Hacker News: maciuz

New comment by maciuz in "Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience"

maciuz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:00:32 +0000

The -copter suffix is very common in the drone community.eg quadcopter is widely accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter

New comment by maciuz in "The case for physical media ownership"

maciuz — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:08:02 +0000

Exactly. I pirate eBooks and buy a physical copy when I come around to reading them.

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New comment by maciuz in "Dumbphone 2"

maciuz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:53:04 +0000

Same. Only friction big enough for me is turning my smartphone off and using an actual dumbphone. Been using one since January, only switching back occasionally to my smartphone when I have no alternative: https://www.maciuz.net/posts/rewiring-my-brain/.

New comment by maciuz in "Turn Dependabot off"

maciuz — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:20:41 +0000

I'm working at a medium sized SaaS vendor. We've been using Aikido Code which tries to filter vulnerability impact using AI. Results are generally positive, though we are still struggling with keeping the amount of CVEs down, due to the size of our code bases and the amount of dependencies.