Hacker News: kyriakos

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:12:59 +0000

I've seen a lot of open networks in stores, cafes and malls in my country too but on most occasions they at least take you to a captive portal to accept their TOS or ask you to enter an email address to spam you later, they are not just connect and browse with zero interaction.

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:33:32 +0000

interesting. any idea why?

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:29:29 +0000

Who runs open WiFi networks in 2026?

New comment by kyriakos in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kyriakos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:28:46 +0000

Don't connect your TV to the network. Use an external device for smart features like firestick, Apple tv, Google streamer etc (there are open source options too if you look around and don't mind missing some polish).

I have yet to receive a software update on any of my smart TVs that brought in any positive feature.

New comment by kyriakos in "Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C"

kyriakos — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:43:00 +0000

In Cyprus that means no work for more than half a year.

New comment by kyriakos in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

kyriakos — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:56:59 +0000

Normally you don't have your savings connected to a debit card.

New comment by kyriakos in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

kyriakos — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:55:59 +0000

Only time ever used a credit card was to rent a car in Italy cause they didn't accept debit cards.

New comment by kyriakos in "PHP's Oddities"

kyriakos — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:28:14 +0000

petition to use Euro symbol when coding PHP in EU.

New comment by kyriakos in "Starship V3"

kyriakos — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:43:33 +0000

Don't want to get into political discussions but isn't ITAR about defence tech?

New comment by kyriakos in "Starship V3"

kyriakos — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:47:25 +0000

Cyprus

I get "The owner of this website (spacex.com) has banned the country or region your IP address is in (CY) from accessing this website."

New comment by kyriakos in "Starship V3"

kyriakos — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:35:29 +0000

Page banned in my country apparently

New comment by kyriakos in "Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia"

kyriakos — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:44:15 +0000

You have a good point but the thing is its hard to separate speculation, educated guesses and actual facts. There is so much propaganda mixed with fake news these days. You can't believe anything you read.

New comment by kyriakos in "State of Homelab 2026"

kyriakos — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:37:28 +0000

$200 hardware only? my main concern with storing photos locally is the need for a NAS. Even at 2-3TB you still need: a NAS device, 2-3 hard drives and the mini pc to run immich + power bill to run them. it will cost more than $180/yr. cost should not be the main factor people store photos locally.

New comment by kyriakos in "HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers"

kyriakos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:41:23 +0000

No they are actually quite cheap considering how many pages you can get from a refill bottle.

New comment by kyriakos in "HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers"

kyriakos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:40:39 +0000

I recently had to throw away a perfectly good HP printer which was working for many years without problems because after an update I didn't ask for no ink cartridge worked anymore. I bought from different shops and still the printer refused to validate them as genuine.

Bought an Epson ecotank and been happy since.

New comment by kyriakos in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

kyriakos — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:36:50 +0000

corporate laptops is the key here. take 2 identical laptops one with and one without the spyware - its night and day in both performance and battery life.

New comment by kyriakos in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

kyriakos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:17:17 +0000

The computer games I used to play are nothing like the stuff my son is playing. Its not just a matter of how much time is spent. They are the same as social media, engineered for maximum engagement, contain ads or try to sell you something .

New comment by kyriakos in "MacBook Neo"

kyriakos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:09:34 +0000

Win 11 is actually way better at memory management than Windows 10. It's just more bloated.

New comment by kyriakos in "HN is drowning in AI comments"

kyriakos — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:00:22 +0000

I've only seen a shift on the kind of submissions that get pushed to the front page compared to the past but I guess there's a change in what people consider important in the community

New comment by kyriakos in "Apple Needs to Copy Samsung's New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP"

kyriakos — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:57:56 +0000

Reading comments here looks like most of the commenters didn't read past the title.

This is not the same as a privacy screen protector. The screen hardware itself can dynamically protect parts of the screen on demand down to pixel level, the OS can then dim only the app or notifications you want dimmed. There is no screen degrading for parts that are not in privacy mode.