Not sure why this was downvoted. I switched phones yesterday and transferring signal with the direct wi-fi transfer was easier than transferring whatsapp, I do know that that used to not be the case.

New comment by ent in "WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app"

ent — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:18:01 +0000

How well do Signal groups work these days? I tried moving friend groups to signal some years ago and even managed to do that for some large ones but the group chat just didn't really work. Keys changed and somehow the group got into a state where some people got messages and others didn't and the only way to fix it seemed to be creating a new group which, for large groups, isn't really an option and everyone ended up going back to whatsapp.

I'd love to use signal with more people but that, and the ux around changing phones means I can't really recommend it to anyone but the most technical of my friends.

New comment by ent in "Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says"

ent — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 11:36:00 +0000

Isn't the whole point of e2e that you don't need to worry about what runs on the server, unless you're worried about metadata leakage.

New comment by ent in "Bunnie's Precursor Crowdfunding Begins"

ent — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:52:51 +0000

It does, but as far as I've understood, FPGA's are much simpler and more regular so hiding backdoors into those would be harder than hiding one into a hardware cpu.

New comment by ent in "Hackers hijack and publish mental health data of hundreds of people"

ent — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:50:18 +0000

In what part of the world? I haven't seen one in Finland since maybe the early 2000's.

New comment by ent in "Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?"

ent — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:27:57 +0000

There's at least this: https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer

But as others have mentioned, commercial printers are really cheap, especially for how complicated they are to replicate so there's not much motivation to make them.

New comment by ent in "Noita – roguelite where every pixel is simulated"

ent — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 21:32:31 +0000

There was actually a whole genre of action games in the Finnish indie game scene in the 90's, cave flying games (luolalentelypelit) that usually had similar physics from which Noita (Finnish for witch) clearly draws inspiration from.

Although most of the cave flying games were from the dos era, probably the most famous one, wings, had a "new" version [1] made that runs on windows and linux.

[1] http://www.wings2.net/

New comment by ent in "Team Fortress 2 source code has leaked"

ent — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 06:27:14 +0000

I know it's not quite that simple but isn't OpenSSL exactly an example of how a bug in open source software was found and fixed? Of course it took a while and the software was already extremely widely used at that point but bugs happen and at least it's not just lying around unfixed. I can't remember bugs in closed software getting the same kind of exposure.

New comment by ent in "Why Walking Meetings Work"

ent — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:03:10 +0000

Hey, I've been interested in the twiddler for quite a while but I've been hesitant to buy one since I haven't seen much evidence of anyone being actually proficient in using them, most of the videos on youtube are just unboxings and first impressions.

How fast can you type with it? Can it be easily used for key-combinations using modifier keys and such?

New comment by ent in "Biometric YubiKey"

ent — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 07:21:57 +0000

Have you tried using your thumbprints? For me, they never fail to unlock my phone when the other fingers do. OTHO, I only climb plastic so YMMV.

New comment by ent in "Flirtey Wants to Enable Ten Minute Commercial Drone Deliveries"

ent — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:33:55 +0000

If you're in a place with no noise from cars, you're most probably well outside the range of multiprop drones.