Hacker News: onel

New comment by onel in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

onel — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:35:29 +0000

On web I use an adblocker to block annoying google popups, including the Gemini one in gmail.

Immich is an amazing alternative. People should give it a chance. One click install: https://malmo.network/store/immich

New comment by onel in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

onel — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:05:16 +0000

That was a good way of thinking you had. It still is.

Malmo OS has the same mission as sandstome but I guess the focus is more around docker containers

New comment by onel in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

onel — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:35:12 +0000

As others said, baserow is a good one. Pretty easy to self-host with something like https://malmo.network/store/baserow (founder here)

New comment by onel in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

onel — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:27:03 +0000

Wow, unbelievable find

New comment by onel in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

onel — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:23:43 +0000

I totally agree with this but it doesn't have to be a non-profit. Perfectly fine if you you build a for-profit company on top of open public standards.

New comment by onel in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

onel — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:21:09 +0000

The main reason for that is because most of the interactions back then were based on Open standards: rss, email, etc. If we want to get back to that. We need to start using Open standards for all things: chat - signal, social media - activity pub / at proto, news/blogs - rss, long messages - email A public open standard solves most of the problems of walled gardens

New comment by onel in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

onel — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:55:43 +0000

It is a scary thought but I kind of like this idea. Having a yubi key that is issued by the government that is unique to you and has your age saved on it, it's by far the most private and secure way to verify your age.

New comment by onel in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

onel — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:54:05 +0000

Out of all the 3rd parties, I think the government is the one that we can more cleanly hold accountable. Not only through voting but also requiring transparency. Is it the perfect system? Hell no, but the incentives for a traditional LLC not aligned with what this kind of service should offer

New comment by onel in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

onel — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:32:39 +0000

I'm a happy dell monitor user as well

New comment by onel in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

onel — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:41:37 +0000

As a PSA, there is the Consent-O-Matic family of extensions that makes option available at the browser level. You can choose the level of "tracking" you are comfortable with. They automatically choose the option in the cookie banners. Not a perfect solution, especially with custom made cookie banners but worka really well overall. Haven't clicked on a banner in years

New comment by onel in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

onel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:55:07 +0000

Sure, but that's not the same thing. How they use the data is the important part. The google photos are not to be used for security for example. Different ToS. We should try and not have a defeatist attitude and fight back as much as we can

New comment by onel in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

onel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:51:31 +0000

Self-hosting will become the norm very soon. I think the usual bottlenecks of "hard to manage, no backup" are no longer there. There are very good managed self-hosting solutions so you don't need to worry about anything. You just run your immich instance and you're good

New comment by onel in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

onel — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:27:37 +0000

I agree with this and I think it's the right way to think about it. They have the right to create their community as they want to. No one is forced to use them.

If a gitea instance only wants to offer free hosting only for rust projects, that's their right. I think the problem here is that codeberg was seen as a GitHub replacement and people were expecting the same openness, even if it was restricted only to open source projects.

New comment by onel in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

onel — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:52:06 +0000

I think it's their right to build the community they want. If the rules they find good for them. We're not forced to use them.

I think we're going to start seeing this more often, as more people and orgs are moving towards self-hosting or not relying on one central community hub, be it for code hosting, chat, etc

New comment by onel in "Yubikey 5.8: Verified Authorization for the New Era of Identity and AI"

onel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:56:13 +0000

They are pretty expensive .I think of the production is around 10-15 bucks, so a pretty nice margin

New comment by onel in "Yubikey 5.8: Verified Authorization for the New Era of Identity and AI"

onel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:55:12 +0000

True, I got one from ARS. Still my favorite one

New comment by onel in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

onel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:19:02 +0000

That's exactly the problem that I tried to solve with the OS I'm working on. You can have a shared jellyfin instance if you want everyone to access the same library. But you can also create OS users, with their own jellyfin instance, and within that you can set access or only to certain folders. That only have the contents that you want them to access.

It's not as efficient as granting access within jellyfin, but it's pretty close to what you're trying to do.

New comment by onel in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"

onel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:17:30 +0000

So good to see so many articles pop up on hn regarding self-hosting and home labbing

New comment by onel in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

onel — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:13:23 +0000

That was a good read.

But this is the kind of experience that makes technical people fall in love with self-hosting, but also keeps the majority of the population away.

Most of the people don't want the hassle of managing a self-hosting box.

I think a middle ground option might where someone hosts it for you, but you can also move to your own hardware at any time might be best

New comment by onel in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

onel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:37:14 +0000

I think your comments might be overly negative. Would you expect the first model from an organization to top the chart? It's a process, I think they did pretty good. They have enough resources to continue improving on it