Hacker News: manosyja

New comment by manosyja in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

manosyja — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:48:33 +0000

OnlyOffice isn’t a „rival“ to LibreOffice as TFA says, because the former has been dead for a long time.

Edit: Further, the ooxml format was heavily criticised ~20 years ago, back when it was introduced. This is old news.

New comment by manosyja in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

manosyja — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:20:32 +0000

Germany here, never heard of any issues regarding underground power (or phone) lines. Ultra High voltage (distribution network) is above ground here, but no issued with that either.

New comment by manosyja in "Epson MX-80 Fonts"

manosyja — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:39:05 +0000

I remember my Star LC-10 had multiple fonts with different widths. There was regular, condensed, wide and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). The latter looked like it had been written on a typewriter.

New comment by manosyja in "Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager"

manosyja — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:59:22 +0000

What can this work with? It says „Containers and VMs“ - I guess that’s LXCs and QEMU VMs?

New comment by manosyja in "The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela"

manosyja — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:20:47 +0000

Don’t worry, Doomguy will seal the inter-dimensional portal and kill the icon of sin

New comment by manosyja in "Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots"

manosyja — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:03:57 +0000

Use readeck, too. It’s exactly what I need, the only feature I miss is not being able to add arbitrary comments to text passages.

New comment by manosyja in "How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider"

manosyja — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 05:58:10 +0000

Full disclosure was a thing exactly because of that.

New comment by manosyja in "British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue"

manosyja — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:27:09 +0000

Couple days ago there was a report of another German tourist being arrested and held without legal counsel.

New comment by manosyja in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

manosyja — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:15:57 +0000

Of course they called themselves Time Lords, what else would British scientists call themselves? The Kings of Lower Frequencies?

New comment by manosyja in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

manosyja — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:13:44 +0000

Don’t remember where I read it, but someone expressed estimates are either „couple hours“, „couple days“ or „longer“.

New comment by manosyja in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

manosyja — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:06:49 +0000

Same, I am constantly amazed how the estimate changes during runtime, especially at the Ende of the cycle…

New comment by manosyja in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024"

manosyja — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:05:03 +0000

That’s exactly how I do it.

New comment by manosyja in "Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]"

manosyja — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:06:52 +0000

Just my 2ct of trivia: The crown has still not reused the records regarding Jack the Ripper. Some assume this might be because someone from the royal family was involved.

New comment by manosyja in "GarminDB"

manosyja — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:21:21 +0000

It’s not only that API access is hard, it’s also they don’t listen tot the community.

Example: It’s not possible to filter for workouts without gear. Sometimes I forget to add my bike or a pair of shoes, so such a filter would be helpful.

It would be very easy for them to add add that filter to the app and / or connect website.

But without a community manager, there’s no engagement possible.

Imagine they had a public tracker where people could request features. They could review them and use that knowledge to build better stuff, making more money.

New comment by manosyja in "I don't like Docker or Podman"

manosyja — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:33:11 +0000

> skill issue

liw is Lars Wirzenius, so I assume we can rule that out.

New comment by manosyja in "The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster"

manosyja — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 22:16:27 +0000

Everything at home is OSS, I switched to OSS everywhere in 2000. I love reading these news, gives me a chuckle.

At work, everything is Microsoft, Copilot 365 and everything. Gives me a headache using it. And a chuckle seeing IT struggle with disgruntled users…

New comment by manosyja in "Employees are bypassing HR, sharing on LinkedIn"

manosyja — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:47:29 +0000

> "HR is often more about protecting the company's interests than supporting employees," Costi says. "Reporting toxic behavior can backfire, labeling you as a 'troublemaker' and potentially putting your job at risk. The sad reality is that many toxic bosses are untouchable, insulated by the very system that's supposed to hold them accountable."

This is exactly the reason tinnitus go to HR. Can confirm.

New comment by manosyja in "Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim"

manosyja — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:46:55 +0000

I remember watching the Soccer World Cup 2006 at work. I logged in my home server via ssh and could watch it in the terminal. Not enough bandwidth for something else.

New comment by manosyja in "Visualizing All ISBNs"

manosyja — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:24:11 +0000

Running your own recursive resolver has certain advantages…

New comment by manosyja in "Monkey Management"

manosyja — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:09:38 +0000

Wouldn’t be that a bit like the OSS ‘Benevolent Dictator” model?