Hacker News: lmedinas

New comment by lmedinas in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

lmedinas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:04:08 +0000

OpenAI mentioned already that it's ok to use Codex with Openclaw.

New comment by lmedinas in "Enshittification in Action: Escape from Tarkov's Unheard Edition"

lmedinas — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:35:28 +0000

If they would ask 10 bucks a month for good servers without cheaters I wouldn't have a problem. But 100 bucks after they lied about EOD and bring the same thing all over again and not improving the game its just shooting themselves in the foot.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution for 2024?"

lmedinas — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:48:24 +0000

I finally want to get more physical activity and find time for me.

New comment by lmedinas in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

lmedinas — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:49:40 +0000

I agree with everything the Author said and I do have Firefox installed for those reasons although my main Browser is Brave (Win/Linux) and Safari (Mac). Nowadays Firefox is as good as the Chromium alternatives, there is no doubt on that.

The question is: What would it take for the majority of the Internet users (enterprise, users with low literacy, Developers, Powerusers, etc...) to switch to Firefox ?

15 years ago it was clear. Firefox was vastly superior to IE. Nowadays is not vastly superior to the competition, in fact, I cannot think of any major compelling reasons which would make all those groups of users to change.

As for me, I used Firefox before it was Firefox or Mozilla and I do plan to join the cause and use Firefox in 2024.

New comment by lmedinas in "The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close"

lmedinas — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:43:55 +0000

I buy from time to time the German Managazine C'T and i cannot hide the fact that lot's of information in the Magazine i already absorbed from one way or the other. In this day and age of internet, people get easily information through different channels (social media, websites, chat, etc...)

I find the Magazine and the writers very professional but I cannot say it's worth for me to buy the Magazine nowadays.

New comment by lmedinas in "Gemini AI"

lmedinas — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:59:25 +0000

UK voted to leave the European Union. UK remains in Europe Continent obviously.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: What to Do After Burnout?"

lmedinas — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:22:48 +0000

My advice:

- Take some time off

- Talk to your family and ask them to help you.

- Take care of your health. Sleep, have quality time for your self.

- To exercise.

- Don't take all these advices very personal or serious. It depends from person to person, usually someone who cares about you is the one who can give you the best advice.

New comment by lmedinas in "Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes"

lmedinas — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:38:48 +0000

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".

He is right on this one. Pretty much in every discussion about Programming Languages people write how good Rust is and complain about how bad C++ is but the reality is, C++ it's one of the most used languages in the world.

This quote could be a very harsh reply to Rust vs C++.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: Where do you host your own-domain email?"

lmedinas — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:51:11 +0000

iCloud+ for me as part of Apple One. Works as expected although the spam filters are not as good as with Gmail.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: Your [paid]Subscriptions"

lmedinas — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:42:08 +0000

May I ask whats is your use for ChatGPT Plus ?

ChatGPT is no doubt amazing but so far I havent found a use case for paying Premium.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: Your [paid]Subscriptions"

lmedinas — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:35:16 +0000

- Apple One (because i use all the services, including the custom domains)

- Netflix (combined with Apple TV Plus and Youtube it's basically our TV time)

- ProtonVPN (I always like to have a VPN just in case, i got a good deal last year on Black Friday)

- X (It's still my mostly used Social Network for the good and for the Bad. So far it's in part worth it the price i pay for the service).

- Ivory (I used Mastodon constantly for around 6 months and Ivory subscription was totally worth.)

- Amazon Prime (We use it to buy lots of stuff during the year, so far its worth it for the amount of services Amazon provides. Could be a better value as it once was)

I think about subscribing to Youtube Premium and eventually when it's worth it ChatGPT Plus.

New comment by lmedinas in "Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI"

lmedinas — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:26:30 +0000

Who cares ? Apple at this point as like infinite money. Plus they need to integrate more and more AI to improve their products. They already have the Hardware, now they need the SW and AI to make use of them. Same deal regarding the Apple Online Services.

New comment by lmedinas in "Emacs 29.1"

lmedinas — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:28:40 +0000

if your .emacs has 10 LOC it makes it definitely easy. My .emacs is ±360 LOC.

New comment by lmedinas in "Emacs 29.1"

lmedinas — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:25:04 +0000

i tried Doom Emacs and the first thing that turned me down was the VI bindings, which i disabled right after install. But yeah it does the whole configuration nightmare more easy to maintain.

New comment by lmedinas in "Emacs 29.1"

lmedinas — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 12:10:20 +0000

I love Emacs (it was my main editor in the last 20 years) but i can't justify anymore to use it due to lack of modern feature, ease of use and maintenance of the .emacs files. Maybe i'm getting too old to constant exercise my memory or to tinker configuration files. Nowadays i just use VSCode and occasionally nvim.

New comment by lmedinas in "Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed"

lmedinas — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:49:21 +0000

Well if you have the build automated, you can simply use a markdown editor and commit the file into git. It's not like an experience like Wordpress but i would say it's not that bad.

New comment by lmedinas in "Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed"

lmedinas — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:47:08 +0000

i think so because on Twitter you can always get some randomness due to the algorithm and someone might reply if your Tweet appeared on the "For You" tab. On Mastodon this "randomness" has way less probablity to happen unless you use hashtags and someone finds the Toot through the hashtag.

Quality of interactions apart, the randomness of Twitter is one of the things i miss on Mastodon.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit"

lmedinas — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:30:50 +0000

I really have a problem with Discord how to choose a discussion, find a link and stay on topic. I see Discord as a modern IRC tbh but far from Reddit. Perhaps im using Discord in the wrong way. May i ask which type of communities do you follow in Discord ?

New comment by lmedinas in "20 Years of Gentoo"

lmedinas — Fri, 19 May 2023 07:56:10 +0000

I'm thinking about doing something similar, hows your experience with Gentoo currently on Desktop.

New comment by lmedinas in "Ask HN: What is causing the major growth in new HN users?"

lmedinas — Thu, 18 May 2023 16:26:47 +0000

plus /r/programming is pretty much dead, i guess people moved here.