Hacker News: guillermin

New comment by guillermin in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

guillermin — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:02:20 +0000

What do you not trust of AOSP? How can you trust a proprietary closed-source OS more than an open-source one?

New comment by guillermin in "Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server"

guillermin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:01:01 +0000

I've been using mail-in-a-box for 5 years and I couldn't be happier. For me, stability is the #1 concern for an email server, and mail-in-a-box is really set it and forget it. I also like that it includes CalDAV and CardDAV, so it served as a complete substitute to Google Mail+Contacts+Calendar.

New comment by guillermin in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"

guillermin — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:11:13 +0000

The "oficial" servarr[1] uses Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV shows and Lidarr for music.

[1] https://wiki.servarr.com/

New comment by guillermin in "20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use"

guillermin — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:38:10 +0000

I'm afraid you are wrong, what you are referring to are percentage points [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point

New comment by guillermin in "FFmpeg 6.1 released"

guillermin — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 08:52:32 +0000

I don't think that was due to Mozilla pushing Google. I have Firefox configured with DuckDuckGo on all my devices and this has never happened to me on an update.

New comment by guillermin in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

guillermin — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 15:48:39 +0000

https://blog.ideotec.es/

New comment by guillermin in "Meta earnings presentation Q1 2022 [pdf]"

guillermin — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:22:43 +0000

For me, that Reality Labs is the division beating estimates drives home that Meta's bet on XR is going to pay. Ad revenue might be down because of changes in Apple and Google mobile policies, but they are going to control the platform of the future and set their own rules.

New comment by guillermin in "LineageOS 19"

guillermin — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:46:24 +0000

I'm getting bi-weekly updates on LineageOS for MicroG (Xiaomi Poco F3), which I consider more than enough.

New comment by guillermin in "At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid"

guillermin — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:08:34 +0000

I do believe that fact-checking and identifying clickbait is important, but in this case I think you are nitpicking with no cause and adding no substance to the discussion.

The article mentions a sum of 6,751 deaths not including several countries (Philippines and Kenya), so "at least 6,500" is correct. The article also says "While death records are not categorised by occupation or place of work, it is likely many workers who have died were employed on these World Cup infrastructure projects", so the "constructing stadia for the World Cup", although a bit loosely, is also true.

I don't get what you were trying to open our eyes to with your comment. Even if only 1,000 workers were confirmed to be deaths directly related to building stadia it is just as horrible and needs to be known.

New comment by guillermin in "Ask HN: How to move away from Google"

guillermin — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 23:36:24 +0000

I was in this same situation a couple of years ago and easily managed to move to a comoletely Google-free life for 3€/month. I've documented it on my blog [0], but here's the summary:

- mail-in-a-box for email

- NextCloud (included in mail-in-a-box) for contacts, calendars, and files

- LineageOS for MicroG for Android

- OpenStreetMap for maps

- DuckDuckGo for search

- Firefox as internet browser

[0] https://blog.ideotec.es/leaving-google-foss-journey/

New comment by guillermin in "A volumetric display using an acoustically trapped particle (2021) [video]"

guillermin — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 07:42:08 +0000

A startup called Emerge is actually manufacturing a haptic feedback device for use in the metaverse based on this same technology [0].

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emergehome/emerge-home-...

New comment by guillermin in "Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy"

guillermin — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:03:27 +0000

This is why central banks tend to look at measures other than CPI when they make their decisions. For example, "core" inflation does not include energy, which is highly volatile and doesn't directly represent the loss of value of the currency.

New comment by guillermin in "Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux"

guillermin — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:22:50 +0000

Wayland is still very green, most distributions haven't switched yet, why did you? I can understand that you would want to try Wayland, but when you encountered problems why did you decide to move to Windows instead of going back to X11?

New comment by guillermin in "Larry Page asking how to change User Agent in Java"

guillermin — Mon, 10 May 2021 06:53:03 +0000

Back when he cared about being "a good net citizen". I wonder what 1996 Larry would think of today's Internet (that he helped shape).

New comment by guillermin in "Just Eat Takeaway to acquire Grubhub for $7.3B"

guillermin — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:31:48 +0000

Actually, Just Eat was originally Danish and moved to UK in 2005, so it is British.

In any case, the company they are talking about is "Just Eat Takeaway", which is the result of the purchase by Dutch company Takeaway.com of British company Just Eat in February 2020, so it is in fact Dutch.

New comment by guillermin in "Dell bets big on Ubuntu Linux laptops for developers"

guillermin — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:14:08 +0000

Not even just 3rd party chipsets: I bought a first generation linux-based developer XPS13 and a proprietary Dell chip that only served to check that the power supply was an original Dell malfunctioned, so my laptop refused to charge and would limit CPU speed. I was left with a useless slow 13" desktop.

New comment by guillermin in "Simkl: It’s Time to Build a Better TV, Anime, Movie Watchlist and Tracker"

guillermin — Wed, 14 May 2014 10:55:40 +0000

Third time this project is on HN frontpage in 2 days... and it's nothing special. They should sell their online marketing knowledge instead.