Hacker News: mfiro

New comment by mfiro in "Just Use Curl"

mfiro — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:23:54 +0000

Add this to the end of .bashrc

function cheat() { curl cht.sh/$1 }

Then in terminal you can use the following to see the examples: $ cheat curl

New comment by mfiro in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

mfiro — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:09:26 +0000

Thank you for that useful link. I've bookmarked it as I usually go through the similar steps once in a while and I forget each, what needs to be done exactly.

MKJFGFI.nrw is not a captcha but a German government ministry

mfiro — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:07:11 +0000

I came across mkjfgfi.nrw and assumed it was a random or suspicious domain. It turns out to be the Ministerium für Kinder, Jugend, Familie, Gleichstellung, Flucht und Integration of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486056

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mfiro in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

mfiro — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:06:49 +0000

One of my coworkers, a network specialist, compares IP restrictions to a garden fence. They’re enough to stop casual passersby, but anyone determined will find a way over or around it.

New comment by mfiro in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

mfiro — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:31:00 +0000

The problem is the countries, which censor Internet and block VPNs, also jam shortwave radio signals.

Ask HN: Anyone else getting forced auto-dubbing on YouTube Android app?

mfiro — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:04:42 +0000

I live in Germany and speak both German and English fluently. Some English videos on YouTube (Android app) now get auto-dubbed in German with no option to switch to the original audio. The dubbed voice sounds so annoying and artificial, like Google Translate reading text aloud. On the web version, you have the option of changing audio tracks back to the original, but not on Android.

Has anyone else noticed this recently? Is this a new rollout? Anyone from Google here who can explain or fix this? This is the most annoying thing I’ve ever experienced on YouTube.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771466

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by mfiro in "Show HN: A Directory of 500 HN Side Projects"

mfiro — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:53:42 +0000

That's awesome! Would it be possible to include the business owner's comments for each listing to make them searchable?

New comment by mfiro in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

mfiro — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:33:48 +0000

Great project! What steps did you take to address the legal implications of scraping from different websites?

New comment by mfiro in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on Chrome web store"

mfiro — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:51:23 +0000

I wonder how many will switch to Firefox after this action. But it may be a small number because I assume that not many people use adblockers and most of those who use them already had Firefox, but I may be wrong.

New comment by mfiro in "AI Has Created a Battle over Web Crawling"

mfiro — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:09:20 +0000

I think, one other side effect of this is the increasing restrictions on VPN usage for accessing big websites, pushing users towards logging in or using (mobile) apps instead. Recent examples include X, Reddit, and more recently, YouTube, which has started blocking VPNs.

I'm also concerned that Free and open APIs might become a thing of the past as more "AI-driven" web scrapers/crawlers begin to overwhelm them.

ChatGPT Is Down

mfiro — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/frbqbb921940

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380523

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by mfiro in "Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?"

mfiro — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:15:11 +0000

In my opinion, Telegram is more of a social network than a messenger. There are many useful channels and in many countries, it plays an important role in sharing information. If we look at it from this point of view, e2ee does not seem very important.

We should also not forget that, in the time when all social media (Reddit, X, Instagram etc.) close their APIs, Telegram is one of the only networks that still has a free API.

New comment by mfiro in "Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees"

mfiro — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:16:14 +0000

> The encryption app?

That might be the next step. Banning encryption. We live in a strange world right now.

New comment by mfiro in "De-googling, so far"

mfiro — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:59:50 +0000

Moving E-mail is the easiest part on this journey. For me the biggest reason, was the risk of being locked out of my E-mail accounts and reaching no (human) support.

What I found the most difficult was the search engine. Although Google search has become worse, it's still far better than Duckduckgo in my opinion. I've found DDG very inaccurate for non-English queries.

New comment by mfiro in "De-googling, so far"

mfiro — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:43:42 +0000

If you use it with domain you own, you can just point it to another email provider.

New comment by mfiro in "How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks"

mfiro — Sun, 26 May 2024 09:11:10 +0000

Using technology to improve lives is one thing, but using technology to survive missile attacks is just another level. Sometime I ask myself, will humans ever stop wars once and forever.

New comment by mfiro in "Jellyfin 10.9.0"

mfiro — Sun, 12 May 2024 11:14:42 +0000

It is undoubtedly one of the best media apps out there. What I really like about this project is the attitude of the maintainers towards open software and donations [0].

Kodi is also an alternative that IMO would work better than SMB and VLC, but I personally don't like the Kodi user interface.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/10pe5pd/a_quick_n...

Thin-Slicing

mfiro — Mon, 06 May 2024 05:33:11 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-slicing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271424

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mfiro in "Tell HN: Google search no longer has a link to maps in Europe"

mfiro — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:06:54 +0000

The problem is that "maps" in the top bar is also missing. The only way now to search for a map is going to maps.google.com and search there. I find it actually very annoying.

New comment by mfiro in "Is EU data regulations a blocker for innovations?"

mfiro — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:04:17 +0000

That IT is lagging behind in Germany is something that is known, but it affects more corporations in adopting new innovations. For example, I know many companies couldn't yet make a decision about ChatGPT because of GDPR concerns. As a normal user, I haven't felt much limitations in using new products and technologies in Germany.