Hacker News: newsat13

New comment by newsat13 in "Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings"

newsat13 — Wed, 05 May 2021 18:30:11 +0000

Isn't this very similar to uber/lyft which undercut "professional" drivers? Or airbnb undercutting professional hotel services? I thought we let free market decide who wins and so if people are willing to do for free by their free will, why shouldn't they?

New comment by newsat13 in "On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness"

newsat13 — Tue, 04 May 2021 19:41:36 +0000

This comment sounds so dismissive. And yet the first thing noted as benefits of a relationship is "cheaper". That's truly sad.

New comment by newsat13 in "No More Google"

newsat13 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:03:24 +0000

Yeah, in HN there is a lot of anti-google (even anti-apple) sentiment but at they same time I get the feeling most users don't change their behavior just because of that. Everyone loves their iphones and macs and google home, I get it... I used to mistake techies to be trend setters. I understand now that they are completely different types of people. techies are more like consumers, whereas trend setters are more like people pushing limits and changing their life(style) for the fun of it. I have commented before here but I would imagine self-hosting is really not a big deal. These days we have amazing options like cloudron, yunohost, sandstorm etc that help people install apps and manage their servers but I don't see many comments from people actually doing it.

New comment by newsat13 in "Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life"

newsat13 — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:59:02 +0000

For those into self-hosting, there's some really up and coming options these days - Cloudron, Yunohost, homelabos. Sandstorm also seems some activity again these days (come on guys!). Honestly, it really is not that hard to degoogle these days especially if you are a techie.

New comment by newsat13 in "Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?"

newsat13 — Fri, 22 May 2020 22:23:38 +0000

Self hosting - https://cloudron.io

New comment by newsat13 in "Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack"

newsat13 — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:45:48 +0000

When I checked mattermost a year ago, the mattermost opensource edition had no basic permissions/access control. Any user could archive any channel. I have seen many teams fall into this "trap" only to find this basic restriction later. We since moved to Rocket.Chat. Is this still the case?

New comment by newsat13 in "Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?"

newsat13 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 04:42:13 +0000

Agree with you in general.

> it simply isn't practical to make the kind of radical transition you're advocating for

The above line is exactly my point. We think changing ourselves is impractical. But we want the rest of the world to abide by our views of "green" and "sustainable living".

New comment by newsat13 in "Let Children Get Bored Again"

newsat13 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 02:45:35 +0000

yeah, exactly this. you don't need to force boredom on kids. simply set an example. the kids are merely a reflection of what the parents are doing. like how many parents "force" themselves to be alone and be creative for a couple of hours everyday? most of my fellow friends are just binge watching or playing video games in their free time. kids are following their footsteps.

New comment by newsat13 in "Why Is the Amazon Rain Forest Disappearing?"

newsat13 — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 02:37:43 +0000

Unless we as a society return to a simpler lifestyle of living, I see this as an unsolvable problem. For example, everyone in the US is trumpeting climate change and what not. And yet just walk into any starbucks and any supermarket and restaurant - none of that stuff is really recyclable. People generate tons of trash by using home delivery packages via amazon and non-recyclable food containers. Cars everywhere and completely unmaintained public transport. People really aren't willing to make a change but will go on about paris agreement and hate on trump. Their actions and life style say otherwise. What is then wrong with people in other countries wanting a similar life style?

New comment by newsat13 in "GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)"

newsat13 — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 16:27:03 +0000

Look into cloudron.io, this is exactly what they do. They provide SaaS-style updates for self-hosted opensource software.

New comment by newsat13 in "Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN"

newsat13 — Fri, 18 May 2018 04:03:09 +0000

While the forum software needs to be decent, I don't think it is the fundamental reason it succeeds or not.

New comment by newsat13 in "What we've learned from building Ghost after 5 years and $3M"

newsat13 — Wed, 16 May 2018 19:03:54 +0000

Ghost is great. Would love to see support for LDAP/Oauth.

New comment by newsat13 in "All images of the Facebook ads Russians purchased during the election"

newsat13 — Fri, 11 May 2018 22:47:57 +0000

That was anti-climatic. How exactly did these ads sway the election? In fact, many of them are pro-gay and have liberal idea.

New comment by newsat13 in "Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand"

newsat13 — Thu, 10 May 2018 16:21:41 +0000

Sorry to break it to you, but Hangouts is dead.

New comment by newsat13 in "Growing a Time Tracking Software to $316,000/Month"

newsat13 — Wed, 09 May 2018 21:58:16 +0000

Are these revenue claims somehow verified? I know that indiehackers never verified them, is failory any different?

New comment by newsat13 in "SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel"

newsat13 — Fri, 04 May 2018 23:17:18 +0000

sogo stable builds are closed.

New comment by newsat13 in "Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app"

newsat13 — Fri, 04 May 2018 21:10:46 +0000

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New comment by newsat13 in "DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product"

newsat13 — Fri, 04 May 2018 17:32:40 +0000

Yeah, S3 is not flawless but DO spaces had problems with just 5000 objects.

New comment by newsat13 in "DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product"

newsat13 — Thu, 03 May 2018 04:54:11 +0000

Yeah, DO Spaces is all around awful. Deleting is extremely slow as well. We had to write special code because DO cannot delete 1000 objects at a time (takes like 2 minutes for the api call to succeed, if it succeeds at all). To the extent that we had to just resort to delete entire buckets. The UI also keep crashing when there are many objects :(

New comment by newsat13 in "I've spent the last two years building a new email client"

newsat13 — Wed, 02 May 2018 20:05:25 +0000

Is there any pricing information?