Hacker News: nadir_ishiguro

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Perkeep – Personal storage system for life"

nadir_ishiguro — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:56:33 +0000

Also works with Linkding

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "I'm never going back to Matrix"

nadir_ishiguro — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:14:44 +0000

I get (and share some of) the frustration, but have yet to find anything better.

XMPP and IRC are not it, for me. Neither give me a better experience nor are they easier for non-techies than matrix.

I also empathize with the people behind the project, as monetization is much more difficult for non-scumbag companies, among which I definitely count Discord, Slack and to a lesser degree Telegram.

As a user though, the speed of improvement has been less than satisfying. It has felt like matrix was just shy of fulfilling its promises for years now.

I still enjoy using it though and am hopeful for its future.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org"

nadir_ishiguro — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:02:32 +0000

Love Matrix/Element and how you deal with criticism.

I've heard (and tried) the new experimental webapp. Is that actually something more than an experiment and will this see further development?

I'm asking because I really enjoyed it but felt like it might have been just a test balloon.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Speeding up my ZSH shell"

nadir_ishiguro — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:21:18 +0000

No. The author simply sees it as basically complete and decided to spend the time he has fixing bugs instead of taking care of issues.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Matrix v1.15"

nadir_ishiguro — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:49:57 +0000

Maybe I'm confusing something, but I thought dendrite development had stopped due to budget concerns.

I see now that there were actually recent releases on github.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Matrix v1.15"

nadir_ishiguro — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:10:14 +0000

Really appreciate your work and am thankful for matrix and element.

As a user of Element call via the desktop app, I found myself sometimes confused whether I was actually using the new implementation or the legacy version.

Has the move to encrypted calls happened on the non-element-x platforms? Is there a difference between group and one-on-one calls on those platforms?

Is Jitsi still in use anywhere?

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nadir_ishiguro — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:41:57 +0000

Thank you for borg

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

nadir_ishiguro — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:40:29 +0000

That's very interesting. Never had noticed anything like that. What kind of workloads are you seeing this with?

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"

nadir_ishiguro — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:04:45 +0000

No, they always very actively did everything they could to get as much money and influence out of whatever political system they're operating under.

The Nazis very happily and intentionally worked together with corporations and the corporations were happy to exploit the free slave labor and lack of competition.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

nadir_ishiguro — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:39:12 +0000

Ah, you're thinking of the world famous Las Vegas Hyperloop!

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles"

nadir_ishiguro — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:24:34 +0000

I was a bit surprised by that when I first learned that from a healthcare worker, but it's true.

I think this should be taken care of by the employer.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up"

nadir_ishiguro — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:36:56 +0000

We might have different ideas of what "sensible" means.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up"

nadir_ishiguro — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:39:42 +0000

This guy? https://www.paulgraham.com/woke.html

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right"

nadir_ishiguro — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:47:07 +0000

Not familiar with how flagging works. Why would it be flagged?

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Careless People"

nadir_ishiguro — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:10:05 +0000

You sound like Jordan Peterson.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS"

nadir_ishiguro — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:55:03 +0000

Love matrix. Improving the onboarding is a great step. I've seen less technical people have issues in that area until now.

Mostly a desktop/web user myself, hoping all that Element X work will trickle down to us.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed"

nadir_ishiguro — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:28:31 +0000

I'm sorry what? Skeptoid the podcast?

Edit: Yes. In 2014. How did I miss that? Used to listen to that podcast, though probably stopped before that.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "Archival Storage"

nadir_ishiguro — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:14:42 +0000

I personally don't believe an archival storage, at least for personal use.

Data has to be living if it is to be kept alive, so keeping the data within reach, moving it to new media over time and keeping redundant copies seems like the best way to me.

Once things are put away, I fear the chances of recovering that data steadily reduce over time.

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)"

nadir_ishiguro — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:53:06 +0000

I'm from Germany and personally prefer Japanese fountain pens, but also value our local brands.

I took for granted that I could go into any small stationary store and buy a LAMY or Pelikan any time I wanted as a child.

"Also, a company in my country started making a paper which rivals Yu-Sari and Tomoe River. I write letters with it, and it's great."

Is that available internationally?

New comment by nadir_ishiguro in "The A.I. Monarchy"

nadir_ishiguro — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 12:27:13 +0000

Yes, because an actual A.I. would somehow be free of biases and magically tend towards justice somehow.