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New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to your email address?"

ramtatatam — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:43:46 +0000

I assume when you mention `on-site` you mean my house - yep, NAS is at home.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to your email address?"

ramtatatam — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:24:53 +0000

I self-host. And then I backup everything to my RAID6 NAS. And then, though irregularly, backup to offline media.

I sometimes read comments on this very forum, that hosting your own email server is risky and requires lots of work. I agree it's not for everyone - you need to have some knowledge of how to run and secure your service on the internet. I self-host since roughly 2011-2012 and cannot say I spent tons of time on it.

It does cost some money though, I pay $5 monthly to run my Nanode (on Linode), and then something around $30 a year to keep my domain.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: As a parent how do you respond to kids school results?"

ramtatatam — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:26:05 +0000

This, I can't agree more!

When I was attending school, I remember it to be more of a survival camp and adjustment to structures than anything else. I hated it with passion and yet I was expected to bring good grades. As a result I developed need for isolation and other psychological issues and it took me more than decade to realize and partially self-cure.

That's why I'm striving to give my kids happy childhood and schooling that they can enjoy. They learn to obtain knowledge and experiences, and not to game the system. I am not building safety cocoon around them, we do have crisis's and we go through them together, not ignoring them and pretending nothing happens. I know, that when they reach the age they will take initiative and assume responsibilities.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"

ramtatatam — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:34:17 +0000

Very tiny utility for migrating postgres databases within podman/docker. https://github.com/grzegorzk/pg_upgrade_docker

New comment by ramtatatam in "Run Pg_upgrade in Docker"

ramtatatam — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:32:39 +0000

Hi all, I was recently going through pg_upgrade of my project and came up with this tiny utility. Sharing here in case anybody would find it useful too.

Run Pg_upgrade in Docker

ramtatatam — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:31:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/grzegorzk/pg_upgrade_docker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41966818

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

CorsixTH – re-implementation of the Theme Hospital game engine

ramtatatam — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:08:47 +0000

Article URL: https://corsixth.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395169

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: Yt-Dlp Reduced Quality?"

ramtatatam — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:50:44 +0000

Hmm... I listed available presets with `-F` option, and then downloaded various different presets (actually, examples have this nice option to download and merge all available audio presets `yt-dlp -f 'bv*+mergeall[vcodec=none]' --audio-multistreams `). All of them sound like from within a cartboard box when played in vlc, much worse than when I play it on youtube... This is very notable around 00:00:50 of the clip.

Maybe I misinterpret logs but I checked and I can't see anything that would suggest the audio is resampled

---edit---

Silly me. I had VLC audio effects enabled and that was resulting in song sounding different than on youtube. Sorry!

Ask HN: Yt-Dlp Reduced Quality?

ramtatatam — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:16:53 +0000

Hi HN!

I maintain a playlist of youtube clips for offline use in case I run out of internet, and recently I noticed something strange.

I was listening to this clip on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4TqqM5TGs , I then downloaded it with `yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4TqqM5TGs` and listened locally with intention to loop until end of my day. And I noticed when I play this clip on youtube the sound is much more vibrant and the clip sounds much better than the downloaded version.

Is there any magic switch I'm missing? I already tried `-f bestvideo+bestaudio`

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37555681

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?"

ramtatatam — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:05:20 +0000

I can't tell if my hardware was not compromised (most likely it was not), but for the data I store on my SSD - I keep it fully encrypted with boot stored on hardware aes-256-encrypted USB drive. Laptop won't boot without the USB plugged in, and USB won't unlock unless correct key is provided. Not too sophisticated but enough for my humble needs (that is I'm the only one who can boot the laptop, and I know my data will be safely forgotten if my flat gets robbed or if I forget my laptop on the train etc.).

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: What prevents a company from hiring remote employees internationally?"

ramtatatam — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:56:17 +0000

Long time ago I was working for UK company who was hiring for remote roles around Europe. This was pre-GDPR era and it worked well both for the company and for the contractors. We engaged on B2B basis. When GDPR came in we adjusted operationally and continued, I left the company but as far as I know they are still afloat and still operate in the same way, so it's definitely doable.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: Best technical books you've read so far?"

ramtatatam — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:36:46 +0000

After reading this review [1] I'm not sure about this book. I see this book gets so many positive ratings, in the same time this single review stands out and brings many worrying points... Is this reader just frustrated person expecting too much? Or are the points raised valid?

[1] - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R31YAU39RVET5J/...

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: How do you fall asleep?"

ramtatatam — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:08:00 +0000

I fall asleep a few minutes after I lay down on bed, does not matter if it's day or night. If I can't fall asleep at night and I know I have to be fresh next day, I focus on each muscle in my body and consciously relax it. I start from muscles above my eyes, my jaw, my neck, upper and lower arms (one after another), all fingers, then same with legs. Once I'm done with all parts of my body I start again. Sometimes I also imagine black velvet during this exercise. I usually fall asleep after second round of relaxing my muscles.

New comment by ramtatatam in "[dead]"

ramtatatam — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:22:57 +0000

How comes this made it to the front [Ask HN] page... None of my submissions made it that high :)

Roboflow ML Series – How to Train YOLOv6 on a Custom Dataset

ramtatatam — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCWrMFH2UY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658004

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ramtatatam in "Estonia: Become an E-Resident"

ramtatatam — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:44:10 +0000

I was considering to incorporate in UK (not for tax reasons but for transparency of their laws compared with the place where I live). My accountant told me that recently there had been laws introduced making it basically impossible to become significant shareholder unless you relocate. I have not confirmed this myself as I'm yet to review regulations.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Estonia: Become an E-Resident"

ramtatatam — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:35:03 +0000

This website is hilarious! Thanks for sharing! I thought the place where I live is expensive, used the website to compare with Tallinn and found place where I live is actually cheaper in most areas :)

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of grade 6)?"

ramtatatam — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:09:05 +0000

I meant traditional public school, it's what I referred to as "classical" ("classical" in a sense what I believe most of us went through), though I understand there are private schools that in principle operate in similar way.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of grade 6)?"

ramtatatam — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:35:32 +0000

> On the other hand, I also have a notable lack of respect for authority figures.

I went through "classical" education system (with lots of aggression, as somebody else already mentioned in another thread here) - and can tell I also obtained no respect for authority figures. School taught me to survive school by tricking those teachers who had no respect to pupils. Give them what they want and you'r going to be fine - even if you don't learn anything useful. Same when it comes with relationships with other pupils, especially those aggressive ones. I observe my kids who I send to Montessori and can definitely tell they are not easy when it comes to disagreements - and I like it that way, it keeps reminding me that I have no right not to treat them with respect even when I'm tired or in hurry. I see teachers putting lots of attention to mutual respect as well.

New comment by ramtatatam in "Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act"

ramtatatam — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:44:24 +0000

Asking as somebody who does not really get this law jargon - if you distribute your software, which might be a little bit of glue code putting together some freely available open-source libraries, then would you be liable for auditing only this glue code or libraries as well? (since you would have to distribute them with your glue code, otherwise your product would be incomplete)