<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gertop</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gertop</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:17:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gertop" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "So you think you could be an electrician?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm an electrician. I used to be a programmer. I still program for fun and sometimes get small gigs.<p>In my city the pay scale for the first 5-7 years of a grad software engineer and grad electrician careers are comparable and I expect that to be the case in most of the world outside the handful of American bubbles. One thing I enjoy is that the minimum pay is regulated by a union so I don't have to hop job every year to make sure I'm not underpaid.<p>After that the salaries diverge quite quickly and the ceiling is much much lower as an electrician.<p>It's still pretty good money, though, so I don't think that's really a con to this career.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 03:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950353</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can't get it back there's nothing to attach it to. There's also no point for the risks involved.<p>Organs can be transplanted twice but it's very rare and it's usually when the first recipient dies shortly after the transplant. It's called (quite obviously) retransplantation if you want to Google it.</p>
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<p>3.5kW might be enough but you conclusion that 1kW is also enough is absurd.<p>12kWh is 40 miles, closer to 25-30 in cold climate.<p>This is absolutely not a range that the average person would be happy with. And no, this isn't range anxiety or bad faith, it's literally less than the average daily commute (30 miles round trip).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:52:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840021</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of the things you mention aren't things that have been "conveniently forgotten", they're simply things that mean nothing to most people to begin with...<p>> From shipping a fully certified UNIX with a modern UI<p>Ignored because nobody cares or wanted it.<p>> to getting all the music player market and influencing how any music player would be from then on<p>Anybody born after millennials have only ever known Spotify, they don't know about iTunes and 99c songs. That's like saying Napster has been conveniently forgotten.<p>> to seamlessly moving between Motorola and Intel and Apple Silicon with the ability to run the older software from a different architecture with Rosetta<p>That's a remarkable engineering achievement but that's an implementation detail. Backwards compatibility on the desktop was and still is tablesakes.<p>> to the first modern touch smartphone<p>Nobody forgot, there's always one of you to remind the class that Apple was first (by your own definition of modern touch smartphone)<p>> to getting wireless earpods (and pairing) right<p>They were clearly the first to demonstrate that people did indeed want fully wireless despite HN's objections at the time.<p>> to designing their own fucking integrated CPU, and even their own broadband chip<p>That would be impressive if they were a startup. Every trillion dollar tech companies design their own CPUs.<p>> Even simple things, like making the best touchpad in the market.<p>I don't know anyone who claims otherwise, and for the longest time they didn't make their own touchpads. So much for being conveniently forgotten.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:34:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810947</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Windows has no problem with hibernation and FDE and it uses a swap file.<p>Windows and Linux run on the exact same hardware. Windows hibernation doesn't rely on secret bios features.<p>Unreliable hibernation is 100% and undeniably a Linux problem, there is no secret advantage or conspiracy to keep it down. It's just that nobody cares enough to make Linux not suck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663547</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "RISC-V Emulator and Linux System from Scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's funny? That's how every linux computer start. The boot loader copies the kernel to RAM then jumps to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661881</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I frequently get mini failures with quad9 and my DNS client is too dumb to retry with another server (or quad9 returns a valid but bogus response that prevents my client from hoping to the next server) so I had to ditch quad9.<p>Quad9 also has worse latency but I could live with it, I just can't live with web pages failing to load several times per day(especially hacker News that has their DNS TTL set to 1 second)<p>It doesn't happen with my ISP's servers nor with CloudFlare or google or even good ol' L3.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:50:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578931</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of what you say makes Europe better when it comes to the topic at hand, though?<p>If I have to choose US or EU to host my website, the size of their army, the strength of their currency, or their history as political bullies doesn't affect my blog or nextcloud instance.<p>What affects me is their privacy and data harvesting laws. EU is nominally better with the former, but the latter is eroding very fast and they're roughly the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:33:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578737</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They give you the full /64 even on vps or kimsufi(low end servers) it's just that the interface is configured with the ::1/128 by default in their cloud-init.<p>Their documentation about it is not consistent though, so the confusion is understandable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:26:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578665</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They support any build stack you want. You basically give them a docker compose file and you do what you want.<p>Knowing that, it seems important to have some limits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:16:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578561</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Programs running under wine don't have the same level of system/desktop integration as native programs, it's a very important distinction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:44:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540585</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paint.net itself is still not open-source, so no distro will distribute it.<p>If this shin even becomes "good enough" then I'm sure it will appear in the AUR and flathhub, however.</p>
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<p>Pinta is the continuation of this source, it already exists.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:40:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540527</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SSD still have slower reads when the data isn't sequential. Not slow enough to matter, especially with extents meaning the data is probably in a handful of locations, not 10000, but it's absolutely measurable if your blocks are small enough (<1MB typically, though disk benchmarks usually use 64KB random reads  and sometimes 4KB).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:07:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495607</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You keep shifting the goal posts...<p>He did something illegal, repeatedly, he got caught, he got offered a lenient plea deal of a few months. Those are the facts.<p>Yet somehow y'all turn it into: he was harassed, his family's life was threatened, he was going to get life in prison.</p>
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<p>> Now, they're only denied the right to vote and to participate fully in political and economic society.<p>Given that the only modern slaves in America are prisoners I think it's by (reasonable) design that they can't participate in society...</p>
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<p>> All data is in my phone<p>It's stored in your phone but it's still going to the LLM when working on it, right?<p>Unless you invented a system of magic placeholders?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366084</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate Google and their dark patterns as much as the next guy but I agree: Having the pop-up once or twice or even three times is reasonable. A lot of people value the backup more than their privacy.<p>But after saying no three times, it really ought to leave the user alone...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:56:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327311</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Force close the app and clear the cache, your photos will come back.<p>Or clear data completely, then open the app "for the first time" and immediately log out.<p>It'll work, but as you've discovered, google made sure that it isn't the happy path.<p>Also no search (not even by file name), no albums, some editing functions won't work (even though they're local), and a few more annoyances. but also no more backup prompt...</p>
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<p>It's a distasteful take to be sure. But, what is GP supposed to do?<p>Frankly I'd rather be told that than the other common but tired SV-resident take of "just hustle, bro, stop sleeping, hustle hustle hustle. Learn to code, take loans from friends and family. Doesn't matter that you're born in a shithole, I was born in a median family myself, we only had one car and we rented our house!!! Just gotta work for it, everybody can achieve it. Those who don't, are clearly not working hard enough."</p>
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