Hacker News: lozf

New comment by lozf in "Ubuntu 26.04"

lozf — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:44:47 +0000

I'm not certain about CLI, but Plasma 6.6 does allow preferences / settings to be exported & restored / shared.

https://youtu.be/RuxNnfllxco?t=3894 - Neal Gompa on the Fedora 44 Release party stream,

New comment by lozf in "An open letter to the UK Government on digital privacy"

lozf — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:52:55 +0000

I recently found this video about UK's track record regarding privacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_70iqBCDc

New comment by lozf in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable"

lozf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:46:08 +0000

Prefix-w works, or did you want something more?

New comment by lozf in "Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun"

lozf — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:01:19 +0000

also: no "C", and no "rust", despite being a portmanteau of both these other languages names :)

New comment by lozf in "Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code"

lozf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:09:52 +0000

> The article seems to be insinuating that it would have.

I disagree, the article clearly states:

      Montgomery and others were careful to say that Linux ID 
      will not magically prevent another xz‑style supply‑chain 
      attack, but they argue it materially raises the cost.

New comment by lozf in "Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code"

lozf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:59:25 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166473

- the video is well worth a watch.

New comment by lozf in "AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations"

lozf — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:13:53 +0000

> That's the literal topic of War Games (1983)

Probably ran out of tokens before the end, during training.

"How about a nice game of Chess?"

New comment by lozf in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

lozf — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:43:55 +0000

Really nicely done. I usually settle for

    xclock -analog -update 1 -norender -hl grey -fg grey -bg black

(You can put a `TZ="Wherever"` variable at the start for different timezones, and those that don't like the seconds ticking can pass e.g. 0.01 instead of 1 to the -update option).

Brits of a certain age will recall (and might appreciate) the clock faces available at https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash2.htm#clocks too.

New comment by lozf in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

lozf — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:49:59 +0000

Those are not "speed" cameras, they're to enforce daily payment (or fines) for driving in "Ultra Low Emissions Zone" areas in non-compliant vehicles. The area covers all 32 London Boroughs, around 1,500 km² (580 square miles), - affecting approximately 9 Million people.

New comment by lozf in "ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory"

lozf — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:02:17 +0000

I like "both Shift keys" to toggle caps lock on the odd occasions it's useful.

New comment by lozf in "Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person account to keep posting-chatting"

lozf — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:17:31 +0000

Some information about this leaked 3 years ago (February 2023), see:

https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/64D3E63614C36/media%2FHBUh4...

via

https://xcancel.com/BasedTorba/status/2023560958023450771

New comment by lozf in "Traintrackr – Live LED Maps"

lozf — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:54:11 +0000

> unusual maps https://raildar.co.uk/map/KGX

Nice one, OpenRailTimes[0] is a similar style, but split in to smaller local sections by rail company and area.

I also like SignalBox[1] maps for their more traditional geographic layout, and for "less map -- more data", with accurate times that trains pass through stations and junctions, then RealTimeTrains[2] is hard to beat.

- [0]: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps

- [1]: https://www.map.signalbox.io/

- [2]: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/

New comment by lozf in "How Markdown took over the world"

lozf — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:12:25 +0000

Good call, I've had success with:

     pandoc -f gfm -t typst -o file.typ file.md

and as you'll know it's easy to add a Template if required.

New comment by lozf in "Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"

lozf — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:57:58 +0000

You know that "this dude" is basically the UK Governments version of the NSA, right?

https://github.com/gchq

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/

New comment by lozf in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

lozf — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:55:37 +0000

"encrapsulated"

New comment by lozf in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

lozf — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:29:01 +0000

It's just one press of the G key in Vim, or Alt > in Emacs. Even nano has Alt / to jump to the end of a file.

I find those preferable to reading things in reverse order, but Vim opens up at the last location anyway so it's usually just there.

New comment by lozf in "Twelve Days of Shell"

lozf — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:22:50 +0000

If you like things like this you'll probably enjoy

     b64(r13(MaE3o3OmYz5yqPNtqUu0VPOxnJpX))

New comment by lozf in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

lozf — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:17:32 +0000

Better to think of it that it changes at 01:00 UTC, which takes care of the parts of Europe that are 2 or 3 hours ahead (instead of CET's 1 or 2), and the UK going "forward at 1 and back at 2"

"Europe DST changes at 01:00 UTC" - much simpler ;)

New comment by lozf in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

lozf — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:04:56 +0000

Perhaps a shell alias for:

TZ="Etc/UTC" xclock -analog -update 1 -norender -hl grey -fg grey -bg black

(or similar) would also suffice.

New comment by lozf in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

lozf — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:10:49 +0000

Don't be silly, - the MacBook Pro's are just used to RDP to the Azure Windows VMs ;)