Hacker News: herbst

New comment by herbst in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

herbst — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:38:12 +0000

Switzerland is doing that quite a while now.

https://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/landline-subscription...

New comment by herbst in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

herbst — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:39:55 +0000

I don't think they influence more than France does. But I don't know, I live in Europe but don't care for the EU

New comment by herbst in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

herbst — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:36:41 +0000

Yes. Without any issues still.

Gladly.

There was a time window 2 years ago where it appeared that I need an actual phone number to do my taxes, but even that was replaced with something more universal.

New comment by herbst in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

herbst — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:35:20 +0000

Strong =! Good

New comment by herbst in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

herbst — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:31:41 +0000

Do people outside of Europe do not understand how Germany is just a small fraction of Europe.

New comment by herbst in "Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm"

herbst — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:26:43 +0000

I use victron devices and a litime battery + an esp32 of your choice and some LLM magic to read and relay data from Bluetooth to web.

For both victron and litime plenty of examples exist, including home assistant integrations.

New comment by herbst in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

herbst — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:06:07 +0000

I have a lot to hide from your government if that was the question

New comment by herbst in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

herbst — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:08 +0000

To be fair that's the exact narrative European media seems to draw. Not sure how you could see anything else in this shitshow

New comment by herbst in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

herbst — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:01:18 +0000

This. Definitely not the moment you voted the same bullshit AGAIN expecting anything else than the end of the US as we all know it.

New comment by herbst in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

herbst — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:57:51 +0000

I don't know about the US internal propaganda, but international media seems pretty certain on this war crime

New comment by herbst in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

herbst — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:56:46 +0000

Also making new enemies in their own row of allies. That can't be a side effect on how efficient he is doing it.

New comment by herbst in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

herbst — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:55:09 +0000

It wouldn't matter either way. The US is doing war crimes and can't even say sorry properly. This might will be a point we think back to in future.

New comment by herbst in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

herbst — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:54:11 +0000

This is probably not the target audience. Most people just need to write occasional letters and sign some files.

New comment by herbst in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

herbst — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:22:29 +0000

You throw a $400 thing away when a small component breaks? Like you buy a new phone when the cable breaks?

New comment by herbst in "Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications"

herbst — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:35:19 +0000

Welcome to Switzerland. Where this exact approach is working well for many many years now.

New comment by herbst in "React just left meta. Here's what that means for developers"

herbst — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:34:36 +0000

This. Reactive web was a horrible step for accessibility

New comment by herbst in "Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?"

herbst — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:31:39 +0000

That's what I thought too. But actually trying to use it shows how badly battery optimized it (and surely also my code) are.

It wouldn't hold longer than a few hours when WiFi was actually active

New comment by herbst in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

herbst — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:33:27 +0000

How is it a proxy? It's just a boring blank landing page? (Just checking from my European internet connection, without blockage as Spain is not all of Europe.

New comment by herbst in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

herbst — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:31:32 +0000

It's just an empty landing page I never heard about before. (Accessed from Europe by the way, without block)

New comment by herbst in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

herbst — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:29:56 +0000

It doesn't matter anymore. Trump is saying and turning everything the way he wants. The majority of the world doesn't listen anyway and you guys seem to have a horrible time either way.