Hacker News: sirdvd

New comment by sirdvd in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"

sirdvd — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:52:37 +0000

Wind, sun and geothermal we have. Albeit technology to harvest them seldom come from the Europe. But getting a safe, unfettered provider of nuclear fuel risk to be just another unsolvable problem.

New comment by sirdvd in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

sirdvd — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:20:34 +0000

>The problem with this, like internet voting, is that you can be coerced. As an example against coercion, on belenios faq they say that they let voter vote several times (and they count just the last vote).

New comment by sirdvd in "Nukeproof: Manifesto for European Data Sovereignty"

sirdvd — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:57:46 +0000

...and on Cloudflare. So much for European Sovereignty.

New comment by sirdvd in "AWS announces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security"

sirdvd — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:56:51 +0000

That's the Premium plan (for $1000) Edit: it's for 5 TB

New comment by sirdvd in "Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience"

sirdvd — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:54:38 +0000

> it's very hard to imagine interstellar travel being feasible with our current understanding.

Sometimes it's hard realize the with have a good understanding of only 5% of what composes our universe. Let's hope there's still some surprise lest for ours Centauri Dreams...

New comment by sirdvd in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

sirdvd — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:33:57 +0000

> Well because Tesla's are excellent cars and are still ranked at the top compared to the rest of the market.

whilst surely top ranked, they apparently share the top with others makers (https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...) (Large Family Cars category, last two years, order by occupant protection).

New comment by sirdvd in "The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android"

sirdvd — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:24:18 +0000

> permission that they want

"they", in my case it's me. With on my own Nextcloud server, on my own LAN. It's me that want "access to everything everywhere". Difficult for me to think that is not about gate keeping from Google.

New comment by sirdvd in "Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection"

sirdvd — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:07:18 +0000

> The escape hatch is to use the FDroid version rather than the Play Store version.

And perhaps using GrapheneOS while at it.

New comment by sirdvd in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

sirdvd — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:38:55 +0000

As a user, I'd be totally fine with Apple letting me choose who can access to my iMessages.

New comment by sirdvd in "US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago"

sirdvd — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:43:14 +0000

I assume is referring to the mean ageing demographic of those country.

New comment by sirdvd in "I'm Done with Ubuntu"

sirdvd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:35:23 +0000

Well... ZFS support baked in the kernel, surely count for something?

New comment by sirdvd in "Leaving and Waving"

sirdvd — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:24:21 +0000

> Maybe not everyone is a nostalgic, but for those of us who are - I encourage doing these things now.

Is not just for nostalgia. I would've loved if my parents recorded even just a few minutes of their grandparents or great-grandparents to pass them to my children.

New comment by sirdvd in "Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech"

sirdvd — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:26:23 +0000

Tangentially, although there's been sporadic setbacks, as Limux[1] in 2017, there are new commitments to linux[2] that I hope will lead the way, at least in Europe.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/germa...

New comment by sirdvd in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

sirdvd — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:57:45 +0000

Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.

New comment by sirdvd in "Ask HN: Where After WordPress?"

sirdvd — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:35:16 +0000

Perhaps Joomla? As WP, it's PHP based.

New comment by sirdvd in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

sirdvd — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:02:58 +0000

Zima Blue ♥

New comment by sirdvd in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

sirdvd — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:35:09 +0000

Fewer and fewer. And there's VM for that, so you can rollback in case like this.

New comment by sirdvd in "Sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services"

sirdvd — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:05:56 +0000

/s https://xkcd.com/2954/

New comment by sirdvd in "Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?"

sirdvd — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:00:41 +0000

The volume/pricing entry point for borg is really inviting. I would love see the same things for the zfs part. Sadly 5Tb is a steep entry point for me.

New comment by sirdvd in "ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves"

sirdvd — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:43:06 +0000

Or at least, the more public resources you manage the less privacy you should have.