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New comment by ptman in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

ptman — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:30:12 +0000

Looks like a Fiskars axe https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/collections/axes-and-wood-prep...

New comment by ptman in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

ptman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:49:23 +0000

It is free market supply and demand. Clearly a stronger force than Moore's law.

New comment by ptman in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

ptman — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:35:24 +0000

Not credit card. Bank account. Webauthn/passkeys could also work for auth as they check the domain and can't be phished

New comment by ptman in "Just Use Go"

ptman — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:02:15 +0000

So what happens when you write through the nil pointer?

New comment by ptman in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

ptman — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:06:57 +0000

If only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code supported a sepa instant bit so that one could just show a qr code, scan it with whatever payer banking app and authorize the sepa instant payment.

New comment by ptman in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

ptman — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:50:26 +0000

SEPA instant already exists. I think it guarantees sub-10s transactions. Unfortunately it is not the default.

New comment by ptman in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

ptman — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:01:52 +0000

Oil free for electricity generation. The media in my country (Finland) also likes to brag about 90+% fossil-free electricity generation. But electricity is under half (30%?40%?) and the rest of that energy isn't fossil-free.

OpenSSH 10.3

ptman — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:29:57 +0000

Article URL: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260407084719

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672645

Points: 6

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New comment by ptman in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

ptman — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:36:18 +0000

Compare the cost and you will find the reason

New comment by ptman in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

ptman — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:31:08 +0000

Some will argue that it is Open Source. But Open Source came from commercial interests against Free Software.

It's clearly not free software, since the user freedom is restricted.

It's not libre, since that also refers to freedoms.

It's not really Open Source.

Source-Available has been used to describe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

New comment by ptman in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

ptman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:23:45 +0000

Stalebot closing is a problem. There's no problem with stalebot adding a stale label (but really, a filter with last update x time ago does the same).

Adding filters so that developers only look at actionable tickets would be much more sane.

New comment by ptman in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

ptman — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:10:59 +0000

I've heard various suggestions of only committing spec.md or change requests in the git repo and using that as source of truth.

We have spent decades working on reproducible builds or deterministic compilation. To achieve this, all steps must be deterministic. LLMs are not deterministic. You need to commit source code.

New comment by ptman in "Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc"

ptman — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:58:48 +0000

use gemini and ask it to summarize a youtube link

New comment by ptman in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

ptman — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:44:56 +0000

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

New comment by ptman in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

ptman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:02:16 +0000

Teamspeak is using matrix under the hood

New comment by ptman in "Running My Own XMPP Server"

ptman — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:45:38 +0000

There are several independent clients and servers. None of them support all features, not even synapse/element. But most keep improving steadily.

New comment by ptman in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

ptman — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:48:52 +0000

There are other terminal clients.

New comment by ptman in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

ptman — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:44:21 +0000

Maybe put the git repos on radicle?

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

ptman — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:38:14 +0000

Room addresses/aliases (like #matrix:matrix.org) must point to a single room (in fact, they point to a room version, so when rooms are upgraded, addresses must be pointed towards the new room). But for communities, a better way to organize the rooms would be spaces. Spaces can be joined. Spaces can contain rooms and other spaces. Like discord "servers" (guilds), but more flexible.

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

ptman — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:02:42 +0000

In my case matrix with bridges allows me to ignore many separate apps: whatsapp,telegram,slack,irc,...