Hacker News: hommelix

New comment by hommelix in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

hommelix — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:10:36 +0000

I've read some people replace notepad with Notepad2e [1]. I personally use vim as my text editor.

[1] https://github.com/ProgerXP/Notepad2e

New comment by hommelix in "Your ePub Is fine"

hommelix — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:13:06 +0000

> This is patently false, the latest Kobo Libra Color is using secure boot which completely locks out custom development: > > https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=363175

Thanks for the link on mobileread. I was not aware of current development in direction of secure boot / chain of trust.

Not OP, but when I was looking for an e-reader, I looked up the Pinenote. I could not find easily a lot of information on its software state. I could find a lot on Kobo hacking. I notably found https://anarc.at/hardware/tablet/kobo-clara-hd/ and this motives me to get a second hand Clara HD for less than 100$. It was way cheaper than starting with 400$ and unknown software state.

New comment by hommelix in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

hommelix — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:47:24 +0000

Now with Webxxx, the user needs to make sure that it is the right URL, not a fake teanns instead of teams, so he is unsure every time he has to use it. Some random download, once it works, can be reused and you have more trust that it works after the trial was positive.

And if it is open source, you can review the code before compiling. I can't review the code of some random server, as my browser only receives a random wasm binary for example.

New comment by hommelix in "Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

hommelix — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:55:27 +0000

Sane works out of the box on Linux (at least in my limited experience). There are front ends for Windows and MacOS [1]. No need for a browser in the loop. The browser is becoming more and more Emacs... An operating system that happens to be a browser.

[1] http://sane-project.org/sane-frontends.html

New comment by hommelix in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

hommelix — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:49:43 +0000

> SEPA Instant Payments also solves that.

Even more than now there is a QR code format for SEPA Instant Payments. Some invoice have a QR code and when it is scanned with a bank app, the fields for a bank transfer are prefilled. IBAN, amount, etc...

We just need an app to generate this QR code for the amount one wants to request.

New comment by hommelix in "Claude for Small Business"

hommelix — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:25:26 +0000

In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.

New comment by hommelix in "Claude for Small Business"

hommelix — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:23:42 +0000

Oh no! The ones working at 120€/month are the happy few. This is above mid range income in Madagascar. I just wanted to point out that this is not all automated running on GPUs. There are people involved, more than I thought before viewing this video.

New comment by hommelix in "Claude for Small Business"

hommelix — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:01:21 +0000

By coincidence, I've looked yesterday a small documentary [1] about the people tagging all those invoices to train theses models. For 120 €/month they are reading about 1000 to 4000 invoices per day and check and tag them for AI training.

[1] https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/126831-000-A/arte-reportage/

New comment by hommelix in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

hommelix — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:24:53 +0000

There is already some trash flying around in space from decommissioned satellites. Reentering the atmosphere needs some energy to initiate the process and that was/is not always planned for. The combustion during reentry is producing CO2. This CO2 emission will scale up when the number of satellites is scaled up.

The alternative of collecting debris in space is discussed by some space agencies. I really don't think it is a good behavior from SpaceX to put more trash in space and let public money take care of the cleanup later.

New comment by hommelix in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

hommelix — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:43:28 +0000

> Docker Engine includes an experimental feature that can automatically switch to the containerd image store under certain conditions. This feature is experimental. It's provided for those who want to test it, but starting fresh is the recommended approach.

How bad did we fall with the ship often, ship early and fix later idea? Make a major change, release it and the migration feature is experimental and not recommended.

New comment by hommelix in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

hommelix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:08:23 +0000

Older Thinkpad were made without the sharp edge. I love the edge on the X230 and I've been wondering why no designer has taken a look at these to make new laptop.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

New comment by hommelix in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

hommelix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:29:52 +0000

At some sites, the methane is burned in gas engine to generate electricity. Some sites build a CHP and resales the heat for district heating. The engines may need more maintenance due to silicate in the gas.

New comment by hommelix in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"

hommelix — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:58:45 +0000

Great story, and I believe you. I go through similar slope to work, 5 to 15%, 120 m altitude difference. Doing it daily since Covid has improved my fitness a lot. I fully believe that doing something like you in my teenager days would have shaped me differently.

New comment by hommelix in "Topological Naming Problem"

hommelix — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:13:44 +0000

The wiki page explains that as from Freecad 1.0, the work done by Realthunder in the topological naming problem has been merged into Freecad. Not that everything is solved. Just to mention that the work of Real thunder was not lost.

New comment by hommelix in "Topological Naming Problem"

hommelix — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:11:03 +0000

This is described in the wiki page, at the section solution.

New comment by hommelix in "Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter"

hommelix — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:42:25 +0000

An alternative proposed on orgmode website would be organice. https://organice.200ok.ch/

New comment by hommelix in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

hommelix — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:27:13 +0000

Visio here is most likely a shorted "visioconférence", the French word for video conference, or online meeting.

New comment by hommelix in "Pong Cam – My ESP32S3 Thinks It's a WebCam"

hommelix — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:44:27 +0000

It reminds me that I want to get one of these ESP32 Sense module with a camera, to build a rear view camera for my bike rack behind the car.

New comment by hommelix in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

hommelix — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:25:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing this except of the book.

New comment by hommelix in "Show HN: Munimet.ro – ML-based status page for the local subways in SF"

hommelix — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:50:24 +0000

I'm wondering why you chose a domain name of Romania for something local to San Francisco in California, USA?