Hacker News: maltris

New comment by maltris in "Rsync and outrage"

maltris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:17:21 +0000

I think he should just retire for real (from rsync) and enjoy the time, who would take all the negativity and keep going for a volunteer project like rsync.

And this has nothing to do with AI. It seems to me that a significant amount of people in IT disconnected from reality.

Go throw a couple potatoes in the ground and see them grow or whatever. Your opinion most likely wont matter nor make any difference.

New comment by maltris in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

maltris — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:23:26 +0000

You likely restored a compromised backup because the backdoor(s) were already laying there. Or you restored to a theme/plugin with a vulnerability and had it quickly exploited again.

There is some lessons to be learned from your way of trying to fix it. Suggesting not to use a software that is in its core pretty stable and safe, is not one of them.

New comment by maltris in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

maltris — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:26:25 +0000

LibreOffice, VeraCrypt, WireGuard. 2 questions:

Whats next?

Is that a pattern?

New comment by maltris in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

maltris — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:08:55 +0000

Google some time ago deleted all my 13 years of location history while attempting to migrate it to local storage on users phones. I used it to keep track of business expenses for tax and had to collect the data someway else. Plus lost a lot of places i had kept track of in foreign countries visited. Desaster that showed I should not rely on them. Made that mistake there while self hosting and self backuping the whole other stuff. Oh well.

New comment by maltris in "Personal Encyclopedias"

maltris — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:33:57 +0000

You inherited, its your choice. Thats alright.

But you basically ripped out a partial root grounding your family, your kids, their kids. Sometimes these roots give strength in difficult times. Thats just my opinion and self-observation.

Whats done is done. But I could not imagine myself doing that.

New comment by maltris in "Personal Encyclopedias"

maltris — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:58:52 +0000

10 is a lot given the circumstances. From which country did they originate?

New comment by maltris in "Personal Encyclopedias"

maltris — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:51:00 +0000

That is actually pretty cool. I started doing that with the photo collections of family members, but only to add explanations to the metadata of the pictures. I might reconsider that approach now.

New comment by maltris in "FrameBook"

maltris — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:52:33 +0000

That is pretty cool, I would not have the time, creativity and dedication to start something like that. Wanted to donate a nice comment. Best regards

New comment by maltris in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

maltris — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:44:45 +0000

I ran ejabberd, later prosody for a while. Eventually I stopped because the contacts went away and it was just not easy enough to set up for ordinary people.

Sad because the idea of running a federated chat service for your family and them having all their contacts there, is great from a data ownership point of view.

Went back to use a mix of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Messenger because apparently there is always some people not wanting to use one or the other service, or only using one of them.

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

maltris — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:21:29 +0000

OpenERP/Odoo specifically mentioned: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/when-free-depends-on-nonfree....

New comment by maltris in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

maltris — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:21:47 +0000

Wondering: Is there a good tool for centralized ACME cert management when one runs a large infrastructure, highly available, multi location where it makes little sense to run the ACME client directly on each instance or location?

New comment by maltris in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

maltris — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:44:14 +0000

This is crazy, it happened to the SoGO webmailer, standalone or bundled with the mailcow: dockerized stack as well. They implemented a slight workaround where URLs are being encrypted to avoid pattern detection to flag it as "deceiving".

There is no responses from Google about this. I had my instance flagged 3 times on 2 different domains including all subdomains, displaying a nice red banner on a representative business website. Cool stuff!

New comment by maltris in "An informational website about why I went to prison"

maltris — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:36:59 +0000

The thing is called freedom. There was a time on the internet where people shared media not to make any profit, but to supply those who could not afford them. There was a time in my life where I earned 215€ per month. Later 343€. There was nothing left for any entertainment after expenses. No console, no games, no movies and no music. These times are over, plus there is affordable streaming services, but I still know and understand the spirit.

New comment by maltris in "My Family and the Flood"

maltris — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:21:34 +0000

Being the parent of a child in the boys age, this was incredibly hard to read. I started yesterday, stopped half way through, could not sleep at first, woke up in the morning to finish the story. To me, as a non-native english speaker, the story is very well written to paint an extensive picture of the events unfolding as well of the environment, which made it much more frightening.

New comment by maltris in "Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update"

maltris — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:13:27 +0000

Good luck finding them still. If they are not on archive.org, you are out of luck. And if that ceases to exist, even more.

New comment by maltris in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

maltris — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:26:29 +0000

Man, please share a tutorial

New comment by maltris in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"

maltris — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:14:41 +0000

TF2 was a great game and a halloween tradition for me and some friends. Unfortunately it became public-unplayable with all the bots going on and around.

New comment by maltris in "Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025"

maltris — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:08:12 +0000

Whats going on with the special snowflakes trying to get attention? First the WordPress-guy, now this one. Maybe we should all acknowledge that we are much less important than we would like to. And thats OK.

New comment by maltris in "Stimulation Clicker"

maltris — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:26:25 +0000

The sad but funny part of this is: If I sent this to my computer science class of 12-13 year olds, 50% would not even get the joke and just go and play it like their usual brainrot cookie clicker.

New comment by maltris in "Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival"

maltris — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:47:54 +0000

Having been in the field for some time and having some contacts, I must say: 100% of the companies where I get some insights are currently either already building alternatives or reviewing their options with a strong intention to leave VMware behind. And in many cases this is quite a huge task, but certainly doable with the required momentum.