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New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:55:53 +0000

> What part of GitHub's executives' grand plan is "have a barely-functional service

What about lock-in, being a monopoly? Why wouldn’t you maximize on saving costs? Sure some people leave, but the majority is not going anywhere. And if the platform dies they’ve made more money than to keep it alive.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:32:46 +0000

I mean the stars, social features and branding of Github make it more or less a lock-in. You can go somewhere else, but it’s not the same experience.

> If you think you need those sweet GitHub stars, I can't help you.

The majority of users need it.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:19 +0000

I think Microsoft’s home game is “monopolize and enshittify”. They are the masters and know the exactly what amount of enshittification is too much. E.g. Hashimoto quitting GH is probably totally worth the 10 SREs they fired. Us plebs cannot go anywhere.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:54:50 +0000

> It's not "enshittify or lose"

I think it’s “find natural monopoly and reduce costs (aka enshittify)”.

Github is a natural monopoly and users cannot go anywhere. Unless you’re famous like Mitchell Hashimoto.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:24:09 +0000

Enshittification has become the winning strategy for companies. If you don’t enshittify you will lose.

New comment by frevib in "Migrating to the EU"

frevib — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:33:26 +0000

Calender is basic indeed, but good enough for a family sharing a calendar. Proton is working on a new calendar app which is coming out this year.

New comment by frevib in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

frevib — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:00:26 +0000

OP is about Github. Have you seen the Github uptime monitor? It’s at 90% [1] for the last 90 days. I use both Codeberg and Github a lot and Github has, by far, more problems than Codeberg. Sometimes I notice slowdowns on Codeberg, but that’s it.

[1] https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

New comment by frevib in "Migrating to the EU"

frevib — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:23:12 +0000

Scaleway for cloud: great UI, CLI, Terraform. Like you’ve never left Azure.

New comment by frevib in "Migrating to the EU"

frevib — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:05:15 +0000

Proton Drive for Linux (and Drive SDK) are announced for this year. Unfortunately not more specifically than “this year”.

New comment by frevib in "Migrating to the EU"

frevib — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:00:04 +0000

They aren’t. They do have made their IT such that they can move very easily. If the Swiss government will pass worse privacy laws, Proton said they will move to Norway or Germany.

New comment by frevib in "Migrating to the EU"

frevib — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:58:10 +0000

You’re post is full of misconceptions and mistakes.

Mail is stored e2ee exculsively. The’ve been summoned to hand over mail many times, which they weren’t able to do. Quick search on Ecosia and find the articles.

They don’t have a master key or else the whole e2ee story is a fad, which it isn’t. The Proton code is in Github so you can check how it works yourself. Part of the password is used to decrypt the data.

Search is done client side. You have to download a big search index in order to have proper search. The iOS app doesn’t support downloading the index so search is limited there.

Please think and do some work before you reply.

New comment by frevib in "Migrating to the EU"

frevib — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:08:47 +0000

Proton has mail, calendar, drive, docs, sheets and more coming. Everything is done e2ee where possible. In case of mail, when the peer has no Proton, mail is indeed send plaintext.

Mail is stored e2ee on server, so not even Proton can read it. Proton mail has also made PGP very easy to use. It’s Swiss based and a foundation, not a corporation. They’ve done this so they cannot easily be bought.

It ticks most boxes in terms of privacy and security.

Ninja Gaiden 4: the 120 FPS Challenge

frevib — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:09:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/13977

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618364

Points: 2

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New comment by frevib in "Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December"

frevib — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:40:14 +0000

uBlock Origin for iOS was released yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795825

If you are on another locale, search “ublock origin lite” with double quotes.

New comment by frevib in "Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin"

frevib — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:17:42 +0000

We introduced Kotlin at ING (15k IT colleagues) years ago and adoption rate is 11% and growing: https://medium.com/ing-blog/kotlin-adoption-inside-ing-5-yea...

Many larger companies in The Netherlands have moved away from Scala and Java and use Kotlin now. The switching costs are neglegible and the benefits are big.

The problem with Kotlin is, you don’t want to go back to Java.