Hacker News: preya2k

New comment by preya2k in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

preya2k — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:36:49 +0000

Another very american understanding of censorship. In Germany (where Codeberg is registered), censorship means censorship by a government. A private entity (Verein) deciding what and how they want to run their business is typically not considered censorship (maybe the term "private censorship" could work), but just "freedom of doing business". So if you want to argue FOR freedom, you could also turn this argument around and support the fact that a private entity should be able to decide whatever the fuck they want to do with their own service offering.

New comment by preya2k in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

preya2k — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:36:08 +0000

Are you on Strix Halo? If so, which llama.cpp backend are you using? ROCm on Strix Halo still seems incompatible with MTP models.

New comment by preya2k in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

preya2k — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:27:16 +0000

Yes, can confirm. You can start a GmbH with exactly half of it (12.500€). And the money does NOT need to stay locked on the bank account. You can spend it for company purposes (but NOT for founder wages).

New comment by preya2k in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

preya2k — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:21:58 +0000

So for a UG it's a Kommanditeinlage. But it doesn't change the fact that you can spend this money for business purposes. You just can't wire it back to yourself or pay it to yourself as a wage. Feel free to buy office furniture or company devices with it.

It's a common misunderstanding that this money needs to be reserved somewhere for liability purposes. That's not correct. You can spend it, both in a GmbH as well as in a UG. Look it up youself (e.g. https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/stammkapital-muss-ich-das-...)

New comment by preya2k in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

preya2k — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:13:26 +0000

Not sure what he means with "2000€ share capital", which allegedly is locked.

Typically, you can spend your "Stammkapital" for business purposes (e.g. in a GmbH). It doesn't need to stay in your bank account.

New comment by preya2k in "The forge we deserve"

preya2k — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:26:03 +0000

Forgejo already supports ActivityPub, albeit only for a minor use case (starring repos), so according to your definition, it's decided already.

New comment by preya2k in "The Forge We Deserve"

preya2k — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:27:10 +0000

It seems ironic, that in the social media space, AT protocol based instances are basically centralised (Bluesky) and ActivityPub based instances (Fediverse, Mastodon) have a much healthier grade of federation.

Whereas in the "forges" space, it seems Tangled drives federation forward much faster than the ActivityPub-based federation features of Forgejo/Gitea (which are progressing really slow).

New comment by preya2k in "Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com"

preya2k — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:34:58 +0000

Seems to be mostly vibe coded.

New comment by preya2k in "Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)"

preya2k — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:59:55 +0000

Oh I can assure you, millions people in the northern europe do exactly this ;)

EDIT: I guess it depends on your definition of "humid". But 90C and regular water infusions are pretty common sauna conditions.

New comment by preya2k in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

preya2k — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:33:27 +0000

There’s hundreds or thousands of people out there hosting Synapse for small groups and use cases. Ressource requirements for a couple of dozen or hundreds of people are pretty tame (mostly storage that grows fast). You can easily host Synapse on cheap VPS products for less than 5€/month. I’ve been doing this for multiple organizations and many years.

New comment by preya2k in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

preya2k — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:36:11 +0000

Not an alternative anymore. Vodafone started doing the same shit with their peering at the end of last year.

New comment by preya2k in "Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly"

preya2k — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:39:25 +0000

This looks very similar to https://docsify-this.net/

New comment by preya2k in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

preya2k — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:01:30 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work in regards to Deutsche Telekom so far.

New comment by preya2k in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

preya2k — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:52:25 +0000

There are no "Apps". It's not a universal App platform like Nextcloud. It's just file sharing (and optionally a Radicale calender server via Environment Variable but without UI). There's optional plugins to open vendor specific files right in the browser.

New comment by preya2k in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

preya2k — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:52:10 +0000

Take a look at OpenCloud. It's a Go-based rewrite of the former OwnCloud team.

It works very well, has polished UI and uses very little resources. It also does a lot less than Nextcloud.

https://github.com/opencloud-eu

New comment by preya2k in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

preya2k — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:50:17 +0000

Most of the OCIS team left to start OpenCloud, which is a OCIS fork. And it's hardware requirements are pretty tame. It's a very nice replacement for Nextcloud, if you don't need the Groupware features/Apps and are only looking for File sharing.

New comment by preya2k in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

preya2k — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:45:49 +0000

OCIS seems to have lost most of their team. They now work on a fork called OpenCloud. https://github.com/opencloud-eu

New comment by preya2k in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

preya2k — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:45:04 +0000

Actually, it's already been done by the former Nextcloud fork/predecessor. OwnCloud shared a big percentage of the Nextcloud codebase, but they decided to rewrite everything under the name OCIS (OwnCloud Infinite Scale) a couple of years ago. Recently, OwnCloud got acquired by Kiteworks and it seemed like they got in a fight with most of the staff. So big parts of the team left to start "OpenCloud", which is a fork of OCIS and is now a great competitor to Nextcloud. It's much more stable and uses less resources, but it also does a lot less than Nextcloud (namely only File sharing so far. No Apps, no Groupware.)

https://github.com/opencloud-eu

New comment by preya2k in "Forgejo v13.0 Is Available"

preya2k — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:07:54 +0000

I found it confusing, too. In the detailed changelog it seems that some PRs for following remote users have been merged, but I assume it's not complete/usable, yet. So from what I understand, no new "usable" federation features made it to the v13 release. Please correct me, if I'm wrong.

New comment by preya2k in "What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?"

preya2k — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:41:32 +0000

Swiss/Danish/Finnish Mobile Payment alternatives like TWINT and MobilePay.

Also: physical lockers with PIN/Code instead of keys (in basically every country aside from Germany). It's just completely bonkers to me, that German train station lockers still use physical Keys EVERYWHERE.