Hacker News: mlry

New comment by mlry in "Ti-84 Evo"

mlry — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:40:45 +0000

Irony is lost on this guy ... :D Edited to add: I comment on the guy you commented on, not you. Just in case. I did not want to reply to them to not give offense.

New comment by mlry in "Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe"

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

It works on a Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS.

New comment by mlry in "Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?"

mlry — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:52:32 +0000

Oh, come on. Freedom of Information Act sounds kinda nice!

New comment by mlry in "80k-year-old arrowheads in Uzbekistan may be the oldest"

mlry — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:18:12 +0000

... possibly made by Neanderthals

And here is the paper this refers to:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

80k-year-old arrowheads in Uzbekistan may be the oldest

mlry — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:18:12 +0000

Article URL: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/80000-year-old-arrowheads-in-uzbekistan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45265823

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by mlry in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

mlry — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:43:23 +0000

I use https://brouter.de/brouter-web on my laptop. Someone told me that you can use brouter as the nav engine for Osmand and thus greatly improve speed and accuracy for navigation, but I have not yet tried this.

And I recently installed GMaps WV from Fdroid as a wrapper for Google Maps. It gives current traffic information but I don't really know if it is even close to gmaps.

New comment by mlry in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

mlry — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:34:03 +0000

I use Graphene but with Google play store app. Here in Europe my banking apps and 2fa apps (SecureGo) work flawlessly. NFC cards work with PassAndroid and FOSSwallet, both from Fdroid. I've had issues installing rather new games via the play store, but most often it takes a couple of tries or a waiting period to work in the end.

New comment by mlry in "Helix Editor 25.07"

mlry — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:18:43 +0000

Long forgotten the times back in the days during the Great Editor Wars when Emacs was shunned as an acronym for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". The youth of today ...

New comment by mlry in "Germany's Digital Minister wants open standards and OSS as guiding principle"

mlry — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:14:24 +0000

Every once in a while I think about using PayPal ... then I do some research and am utterly astonished why people would agree to such T&C. I would never use Google or Apple for payments. So I am desperately looking for a viable alternative. I used giropay until they cancelled service to the end of 2024 and I have to wait for Wero or an alternative. Yes, I do have serious concerns and I do absolutely not trust any American services. Especially not in these times. And I have less security concerns but rather privacy and data protection concerns in this matter. But I do have no illusions. European politicians see digital services as means to surveillance and control. Citizen's concerns, rights or best interests are certainly not on their agenda. This was clearly demonstrated recently when the EU commission refused to publish the names of the stakeholders and institutions working towards even more surveillance and permissions for governmental organizations.

New comment by mlry in "12 years of Backblaze data center storage drives, visualized"

mlry — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:33:39 +0000

I had to allow d3.js in NoScript for Fennec. Had the same intermittant redraw of the entire screen mentioned above.

New comment by mlry in "US shoots down two of its own Navy pilots over Red Sea"

mlry — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:55:44 +0000

I understand that the drum is fixed to the drone, not the operator. It spools off a couple of clicks of ultra thin fibreoptic cable that is cut of by the operator once the drone is detonated or lost. So the Ukrainian landscape by now is crossed with these cables adding to the environmental damage already happening by conventional means? Is there any long time data or study on future risks to the population? As far as I understand, broken FO can easily break the skin and enter the body and you certainly don't want it in your food chain.

New comment by mlry in "When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)"

mlry — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:11:12 +0000

"The Midget."

New comment by mlry in "CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months"

mlry — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:43:35 +0000

Rogue One, not Solo.

New comment by mlry in "Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?"

mlry — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:52:02 +0000

I think this is their point given this threads question for a humbling learning moment. Both ports support charging but it took someone from outside to get OPs fixed mind off their habitual notion that only a specific port could charge. They did not even try that other port.

New comment by mlry in "Dear Europe, please wake up"

mlry — Thu, 02 May 2024 06:25:26 +0000

Schrödingers migrant: taking our job while being too lazy to work. Very common perception over here, too.

New comment by mlry in "HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace"

mlry — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 10:11:31 +0000

Basically yes. But as I understand it this is the reason why some border guard might ask you to boot up your machine to show him your system as a used and "lived in" installation. You might want to avoid arousing suspicion by lugging around a piece of dead metal (a laptop with unusable bit noise on its discs) or by presenting a fresh and empty OS.

New comment by mlry in "Wingman – An X-Wing Story (2023) [video]"

mlry — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:44:40 +0000

Amazing hobby project of a couple of dedicated nerds.

Wingman – An X-Wing Story (2023) [video]

mlry — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw5SaDGH24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39490383

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mlry in "What's Inside a Linux Kernel Core Dump"

mlry — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:59:32 +0000

No. It's not. I'm glad someone shared this feeling because I had it too.

New comment by mlry in "Labs.Google"

mlry — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:17:28 +0000

Yes, exactly. My immediate reaction was coming back here to see some filters applied whether it's worth the effort.