Hacker News: technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=technopolHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:50:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by technopol in "Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder"]]>How long do they last, and what will you do when they stop making tapes and equipment to read them?

I ask because I came from a generation with a lot of tapes (reels, cassettes, 8-track, Betamax, VHS, etc.). Cassettes are coming back a little, but not much. I know long-term storage still uses tapes, but I wonder for how long. What happens when we run out of the resources to make them? Is there no better and safer long-term media that is affordable? A magnetic event could wipe them all.

]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:26:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386876technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386876<![CDATA[New comment by technopol in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"]]>I’m serious! I don’t know why we’re turning a fundamental command off, even if it didn’t work correctly for everything. Do you realize how much documentation and how many tools reference it? And it still can work.

]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:22:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386848technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386848https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386848<![CDATA[New comment by technopol in "The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available"]]>I think Americans do similar for the EU- think of the government and other things we see in the news or identify with it first before its people.

]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:15:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386808technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386808<![CDATA[New comment by technopol in "When the Dotcom Bubble Burst"]]>The massive photo and site header of this site are fun but distracting when reading on mobile. Removing the top photo and removing or minimizing the top header would be a nice change for readability. I’m not sure what the SEO recommendation would be though.

]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:02:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386746technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386746https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386746<![CDATA[New comment by technopol in "uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users"]]>uv sounds great! For those still using Python v2, how well does it work? pip used to be a pain when having to manage both Python v2 and v3 projects and tools.

]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:56:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386719technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386719https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386719<![CDATA[New comment by technopol in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"]]>This seems like it would break things.

]]>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 01:31:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384330technopolhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384330