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New comment by kvemkon in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

kvemkon — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:13:44 +0000

That's what I thought at first but then discovered:

> universal clipboard is synchronized over internet, it is not done trough cable connection. it uses apple continuity service, what you put into UC is uploaded into apple cloud,..

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/...

That's why I'm a bit confused now.

> don't let the "KDE" fool you

Being GNOME2-then-MATE user, it really would.

New comment by kvemkon in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

kvemkon — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:29:38 +0000

Is there an easy way to share iOS clipboard to Linux directly using local WiFi without going through any cloud?

Edit: clarification in my reply later in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492003

New comment by kvemkon in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

kvemkon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:14:38 +0000

This is an interesting point of view. I've been thinking that only the moment counts, when the manufacturer has been made aware, regardless when the manufacturer has in fact actively become aware. Thanks!

New comment by kvemkon in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

kvemkon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:31:57 +0000

> Wine waiter Caroline Kraetzer earns $40 (£30) an hour

Is this before taxes or what remains after?

New comment by kvemkon in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

kvemkon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:45:57 +0000

If the law wouldn't say 24 hours counting only working hours (3 working days for small business or even weeks during vacations), then it wouldn't be an exempt.

New comment by kvemkon in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

kvemkon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:49:19 +0000

> CRA

Well, how small business can report anything during 24 hours through weekends, long weekends, 1-week Christmas, 3-4-weeks summer vacations?

New comment by kvemkon in "AI Chip Architectures"

kvemkon — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:35:27 +0000

> Mythic

Recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352470

New comment by kvemkon in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

kvemkon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:49:53 +0000

I fear to ask, how archive.org keeps up to catch all those events for archiving...

New comment by kvemkon in "GIMP Development Update"

kvemkon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:39:12 +0000

I mean the one of the commenters, since the maintainer asked for comments.

New comment by kvemkon in "GIMP Development Update"

kvemkon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:54:12 +0000

Zipped XML

Preparation for the future XCF (24.09.2023)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/10076

Someone proposed newer ser-/deserialization approaches, but this didn't result in a discussion.

New comment by kvemkon in "z486: A 486-Class Pipelined FPGA CPU with Integrated Floating-Point"

kvemkon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:14:53 +0000

> Related work and future work

> ao486 is the closest related open-source design and the CPU behind the established ao486 MiSTer core.

ao486 from 2014 recently mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141236

New comment by kvemkon in "The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video]"

kvemkon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:34:49 +0000

And now their ghosts continue to live and serve in virtual machines like QEMU.

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

kvemkon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:29:05 +0000

Delphi - almost effortless programming memories.

> ... native Delphi apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

In early 2000s there was Borland Kylix for Linux. Thus today (25 years later), if I'd use Object Pascal, then with Lazarus.

New comment by kvemkon in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

kvemkon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:24:36 +0000

> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least.

Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux):

  GTK2 14 MB
  GTK3 24 MB

Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) and be rendered completely on GPU things got very different:

  GTK4 98 MB

New comment by kvemkon in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

kvemkon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:35:54 +0000

> bought myself a mini pc with an Intel N100

Instead of Raspi I've got a N100 uATX mainboard with N100 (120 EUR). Fortunately it does work with normal 32GB DIMM (55 EUR, those were the days!). But I'm still missing a pico-PSU, which can be powered directly from 220V (for reasonable costs).

New comment by kvemkon in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

kvemkon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:26:56 +0000

> Take Hetzner as an example.

Similar happened already with OVH Canada vs France.

> In an affidavit, Xavier Barriere, corporate counsel at OVH in Paris, describes the dramatic situation: If the important proponent of European data sovereignty were to comply with the Canadian order, those responsible in France would be committing a criminal offense. They face up to six months in prison and fines of up to 90,000 euros per violation. However, if OVH ignores the Canadian court, it faces contempt of court proceedings in Ontario, which can also lead to severe sanctions.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Canadian-Court-OVHcloud-from-Fr...

And one comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060903

New comment by kvemkon in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

kvemkon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:01:50 +0000

GTK4 is 98 MB RSS on Linux. Or just 24 MB for GTK3.

example-0.c (fits both GTK3 and GTK4) from https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html

New comment by kvemkon in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

kvemkon — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:26:58 +0000

On news there was a message from Siemens about 500 t turbines, which can be transported best only by Rhine.

New comment by kvemkon in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

kvemkon — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:17:42 +0000

Ah, that's great! I remember, conditions somewhere were you receive the "treue" bonus after the first year for a 2 year contract.

I'm watching how with more sun, oeko-energy price keeps growing (despite every summer before it was cheaper):

https://www.naturstrom.de/privatkunden/oekostrom/naturstrom-...

> image

> Energiepreise der letzten 12 Monate

New comment by kvemkon in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

kvemkon — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:49:44 +0000

I see only basis (without any kWh consumed) costs:

> Grundpreis: 15,54 € / Monat