Hacker News: konimex

New comment by konimex in "Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)"

konimex — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:25:57 +0000

Speaking of which, I wonder what Chris would think of OpenRCT2 and OpenTTD, which reimplemented his games with different programming languages and outright different graphics (which allowed the latter to reach its 1.0 milestone not requiring the original Transport Tycoon assets).

New comment by konimex in "XSLT RIP"

konimex — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:32:59 +0000

> https://dbushell.com

Heh, I honestly thought the domain name stood for "D-Bus Hell" and not their own name.

New comment by konimex in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

konimex — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:46:08 +0000

Say, how many voting stations are there in a typical city/county in the US?

Here in Indonesia, in a city of 2 million people there are over 7000 voting stations. While we vote for 5 ballots (President, Legislative (National, Province, and City/Regency), we still use paper ballots and count them by hand.

New comment by konimex in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

konimex — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:23:44 +0000

Not really. Your ballot should be secret, which goes against blockchain, I guess.

New comment by konimex in "FSF announces Librephone project"

konimex — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:13:24 +0000

Here in SE Asia (in my country at least) you're lucky if they even offer you SMS 2FA (and even then, only for cash withdrawal from ATMs), because otherwise its just using PIN or biometrics without any kind of second factor auth.

New comment by konimex in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

konimex — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:56:15 +0000

Indonesia is a big country with over ten thousand islands and uneven coverage. What is blocked on one ISP might not be enforced on another (e.g. the state-owned ISP might block or use DNS poisoning on several "non-compliant" DNS providers but my current ISP doesn't). Also, in addition to what the sibling commenter (and another commenter regarding Cloudflare outage) said there might be a general overload on the mobile network near the affected areas since there are lots of users and limited bandwidth.

New comment by konimex in "Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)"

konimex — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:19:21 +0000

> Anyone has seen his position on this topic?

Well, he's not a fan of GitHub pull request as per the last decade.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...

New comment by konimex in "The trailing dot in domain names matter"

konimex — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 06:55:13 +0000

On this topic, I believe it's obligatory to bring up JdeBP's comment: http://jdebp.info./FGA/web-fully-qualified-domain-name.html

New comment by konimex in "Apple to update EU browser options, make more apps deletable"

konimex — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:37:03 +0000

Not GP, but from a Southeast Asian perspective here.

> waiting for rideshare pickup in a busy location where there are many vehicles and it’s hard to spot your uber / lyft. Like at an airport or after a concert. The driver may need to CALL to quickly describe where you should meet them.

Grab (widely used in SEA) has a built-in call and chat feature for this situation so both the passenger and the driver don't reveal their phone numbers.

> you have a scheduled furniture delivery to your home, but you forgot. The driver texts you they are nearby. Then again when they arrive. You don’t respond because you forgot and you are not near your phone. Would they not CALL you to please come to the front door and let them into the home?

> Your spouse or parent or child was admitted to the ER at the hospital. Their phone lists you as an emergency contact. You’re suggesting the hospital would use a chat app to contact you?

Since WhatsApp is prevalent here, yes. Most people will call you using WhatsApp, SMS and direct calls are usually last resort (and frankly, most direct call/SMS nowadays are either credit card sales, scams, or illegal gambling ads).

New comment by konimex in "Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers"

konimex — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 07:37:39 +0000

I can confirm for AirAsia and Lion Group, and IIRC Ryanair also do this with their UK subsidiary with different flight prefixes and different aircraft registration numbers.

New comment by konimex in "OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life"

konimex — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:46:39 +0000

> but a year or 2 ago the went back to OpenSSL for some reason which I did not fully understand.

That would be Void Linux [1]. One of the reasons iirc, is PEP 644 [2], in which CPython drops support for LibreSSL due to it not being fully compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.1 APIs.

[1] https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935

[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0644