Hacker News: folmar

New comment by folmar in "OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability"

folmar — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:09:33 +0000

you'll be surprised, ssh gives more ergonomic terminal, multiple connections, more convenient file sync and so on

New comment by folmar in "Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand"

folmar — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:57:35 +0000

if you have less data you buy older generation tapes, LTO-5 is 1.5 TB uncompressed and should be in price sweet spot right now.

New comment by folmar in "Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust"

folmar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:37:55 +0000

The more permissive MIT is often an advantage if you want to build it into something bigger, which is reasonable for diff tool.

Discrete users would arguably win more with integrity of AGPL, but developers have reasons to prefer MIT.

New comment by folmar in "Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing"

folmar — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:34:53 +0000

This is common-law centric. Other law systems often would limit sanctions to rejecting frivolous requests. See for example https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=17614916... for discussion of different mechanisms in EU.

New comment by folmar in "Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz?"

folmar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:56:10 +0000

also less USification would help, it's not common knowledge how US birds or bridges or hats look like

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

folmar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:20:05 +0000

I've already seen a couple of train hotspots respond locally to pings directed at 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, apparently in effort to convince devices that they are on a good network event if the internet itself is broken due to being in the tunnel.

New comment by folmar in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

folmar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:13:12 +0000

Or brouter with custom weights also has a lot of tuning points

New comment by folmar in "Apple Pass Designer"

folmar — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:16:22 +0000

Boarding passes don't need to be secure anymore (as since 2008 non-electronic tickets went out of business [IATA Ticketing Handbook, 39th edition, p.29]), they are mostly pointers to DB and the scanning point makes list of passengers so double use is discovered. There is enough data to process them fully offline for failure modes, but that's fallback.

New comment by folmar in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

folmar — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:24:05 +0000

In EU normally BIOS startup screen is the point at which they wave it as ok.

New comment by folmar in "Saving Jet Fuel"

folmar — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:45:55 +0000

At least in Europe, except for the largest airports, the start slots are well organized enough that the taxi+wait time is just enough to warm up the engines, eliminating the saving.

New comment by folmar in "How my e-reader lost its stripes"

folmar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:48:22 +0000

My preferred Kindle 4 classic also fits in my pockets, used ones are at around 25 EUR and pretty hackable. I could barely imagine reading a book in 3.7", that's half of a smartphone.

New comment by folmar in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

folmar — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:17:56 +0000

Auto mode will upload artifacts to Anthropic without asking at least sometimes, for example it did upload my slide decks.

New comment by folmar in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

folmar — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:22:28 +0000

I don't know what current Windows 11 does, but my typical Linux Mint is single-digit seconds, and my t490 is 7 years old already. Windows 10 is a bit slower but still single second territory. With more current hardware we are talking about 2 seconds plus whatever BIOS needs, see sibling comments. Maybe you have corporate AV on the Windows PC, or funny drivers?

New comment by folmar in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

folmar — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:58:31 +0000

My Thinkpad T490 will happily take any power provided voltage is high enough (15V+).

New comment by folmar in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

folmar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:36:53 +0000

If you don't use a lot of quota the cheapest monthly Claude Code is $20, Kimi Code is $19, i.e. the cost difference is minuscule.

Kimi wants my phone number on signup so a no-go for me.

New comment by folmar in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

folmar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:39:55 +0000

Heavy duty trucks run well on electric in the EU at least, as the work time regulation make for regular charging and lower speed limits for trucks makes the consumption manageable.

New comment by folmar in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

folmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:51:01 +0000

Electric excavators are there, as they are low duty cycle, see sibling comments for details, but high load percent for long time is a killer for battery tech.

I could imagine tethered tractors with power line tensioned in the air, but the grid building cost will be quite high for intermittent usage. Only some land usages and plot shapes would work economically.

New comment by folmar in "3.4M Solar Panels"

folmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:01:43 +0000

In EU it would be some $3k for inverter, $5k for panels, another $5k for cables, connectors and mounting and that's it if you DIY everything. Prices with VAT included.

New comment by folmar in "3.4M Solar Panels"

folmar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:53:03 +0000

I only get the following message:

Access Denied Error 16 www.ercot.com 2026-04-22 19:52:02 UTC

If you believe you have a valid business reason for accessing ERCOT resources, please contact the ERCOT Service Desk

New comment by folmar in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

folmar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:05:50 +0000

For physical machines of course yes.

The linked one is VPS, so all trouble fixing is easier.