Hacker News: martiuk

New comment by martiuk in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

martiuk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:17:53 +0000

I find the alternatives more likely to ban/censor than X. Bluesky is definitely not civil to those with the "wrong" opinions, despite what proponents of the service say.

New comment by martiuk in "Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case"

martiuk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:08:49 +0000

Why is Dyson being sued for actions taken by their suppliers? This is setting a bizarre precedent.

New comment by martiuk in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

martiuk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:49:21 +0000

The idea of an exponential fee is a good one, in what universe does a _single_ Disney IP become worth over $1T?

New comment by martiuk in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

martiuk — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:24:10 +0000

API still seems to work if you already have a script to hand to unproxy everything.

Ask HN: Am I wasting my time applying for jobs in the US?

martiuk — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:53:09 +0000

I'm sure you're well aware of the dire state of the UK, I've had enough of this country and the ever lowering standard of living.

I've been applying for roles at US companies, I'd consider myself a pretty strong SRE/Platform Engineer, but I realise that being located here is probably going to be a massive barrier, especially with H1Bs being under the spotlight recently.

So I am just wasting my time, or is there something I can do to stand out?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744025

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by martiuk in "YouTube No Translation"

martiuk — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:07:39 +0000

The worst part of this so-called “feature” is when very diligent creators from non-English-speaking countries already present in English language. But YouTube just assumes it's in their native language, so you have this horrible AI voiceover by default instead of their voice or VO artist that they use.

New comment by martiuk in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

martiuk — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:23:54 +0000

> Seems kinda silly to make a 4K video card when ... nobody on the planet has a 4K screen.

Someone else probably said that years ago when everyone was rocking 1080/1440p screens.

New comment by martiuk in "AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processors are ready to deliver world class gaming"

martiuk — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:17:37 +0000

Is this with the EXPO profiles, or are they running at the JEDEC transfer rate?

New comment by martiuk in "Praise My GitHub Profile"

martiuk — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:21:40 +0000

While this was nice, github-roast actually gave constructive advice whilst also putting me down.

New comment by martiuk in "DuckDuckGo Privacy Pro"

martiuk — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:41:48 +0000

Comcast and $VPN_PROVIDER have a vested interest in staying in business, so they will gladly hand over the data to the friendly neighbourhood intelligence agency when requested.

New comment by martiuk in "Why 7M UK smart meters will stop working and what it will mean"

martiuk — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:15:41 +0000

I recently had my smart meter installed, the actual meters (and the display) themselves connect over a Home Area Network (HAN) and a separate module attached to the electricity meter connects to the mobile network to push readings.

Speaking to the installer, he said that it's common in the north of England for meters to use radio comms instead of mobile network due to the poor reception, I imagine these are unaffected.

New comment by martiuk in "Stable Diffusion 3"

martiuk — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:26:48 +0000

Similar to why Google's latest image generator refuses to produce a correct image of a 'Realistic, historically accurate, Medieval English King'. They have guard rails and system prompts set up to force the output of the generator with the company's values, or else someone would produce Nazi propaganda or worse. It (for some reason) would be attributed to Google and their AI, rather than the user who found the magic prompt words.

New comment by martiuk in "Incident with Issues and Pull Requests"

martiuk — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:57:54 +0000

Anyone experienced with asking for service credits for enterprise customers? It looks like you have to prove that they have missed their SLAs

New comment by martiuk in "The Windows 11 Trash Party"

martiuk — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:56:19 +0000

I have completely ditched Windows for Gentoo/Arch, I cannot stand the crapware installed by default and all the hoops you have to jump through to get rid of it.

New comment by martiuk in "Incident with Git Operations, Issues and Pull Requests [resolved]"

martiuk — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:32:24 +0000

First day back from a break and GitHub is down, classic.

New comment by martiuk in "The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop"

martiuk — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:56:51 +0000

You can use howdy: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Howdy

.mp Domains Not Resolving?

martiuk — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:02 +0000

I received a bounce back from fastmail earlier saying my domain doesn’t resolve, checked cloudflare and it’s all there but dns resolution for my domain and even for the registrar https://get.mp no longer resolves either.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34757837

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by martiuk in "New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity"

martiuk — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:23:26 +0000

As a CofE churchwarden, I can confirm that progressivism has taken over Christianity, as well as become a secular belief system.

New comment by martiuk in "OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano"

martiuk — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:37:38 +0000

Do we need to develop a new format and connector for RAM? Where we can get it as low to the motherboard and the sticks of RAM as thin and small as possible?

New comment by martiuk in "Short Sellers Crushed Like Never Before as Retail Army Charges"

martiuk — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:05:26 +0000

The short sellers could have jumped as soon as Ryan Cohen and co got on the Gamestop board, but no they continued shorting. I have no sympathy for them, be careful of future calls for regulation of retail investors.