Hacker News: mqus

New comment by mqus in "Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees"

mqus — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:22:28 +0000

not only inconsistent over time, but also inconsistently distributed over people. rich people got richer (at least lately) and the less rich didn't get much richer (if at all)

New comment by mqus in "Authorize, don't authenticate"

mqus — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:32:29 +0000

yeah, to me this also pretty much sounds like the approach we started with, we bring our data (as a file) into the application and it stores it back if we want to.

New comment by mqus in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

mqus — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:33:10 +0000

Is : the same as `true` ?

New comment by mqus in "How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction"

mqus — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:33:11 +0000

But... that software (reaction) is not written by the FSF? They just use it

New comment by mqus in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

mqus — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:53:45 +0000

> I guess it depends on what you expect. If you expect the train to be on time .. yes, India is much better than Germany. ~80% trains delayed 15 min or less vs Germany 36% trains delayed 15 min or less.

I won't defend DB too much here but saying that 64% of trains in germany are delayed more than 15min is just plain wrong. The official statistics put it at 40% for 6min or more for long distance trains and 11% for regional trains in 2025[1]. I think if there would be 15min statistics, DB would be on a sinilar level to India for long-distance. Not something to be proud of, but not as desastrous as you paint it. Though, maybe I misunderstood? Do you have sources for the indian numbers?

[1] https://eisenbahn.de/geramond-vgb/jahresbilanz-2025-puenktli...

New comment by mqus in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

mqus — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:45:17 +0000

People hate patronizing systems in their cars already, not sure this would help

New comment by mqus in "Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy"

mqus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:46:36 +0000

they may low-density, but low-tech?

New comment by mqus in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

mqus — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:36:34 +0000

they did not "just announce" that, it was a rather technical decision several layers down, made a while ago. Sure, some things are not easily created without US companies but the overall tendency is pretty clear and it is: reduce absolute dependencies.

New comment by mqus in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

mqus — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:56:27 +0000

It's probably only funny because the commenting germans are aware that there is a much simpler "UG" (without the &co KG), which is pretty much a LLC, which you can open on your own, a bit faster, much cheaper. But apparently OP didn't do that for tax reasons (in a normal UG, if you want to pay yourself, you gotta pay income tax and all the other stuff)

If an american comes and says they founded a public company (with stocks and all), and complained about the fuzz involved, you would also tell them that it's their own fault, right?

That said, maybe the US/Delaware LLC has this component as well, I'm not a lawyer :D

New comment by mqus in "Codex for open source"

mqus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:43:48 +0000

Jetbrains gives away for free infinity years of a $180+ per year subscription (its more expensive in the first year or for orgs)[1] for open source authors, students, and more. Sure, the per-month price tag is not as high but after year 4 you saved much more.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/store/?section=students&billing=ye...

New comment by mqus in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

mqus — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:39:53 +0000

This sounds like your update process is quite involved then. Or do you just not do it?

New comment by mqus in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

mqus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:07:01 +0000

Tbh Arch itself is the most explicit about this compared to the derivatives. Manjaro etc allow installing AUR stuff directly from their main package manager

New comment by mqus in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

mqus — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:38:22 +0000

As someone who tried rerere and didn't see the point:

How? Usually I rebase the same branch multiple times onto different, but successive commits of the master branch. But after I solved a bunch of conflicts of the first rebase, I shouldn't have the same conflicts again in a second one, since the rebased branch contains the merged conflict. Rebasing again could only turn up new conflicts (with newer, other commits on the master branch).

How can I have the same conflict again for repeated rebases?

New comment by mqus in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

mqus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:39:30 +0000

Bug =! Vulnerability

Etel-Tuning

mqus — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:26:36 +0000

Article URL: https://etel-tuning.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465787

Points: 2

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New comment by mqus in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

mqus — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:29:33 +0000

Why can't stores take over the "verification" process (like they do already)? Why do app developers have to be verified themselves, why does the verification have to be done by google? There are so many options, why choose google of all companies? Just laziness?

New comment by mqus in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

mqus — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:24:42 +0000

At what point will you draw the line between "the user wants to do this because of his/her free will" and "the user wants to do this because someone else told them to"? Where will you stop?

All of this is just a bandaid, so why not stop at the state we are at _right now_, without some kind of 24h-long process to enable sideloading and let people be people? Yes, people make mistakes. But that is not your responsibility, especially if it comes at the cost of freedom. The most secure android device would probably be a brick, but you won't sell these, right?

Please instead take these resources and invest them into the app verification process in the play store. Way too many scams are right under your nose, no need to search in places where people are happy with the status quo.

New comment by mqus in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

mqus — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:45:42 +0000

I only trust this once they have finally detailed how they will allow "easy sideloading" (See one of the last fdroid news on this, currently google is on track to basically ban sideloading as it exists) and what exactly means "registered app store program".

New comment by mqus in "Amsterdam Compiler Kit"

mqus — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:48:46 +0000

Re your last paragraphs: I think RMS really meant just the Linux kernel when he wrote that(the topic is drivers, after all), not GNU/Linux, the OS or GNU/Linux, "the system". So it can be argued that he isn't really contradicting himself

New comment by mqus in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

mqus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:37:43 +0000

Ok, then I don't pay you for advertising. On an entirely unrelated note, could I buy a spot on your website(e.g. at the top) to put a piece of my own website on it? You have a news website, right? And I also have some news to share.