Hacker News: gog

New comment by gog in "FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools"

gog — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:07:59 +0000

Bosch has been making washing machines where replacing the drum bearings is not supported (the bearings are sealed in a plastic housing) for a while now, not sure if this is the case in all of the models or the cheaper ones only.

New comment by gog in "The Synology End Game"

gog — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:58:27 +0000

Not on all of the models.

New comment by gog in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

gog — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:44:34 +0000

For the same amount of money employee gets it requires employer to pay out less.

New comment by gog in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

gog — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:27:19 +0000

But it's not meant to be shared widely, for most people it's meant to be shared with consideration and/or permission.

Also, it's not just about "a desire not be interrupted by people you didn't agree to be interrupted by", it's about not having the data in the first place, for any reason, including tracking of any sorts.

New comment by gog in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

gog — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:35:10 +0000

What definition of contact details makes them not private?

Contact details (your phone number, email or address) are definitively private information, you should be the one that decides who gets them and who doesn't.

New comment by gog in "PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024"

gog — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:51:29 +0000

How do updates work with postgres?

New comment by gog in "What TDD is good for"

gog — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:58:59 +0000

Bug resolution time is not the only metric of value in software development.

New comment by gog in "PHP 8.4"

gog — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:14:53 +0000

Usually the release is fine, but dependencies can be lacking in proper support/testing of the newer versions, so it takes a couple of months.

Also external tooling, like for example NewRelic extension, takes some time to release a version that supports the new release.

New comment by gog in "XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging"

gog — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:46:25 +0000

Thank you, I was reading https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/wiki/Considerations-for-XM... and misread the requirements, 0.13 is required for SASL2, not for cloud_notify.

I really like Prosody because it was trivial to reuse the same user store I use for Postfix/Dovecot so every email account gets an XMPP account automatically.

New comment by gog in "XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging"

gog — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:36:49 +0000

It looks like you need server support for that as well (makes sense), to bad Prosody doesn't have it in a released version but you have to build it manually.

New comment by gog in "XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging"

gog — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:37:18 +0000

Is there an iOS app that supports push messages?

New comment by gog in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

gog — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:06:40 +0000

AFAIK, it wasn't like that on Windows 3.11, it would be interesting to know when this was added.

New comment by gog in "Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla"

gog — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:06:57 +0000

I believe the commenter is in US where you are allowed to make a right turn on a red light but you must stop and make sure it's safe to do so.

New comment by gog in "A Mini Monitor for a Pi"

gog — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:53:45 +0000

I've bought a 1.77" one for 2€ on AliExpress, if somebody needs help on how to wire it properly I wrote a short post about it: http://goran-juric.from.hr/blog/2020/03/connecting-177-inch-...

New comment by gog in "Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana"

gog — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:25:00 +0000

Can you link the power breaker?

New comment by gog in "Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana"

gog — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:22:04 +0000

I have a Frient Zigbee device that does the same, but sends data to Home Assistant.

New comment by gog in "PHP in 2024"

gog — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:38:04 +0000

How would you describe something useful?

Can you give examples of counterintuitive idiosyncrasies you must deal with to be productive?

New comment by gog in "How I keep myself alive using Golang"

gog — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:57:05 +0000

It does, but you can't forward this data to a separate service or push to your calendar so you can see it on your watch.

New comment by gog in "How I keep myself alive using Golang"

gog — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:15:21 +0000

Take a look at xdrip4ios[1]. If you are using Libre 2 sensors you don't need MiaoMiao, Libre 2 has Bluetooth connectivity built in.

The other piece of the puzzle is Nighscout[2] that stores data in Mongodb (last time I looked at it). You can also enter a custom script to your Nightscout installation that can be your own endpoint to accepting JSON data about BG.

1) https://xdrip4ios.readthedocs.io/ 2) http://www.nightscout.info/

New comment by gog in "Much of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism"

gog — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:17:23 +0000

Not sure I understand the question.

Croatia is a small country and we don't have vast amounts of content in our own language, so when I search I often get bombarded with machine translated content from Russian origin. I suppose it is Russian, since there are images with text written on them that is in cyrillic.

If it were Serbian (they also use cyrillic) there would be no need for translation since we basically speak the same language and a lot of Serbian content is in latin alphabet also.