Hacker News: karteum

New comment by karteum in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

karteum — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:38:48 +0000

Still no Linux support...

New comment by karteum in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"

karteum — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:46:12 +0000

FWIW, I vibe-coded https://meteo.karteum.ovh/ a few months ago for my own use-case (it interfaces with open-meteo.com. Click in the map to add points, and click in the point to get details)

New comment by karteum in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

karteum — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:15:22 +0000

"this will force the average user to upgrade their phones"

A lot of phones don't receive any upgrades after 1 or 2 years...

I wish that Google would have forced vendors to implement a proper hardware abstraction (uefi or similar) so that a single kernel could run on any smartphone, just like it's the case for PCs...

New comment by karteum in "OpenPrinter"

karteum — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:49:05 +0000

2 questions :

* How can it can do 2-side printing ? (on a normal printer, you may print all the odd pages, turn the whole thing, and print all the even pages)

* Won't the cutter experience some wear ?

New comment by karteum in "Ask HN: New employeer not providing equipment"

karteum — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:55:14 +0000

You might want to bring a 100 $ old Lenovo such as x200 (ideally with Libreboot, to justify youself)

Or you may go further and bring a 30 $ used/old laptop with 1G ram and a stipped-down Linux such as Alpine+fluxbox. Your employer should quickly understand that they need to give you a new machine for you to be productive :)

Or even further, you may also say that you only have a fixed desktop computer and no laptop.

New comment by karteum in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

karteum — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:23:40 +0000

> Well… you can run android without google?

You can only run LineageOS on smartphones that allow unlocking the bootloader (which is more and more rare), and properly release the kernel source-code (many still don't, especially low-end MTK-based phones...)

New comment by karteum in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

karteum — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:30:58 +0000

Can anyone explain me what went wrong with http://www.cacert.org/ and why they are not supported by any major browser ?

New comment by karteum in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

karteum — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:12:30 +0000

The algorithm/method of vote determines a large part of the political landscape (and in the US, only 2 significant political parties can realistically exist. People have to choose between those 2 and lot choose to abstain).

Other methods of vote exist, e.g. if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated_voting was implemented I think the political landscape would be very different.

New comment by karteum in "Your phone is an entire computer"

karteum — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:25:27 +0000

You can connect to 4G with your root-enabled Linux PC and a USB dongle or minipci module. Carriers don't care about your application processor, they only care about the baseband. In the case of a smartphone, you can have root access and still run the Qualcomm closed blob firmware that will drive the baseband

New comment by karteum in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

karteum — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:47:25 +0000

IMO code generated by AI (which was trained on a lot of copyleft codebases) ought to be systematically on an open-source copyleft license.

New comment by karteum in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

karteum — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:49:51 +0000

It's not only the issue of SoC modems but about the whole integration (RFIC, LNA/PA, RF switches, antennas...). The more bands you integrate, the more difficult it becomes (or with compromises such as worse performance because of wideband antennas...). If I may risk a comparison : you can't have a lense with a huge focal range that would simultaneously be perfectly sharp and have a wide aperture like fixed focals...

New comment by karteum in "Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better"

karteum — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:40:03 +0000

Apart from the comparison with Protobuf, how does it compare to flatbuffers, capnproto, messagepack, jsonbinpack... ?

New comment by karteum in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

karteum — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:31:13 +0000

Could Anthropic consider to relocate in Europe ? ;)

New comment by karteum in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

karteum — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:00:54 +0000

Actually the GSM spec existed in 1993 :)

New comment by karteum in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

karteum — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:43:04 +0000

More and more things require a Google-certified Android phone (and will not work with jailbroken/rooted phones, unlocked bootloader, and so one : banking apps of course, but also medical apps (e.g. Doctolib in France), ID apps (e.g. France identité), and a lot more. This "digital sovereignity" hype makes me laugh since in practice government apps are literally enforcing Google locks, effectively excluding people using LineageOS/MicroG and other similar open roms.

New comment by karteum in "Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell"

karteum — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:18:09 +0000

Speaking about "batteries included" LuaJIT, people might be interested in https://franko.github.io/gsl-shell

New comment by karteum in "Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Drift Away"

karteum — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:51:01 +0000

I am not native english so maybe it's just me, but I think the title is misleading because it suggests that Debian could be struggling with a situation where developers would massively drift away (my first reaction was "what ?? is there really a significant amount of devs that are leaving Debian now, and why ?"), while actually it's more a discussion on how to bring awareness to a team and encourage developers to better communicate with colleagues when they have a life change that would lower their commitment (which can happen to anyone, and in any project), so that the project can better handle when a developer "drifts away".

New comment by karteum in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

karteum — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:54:36 +0000

720p is OK for me and I also almost don't notice. 480p is really noticeable (and totally unacceptable when you pay for a subscription...).

New comment by karteum in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

karteum — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:28:20 +0000

> All major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave) have native Linux builds. Full support. No compromises.

Full support ? I thought that the DRM were not the same (e.g. Disney+ and Amazon Prime limited to 480p on Linux which is a scam... At least, I remember having to hack something to use the Windows version of Chrome with WINE in order to get a decent image with Amazon Prime when I got a 6-month offered subscription a few years ago)

New comment by karteum in "Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use"

karteum — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:36:08 +0000

That's great ! FWIW I generated a small web app (I am just starting to experiment with Claude and Devstral and that seemed a good exercise :), and put it online in case it would be useful https://meteo.karteum.ovh (e.g. during my last trips I used the weather forecasts to refine where I would go more precisely within the country. But I was frustrated as many meteo websites are full of ads...)