Hacker News: okr

New comment by okr in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

okr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:51:13 +0000

And probably stuffed with tax money. As usual.

New comment by okr in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

okr — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:36:05 +0000

Depends how deep you wanna go.

New comment by okr in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

okr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:11:13 +0000

I find no arguments against solar. I can put it everywhere and has no moving parts. Once storing is solved, perfect.

But wind?? Huge nature areas are destroyed by beton fundaments, rotors break, and just in germany was a scandal lately about recycling, as the first structures need to be renewed.

New comment by okr in "Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace"

okr — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:56:17 +0000

Who are you again?

New comment by okr in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

okr — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:29:01 +0000

Huh? I think the press in germany was never as free as it is now. A lot of new publications and competition. And that Trump is not reflected critically, nope, i do not agree.

New comment by okr in "Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI"

okr — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:09:37 +0000

ChatGPT or CoPilot were awesome products at the time. I do not use them anymore these days. But to me it felt never like i was abused. And Investment into companies is what it is, a risk. But the results remain forever, whoever wins.

New comment by okr in "Toxicity on Social Media"

okr — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:57:40 +0000

Yeah, have the same sentiment towards Twitter before it has been bought by Mr. Musk. You were always close to being banned. And the American government was colluding. I don't like the tone on X now, but hey, no one silences me, and that is awesome.

New comment by okr in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

okr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:21:14 +0000

To my believe there was not a goal to write good code. The goal was maintainability and to keep it simple, so that people understand. People come and go, you constantly get to see foreign code and you have to do something with it.

Anyways, i see the maintainability hell coming onto us. I still wonder how i organize this with AI. I definitly do not want to touch it what is written by AI.

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:29:42 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:42:37 +0000

Oh man, i can not even imagine setting up something like this by hand. Maybe with terraform.

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:37:59 +0000

Thank you.

I pay like 10 euro per month. For tailscale with Mullad VPN, which has like 50 countries setup with several exit-nodes in each country.

But with blocking. :)

New comment by okr in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

okr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:04:47 +0000

I use tailscale and mullvad vpn for a list of exit nodes i can choose from to work around restrictions, but also bad routing.

Like, when in asia and the route is to europe, sometimes it adds weird hops, while when i use an exit-node in Japan, i know, i have perfect routing to Japan and from there perfect routing to europe.

But the Mullvad VPN exit nodes often runs into problems like cloudflare blocking. So i am looking for alternative, not well known providers for exit-nodes.

Sometimes i even dream of sending my europe traffic via the internal aws network via regions, but hey...

New comment by okr in "Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online"

okr — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:51:12 +0000

Or women vs. men, same.

New comment by okr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

okr — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:22:55 +0000

I hope not. I am in general fine with Ads for content, even with profiling to what i listen and so on. But if you pay for subscription to get no Ads and still you get Ads from Spotify, then it is plain stupid.

New comment by okr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

okr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:55:03 +0000

Piracy is also predatory, just saying.

New comment by okr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

okr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:49:52 +0000

The last straw was for me the ads on podcasts as a paid subscriber. I miss my playlists.

New comment by okr in "Java 26 is here"

okr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:47:58 +0000

I also like Kotlin. The readability is awesome. ;)

  inline fun  Any?.cryptic() = (this as? T)?.let { it::class.simpleName?.also(::println) } ?: Unit

New comment by okr in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

okr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:08:20 +0000

Competition is good.

Will it be accepted in hotels abroad? Can i withdraw cash at ATM abroad? Can i add it as a card to my Google wallet?

Usually banks app are nightmare. Pins everywhere, extra passwords. MFA not with my dongle....

Sigh.

Seriously, I have had no issues with visa or mastercard. This euro-nationalism is odd to me.

New comment by okr in "Parking lots as economic drains"

okr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:47:56 +0000

Nope. The first thing i do in the warm car, is to turn the music on, making a stop at my favourite coffee shop and then i hit the road, humming my favourite songs. I barely drive anyways, its all automatic.

In mass-transit facilities all the people look at their screens, using headphones, waiting to be coughed on, scared to be not talked to, anxiety all around. Nope, not for me. Never looking into a dirty public toilet again, while the society yells: "but its free!".

Progress, folx, not regress. Come out of your bubbles, ignore the voices, that tell ya, hundreds of human bodies efficiently transported in an iron can is progress! Live! Expand! Use everything!

New comment by okr in "Parking lots as economic drains"

okr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:08:53 +0000

Not in my city. Business is all dying, everyone avoids to go to the centre, everywhere the city fights cars, handy man charge extra just for comings, nah, it's basically gated communities now, well, they can have it, but life happens somewhere else then, where it can expand freely.