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New comment by erremerre in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

erremerre — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:42:43 +0000

I am in the same boat, every time I like something, it is a commercial failure. They should really hire me to check if I like whatever project they got in mind and if I do, cancel immediatetly and save the losses from being a failure.

New comment by erremerre in "Kagi Small Web"

erremerre — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:25:12 +0000

I like the idea, but would like to be able to select a language and see the small web of that language. There are more languages than English, and this tool could make them thrive.

Also somehow if they are clever, they could use this for those translation system they are using, but please let us select our own language without feeding automatic translation like youtube does).

Open source UnigetUI bought by Devolutions Inc

erremerre — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:56:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Devolutions/UniGetUI/discussions/4444

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366857

Points: 3

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New comment by erremerre in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

erremerre — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:27:21 +0000

That is what I meant, they are no different from any other brand. But they could be. They could guarantee no enshitification, or an open platform.

New comment by erremerre in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

erremerre — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:26:05 +0000

Exactly that is my point. They could be. There is no incentive to buy Philips over any chinese brand if they all are going to spy.

But it could be different. Like how Oneplus allowed Cyanogen on their devices.

New comment by erremerre in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

erremerre — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:31:25 +0000

Here could some European company that already makes tv to step in and create something good, with no ads, and even better if they promise to open the sourcecode, bootloader etc... Something like Philips for example. But I guess they are too busy making lightbulbs to notice that they could fill that gap on the TV market space.

New comment by erremerre in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

erremerre — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:58:58 +0000

What about the "App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation" that was in the readme?

Was this discarded? Is it not necessary anymore? Can someone without writing their own implementation use the app without using any of those two?

New comment by erremerre in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

erremerre — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:14:42 +0000

You mean that system that requires either to use an original unmodified Android phone, or a iOS phone and it does not work in absolutely anything else?

New comment by erremerre in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

erremerre — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:26:13 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/samsung-mobile-device...

We don't know also most of the software failures that cause death.

Pretending that bugs don't kill people is not the way forward to solve the issue of having bugs in absolutely everything we have to deal with, sometimes by force.

New comment by erremerre in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

erremerre — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:19:43 +0000

Bridges are expected to stand, for example, a lorry hitting at 120km/h speed a pile. Which is "a plausible attack".

New comment by erremerre in "FreeCAD"

erremerre — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:23 +0000

I do, it is indeed. I'm always surprised that a single developer in javascript managed to do it.

New comment by erremerre in "FreeCAD"

erremerre — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:16:50 +0000

Adding a text that has a couple of pixel white borders is something possible in GIMP, yet a nightmare compared with photopea which just copy cs2 way of doing it.

And that is without having to edit the text in case you made a tipo.

Now, if we are talking about doing batch image editing in python. Gimp us the best tool I've found.

New comment by erremerre in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

erremerre — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:09:09 +0000

When a bridge falls, there is a case in the courts, and sometimes engineers go to prison.

Why shall be different with code?

New comment by erremerre in "FreeCAD"

erremerre — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:05:50 +0000

I never understood this UI problem.

Because... You can copy the UI of the leader and problem solved.

There you have GIMP with an absolute nightmare UI to use, but people keep saying, just get used to it. On the other hand, a single developer, in javascript, made a copy of photoshop, and most people I know prefer to use that over GIMP...

Just copy the UI that works, if you can't research your own UI.

New comment by erremerre in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

erremerre — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:42:17 +0000

I believe (as it's open source) there is nothing impeding anybody else to compile grapheneOS in a samsung S10, which would not be as secure, but should still work as any lineage

However I haven't seen anybody try

New comment by erremerre in "The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)"

erremerre — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:22:16 +0000

Here you have another one, although is not named like that: https://web.archive.org/web/20241112052925/https://cohost.or...

New comment by erremerre in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

erremerre — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:15:57 +0000

Dealing with Honor support is a pain. They don't understand absolutely anything and is impossible to get them out of their script if you have a problem.

I have a Honor 200 pro, and the software is buggy and constantly replaces user configurations with their defaults every 3 or 4 days.

I would avoid anything Honor in the future at any cost.

New comment by erremerre in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"

erremerre — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:19:19 +0000

Asking from ignorance here.

Assuming you are using an old phone with termux to serve de webpage. What could be an attack vector?

The phone will be running Android 7.1

New comment by erremerre in "Writing FreeDOS Programs in C"

erremerre — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:46:06 +0000

What do you hobby code? Can we have a glance at it?

New comment by erremerre in "JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level"

erremerre — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:18:10 +0000

Where I work, I can't give anything is not a word document to anybody else in the company. A python notebook might help at creating the figures for example, but I can already do that with QGIS layouts.

If the working environment allows for checking/reviewing within the notebook, I guess this could help automatise things.