Hacker News: roer

New comment by roer in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

roer — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:39:35 +0000

It is straight up the same NERV, so it might.

From the site:

> The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series.

New comment by roer in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

roer — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:14:27 +0000

The graphics protocol might be relevant, but I fail to see how the rest of your comment is.

New comment by roer in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

roer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:21:12 +0000

I assume you meant Crunchyroll. They've gotten even worse recently by moving away from .ass subtitles which removes a ton of typesetting options

New comment by roer in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

roer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:18:13 +0000

It doesn't have to be significantly better. If the service is stable, cheap and hassle-free, people will pay for it.

New comment by roer in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

roer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:27:51 +0000

Lots of fun trying to go to a target symbol. Especially if you intentionally get yourself stuck in the lines first :D

New comment by roer in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

roer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:21:49 +0000

Is this a joke I don't get? His name was Rudolf Diesel, right?

New comment by roer in "Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]"

roer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:27:42 +0000

I have the printed versions of issue #6 and #7, I highly recommend them!

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pagedout

New comment by roer in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

roer — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:01:00 +0000

I think op meant the subjective feeling of having a system that runs in a stable manner. I don't quite follow their reasoning either (maybe the smaller changesets expose compatibility bugs before affecting general ux?), but I agree that arch was a joy for me to use and felt "stable".

New comment by roer in "Landlock-Ing Linux"

roer — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:49:28 +0000

If you're trying to deny internet access to a program, beware that landlock only restricts tcp sockets. Programs are free to setup udp or just raw sockets.

New comment by roer in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

roer — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:51:17 +0000

Is this about getting to the moon quickly or is it about doing it with the help of a different rocket company?

New comment by roer in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

roer — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:50:20 +0000

Well, NASA tried that originally but didn't have the budget, and in that sense it's better late than never to fund something different. The reasoning as presented just doesn't reflect reality.

New comment by roer in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"

roer — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:54:06 +0000

There was another thread on specifically our minister of justice, with comments that touch on the historical aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45248802

New comment by roer in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

roer — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:06:18 +0000

For the android spot I'd like to recommend Seal: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/

It's "just" a yt-dlp frontend with a nice UI, meaning it works with sites other than youtube as well.

It also adds a quick-download option to the android sharing menu when sharing a link, which I've found incredibly convenient.

New comment by roer in "'Almost unimaginable': these ants are different species but share a mother"

roer — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:45:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/lzzP7

New comment by roer in "What are OKLCH colors?"

roer — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 07:54:36 +0000

There is a youtuber (Gneiss Name) making educational content through the medium of Minecraft. He's made one on OKLab as well: https://youtu.be/nJlZT5AE9zY

New comment by roer in "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]"

roer — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 05:56:10 +0000

The problem is obviously real, but a lot of people disagree with this proposed solution. Nobody is trying to argue whether child abuse is a problem or not.

New comment by roer in "FFmpeg moves to Forgejo"

roer — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 05:48:17 +0000

It might help narrow in on the specific issue in case they are using some other browser

New comment by roer in "Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year"

roer — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:30:16 +0000

As someone living in Copenhagen, I respectfully disagree.

New comment by roer in "YouTube No Translation"

roer — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:18:09 +0000

Well, it's not that I don't see how this feature can add value for others, it just doesn't add value for me (it directly detracts value, actually), and I would like to be able to disable it without installing a browser extension.

New comment by roer in "SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly"

roer — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:52:16 +0000

In terms of losing a ship, probably not too bad. The ground equipment might take a bit longer to replace, and they will probably want to understand what happened here before continuing. Or, as you suggest, this was a more stressing test than usual, but I doubt they'd do that with a complete ship like this.