Hacker News: foepys

New comment by foepys in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

foepys — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:09:40 +0000

Many larger businesses have a contract with Microsoft for their Windows licenses and then go to Azure because they already get billed by them.

New comment by foepys in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

foepys — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:07:04 +0000

Quite a few places do not accept Amex and many that do probably don't know they do or they would disable it.

New comment by foepys in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

foepys — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:47:15 +0000

Microsoft fumbled the Windows ball so hard, everybody i know got rid of their Windows PC and either went to Android/iPhone or got a Mac or Linux.

At work we can freely choose which OS we run on our machines. Guess what everybody wants since IT got forced to upgrade each laptop to Windows 11? Macbook Pro.

I personally am running Linux just because I already know how to use it but macOS (despite its flaws) is way less intrusive and much faster than Windows. Even Microsoft's own programs (Office 365, Teams) are running faster and have better UX on macOS than on Windows.

New comment by foepys in "Resetting Xbox"

foepys — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:37:38 +0000

Billion USD grocery chains operate on 2-3% margins just fine...

New comment by foepys in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

foepys — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:09:48 +0000

Are you using the Windows Terminal app? CMD or Powershell are yanky but Windows Terminal solved a few icks for me.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

    winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e

New comment by foepys in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

foepys — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:23:03 +0000

Russia is currently placing Russian citizens in the occupied parts of Ukraine exactly for this reason. If there will ever be a vote whether the Donbas Oblast or the Luhansk Oblast want to rejoin Ukraine, you can bet the vote will be pro Russia.

New comment by foepys in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

foepys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:31:53 +0000

Same in Germany, although the employer can forbid this but needs to do this explicitly. Most employers don't forbid personal data on work machines or using your work email for personal things.

New comment by foepys in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

foepys — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:13:05 +0000

It also has something to do with the so called "Hackerparagraph" [1] under which whitehat hacking is basically impossible in Germany. Even writing a program that could potentially be used for hacking is a crime. If you followed the law word for word the authors of e.g. curl could be charged under this law.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbereiten_des_Aussp%C3%A4hen... [de]

New comment by foepys in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

foepys — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:43:24 +0000

It does. You can also do it by hand via the right-click on tab menu

New comment by foepys in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

foepys — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:14:56 +0000

Not illegal per se in Germany but you won't find a legal job that doesn't require you to have a bank account. Benefits will also only be paid electronically (exceptions for some asylum seekers apply).

You also cannot get a tax refund or pay taxes without a bank account.

New comment by foepys in "Writing code is cheap now"

foepys — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:50:32 +0000

A study last year concluded that while AI coding feels faster it actually isn't. At least in mid 2025.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44522772

New comment by foepys in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

foepys — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:29:54 +0000

Not only that but vibrations play a big part as well, especially on ICE vehicles.

New comment by foepys in "I fixed Windows native development"

foepys — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:00:12 +0000

Since .NET 10 still doesn't support Type Libraries quite a few new Windows projects must be written in .NET Framework.

Microsoft sadly doesn't prioritize this so this might still be the case for a couple of years.

One thing I credit MS for is that they make it very easy to use modern C# features in .NET Framework. You can easily write new Framework assemblies with a lot of C# 14 features. You can also add a few interfaces and get most of it working (although not optimized by the CLR, e.g. Span). For an example see this project: https://www.nuget.org/packages/PolySharp/

It's also easy to target multiple framework with the same code, so you can write libraries that work in .NET programs and .NET Framework programs.

New comment by foepys in "I fixed Windows native development"

foepys — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:51:06 +0000

That's not correct. You don't have to give your credit card details or even be logged in but you are still required to have any Visual Studio license. For hobbyists and startups the VS Community license is enough but larger companies need a VS Professional license even for the VS Build Tools.

How strict Microsoft is with enforcement of this license is another story.

New comment by foepys in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

foepys — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:52:30 +0000

But they also have over a billion cash at hand. I imagine at that scale and customers being private, the amount is pretty stable and Starbucks can just do whatever with this since it's extremely unlikely that customers demand all their money back at once.

New comment by foepys in "Germany's Merz admits nuclear exit was strategic mistake"

foepys — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:51:43 +0000

This is typical CDU conservative talk from Merz. He is on a war path with anything Angela Merkel did because she saw him as politically inexperienced and shunned him. So he had to work for Blackrock.

The CSU (the Bavarian equivalent and permanent coalition partner of the CDU) is also demanding to reactivate nuclear power plants but at the same time is not willing to store any spent nuclear fuel. The CSU is also notoriously anti renewables and does not want new power lines in their "beautiful scenery" to get the renewable power from northern Germany to Bavaria.

New comment by foepys in "Linux is good now"

foepys — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:59:00 +0000

I don't know what you are doing but I have my Arch Linux running since about 2013. I needed to intervene a few times, I think 4 times in total but the base installation in from 2013, now nearly 13 years ago.

New comment by foepys in "After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline"

foepys — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:09:53 +0000

Sometimes it's not about doing nothing but only being allowed to do the same stuff over and over again to do because there is "no budget" to rewrite the codebase to automate the process.

New comment by foepys in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

foepys — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:25:41 +0000

Google will require you to authenticate with your real name and/or government ID which is something a lot of FLOSS developers don't want to do.

New comment by foepys in "OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices"

foepys — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:56:40 +0000

OpenWISP states in its docs that you should be running at least 20 devices to make it worth it. [1] So it's not supposed to be a easy way to manage a few devices for home users.

> However, OpenWISP may not be the best fit for very small networks (fewer than 20 devices), organizations lacking IT expertise, or enterprises seeking open-source alternatives solely for cost-saving purposes.

1: https://openwisp.org/faq/#suitable