Hacker News: gardenerik

New comment by gardenerik in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

gardenerik — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:58:20 +0000

In fact, there is EPC code, but it is rarely used and bank support is abysmal, at least in our country. But that can also be because we have some homegrown local standard for payment QR codes (and a new one in the works, lol).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code

New comment by gardenerik in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

gardenerik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:33:54 +0000

Diacritics usually did not advance paper on typewriters, hence their name "dead keys".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key

New comment by gardenerik in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

gardenerik — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:46:37 +0000

It was called just GPT-5 at that point in time.

1Password maybe not increasing prices

gardenerik — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:27:08 +0000

Preciously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951 I have just received this email:

We’re following up regarding an email you may have received on February 24, 2026 about a pricing increase to your 1Password subscription.

That message was sent in error. Your price will not change at your next renewal.

We know how important clarity is when it comes to billing, and we’re sorry for any confusion and concern our mistake may have caused.

If you have any questions, please reply to this email – we’re here to help.

Thank you, The 1Password Team

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193324

Points: 2

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New comment by gardenerik in "Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website"

gardenerik — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:30:15 +0000

Cloudflare actually does anycast for egress too, if that is what you meant: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-...

Xreal updates its entry-level personal cinema glasses at CES

gardenerik — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:15:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/wearables/xreal-updates-its-entry-level-personal-cinema-glasses-at-ces-140000544.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497900

Points: 1

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Samsung to double AI mobile devices to 800M units this year

gardenerik — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:09:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-double-mobile-devices-powered-by-googles-gemini-800-mln-units-this-year-2026-01-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497834

Points: 1

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New comment by gardenerik in "Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature"

gardenerik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:37:58 +0000

> Currently, calibre users have a choice of commercial providers, or running models locally using LM Studio or Ollama.

The choice is yours. If you want local models, you can do that.

New comment by gardenerik in "Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature"

gardenerik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:08:18 +0000

I agree with you that the push towards them is annoying. (Google's "Your phone has new exciting features.")

In this case, Calibre does not seem to introduce any said annoyances (probably because it is FOSS, so no pressure for adoption), but people are upset anyways.

There are many features I don't use in various software, but it never made me complain that a new icon/menu entry appeared.

New comment by gardenerik in "Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature"

gardenerik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:43:03 +0000

I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features. As long as the feature isn't intrusive, it seems like a minor addition, and may even be useful to some people. LLMs are here to stay, there is no denying that at this point.

New comment by gardenerik in "Show HN: I created a tool to generate handwritten signatures"

gardenerik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:27:57 +0000

These seem like a simple text rendered using some handwritten looking Google Fonts. Or is there something I am missing?

New comment by gardenerik in "Duolingo for Geography"

gardenerik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:13:35 +0000

The icon reminds me pretty much of Kagi

New comment by gardenerik in "Show HN: Later – Schedule URLs to open later"

gardenerik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:11:48 +0000

How does it compare to something like good old at[1] that spawns a browser?

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/at

New comment by gardenerik in "I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me"

gardenerik — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:40:29 +0000

Delta.Chat is really underappreciated, open-source and distributed. I recommend you at least look into it.

Signal, on the other hand, is a closed "opensource" ecosystem (you cannot run your own server or client), requires a phone number (still -_-) and the opensource part of it does not have great track record (I remember some periods where the server for example was not updated in the public repo).

But yeah, if you want the more popular option, Signal is the one.

New comment by gardenerik in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"

gardenerik — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:29:27 +0000

Cannot find it now, but that's how it was discussed at the time when chatmail server became a thing. It is also how it is configured in chatmail:

https://github.com/chatmail/relay/blob/96a1dbac08441034c5990...

You obviously must trust that the server runs this configuration, but you can always run your own chatmail, or regular postfix. (If you don't need "federation" with other mail servers, you don't even need port 25 open).

However, you can also configure your app to delete messages from the server sooner.

New comment by gardenerik in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"

gardenerik — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:08:49 +0000

I have not noticed that problem, the messages are delayed by a few seconds, but not noticeably. Only using chatmail / own postfix though, YMMV.

New comment by gardenerik in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"

gardenerik — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:07:00 +0000

It is deleted from the server only, it stays on your devices, and is also synced to new device when you add one.

New comment by gardenerik in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"

gardenerik — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:05:29 +0000

The UI was actually taken from Signal in the early days[0].

[0] https://support.delta.chat/t/list-of-all-known-client-projec...

New comment by gardenerik in "We Tested 7 Languages Under Extreme Load and Only One Didn't Crash"

gardenerik — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:33:25 +0000

It certainly looks like that. For such a technical article, there are just very vague descriptions of the failure modes. The code examples do not make much sense. I would expect more in depth dive into the problems, but all we got is this mostly generic stuff.

New comment by gardenerik in "Starlink User Terminal Teardown"

gardenerik — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:38:36 +0000

Is it a better idea to share private keys? In case of server breach, you will have a much harder time, won't you?