Hacker News: praseodym

New comment by praseodym in "We need a federation of forges"

praseodym — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:52:50 +0000

Forgejo also has a roadmap for federation but it looks like development is progressing rather slowly: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

New comment by praseodym in "Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool"

praseodym — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:54:28 +0000

ZFS on Linux has had many bugs over the years, notably with ZFS-native encryption and especially sending/receiving encrypted volumes. Another issue is that using swap on ZFS is still guaranteed to hang the kernel in low memory scenarios, because ZFS needs to allocate memory to write to swap.

New comment by praseodym in "Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5"

praseodym — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:36:15 +0000

I'm seeing 4-4.5 Watt idle. I've disabled WiFi in the BIOS (using wired Ethernet) and ran `powertop --auto-tune`, but not much else.

New comment by praseodym in "Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5"

praseodym — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:06:14 +0000

I’m using an ASUS NUC 14 Essential Kit N355. It’s a bit more expensive than the Pi 5, but also more powerful (8 cores and decent GPU). There is also a more affordable N150 model. And even lower budget are the N150 mini PCs from Chinese manufacturers, but they often mess up things like cooling in a hardware revision (compared to the favorable review that you’d read).

And forgot to mention this before: Intel CPUs with built-in GPUs have very performant and energy efficient hardware video codecs, whereas the Raspberry Pi 5 is limited and lacks software support.

New comment by praseodym in "Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5"

praseodym — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:05:52 +0000

This is exactly why I’ve to replaced my home server by a low-power x86 NUC instead. No custom build needed to run NixOS and idle power consumption turns out to be slightly lower than the Raspberry Pi 5.

New comment by praseodym in "Zed will require age identification for its services"

praseodym — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:45:32 +0000

They sent out an email to clarify that there will be no age verification and that the '18 or older' rule was introduced to avoid that:

> You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service (Zed’s AI-enabled software-as-a-service offering, including features like account creation/sign in, Zed Free and Zed Pro, and collaboration). See https://zed.dev/terms#21-eligibility. We set the threshold at 18 due to children's data privacy obligations under COPPA, equivalent international frameworks, and an increasing number of state and regional laws that extend protections to anyone under 18. Those regulations require parental consent verification, age-gated data handling, and separate retention policies for minors. Building and maintaining that infrastructure is a real cost for a small team, and getting it wrong carries regulatory risk. Setting the line at 18 lets us maintain a single privacy framework for all account holders without carve-outs.

New comment by praseodym in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

praseodym — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:54:00 +0000

The hardware is great, but the software is lacking. macOS only supports resolution-based scaling which makes anything but the default 200% pixel scaling mode look bad. For example, with a 27" 4K display many users will want to use 150% or 175% scaling to get enough real estate, but the image will look blurry because macOS renders at a higher resolution and then downscales to the 4K resolution of the screen.

Both Windows and Linux (Wayland) support scaling the UI itself, and with their support for sub-pixel anti-aliasing (that macOS also lacks) this makes text look a lot more crisp.

New comment by praseodym in "Sparse File LRU Cache"

praseodym — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:35:23 +0000

Microsoft MS-DOS and Windows supported this in the 90s with DriveSpace, and modern file systems like btrfs and zfs also support transparent compression.

New comment by praseodym in "Bugs Apple loves"

praseodym — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:25:45 +0000

Issues caused by restoring from backups were super common in the early iOS days. It makes me wonder how many weird bugs can be fixed these days by starting from scratch instead of migrating years of cruft through backup/restore.

New comment by praseodym in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

praseodym — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:37:30 +0000

They might not be dependent on ad revenue, but they are a greedy company that will not leave any money on the table. Next year, more ads are coming to the App Store that already generates a profit of over $10 billion/year: https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces-more-ads-are-...

New comment by praseodym in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

praseodym — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:32:27 +0000

MacOS doesn’t have a gatekeeper status in the Digital Markets Act (DMA), so Apple doesn’t need to provide it. This shows that they only provide the SDK because of regulatory pressure, and try to maintain their vendor lock-in where possible.

New comment by praseodym in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

praseodym — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 08:13:36 +0000

Multipoint connectivity is part of the spec but apparently AirPods only support it if you pretend to be an Apple device.

Apple's new 15% mini-app deal gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in

praseodym — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:36:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/15/apple_tencent_app_deal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936224

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by praseodym in "Advent of Code 2025, there will be 12 days of puzzles"

praseodym — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:47:24 +0000

The FAQ mentions there will be only 12 days of puzzles and no global leaderboard: https://adventofcode.com/2025/about#faq_num_days

The AoC author also posted about this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1ocwh04/chang...

Advent of Code 2025, there will be 12 days of puzzles

praseodym — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:46:38 +0000

Article URL: https://adventofcode.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665648

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Python 3.14.0

praseodym — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503617

Points: 48

# Comments: 7

Apple Pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

praseodym — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45460707

Points: 64

# Comments: 2

New comment by praseodym in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

praseodym — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:42:56 +0000

There is one, developed by the Zed team in collaboration with Gemini. And Claude Code is also supported now.

https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction

New comment by praseodym in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

praseodym — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:31:17 +0000

Or other services, such as translation using Google Translate.

Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU

praseodym — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:21:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45213963

Points: 2

# Comments: 2