Hacker News: rombert

New comment by rombert in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

rombert — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:40:38 +0000

That page states

> These models are hosted on US-based Azure AI Foundry infrastructure managed by GitHub and Microsoft. Customer prompts and responses are not sent to the original model developers.

So not in China.

New comment by rombert in "Rlwrap your CLI tools, dammit"

rombert — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:11:56 +0000

This has helped me a lot some years ago when I was working with Oracle Databases - sqlplus was the tool I think.

It also made me appreciate all the other tools that already have the functionality built-in.

New comment by rombert in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

rombert — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:12:15 +0000

Adding an official source: https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse/115451506225628859

New comment by rombert in "Hermes: An open-source document management system"

rombert — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:05:27 +0000

Assuming that by Apache Oak you mean the Oak subproject of Apache Jackrabbit ( https://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak/ ), why would you consider it abandoned? Release 1.48.0 came out last week and it's been seeing steady activity throught the last years - https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak/ .

I am a committer and PMC member in the project, so I may be biased.

New comment by rombert in "Show HN: Blur Webcam Background on Linux"

rombert — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 05:52:21 +0000

It is present for Linux in recent releases.

New comment by rombert in "Ask HN: Where is a nice place to host which is not AWS / GCP types"

rombert — Fri, 14 May 2021 10:13:03 +0000

Which plan did Linode remove? I've been with them for years and they added a low-priced Nanode offering that I use and is still advertised.

https://www.linode.com/pricing/

New comment by rombert in "Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar"

rombert — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:07:20 +0000

The latest development version (unreleased) of Pulse Audio has great support for HFP with WBS/mSBC.

I've been using it for weeks (months?) with great results.

New comment by rombert in "Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform"

rombert — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 08:41:24 +0000

> That's good, because regular old CentOS is not bit-for-bit identical either. CentOS might strip out all the RHEL trademarks, but they had to reverse engineer RHEL code drops just like Oracle, Amazon, Google, Facebook, SuSE, etc.

Do you have a source for SUSE reverse engineering RHEL code drops? Last I checked they were unrelated.

New comment by rombert in "A Brief Goodbye to CentOS"

rombert — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:16:56 +0000

Note that the gap between Leap and SLE will become quite small after Leap 15.3, with binary packages for SLE being reused for Leap.

It's interesting that while RH/IBM are moving away from the 'community rebuild' model SUSE are moving close.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap/FAQ/ClosingTheLeapGap

New comment by rombert in "MicroOS and Kubic: New Lighter Minimum Hardware Requirements"

rombert — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:01:06 +0000

I've been running a homelab cluster on Kubic for about a month. My favourite part is definitely waking up in the morning to a new kernel version or patch k8s upgrade.

New comment by rombert in "Linux 4.20 released"

rombert — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 11:46:27 +0000

Drivers are usually part of the kernel source tree.

New comment by rombert in "Adobe to Acquire Magento"

rombert — Mon, 21 May 2018 21:37:22 +0000

This will likely be part of https://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud.html .

New comment by rombert in "Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway"

rombert — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:34:08 +0000

For Sling the explanation is right on the front page :-)

A device for serving content very fast.