Hacker News: permalac

New comment by permalac in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

permalac — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:43:04 +0000

Nothing has been learnt from Cambridge analitica?

Is our society this simple?

New comment by permalac in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

permalac — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:18:26 +0000

Why is not relevant?

He hosts, he decides, he buys.

Are we so naive that one can think stakeholders are not involved in decision making?

He had more decision power than most shareholders ever will.

New comment by permalac in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

permalac — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:29:38 +0000

What is the irony here?

New comment by permalac in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

permalac — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:40:32 +0000

The next generation of leaders know there are no consequences to cheating, that's what I get out of this.

New comment by permalac in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

permalac — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:15:57 +0000

Used them both for years.

Outlook eats Gmail for breakfast. The way shared accounts, lists, and work assignments are done in Outlook require their backend (share point inheritance), and google drive is pretty good even for some small files, but when all is considered O365 wins.

Then if you are in Europe, you should not use any of those and other very good solutions are currently growing super fast.

New comment by permalac in "Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec"

permalac — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:45:45 +0000

I'm currently working on a tui which includes photorec and foremost among others.

I have also created my first dockerhub image, as the plan is to run it as container on top of a zfs in Truenas.

I'm basically on a hunt for all data, I have 7 disks and some USB that I have imaged and I need to get data out, and I will need to organised all that data (this part is still a work in progress), ideas welcomed.

https://github.com/joanmarcriera/hdd-recovery

New comment by permalac in "A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)"

permalac — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:56:03 +0000

That is correct.

New comment by permalac in "Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion"

permalac — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:32:27 +0000

I'm proud to say I retired more k8s clusters than I created. And I've created 5 production ones, still in production.

One that I retired was used for serving ftp(among other transfer stuff), ftp of all things, it needs to have ports open and routed back from the client. And for extra points they had the pods capped at 1 cpu. And I had to explain the thing to the perpetrator and their boss, madness.

New comment by permalac in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

permalac — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:01:54 +0000

Hold on. Turns out some scientists found out the amount of plastic was over measured because it included the plastic of their own gloves. I've read it last week, can not found the source now. Sorry

New comment by permalac in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

permalac — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:01:59 +0000

That logic is very short term and while comical isn't close to reality.

I hope you live a long and prosper life so you can see the consequences of this presidential term fully unfold.

New comment by permalac in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

permalac — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:58:14 +0000

I understand your point. And I agree on people without life changing fluctuations in currency will hardly understand that side of bitcoin value.

New comment by permalac in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

permalac — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:51:36 +0000

I did some research.

They were shutting down because of lack of gas. They secured some, so they will not shut down, only operate at 60% capacity.

If they shut down they represent less than 1% of world production.

New comment by permalac in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

permalac — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:47:59 +0000

Why does it take so long?

New comment by permalac in "Advent of Code 2025"

permalac — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:57:24 +0000

Does anyone know about any good sysadmin advent?

New comment by permalac in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

permalac — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:09:09 +0000

Electricity bill would be huge. Great heaters tho

New comment by permalac in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

permalac — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:39:11 +0000

Android users will at some point next year not be able to install software unless the developer has paid and registered itsef with Google, and Google has approved the developer and the software (for an uncertain amount of time).

That is not nice.

New comment by permalac in "FSF announces Librephone project"

permalac — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:10:09 +0000

I'd like to see an android auto replacement, and them partnering with existing free phone approaches.

Two many xkcd already about creating new standards.

New comment by permalac in "Ollama's new app"

permalac — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:48:59 +0000

Vibe coding?

New comment by permalac in "Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops"

permalac — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:07:05 +0000

Flock can be used in a single line for example for cronjobs.

Flock -s file && script.

Pretty simple. (I forgot the argument, I think is -s..

New comment by permalac in "The probability of a hash collision (2022)"

permalac — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:01:25 +0000

Honest question.

How does one write something like this?

I get the interest, and the review process. What I mean is, is this a hobby where someone is passionate about soothing, or does some employers allow people to work on side projects?

I feel my life is mostly about direct value, and I don't really understand where I went wrong in the path for meaningful knowledge.

Any philosophical help will be very welcome, as you correctly guest I'm a bit lost.