Hacker News: fiendsan

New comment by fiendsan in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

fiendsan — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:23:15 +0000

if you dont use it... you might lose it...

New comment by fiendsan in "Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account"

fiendsan — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:35:33 +0000

Seems dropbox keeps dropping features or adding irrelevant stuff, when was the last time dropbox added something really useful?

New comment by fiendsan in "Portugal’s Marmelada Tastes Nothing Like Marmalade (2018)"

fiendsan — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:43:26 +0000

humm i think actually in portuguese we have: doce, compota, geleia, conserva e marmelada/goiabada.

doce (sweet) is a sugar syrup with fruits normally mashed, this is not preserve this is made to be served. compota (jam) is mashed whole fruits with sugar (pure de frutos). geleia (jelly) is fruit juice jellied or thicken. conserva (preserve/compote) is whole fruits preserved in a sugary syrup. marmelada/goiabada is the same as a compota whit a mashed whole fruits with sugar, but since these 2 fruits create a thick jellied paste, we give it a proper name.

sot he is talking about is a conserva/preserve/compote is all the same thing, its a whole fruits you cant spread that, its for eating or making other things like cakes and such and Portugal has plenty of those as well hehehe :D

New comment by fiendsan in "Firefox 29"

fiendsan — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:29:17 +0000

the lack of options is what kills me, also the UI is filled with clear design flaws, and i still need an addon-bar, now i have to use even more add-ons just to make it work like it used to... ohh but we still have the weak performance, thats far from a priority...

New comment by fiendsan in "User stylesheet support removed in Chrome 33"

fiendsan — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 20:52:39 +0000

google givet, google take it away...

New comment by fiendsan in "When Google Almost Went Bankrupt [video]"

fiendsan — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:54:49 +0000

right on that! its like reading on a bouncy rainbow painted unicorn... what?

Webfaction Hosting Review

fiendsan — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:35:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.hostcult.com/2013/12/webfaction-hosting-review.html#.UqTl-UmYogU.hackernews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6871525

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Review of Tresorit "Secure" Cloud Sync / Hostcult

fiendsan — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:04:15 +0000

Article URL: http://www.hostcult.com/2013/09/review-of-tresorit-secure-cloud-sync.html#.UjRQt9TRSNY.hackernews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385324

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Use Mega for Reliable Backups

fiendsan — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 18:48:41 +0000

Article URL: http://www.hostcult.com/2013/07/use-mega-for-mega-backups.html#.UdcU9tT8bq8.hackernews

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996194

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fiendsan in "Why I'm switching back to Firefox"

fiendsan — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:03:26 +0000

I use firefox, always have even when it was buggy as hell, mostly because i needed all the web dev tools and was confortable with it, but i also use chrome for watching youtube and quick browsing (unfortunately firefox till this day is damn slow to open and become responsive).

Thats why im looking forward to opera's webkit version (so i can ditch google chrome for opera), i think google chrome is getting more and more creepy and has made some decisions that are more in google's interest than the users (like posting links on the speed dial or all the extensions that are nothing more thank links and all the extensions that are not links but behave like links, its weird).

New comment by fiendsan in "VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously"

fiendsan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:38:48 +0000

the only problem with this is trust, you have to trust that these companies will do what they say, there is no way to confirm it, maybe all of them are logging and they just say otherwise, and when we are talking about privacy and anonymity thats a bigggg deal breaker!

also just because they do it now, doesn't mean that tomorrow they wont just turn on the logging... if you want anonymity and privacy you can only trust yourself and your own setup, leaving it at the hands of others is a huge exposure, as a sidenote since you are also using the services of a company that might attract the wrong sort of people that also migh expose you to potential problems (they give you up wrongfully, bad logs, payments to that company, the list goes on...)

New comment by fiendsan in "CloudFlare was down"

fiendsan — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:28:41 +0000

its sunday! seems like they pushed another faulty update (like last time)! yep confirmed, all is down including their own site, thats pretty fucked up, when they dont even have offsite status! good thing i dont use cloudflare in all my sites...

New comment by fiendsan in "App.net’s new direction"

fiendsan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:54:05 +0000

yeah no point! at this point its kinda mute... to be useful you need to have your friends in it! and the way its setup its not easy or user friendly to have people join, something like gmail gained traction with invite only because gmail is useful by itself you dont need anyone else using it to make it more useful, at this point it really doesnt matter if its dev friendly... twitter might suck right now for any dev, but app.net limited scope puts it in competition with way more tools than just twitter and facebook's of the world, if you are this limited, you might prefer to go use something like tumblr or do it yourself with your own hosting, why use app.net?

New comment by fiendsan in "Why Pinterest-style layouts are worthless to everyone except Pinterest"

fiendsan — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:17:50 +0000

Yeah, I don't agree with this guy, its not worthless, its just diferent, worthless would be designs that are too confusing or elaborate to get the job done, just because its overload, doesnt mean it doesnt get the job done, also personally i do like cluttered layouts for random stuff, if its important its less usefull but if its just random tidbits its actually way more useful and fast, same goes for small print! its useful for somethings and not so much for others, so this guys all or nothing opinion is kinda meh!

New comment by fiendsan in "Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test"

fiendsan — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:07:21 +0000

absolutely... especially for an editor! she talked a lot and said nothing! she has no opinion and leaves it absolutely open, aparently there is no fault by anyone? ... well at least the CEO of Tesla gave facts and not just his opinion (like the new york time journalist and editor)!

New comment by fiendsan in "LibreOffice: cleaning and re-factoring a giant code-base [video]"

fiendsan — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:21:05 +0000

they just need to focus on speed/performance thats the only thing missing on openoffice/libreoffice its slow... painfully slow!

New comment by fiendsan in "Posterous will turn off on April 30"

fiendsan — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:54:50 +0000

true dat, it was just a matter of time! but i think its their loss, you create a brand and service that was really liked, i think selling it out to someone else to develop would be the most beneficial!

New comment by fiendsan in "Posterous cofounders create a replacement: Posthaven"

fiendsan — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:53:32 +0000

yeah im gonna skip on that one... track record and all...

New comment by fiendsan in "Why I’m Leaving Ubuntu for Debian "

fiendsan — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:02:21 +0000

you hit the nail! they certainly dont act like people you can trust, their motto now is the same as apple! that they know best!

New comment by fiendsan in "Why I’m Leaving Ubuntu for Debian "

fiendsan — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:58:26 +0000

i sympathize and agree with most points! ubuntu is awesome, but some of their decisions seem to be more in their interest than in the users interest, but since im too used to ubuntu now, i moved to mint about a year ago! its kinda ubuntu without the bullshit! ^_^