Hacker News: miramba

New comment by miramba in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

miramba — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:10:24 +0000

I think “culture change” is what is ultimately proposed here.

New comment by miramba in "Have a fucking website"

miramba — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:03:39 +0000

Menus change ie seasonal, and there is a daily changing handwritten chalkboard: Make a photo, put it on IG. Hours change: This week only opened from 8 instead 7: Post it on IG. Who has the time to answer a phonecall? And who uses phone numbers these days anyway? Text me on whatsapp like everyone else does. Disclaimer: Don‘t use IG. But if I want to know if our favourite pizza place is open (cook travels to football games a lot), I ask my wife to check on Insta.

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

miramba — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:33:36 +0000

Thanks, this looks very interesting! For reference: https://nexphone.com/

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

miramba — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:50:33 +0000

A question I ask rather here than on that old thread: Is it possible to attach a monitor, mouse and keyboard to a jolla phone with sailfish and run a linux desktop?

New comment by miramba in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

miramba — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:36:14 +0000

I think it’s very valid. I want to be hardware-independent, not only OS independent. I need graphene to work on a fairphone, jolla phone or whatever other alternatives there are. E/os can do that (to an extent), Graphene can’t for probably very good reason, but still: It‘s not an alternative then.

New comment by miramba in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"

miramba — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:29:04 +0000

This feels like something Oscar from Duolingo could say.

New comment by miramba in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

miramba — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:46:28 +0000

I believe this is the principle that makes biology such a superior technology.

New comment by miramba in "I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero"

miramba — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:48:40 +0000

Is there a way to do that and still be able to access the server?

New comment by miramba in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

miramba — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:43:25 +0000

F/A 18 Interceptor on an Amiga 500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-18_Interceptor

The first mission is to start and land on a carrier. Video games were never even a question: You couldn't copy games and had to pay ridiculous prices for each!

New comment by miramba in "Size of Life"

miramba — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:01:41 +0000

It is encouraging to know that I am not the only one who does that (sometimes, on interesting sites. otherwise I just leave).

New comment by miramba in "Don't push AI down our throats"

miramba — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:31:15 +0000

What is your replacement for VSCode?

New comment by miramba in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

miramba — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:44:21 +0000

> if you haven't noticed, the people concerned are computer programmers, UI designers, and PMs.

Those are the people who should know best what is meant by "ask visitors for consent before you track them.".

Lawyers and more work is needed if you want to track anyway and look for ways to make people accidentally consent. "Let's ask the question, but hide the unwanted answer as deeply as possibly without breaking the law."

You may blame EU bureaucrats, I blame the unwillingness of the companies to fulfill the spirit of the law and putting all the work into pretending.

New comment by miramba in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"

miramba — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:29:44 +0000

Since you asked: I care. I leave sites which insist on tracking me and appreciate that it is now mandatory for said sites to inform me about their intentions. So this is a solution to a problem I actually have. There are sites which place a "reject all" button above all and make this easy for me. Others try it the sneaky way, by making me turn off every single tracking vendor and then a lot more hidden under legitimate interest. Those are the sites I leave and never come back. The hurdle in question has a lot of simple solutions. 1, don't use cookies. Github does that AFAIK. 2, be transparent about your tracking intentions and use one of the several premade solutions. 3, design a dark pattern UI that hides the important switches in technical named lists and count on the laziness and confusion of users to use them. That is probably the most expensive way for a 3 person company, as you need devs and UX designers and lawyers to judge if you bended the regulation requirements just enough without breaking them.

Detection of two anomalies behind the Eastern face of the Menkaure Pyramid

miramba — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:08:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096386952500012X

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905716

Points: 3

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New comment by miramba in "I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone"

miramba — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:43:25 +0000

iOS6 peak iPhone? Finally someone says it! Also buttons had titles like “Done“ instead of icons, touches wouldn‘t end in accidental swipes all the time and Safaris toolbar was fixed.

All things I recently failed to explain to an elderly person.

New comment by miramba in "Stone Age settlement found under the sea in Denmark"

miramba — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 05:22:43 +0000

The Archeology of Europe‘s Drowned Landscapes: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-37367-2

New comment by miramba in "The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis"

miramba — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:36:48 +0000

Plus, the iPhone shipped with its own, very distinguishable ringtones which pretty soon signaled to everyone “I have an iPhone”. And the small switch to silence it was already a feature on the first iPhone, became a standard for all smartphones and vibration only turned out to be a convenient alternative. That said, the current ringtones on my phone are: -Nokia Attraction -Nokia Orient -the ringtone from Luigis mansion 3 -You’re so cool from True Romance and yes, putting them on the phone with garage band is a pain.

New comment by miramba in "We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism"

miramba — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:30:37 +0000

One man’s snarkyness is another man‘s critical and teaching comment.

New comment by miramba in "The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction"

miramba — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:14:36 +0000

I think a competing theory was/is that the mass extinction was caused by volcanism of the Deccan-Traps, briefly mentioned in the abstract “…occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India”. This article seems to confirm a direct relation between the meteorite impact and the extinction with the deccan traps activity possibly serving as a contributing factor.

New comment by miramba in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

miramba — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:17:21 +0000

But unfortunately not on Safari respectively the iOS webview, which would have been mandatory for the author to use. If I am wrong, I‘d gladly take a solution. I think this is one of the main problems for PWAs: No good , platform-independent way to access the local file system. As in „pick once, access forever“.

Edit: https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

Edit2: Just a few posts down: https://webamp.org/