Hacker News: mpol

New comment by mpol in "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"

mpol — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:51:49 +0000

Just like Wikipedia, people follow changes. If there is vandalism, it often gets reverted within a few hours. If there's a mistake (relation broken for example) it can take a few hours longer to fix.

New comment by mpol in "Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails"

mpol — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:50:39 +0000

Personally I prefer to have email history online in the form of a local IMAP server like Dovecot. It is saved in maildir format where each email is a separate file.

I can then use an email client to move emails and folders between accounts.

Make sure to have backups. I assume you currently don't have a backup, if it sits in gmail.

New comment by mpol in "Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base"

mpol — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:41:45 +0000

That is what Dacia is to Renault, the tech from the previous model. Still, Renault is vastly outselling Dacia.

New comment by mpol in "Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide"

mpol — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:50:08 +0000

I had never heard of it, but checking it, I see MGLRU is enabled by default on my kernel (Mageia 10 with 6.18.xx). Are there distros where this is not enabled? Especially the ones mentioned in the blogpost? In that case it would need a recompile of the kernel, right? Or send in a bugreport to the distro.

New comment by mpol in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"

mpol — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:17:56 +0000

In Europe we actively pushed the crazies to emigrate to the US. We had so many crazy religious people that we got tired of them. They went to the US and we thought we got rid of them, but now they are back with a vengeance.

New comment by mpol in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

mpol — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:29:14 +0000

Those are facts.

They do not mean that the people who ordered them today are wanting them today. If you need them in 10 years time, you need to order them today. It can easily change, if a flight company doesnt want to do business with Boeing or Airbus, they can cancel their pre-orders. Then the pre-order list might shrink really fast.

New comment by mpol in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

mpol — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:21:27 +0000

You could wait it out for a bit. There is work underway to support more phone hardware. Which brand was a bit up for speculation.

New comment by mpol in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

mpol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:53:10 +0000

It's not just the applications, the installer doesn't even start up with 1GiB of memory. With 2GiB of memory it does start up. You could (well, I would :) ) blame it on the Gnome desktop, but it is very different from what I would have expected.

I just tested this with 25.10 desktop, default gnome. With 24.04 LTS it doesn't even start up with 2GiB.

New comment by mpol in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

mpol — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:20:37 +0000

> Is there any hope for using the responsive libadwaita programs from the Mobile Linux space?

Currently not, if I understand correctly. There are plans to update or rewrite the Wayland compositor. If all goes well it should support GTK programs and I assume libadwaita too.

New comment by mpol in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

mpol — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:37:20 +0000

@charcircuit

Sailfish is more like GNU/Linux, that is the OS in this context. For Jolla that is less code to maintain themselves then what Google maintains in Android/Linux. Hard forking Android/Linux looks to be quite a big bite to chew on.

New comment by mpol in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

mpol — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:40:17 +0000

Did GrapheneOS even exist in 2012? There is history at play here, they are still building forward from the Nokia Linux phones.

Also, what's up with all the sour grapes from people who use or develop GrapheneOS? There seems to be a general force dismissing Sailfish as insecure, without ever explaning how. Can't we just be friends in a de-googled world? Are people from Graphene feeling insecure about Sailfish as competition? It feels to me like infighting in small churches. It turns me off from ever considering GrapheneOS before I even looked into it.

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

mpol — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:58:55 +0000

1. A company needs a positive cashflow to keep existing.

2. Closed parts of Sailfish are being opened up slowly (There are new owners).

3. The tablet was in 2015, 11 years ago.

4. They are not Russia owned anymore, but Finnish now.

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

mpol — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:29:10 +0000

You're probably responding because of the Jolla tablet :)

To be fair, the Jolla tablet was in 2015, more than 10 years ago. Most probably, many of the people working at Jolla are not the same as then. Also, if you read carefully all the announcements and communication from Jolla, you can easily see they have learned from that crowdfunding affair. This is not the same offer, not in a long mile.

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

mpol — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:02:17 +0000

There is a Wiki maintained by users. In short, it depends :)

https://sailfishos.wiki/books/compatibility-list-of-android-...

New comment by mpol in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

mpol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:05:18 +0000

Could AI write a highly specific camera driver or GPU driver, without any documentation at all?

New comment by mpol in "What Is Stoicism?"

mpol — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:42:09 +0000

In a sense that book is more about selfhelp, and misses some parts of Stoicism.

An interesting book which is more complete but still readable is Stoic Notes written by Rymke Wiersma, translated in English here: https://modernstoicism.com/a-free-book-stoic-notes-by-rymke-...

New comment by mpol in "TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars (2025)"

mpol — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:26:40 +0000

Don't all cars in the Netherlands have at least a small checkup before inspection?

I once had a Fiat Panda from 1984, 20 years old by then. It had a small checkup and maintenance, then went for the inspection. It passed, but was highlighted for inspection from the controlling organizing. The mechanic, owner of the shop, started getting really nervous about losing his license, asking, is the car allright, is it really allright? And it passed inspection again.

New comment by mpol in "European Alternatives"

mpol — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:02:14 +0000

Wero is coming. Currently it is only available in a few countries.

The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along

mpol — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:55:31 +0000

Article URL: https://techglimmer.io/jolla-phone-2026-review-kill-switch-privacy-review/#Jolla

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46676991

Points: 37

# Comments: 30

New comment by mpol in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

mpol — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:09:55 +0000

Way too complicated for me :)

I just have 1 text file with monthly data. Each month is on a separate line, with only 5 columns (expanded below).

  1.date   2.saldo  3.savings  4.delta  5.special income / outcome (heading line)
  1 31 january 2026
  2 500
  3 2500
  4 -80
  5 dinner -50, concert - 30, sales +80, trousers -80, etcetera

Where the date is the last day of the month that I need to make (the next day there is income, for me it's 19th, not 31th). Saldo is my bank account that day. Savings are, well, savings in a separate account. delta is the sum of special income and outcome. row 5 is all special income and expenses. Groceries are not listed, I need them every month anyway.