Hacker News: luoc

New comment by luoc in "F-Droid 2.0"

luoc — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:44:48 +0000

According to the post they only start to roll this out now, gradually...

New comment by luoc in "F-Droid 2.0"

luoc — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:43:03 +0000

mhm, that's just loading v1 for me

New comment by luoc in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

luoc — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:00:26 +0000

Your uranium grows on trees, mh?

New comment by luoc in "Odoo: Open-Source ERP"

luoc — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:26:42 +0000

Last time I worked with Odoo (v15/v16, enterprise, self hosted) we had to send a dump of the production database over to you to be migrated to the new version and then it was sent back. The upgrade path for third-party and custom addons was not defined. And since it is Odoo, everything is in that database: from employee's time tracking to customer support chats, from stock info to accounting data, from e-mail addresses to password hashes. I found this inacceptable but at that point we had no choice.

What's the state here?

New comment by luoc in "Bad UX World Cup 2025"

luoc — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:50:00 +0000

Too lazy to build it: Physically accurate bird view of the solar system at year zero of . Grab whatever object with your mouse and move until reaching the desired point in time. Like grab Pluto to get somewhat near today, finetune with our Moon.

New comment by luoc in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

luoc — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:11:03 +0000

Can you elaborate a bit? Why would that make my attention more valuable than other's?

New comment by luoc in "Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers"

luoc — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:16:20 +0000

Well then support an option to enable that kind behaviour? Make it an explicit decision by the devs. I think running in a type error and then adding an exception to your config is safer than silently pass and only learn about the mixed types in a production bug

New comment by luoc in "Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone"

luoc — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:19:13 +0000

Somehow I end up watching this about twice a year

New comment by luoc in "Bitwarden is no longer free software"

luoc — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:57:11 +0000

Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718

While there seems to be an alternative, the root cause of Google's hostility to foss apps does not make me optimistic about this being a stable solution in the long run :(

New comment by luoc in "Restic: Backups done right"

luoc — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:20:03 +0000

Browsing without dependencies is a bit tricky due to a) deduplication, b) encryption and c) compression of restic's backups.

New comment by luoc in "What happens if someone votes by absentee/mail-in and dies before Election Day?"

luoc — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:43:53 +0000

Mhm, I noticed the issue is not 100% clear from my description: I eventually got two votes in the same election

New comment by luoc in "What happens if someone votes by absentee/mail-in and dies before Election Day?"

luoc — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:35:01 +0000

I voted in the 2021 election for the current German government. Later, I moved to Berlin, where they had to repeat the election this spring due to some screw-ups back then (turns out running a marathon on election day is not a good idea). So I was asked to vote again and I did. I checked with the authorities and everything is fine.

I suppose there's some noise in any voting system, and it's fine if the magnitude is small and its distribution random. Looking at the US, I'd be more worried about gerrymandering than a few votes from the dead.

New comment by luoc in "Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design"

luoc — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:15:18 +0000

Disappointing! Expected a redirect to booking.com

New comment by luoc in "Germany is No 1 in Europe for EV production, No 2 in the world"

luoc — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:28:50 +0000

Turns out more than one opinion exist here ;)

New comment by luoc in "Volkswagen Group brings electric car for EUR 20k"

luoc — Wed, 29 May 2024 20:14:04 +0000

Sure, but when you don't want it in bright orange and with Ac it's like 35k€

New comment by luoc in "German public broadcasters open source their streaming platforms"

luoc — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:49:30 +0000

But there's a difference:

A Beitrag is bound to a well defined objective which means it is determined what the money will be used for at the moment it is collected whereas a Steuer contributes to the household as such.

Also, public TV is not controlled by the government but by a council that is more or less democratic. Still far from perfect, sure

New comment by luoc in "Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years"

luoc — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:42:28 +0000

Better don't try it on mobile then ;)

New comment by luoc in "Liquid logistics: The fine art of wine transport"

luoc — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:38:18 +0000

Well, designing a blog in alignment with DHL's corporate design that's pleasant to ones eyes is certainly not the easiest task but boy, what happened with this header bar (in dark mode)?

New comment by luoc in "Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features"

luoc — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:20:50 +0000

My podman installations (Mac, Fedora) both ship the compose subcommand which works as expected. See https://podman-desktop.io/docs/compose

New comment by luoc in "Paperless-Ngx v2.0.0"

luoc — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:13:27 +0000

The x was rather the transition away from a single maintainer to the org. Iirc that guy still sticks around