Hacker News: m3adow

New comment by m3adow in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

m3adow — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:15:46 +0000

> This segment is what is preventing the “green bubbles = poor” narrative from taking over.

In the US maybe. In Europe, not so much. With Apple having a market share of "only" about one third and WhatsApp being the de facto default messaging app, this discussion never happened here.

Therefore your argument doesn't apply to Europe at all. Android is more than the "hacky" part. Albeit I'd really love to keep that.

New comment by m3adow in "German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit"

m3adow — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:52:42 +0000

In these regions of Germany it has very little to do with that, as there's hardly any immigrants in Eastern Germany, except Berlin of course. It's about prejudice and xenophobia due to the unknown.

New comment by m3adow in "How much EU is in DNS4EU?"

m3adow — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:35:39 +0000

Never heard of them before, but they look interesting, thanks for that. I'll transfer one of my .eu.org domains for testing it out.

New comment by m3adow in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

m3adow — Mon, 12 May 2025 11:20:38 +0000

I'll try to elaborate:

I'm using VSC for most edits, tab-completion is done via Copilot, I don't use it that much though, as I find the prediction to be subpar or too wordy in case of commenting. I use Aider for rubber-ducking and implementing small to mid-scope changes. Normally, I add the required files, change to architect or ask mode (depends on the problem I want to solve), explain what my problem is and how I want it to be solved. If the Aider answer satisfies me, I change to coding mode and allow the changes.

No magic, I have no idea how a single prompt can generate $4. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm only scratching on the surface with my approach though, maybe there is a better but more costly strategy yielding better results which I just didn't realize yet.

New comment by m3adow in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

m3adow — Mon, 12 May 2025 09:50:12 +0000

Huh, I didn't configure anything for saving, honestly. I just add the whole repo and do my stuff. How do you get to $10/h? I probably couldn't even provoke this.

I assume we have a very different workflow.

New comment by m3adow in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

m3adow — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:21:57 +0000

I'm using Gemini 2.5 Pro with Aider and Cline for work. I'd say when working for 8 full hours without any meetings or other interruptions, I'd hit around $2. In practice, I average at $0.50 and hit $1 once in the last weeks.

New comment by m3adow in "Google Gemini has the worst LLM API"

m3adow — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:58:29 +0000

Yeah, not having clear time lines for new releases on the one hand, but being quick with deprecation of older models isn't a very good experience.

New comment by m3adow in "A single line of code cost $8000"

m3adow — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:23:10 +0000

First thing I thought as well. Every 5 minutes for a screen recording software is an absurd frequency. I doubt they release multiple new versions per day.

New comment by m3adow in "Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing"

m3adow — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 06:15:32 +0000

That's only on paper though. I know a couple of people who founded a startup in the medicine sector on Telekom Cloud and most of their backend engineering work in the first years(!) went into circumventing Telekom Cloud issues like slow API, servers not starting or plainly disappearing.

Haven't talked to the guys for two years, so it might have improved in the meantime, but it's Telekom, so I heavily doubt it.

New comment by m3adow in "Fntastic announces shutdown four days after releasing "The Day Before""

m3adow — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:39:12 +0000

Up until now they released:

- The Wild Eight (Metacritic: 63; Steam: "Mostly Positive" with 6,161 reviews)

- Dead Dozen (Metacritic: TBD; Steam: "Mostly Negative" with 579 reviews)

- Radiant One (Metacritic: 82; Steam: "Mostly Positive" with 166 reviews)

- Propnight (Metacritic: TBD; Steam: "Mixed" with >15,000 reviews)

- The Day Before (Metacritic: TBD; Steam: "Mostly Negative" with >19,000 reviews)

Scores don't look good, but they also don't look as bad as I expected them to be after the train wreck of The Day Before. I wonder how this would've played out if they hadn't overhyped the game as much as they did.

New comment by m3adow in "Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too"

m3adow — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:03:45 +0000

This sounds like anecdotal evidence and I never heard this reason before. Do you have any sources supporting your claims?

New comment by m3adow in "Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?"

m3adow — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 14:25:38 +0000

> That was enough to get me to move to something where I am in control.

What smartphone OS are you referring to? Sounds interesting.

New comment by m3adow in "Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server"

m3adow — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:53:19 +0000

Yeah, not sure what this guy is talking about. I'm syncing my notes with my Nextcloud using the FolderSync App on Android which I used for other stuff anyways. Works like a charm, never had any problems.

Obsidian is great, but I'm not paying over 90 bucks a year for a simple file syncing service I can build in less than an hour.

Maybe the publish feature is worth it, but I'm content with the ObsidianPublisher workflow I set up for now.

New comment by m3adow in "It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom"

m3adow — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:23:32 +0000

400€ per year on a personal blog? To each their own, I guess.

I host my blogs on GH pages or Netlify. Additionally, I dump the notes I want to share with the world on GH pages as well with the excellent Obsidian Github Publisher [0] Plugin. I don't really care about analytics for a personal blog though.

Works for me, and costs nothing.

[0]: https://github.com/ObsidianPublisher/obsidian-github-publish...

New comment by m3adow in "PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”"

m3adow — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:57:16 +0000

That's why I have no money in my PayPal account and the only payment method is a credit card which I get a notification for when it's charged. I don't trust PayPal at all, but sadly, it's the least bad payment option in big parts of the european online shopping sector.

New comment by m3adow in "Jami: Share, Message, Call freely and privately"

m3adow — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:21:55 +0000

If someone else thinks the logo looks familiar, it's because [Jami was previously named Ring](https://jami.net/ring-becomes-jami/) which I actually used years ago. Can't remember anything about it though.

New comment by m3adow in "Mona Sans and Hubot Sans"

m3adow — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 08:52:35 +0000

Cool tool, didn't know about this. Thank you!

I recommend to hide the font names to prevent any bias.

New comment by m3adow in "Spreadsheet Gaming"

m3adow — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:23:41 +0000

Not for me.

New comment by m3adow in "WireGuard Servers Running from RAM"

m3adow — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 04:49:34 +0000

PIA (Privateinternetaccess) had a similar case: https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...

This was before they were bought by some shady company though, so I wouldn't rely on this policy being unchanged anymore.

New comment by m3adow in "My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole"

m3adow — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:03:22 +0000

Try using nextdns. I set it up for my wife in her smartphone, as she didn't want to have it rooted. Works like a charm.

My phones are always rooted though, I want all the control I can get for my device.