Hacker News: gsich

New comment by gsich in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

gsich — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:34:57 +0000

When Youtube removed email notifications I had to build a RSS->email tool, I don't send mails for videos that have no duration (livestreams) and videos <1min.

New comment by gsich in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

gsich — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:23:31 +0000

>And to the haters: Show me any company or product from Germany in IT that is Top 100 globally. Only SAP is or has been featured somewhere below the bottom. And I gurantee you, no one fell in love with its UX/UI

Games count I suppose?

New comment by gsich in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

gsich — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:45:05 +0000

True. I have Fedora and FDE, if I enter Hibernate it's a crash on bext boot.

New comment by gsich in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

gsich — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:42:46 +0000

>fraught

dumb "journalists" especially have this backwards mindset.

New comment by gsich in "GPT-5.5"

gsich — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:48:03 +0000

Because I like Open-Source (or in this case open weights).

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

gsich — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:55:33 +0000

Also SFPs are always a gamble. Might work, might not, you have multiple options, meanwhile with copper RJ-45 you are guaranteed that a link will be established.

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

gsich — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:52:21 +0000

3 pairs probably. But then again you only need 2.

New comment by gsich in "GPT-5.5"

gsich — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:12:06 +0000

Hopefully 1.

New comment by gsich in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

gsich — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:10:32 +0000

>1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women go through the same sorts of experiences, and it’s worth it, if you aren’t color

Not the same, it's a gradient.

New comment by gsich in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

gsich — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:59:10 +0000

>This was a custom map. Not a mod.

This is even better. Because it's a map you can start it without modifying your game installation.

There were "real" WC3 mods, but it was always cumbersome and worked reliably only in singleplayer.

Gameplay-wise it's a mod obviously.

New comment by gsich in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

gsich — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:36:19 +0000

smell during thunderstorms

New comment by gsich in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

gsich — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:53:04 +0000

There is e-mail and XMPP I guess. Usefulness is debatable though.

New comment by gsich in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

gsich — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:51:19 +0000

>Nobody gives a damn. What matters is that it works even on a potato.

Everybody does. That's why people use messaging apps.

New comment by gsich in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

gsich — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:49:12 +0000

Maybe, as I don't know if I got a special version that exfiltrates data to somewhere else. But this does not improve SMS security in any way. Another software also potentially being bad has no influence here.

New comment by gsich in "Wacli – WhatsApp CLI"

gsich — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:27:15 +0000

SMS is unsafe anyway.

New comment by gsich in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

gsich — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:12:34 +0000

but those are not rips

New comment by gsich in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

gsich — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:43:28 +0000

codec? x264 and 1080p is in the ~8GB range for a 120min movie. Depending on audio might be more.

New comment by gsich in "SSH has no Host header"

gsich — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:57:33 +0000

Companies might do that. They have the right to do so. If they still want to use that service, they will find a way to use it. Be it by vendor-coercing or simpler methods.

Just because those companies exist, does not mean that their shitty practices have any imapct on real internet connections. If you as a paying ISP customer want to use a custom port or whatever, it is going to work. So you as a developer don't have any restriction (which you don't know anyway beforehand) if you are developing a solution for a problem.

"Middleboxes" is a hackernews meme that is thrown around because people here work at places who restrict stuff and they can't bother to change that situation but instead complain about it.

The fact that games exist and they use all kind of ports is proof that this is not a problem for normal networks.

New comment by gsich in "SSH has no Host header"

gsich — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:22:35 +0000

I fail to see how this is relevant.

New comment by gsich in "SSH has no Host header"

gsich — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:40:49 +0000

Thankfully SSH on non-22 is not unusual.