Hacker News: p2detar

New comment by p2detar in "They're Made Out of Meat"

p2detar — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:56:12 +0000

One of my all-time favourites.

The story as a short-film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

New comment by p2detar in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

p2detar — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:41:40 +0000

> but hetzner costs, what, 5€/m for your own server with 10TB traffic included?

Nope, they bumped the price to €7,13 several months ago. One could still find €5 managed web-hosting though.

New comment by p2detar in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

p2detar — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:03:22 +0000

Yes, these are bad examples. Norway - rich beyond belief due to its energy resources. Switzerland - rich beyond belief because of its developed banking sector. Not sure how Iceland stacks up here. Fishing will be an issue for them, no doubt here.

New comment by p2detar in "Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise"

p2detar — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:12:04 +0000

The SMR in Darlington, Canada is already in construction.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/darlington-smr-n...

New comment by p2detar in "Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise"

p2detar — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:01:59 +0000

This assumes that the renewables built are actually contributing to the economy, which we don‘t actually know for sure. In fact there was an article stating that they discard a lot of the energy produced because the grid cannot deliver. [1]

> China, the world's top producer of solar power, rejected 360 terawatt-hours (TWh) of clean power from January to June, up 49% from the same period a year earlier, according to a report this month by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).

1 - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-leads-wave-cle...

New comment by p2detar in "Get your Windows license refund"

p2detar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:09:05 +0000

Fair point, hehe. Well in all fairness, I do use it at work because of our customers, but other than that I'd never touch it.

New comment by p2detar in "Get your Windows license refund"

p2detar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:06:35 +0000

They mostly use Firefox on the laptop, like 95% of the time - FB, YouTube, GDrive, some web games. I also got them uBlock installed. No issues so far. Firefox works really fast. Memory pressure is low, even when watching YT videos, probably 1.5-2GB at most. I though 6GB won't be enough and installed zram, but honestly - the OS never touches the swap, at least when I tested it. Will check the state again in a couple of months.

New comment by p2detar in "Get your Windows license refund"

p2detar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:08:20 +0000

I finally found the time this year to replace my parents' old T-series Thinkpad Windows 8 with Linux Mint. I also upgraded the hard drive to an SSD. The result - a 15 years old machine i5 Dual Core with 6GB RAM now boots and works extremely fast as compared to before. Also with USB and wireless mouse support out of the box - I didn't have to touch anything.

Sorry, if this offends anyone, but Windows (non-Server editions) is a junk OS that I never ever want to see or use again.

New comment by p2detar in "Apple is getting this wrong"

p2detar — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:35:37 +0000

> devices that had a work managed profile on them could still be completely wiped

No, personally-owned devices with a work profile cannot be wiped remotely using mdm. But company-owned with our without personal profile can be wiped by a mdm.

New comment by p2detar in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

p2detar — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:18:01 +0000

In all fairness humans can also be considered next token predictors. It could be said that’s how we communicate with one another today. Presently LLMs lack other things, like physical presence in the world and continuity of input sensory data.

New comment by p2detar in "Don't be a meat proxy"

p2detar — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:45:49 +0000

Last week a colleague did this to me; pasted to me in chat "Gemini said". I just ignored it and went with talking about the issue on another thread. I like LLMs and I use them every day, but I'm not gonna answer copy&pasted LLM stuff in human to human conversation. Distill it and let me know your thoughts; I don't need to read you LLM output, I can generate that myself.

New comment by p2detar in "Software for One"

p2detar — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:22:53 +0000

Indeed, but it probably won‘t get any easier for us devs when clients also get easier access to open weight LLMs. I mean from personal experience 40 tok/s on an M3 pro with gpt-oss-20b holds up quite well for lots of tasks. Thinks are changing so fast.

New comment by p2detar in "Software for One"

p2detar — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:53:41 +0000

Building software steadily becomes accessible to non-developers. A freelance client I had now does most things alone with chatgpt. As a developer I have less and less the urge to build software. Instead I lately started doing more hardware stuff - flashing devices, setting up RPis and antennas, learning to solder. I hope I can keep my software dev job until retirement, but I‘m a bit pessimistic on that matter.

New comment by p2detar in "How to Exist"

p2detar — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:32:38 +0000

> The author of the post is selling what he himself doesn't understand. Paying attention to your inner chatter without judgement is part of a much broader tradition. Westerners stealing bits from cultures they don't understand is nothing new.

Quite the elitist thing to say and a bit obsolete in the type of overly-connected world we live in today. Perhaps the author just shared personal experience; they did in fact write that the word „meditation“ was deliberately omitted.

New comment by p2detar in "How to Exist"

p2detar — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:23:57 +0000

Not everything must be stats and numbers. You either try it and find out if it works for you or you don‘t. As simple as that.

New comment by p2detar in "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"

p2detar — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:53:28 +0000

I swear music trackers had the most impressive UI back then. FastTracker and ImpulseTracker were to me the highest piece of art and engineering at the time. They kind of hold up even to this day. Especially ImpulseTracker's instruments and sample editor.

New comment by p2detar in "Our position on open-weights models"

p2detar — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:11:28 +0000

I have read the WHO [0] report and the conclusion is "possibly to likely" about the zoonotic origin of Covid, so no there isn't conclusive report how it came to be.

> If there is a cover up it is to hide incompetence.

Which is my point to GP's "reliable" argument. China is not reliable and has its own interests at play just like the US or any other state for that matter, regardless of its international partnerships. It does want to project itself as "reliable" - that I can't deny.

0 - https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-...

New comment by p2detar in "Codeberg Divides"

p2detar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:49:51 +0000

> You are effectively saying you do not trust the judgement of the community to accept you long term. Why is that?

I think the blog post explained exactly that. To quote:

> The actual wording makes this more difficult. The terms prohibit projects that mostly consist of code written by generative AI tools. In an actively developed codebase, what does “mostly” mean, and who can still tell? I could not reliably assign authorship percentages to many of my own recent projects. The line is open to interpretation precisely where it needs to be enforceable.

New comment by p2detar in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

p2detar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:41:28 +0000

If your goal is to just store your repos, even Gogs will do. I self-host Forgejo on sqlite and it‘s been great thusfar. I do not yet use runners, so can‘t say much about that. The Docker registry they offer is a bit awkward to use but better than nothing. My instance is only intranet visible, so I only push to http:// remotes. I have my repos docker volume backed up automatically, so I feel like I got a pretty solid setup right now.

New comment by p2detar in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

p2detar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:36:45 +0000

> It's clear that this excludes vibe coding. But what about LLM-assisted coding, where the developer writes very clear instructions of what to do and carefully reviews every line?

My impression is that they don‘t care, it’s still ”slop” for them and for most of coderbergers for that matter.

But I do exactly this. It‘s a code base that I have written prior manually, before LLMs, so now this helps a lot with boilerplate and add features. LLM-assisted is not vibe-coding, but FWIW I don‘t care what others think.