Hacker News: mariusor

New comment by mariusor in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

mariusor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:40:32 +0000

Haha, have you tried that? I think in this day and age marketing is much needed activity even for open-source projects providing quality solutions to problems.

New comment by mariusor in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

mariusor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:09:49 +0000

The electronic ID hosts a cryptographic key that can be used through some sort of hardware device in order to generate QR codes, or whatever that are linked to the user's official identity...

The public part of the identity (which in our example it was enrolled at bank account opening) can be used by the server that checks the QR code to see if it actually belongs to the correct account owner.

New comment by mariusor in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

mariusor — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:23:57 +0000

Because there are many interesting uses for having a personal electronic token that's also recognized by your own government. My own interest is in using it as a base for establishing an identity for electronic ballots.

New comment by mariusor in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

mariusor — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:04:19 +0000

I'm pretty sure electronic IDs are a good starting point for exactly this. Hopefully they get wider use inside the EU.

New comment by mariusor in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

mariusor — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:59:48 +0000

And they can be found online pretty easily: https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/.

I remember there's some tools to use the images as desktop backgrounds: https://github.com/boramalper/himawaripy

New comment by mariusor in "End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller"

mariusor — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:03:51 +0000

"fascism" has a pretty well defined meaning, which is not whatever the EU would become if something like chat control ever passes. Towards totalitarianism, sure, but again not all totalitarianism is fascism. I wish people would stop using le mot du jour as a replacement for everything in an subconscious need to increase others' engagement.

New comment by mariusor in "Migrating to the EU"

mariusor — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:58:29 +0000

Wasn't Proton launched as a "your data is encrypted at rest, we could never access it without your consent"? The implication being that even if they received said court orders, they didn't have anything to give. Am I misremembering that?

New comment by mariusor in "Migrating to the EU"

mariusor — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:08:23 +0000

Didn't proton fold like a wet napkin when they were asked for information about their users? What I mean is: Switzerland as a whole is probably the wrong metric...

New comment by mariusor in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

mariusor — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:42:09 +0000

> My situation is unusual, and it exists inside a capitalist economy, a partial shelter rather than an escape.

Frankly, I find it pretty saddening that "code as craft" is such a outlier sentiment for developers. At least here on HN, I rarely see people discuss code as anything but a means to an end, where the end is making yourself, but mostly others, rich.

New comment by mariusor in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

mariusor — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:45:07 +0000

I doubt that anyone could categorize the manosphere phenomenon as philosophy. Without empathy you can't really have philosophy. Or, at least not the kind that you can take seriously.

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:39:51 +0000

"full-stack" is the word used by OP, not Jolla.

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:26:15 +0000

What I was trying to tell you with my original reply to you is that Jolla chose a different point on the free/pramatic curve of available SoCs. They selected a phone that's more likely to be used by average people rather than a fully open one. (You can still see in this very thread, complains about the high price for what it offers, showing they haven't fully succeeded, at that.)

Pointing out that they still rely on Android drivers for booting the thing is a little tone-deaf from my perspective when they're basically choosing a different path towards a similar goal to Purism and other alternative mobile vendors: higher availability of non Google, non Apple mobile devices. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that. And like I explained the reason for their choice is not nefarious but a pragmatic one.

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:34:07 +0000

That wasn't modern when they released it in 2020. Jolla chose a little more pragmatism for their hardware in the hope that they actually sell phones to other people than 100% open-source purists. I find it funny when dudes like you go all "well awkshwally" on them...

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:04:11 +0000

Modern SOC alternatives for a phone that can be used as a daily driver? Please do tell...

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:22:18 +0000

It's always surprising to see this type of comments on HN. Jolla is not Apple, they barely scrunged 10K orders for this phone, they can't afford the economy of scale that other mainstream vendors can.

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:16:19 +0000

... and yet it's a tonne more developer friendly than Android is becoming.

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:14:38 +0000

Fairphone produces strictly hardware.

Jolla produces software, SailfishOS. The hardware for this phone is sourced from third party vendors and then assembled and sold by Jolla.

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:12:15 +0000

The size has been decided based on a poll within the community. I also wish it was smaller, but the majority has decided...

New comment by mariusor in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

mariusor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:11:28 +0000

I'm sure that if you tell Jolla about a relatively modern mobile SOC with mainline linux support, they'll look into it instead of relying on libhybris.

Does anyone have news about coveralls.io?

mariusor — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:37:05 +0000

Is anyone else using coveralls.io for tracking their coverage numbers?

It has stopped working a couple of days ago, and nobody seems to have taken notice.

Does anyone know if the service was left to bitrot and if I should look for another one?

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