Hacker News: oskarw85

New comment by oskarw85 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

oskarw85 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:33:55 +0000

Thanks, that's awesome! I will give it a try because I love idea of federated networks a lot. Just couldn't find my way in the jungle.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

oskarw85 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:04:48 +0000

It's exactly that. I have an account on Mastodon that I haven't opened in months. I use Bluesky a couple of times a day. On Mastodon I couldn't find interesting accounts to follow for weeks. On Bluesky I was up and running after an hour thanks to starter packs. Ease of use trumps (what a word!) philosophy for me. And probably most other people too.

BTW I already lost 10 years of posting on Twitter. Did not care for a second. Do people REALLY care about their postings on micro blog sites? It's not like a box of photographs that I would pass to my children on my deathbed...

New comment by oskarw85 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

oskarw85 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:44:47 +0000

EU just signed huge deal with India.

Words vs reality.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

oskarw85 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:07:46 +0000

Because all cops are honest, all warrants are lawful and nothing worrying happens in the land of freedom right now.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation"

oskarw85 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:57:13 +0000

Some are very entitled to drawing lines on someone else's property. Why don't you mind your own business?

New comment by oskarw85 in "Gpg.fail"

oskarw85 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:58:02 +0000

Thank you for this excellent explanation!

New comment by oskarw85 in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

oskarw85 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:12:06 +0000

How else are they going to sell it to all those micromanagers who micromanage things?

New comment by oskarw85 in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

oskarw85 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:43:13 +0000

It's cute that you think anyone is going to kiss your American ass.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Microsoft 365 Copilot's commercial failure"

oskarw85 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 02:14:01 +0000

I am just a typical Office user in a small company environment. Copilot buttons started popping in various Office applications. When I asked Copilot in Outlook to summarise mails from one of my contacts it happily searched the Internet and said it found nothing. AAA experience.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

oskarw85 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:15:09 +0000

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New comment by oskarw85 in "Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code"

oskarw85 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 05:00:19 +0000

Not OP but I set Atkinson Hyperlegible on my e-ink reader and it served me well. I feel my reading speed has improved. It is pretty wide though so to put more text on the page I decreased font height a bit.

New comment by oskarw85 in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

oskarw85 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:41:00 +0000

This is a spot-on observation. All LLMs have that "fake it till you make it" attitude together with "failure is not an option" - exactly like junior devs on their first job.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index"

oskarw85 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:15:04 +0000

I switched to Qwant 2 months ago after using DuckDuckGo for 4 years and Google before that. I live in Poland - and Qwant gives me the best search results of them all. Much more relevant than DuckDuckGo and much less sponsored content than Google. I'm really happy about how it works for me.

New comment by oskarw85 in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

oskarw85 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:11:26 +0000

FI²N sounds like a nice first name (Fuck If I Know)

New comment by oskarw85 in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

oskarw85 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 04:05:07 +0000

But how are all those people supposed to know that beforehand? Call yourself whatever you want but don't expect anyone to deal with your name-fuckery. It's called first name for a reason.

New comment by oskarw85 in "Why AI Spending Isn't Slowing Down"

oskarw85 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:17:42 +0000

Because everyone is too afraid to be the first to throw in the towel

New comment by oskarw85 in "Kaneo – An open source project management platform"

oskarw85 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 02:50:05 +0000

Me too

New comment by oskarw85 in "Burn After Wearing"

oskarw85 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:25:38 +0000

Exactly. Such a policy doesn't do anything to curb the amount of waste. It just shifts it to poorer regions and lines Mafia pockets with money

New comment by oskarw85 in "EU Court finds overriding public interest in free access to European standards [pdf]"

oskarw85 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:56:15 +0000

I'm not sure but I understand that this ruling applies only to harmonised standards mentioned in the original rulin. So harmonised standards related to safety of toys directive. Not all harmonised standards.

New comment by oskarw85 in "HDMI Forum does not allow an open source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 spec"

oskarw85 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:40:43 +0000

But this feature works by transmitting HDMI signals so you still need to implement the software part in question.