Hacker News: omnimus

New comment by omnimus in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

omnimus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:00:18 +0000

You are right. I don't know really. I thought that because i find Ansel a bit easier to operate.

New comment by omnimus in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

omnimus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:51:31 +0000

I also have no clue why people use it.

You can build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

New comment by omnimus in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

omnimus — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:51:48 +0000

There is even Darktable fork Ansel where they try to roll back lot of these ux mishaps.

Once you care only about editing and not cataloging then RawTherapee ends up being better editor for mr.

New comment by omnimus in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

omnimus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:45:32 +0000

This might be true for some type of companies but in general it's absolutely not true. Not in my experience anyway.

New comment by omnimus in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

omnimus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:52:25 +0000

Interesting. By some luck i've been using Grist for two years and it just feels like the most no nonsense software. But it's a bit different to excel, i would say it's more like airtable. It's more columnar like gui over sqlite database which might be a bit more restricting BUT it greatly helps data integrity.

New comment by omnimus in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

omnimus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:52:19 +0000

Putting home address of one of the journalists in a video when you have milion subscribers (many of which know about your beef)... that's not fun.

New comment by omnimus in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

omnimus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:50:22 +0000

I've read the original article again and I don't think people read it. The whole interview is very supportive and based around how much shit she is getting. How she is hated for he appearance, how people don't believe she is technically skilled, that people thinks she is a fake persona or that some male is designing her whole career. Also that she gets many personal threats.

This is just her talking about herself and I am not sure how this is about chinese gov politics or how it is damning/doxing her.

Anyway her response was to find home address of one of the editors and put it in her next video. If i would be journalist and somebody did that to me i would expect my company to use their lawyers.

New comment by omnimus in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

omnimus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:03:45 +0000

One of the journalists was Jason Koebler who later cofounded 404media. That is imho pretty legit outlet which uncovered many pretty damning stories about tech.

New comment by omnimus in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

omnimus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:59:54 +0000

I am not sure this is that clear cut. Naomi Wu agreed to interview then didn't want to answer some of the questions - instead of just saying no… she wrote social media threads and blogposts about how she can't talk about this because it's big bad china and all these western journalists are unprofessional not knowing her risk. For some reason then she tried to actually dox one of the journalists in her video.

Unfortunately looking back it seems pretty plausible that chinese gov censored her exactly because of her blogposts about how she is in danger in china.

New comment by omnimus in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

omnimus — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:33:19 +0000

But that's what has changed. Even short term solar is becoming the obvious solution. Look at countries like Pakistan and their solar hyper growth.

Everybody thought it has to be western countries (mostly europe) switching to solar first. But west might actually be last to get off fossil because they can afford it and populist politics will force fossil. It's like burning fossil for nostalgia.

New comment by omnimus in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

omnimus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:45:49 +0000

Unfortunately the museum itself is pretty lame. I don't recommend.

New comment by omnimus in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

omnimus — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:54:19 +0000

I also prefer around 90-100c with swings of humidity. I think it's most exciting exactly because you can make it temporarily more intensive with the "humid wave".

It's the most popular type of sauna - "the sauna" for a reason.

New comment by omnimus in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

omnimus — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:10:29 +0000

This would be same in Germany and eastern european countries too. But it really depend on humidity. High humidity saunas don't have to be hot and get tough pretty quicky. 100c dry sauna is lot more manageable than 60c humid sauna (atleast to me).

New comment by omnimus in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

omnimus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:57:54 +0000

Imho CMS is just a tool that generates static html files on the server. The distinction is a bit artificial. CMSes have static html cashing and CDNs will allow you to "one-click" firewall the dynamic administration and cache the static html for you.

Static website generators are cool way for programmers to do that work on their machine but in the end the distinction of what gets served is very small (if you set up the basics).

New comment by omnimus in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

omnimus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:42:45 +0000

The constant hacks are side effect of Wordpress popularity. Every discovered security flaw is exploited by bots almost immediately. Unless you keep up with the updates you are very vulnerable. It is not because wordpress is built on "legacy" stack. Other CMSes on that stack (and many are very popular) don't have this problem.

New comment by omnimus in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

omnimus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:07:41 +0000

I am confused - what are the good “websites” roots? Server-side rendered or not?

New comment by omnimus in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

omnimus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:48:41 +0000

There is quite a bit more competition though. For example OnShape is imho sweetspot and it's also kinda free.

New comment by omnimus in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

omnimus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:47:44 +0000

Try https://www.plasticity.xyz/

New comment by omnimus in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

omnimus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:41:27 +0000

3dDune is actually pretty capable and simple for basic usecases.

Plasticity for free form hard surface CAD modeling.

If you need parametric CAD then the learning curve jumps significantly and FreeCAD nowdays actually makes sense as with a bit of practice and customization you get to great place.

FreeCAD feels like Blender few years before v2.80 - people outright dismissed it because it had a bit unconventional UX but underneath was already the extremely solid software that now dominates 3D polygon modeling. FreeCAD doesn't have that much of a momentum but i wouldn't be surprised if they became Blender of CAD over time.

New comment by omnimus in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

omnimus — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:28:05 +0000

That's pretty rough criticism considering FreeCAD how great work FreeCAD team has been doing on UX recently.

Also all of the software mentioned above has very little UI/UX and also ambition compared to FreeCAD.