Hacker News: opless

New comment by opless in "MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers"

opless — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:27:12 +0000

Actually the entire whois database is "privacy protected" because of GPDR (if my memory is correct)

Thankfully, because I used to get postal scams for the hundred or so domains I used to host.

You good for tinfoil bro?

New comment by opless in "MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers"

opless — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:00:07 +0000

In countries other than the USA there are strict controls on personal information.

The UK/European countries have GPDR for example.

New comment by opless in "Plan 9 from User Space"

opless — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:49:15 +0000

I was correcting the user's "plan9" comment.

It's a port of a collection of plan 9 userspace to a non-9 operating system.

Perhaps you've now learnt something

New comment by opless in "Plan 9 from User Space"

opless — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:52:40 +0000

Yes, not plan9.

I despair at your (and GGP) lack of comprehension

New comment by opless in "Plan 9 from User Space"

opless — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:11:38 +0000

* plan9 PORT sigh the clue is in the name

New comment by opless in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

opless — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:22:23 +0000

Yes, and to be paid via PAYE you need a NI number.

The prove right to work is a slightly newer thing thats additional

New comment by opless in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

opless — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:12:43 +0000

We've seen this before and we'll probably see it again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NO2ID

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

New comment by opless in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

opless — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:06:27 +0000

Not really. British governments have always been increasingly authoritarian.

The stated reason is to stop illegals working.

Unfortunately we have an ID for working, called a national insurance number. We literally can't get legally paid without it.

So a National ID card ... Is irrelevant. You still need this number for benefits, etc.

I've got an NI number, a driving license and a passport. Not to mention a NHS number.

I don't need another form of identification to link together everything about me so my government can leak everywhere.

New comment by opless in "Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used"

opless — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:35:46 +0000

Sorry, you're not trying hard enough to find bad cases of terrible professional software.

Besides, the article reads like a noob using xcode for the first time.

New comment by opless in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

opless — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:46:35 +0000

True.

I'm in rural UK. Blessed with fast fibre. However if the power goes out, it's a proper blackout. I'm slowly sorting out the ups situation along with nut

When the power goes out or fibre dies I cannot rely on 4/5G as they die also, so starlink is the only option

New comment by opless in "Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor"

opless — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:04:57 +0000

Not S3, but I use longhorn to store persistent data on my clusters.

Sometimes you'll need admin skills, but only if you spread your cluster out over availability zones or poor connections

New comment by opless in "Apple typewriter ban memo"

opless — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:40:59 +0000

Huh? It was fairly common for typewriter ribbons to be destroyed where confidential information was typed, as it was possible to acquire previously typed characters.

New comment by opless in "Fallom – Coding interviews that let you use AI"

opless — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:44:56 +0000

I'd rather there be no coding interviews.

Honestly it's disrespectful.

New comment by opless in "Recommendation for non-DOS/Unix open source OS outside x86/X64"

opless — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:42:30 +0000

In two aspects only

1. Everything is a file. 2. A command does only one thing well

There's no init, fstab, etc etc etc. Very little of your Unix muscle memory will work.

New comment by opless in "Recommendation for non-DOS/Unix open source OS outside x86/X64"

opless — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:36:35 +0000

It’s not as unix-y as you think.

Go try it

New comment by opless in "Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap"

opless — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:03:34 +0000

I just know a lot of children will be introduced to orienteering by their parents due to this ;-)

New comment by opless in "Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill"

opless — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:54:58 +0000

I've a similar story, but 35 years ago, a situation which was entirely my fault, 100cc and 'shit'.

Ended up with a sore knee, bent forks and a realisation that leaning plus braking in the wet is a great way to make a nice groove into the asphalt!

New comment by opless in "Boston Dynamics robot Atlas goes hands on [video]"

opless — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:29:03 +0000

Or Indonesia

New comment by opless in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

opless — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:23:01 +0000

Hmm the NDK is for userspace, you can remove functions out of the standard libraries, but the Linux syscall API will likely be untouched

Apple does this too for its more locked down devices.

I've been coding since the 80s too. I had assumed from your hubris and ignorance that you were young. My mistake, it's clear that you're merely an idiot.

Enjoy the weekend, happy in the knowledge that I shall no longer be engaging with you.

New comment by opless in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

opless — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:56:23 +0000

My dear summer child. My degree trained me to build computers from logic, write an operating system, write userspace code and applications (with a side of AI) all before the year 2000.

I don't know where you did your degree or when. But my friend you are objectively wrong.

Termux no longer runs because it no longer allows (possibly using Linux capabilities?) subprocesses from around Android 10. Android 12 if memory serves actually starts killing background processes.

No hacks. Unless your degree says using the POSIX fork()/exec() API as "hacks".

Please don't embarrass yourself further. It was quite painful reading your prior response.