<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: slau</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=slau</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:55:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=slau" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe the original source that the current article links to is a better link: <a href="https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/bancomat-bizum-epi-sibs-and-vipps-mobilepay-sign-mou-to-accelerate-the-rollout-of-sovereign-pan-european-payment-solutions" rel="nofollow">https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/bancomat-bizum-epi-sibs...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:36:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207526</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OK, fair, I never left my keepass file exposed like that when I used keepass.<p>If I remember correctly, 1Password still requires a "vault key" in addition to your username and password, and it was definitely too long and not used often enough for me to remember.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035215</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn’t Bazzite based on Fedora?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034326</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Remove all passkeys from your phone and laptop<p>I don't have any passkeys on my phone or laptop. They're all on the Yubikeys.<p>I don't really see a difference with (some) password managers, though. If you use one of the keepasses, and you lose access to the file, you're in the same situation right?<p>And yeah, you're right, there is a risk of inconvenience. I'm not debating that. I just choose to organise my life in such a way that it is just an inconvenience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:19:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022181</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I travel a lot. By train, plane, and car. I also use passkeys when possible. I have multiple Yubikeys, stored in different locations. I also have a password manager, where I typically keep track of which logins aren’t yet backed up across physical tokens.<p>It takes a bit of effort, but it’s not impossible.<p>Yes, it means that in the event of catastrophic failure I might not be able to log in to some services until I get to one of the backups. I haven’t been able to imagine a scenario where that would be truly problematic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:46:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014750</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Said it couldn't see her eyes. The car then automatically disabled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn’t look at the account or provenance, but I’m more wondering about the actual content.<p>“I was in Europe” -> where? Why would the car be configured in English? I’ve rented cars in Spain, Germany, Denmark and France, and they were all in the country’s language.<p>“6 lane highway” -> again, where? Or is it meant 3 lanes per side? Because 6 lanes on each side are few and far between in Europe.<p>My car will get pissy when it’s in semi-self-driving and it can’t detect my hands on the steering wheel. It will start beeping and stuff for a very long time before slowing down and eventually stopping.<p>I’m also a bit surprised about the statement she couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Do people _not_ look at their dashboard when the car makes a noise to get their attention?<p>It’s also odd that she didn’t mention the actual car brand and model. This is 100% something that needs to be investigated and checked, and name and shame is the correct approach.<p>I doubt I see what this has to do with government tracking; it’s about making sure people don’t doze off. I don’t believe there’s any facial recognition involved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 05:27:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004963</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not quite at the point where I want to quit, but some people have turned off their brain, and it frustrates me.<p>They don’t think critically, let the LLM add random stuff, and then let the LLM argue for them on GitHub. When I talk to the human they have no idea. But 60s later they post a 3 page essay explaining they remembered and why x or y.<p>The thing is, I can tell why the LLM threw it in. It picked up on a side discussion in the comments, but we agreed in person to do something else in a different PR. Now all of a sudden it added a whole bunch of stuff unrelated to this PR.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 05:50:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983680</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Mise-En-Place"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My team at work uses Mise for nearly all repos, regardless of stack (Python backends, React frontings, data science repos). I typically prefer to use Make for this kind of stuff, but they were already using Mise when I joined.<p>It’s been a fairly pleasant experience overall. I think sometimes it tries to do too much, but it works okay-ish.<p>The only thing I would recommend to stay away from is the encrypted secrets stuff. That’s way too much of a foot gun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907721</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Euro-Office – Your sovereign office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Discussed 9 times in various forms over the last month: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&prefix=false&query=euro%20office&sort=byPopularity&type=story" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&prefix=false&que...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658577</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate Oracle as much as the next guy, but this seems like a nothingburger.<p>Oracle didn’t file “thousands of H1Bs”. Oracle filed 2690 applications in FY2025 (Oct-Sep), and so far filed 436 in FY2026, according to the article.<p>If anything, this would indicate that Oracle slowed down on hiring foreign workforce. Oct-Mar is half of Oracle’s fiscal year, but they only filed 16% of the H1B applications as in 2025? That seems in line with a hiring freeze and subsequent layoff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632081</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "VR Is Not Dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apologies if this wasn’t clear, I thought it was obvious: you have something sitting on your face, isolating you physically, visually, physically, and emotionally.<p>When I’m playing on my couch with my wife, when something happens on screen we still look at each other and laugh—regardless of whether it’s a single player game or not. There’s eye contact.<p>If I’m engrossed in a game of RL in my office, I can still look down at my dog when she comes and boops me. There’s eye contact.<p>Virtual reality, for all its qualities and ability to let you be digitally present with people online or also in VR, is physically isolating users from the people who are physically nearby.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:35:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583122</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Office EU: European-owned cloud based office suite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> EUfforic Europe B.V<p>> built on Nextcloud Hub</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:26:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583076</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "VR Is Not Dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The biggest impediment for VR is the fundamentally asocial nature of it.<p>If there are fewer headsets in a room than there are people, it’s going to be awkward for at least one person. Trying to help someone debug something in their headset without me being able to see what they see is a problem (granted, this could be solved by software).<p>Having to share headsets sucks. You have to faff with head straps, adjust IPD, focus. I’ve had exactly one evening where everyone had a headset and things worked well for everyone involved. I’ve had dozens if not hundreds of events filled with awkward moments, setup issues, problems, where everyone is continuously taking the headset off and need to figure something out. And this was while working for a VR company where everyone was quite computer and VR literate.<p>Reflecting on it, it felt kind of like 90s and 2000s LAN parties, before the days of DHCP. Randomly copying values around, IP conflicts and not understanding subnet values. Good times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:26:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565741</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m actually glad to see this. We have been asking Firefox to build features, instead of AI garbage, and this may be something I didn’t know I wanted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:34:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511618</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever met someone claiming to be able to easily maintain 70 km/h. Maintaining 50 km/h for an hour puts you well into top professional territory, especially if riding solo.<p>There’s basically no chance you got to that level without serious training, coaching, and a lot of experience.<p>That is a very different situation from just using a credit card and being able to zip down the road at 50-60 km/h. People have been killed by these fat bikes (as in, a pedestrian being struck), because fat bikes are significantly heavier than road bikes, and kids with no experience drive them in places where pedestrians do occur.<p>I doubt you were pulling 50+ km/h in the city centre, or on the beach promenade. Yet this is what we see with fat bikes.<p>The laws aren’t designed to protect the rider. They’re designed to protect the uninvolved bystanders who just want to enjoy a stroll.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:27:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295853</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s how I use them. Passkeys on two Yubikeys. And I tag in my password manager which credentials have what form of auth. UP, TOTP (also stored on the two Yubikeys), Webauthn or passkeys (the former indicating 2FA).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191121</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Warrant Canary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately it is quite clear today that canaries never really worked, or more charitably, don’t work anymore.<p>While you might have been able to “gotcha” the court, it would also have been a sure fire way to end up in contempt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:30:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181682</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! That’s one rule I keep forgetting, but I’ll try to make an effort. Unfortunately I can’t edit the post anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:19:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084427</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still works for me. I still get the media overlay that tells me what is playing and elapsed/remaining time, but the actual controls do nothing (play/pause, rewind/forward).<p>Sometimes I get double audio; usually a refresh of the page fixes it.</p>
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<p>Whomever wrote that clearly has never made or eaten a sandwich. Without something in between the two layers, it’s hardly a sandwich.</p>
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