Hacker News: hosteur

New comment by hosteur in "What Even Are Microservices?"

hosteur — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:41:07 +0000

Remote log to syslog-ng?

New comment by hosteur in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

hosteur — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:05:51 +0000

Indeed. And a rare one at that.

New comment by hosteur in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

hosteur — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:26 +0000

> There's just no trust in a country that is digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people.

Are you referring to USA, China or EU here?

New comment by hosteur in "Should a smartwatch track the user's emotions?"

hosteur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:51:50 +0000

Hard no!

Mozilla Syncstorage-Rs (Self-Hosted Firefox Sync)

hosteur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://mozilla-services.github.io/syncstorage-rs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917566

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by hosteur in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

hosteur — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:34:09 +0000

In lots of modern office buildings you can’t.

New comment by hosteur in "A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator"

hosteur — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:54:56 +0000

What do you find tricky?

Of course these decisions make sense for the business making them. That does not make it less unethical nor does it change the fact that what these decisions are doing is in fact making products/services worse and in turn making the world a worse place.

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator

hosteur — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://kottke.org/26/04/day-in-the-life-of-an-enshittificator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772954

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by hosteur in "TinyRetroPad – Notepad.exe in pure asm – 2686 bytes"

hosteur — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:34:43 +0000

Dave Plummer's post on X: https://x.com/davepl1968/status/2071697469122257110

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG91c7xsNMc&feature=youtu.be

TinyRetroPad – Notepad.exe in pure asm – 2686 bytes

hosteur — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:34:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/plummersSoftwareLLC/TinyRetroPad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732565

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Plur1bus

hosteur — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:50:55 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(TV_series)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732024

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by hosteur in "Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast"

hosteur — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:43:42 +0000

> Speeding things up is one of the ways to deal with it.

Making it a well-paid, high status job is another way to deal with it.

Not easy. Not cheap. Involves fixing quite a few incentive structures as well and weeding out corruption... Yeah, I guess you're right, speeding things up a bit at the cost of everyone's privacy and liberties is going to be what they go for.

New comment by hosteur in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

hosteur — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:23:56 +0000

I am not sure what you are saying, really.

It is a tool that does one thing really well.

It is trivial to sync the password db. You can use whatever you prefer.

> "I have a working, synced password manager across my devices with good security practices."

Well, using Lastpass or any other third party to store your passwords was never good security practice.

New comment by hosteur in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

hosteur — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:36:22 +0000

How does anyone trust ANY third party with all their passwords and encryption keys is beyond me.

Setting up KeePassXC is trivial.

New comment by hosteur in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

hosteur — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:58:46 +0000

As I understand it, it is $1/month minimum spend. Big difference between a one-time cost vs. a recurring cost. No matter how small.

New comment by hosteur in "Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX"

hosteur — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:17:08 +0000

Wow. I would have loved something like this when I was studying in University.

New comment by hosteur in "In praise of memcached"

hosteur — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:06:41 +0000

> What are you using Celery for?

Things like provisioning, deploying, and eventually destroying cloud instances (VMs) on-demand when a user buys a specific service.

> Do you need to be able to recover from a reboot or crash with your queues intact?

Yes, I expect the queue to be durable.

> Is it a distributed system as opposed to a single machine?

Currently, everything runs on a single machine. But I expect it will eventually have to be split up. Although I do not expect it to be massively distributed or very complex.

> Do you have complex multi-step workflows?

Depends on what you mean by complex but Multi-step, yes.

New comment by hosteur in "In praise of memcached"

hosteur — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:16:06 +0000

I am currently in the process of starting a project with Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery. Say more about why I should avoid Celery and what to use instead.

New comment by hosteur in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

hosteur — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:14:50 +0000

I do a bit of amateur photography and I have my photo collection in subversion today. Would Lore be a better fit for a photo collection with hundreds of thousands of binary files and almost a TB in size?

I have considered git many times but i have effectively one user and what I have now works. And I did not see any benefits in git for this use case.

New comment by hosteur in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

hosteur — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:14:01 +0000

Just came back to work today to find that OneDrive lost me almost all of Friday’s work. My changes are nowhere to be found in “previous version”. OneDrive is such a mess.