Hacker News: teekert

New comment by teekert in "The Amazon Tax"

teekert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:33:08 +0000

Apple should really be ashamed of itself. But alas, corporations don't have shame, Steve would have been ashamed though.

New comment by teekert in "I don't enjoy the Internet any more"

teekert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:36:13 +0000

Or reading comics/watching TV in the 80s?

New comment by teekert in "I don't enjoy the Internet any more"

teekert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:35:07 +0000

But it's life-spent on what otherwise? I agree it's better spend creating and socializing, but will it be, if there was no tiktok? I guess socializing, yes.

New comment by teekert in "I don't enjoy the Internet any more"

teekert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:50:51 +0000

That's indeed true, I share your concern, and I think most will call 2 hr/day rookie numbers. But there is also youth out there that do things differently. And (most) laws and understanding of the situation are changing for the better.

New comment by teekert in "I don't enjoy the Internet any more"

teekert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:35:10 +0000

I agree, but if we're being very honest I think the reason is just nostalgia. And I think that you can still find what you're looking for, but it's less in-your-face (as in; it's not a url on altavista.com).

We're older now, being young was great, we had infinite time to roam and discover and have nice things (and our first real six-string, and trying different things and not thinking about tomorrow). The youth nowadays also has infinite time, and they fill it in their own way. They like how things are, even though we don't like it and yearn for the days of yore.

It is the way of things.

New comment by teekert in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

teekert — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:21:39 +0000

That's what I said, but indeed in a very bad way :)

New comment by teekert in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

teekert — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:17:10 +0000

You mean Gitea [0], a community-driven fork is Forgejo. There was some drama, have to admit is still don't really understand it (ask an llm I'd say). Codeberg [2] uses Forgejo and offers it as a hosted service.

[0] https://about.gitea.com/

[1] https://forgejo.org/

[2] https://codeberg.org/

New comment by teekert in "RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland"

teekert — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:00:13 +0000

Tailscale also protects against login attempts.

New comment by teekert in "Compression is prediction"

teekert — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:29:02 +0000

The post says this is all part of gzip and LLMs, what are you saying? I’ve been using gzip my entire life. I read between the lines “this is common knowledge” throughout the piece. Throwing in some names and dates only makes this super clear story harder to read (and more like studying then the playful exploration this post was intended as).

New comment by teekert in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

teekert — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:52:12 +0000

It’s my experience that I should over-estimate what I know otherwise I miss out on assignments that take me about 1-2 focused days of studying to get to sufficient level.

Ie I was once perfect for a project except for point 7 out of 10 which was experience with Keycloak (if you’re higher via an HR dept it’s even worse, they just tick boxes, who cares if you are smart and have broad knowledge).

So I’m now proudly Dunning-Krugering around, and use LLMs for super-charged learning. If I underestimated something I take the cost/time myself. So far it hasn’t happened to a significant degree.

New comment by teekert in ""As millionaires we have a message for our new Prime Minister: Tax us.""

teekert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:13:15 +0000

I guess it’s not really the millionaires who will feel such a tax, but the swathe of wealth and interests managing people around such a person will each individually hate this and that is the reason this is not materializing more often? (Just a theory)

New comment by teekert in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

teekert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:04:49 +0000

They didn’t get blocked by the US government so they needed some other “we are the superior AI story” ASAP.

New comment by teekert in "Firefox Containers Preview"

teekert — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:03:14 +0000

I am in too many MS365 orgs. Firefox containers are the best solution to manage this, but, I simply have too many issues with Teams (especially with Teams org switching, sometimes needed when someone invites your org account into another) and I find myself back in Chrome and Edge, deleting config folders etc (all in Linux). It’s not fair!!!

New comment by teekert in "John C. Dvorak has died"

teekert — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:47:20 +0000

IMHO they both went a bit too far. Used to love Twit (with JCD), used to love NoAgenda (when they were still relatively politically neutral), I guess it mirrors a bit what happened to their country.

RIP BuzzKill.

New comment by teekert in "John C. Dvorak has died"

teekert — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:50 +0000

Uhm TIL…

New comment by teekert in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

teekert — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:29:23 +0000

I use ProtonPass and afaiu it just syncs the passkeys private part everywhere you need it. So it “just works”. This is better than just old fashioned credentials because the passkey only “triggers” on the correct domain, so they can’t be phished by other domains… Right?

Proton drive updates (with Linux client in progress)

teekert — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:05:52 +0000

Article URL: https://proton.me/blog/drive-sdk-june-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007058

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by teekert in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

teekert — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:10:53 +0000

I would still be using my 1000HE if the mouse and power buttons hadn’t stopped working (would have put an ssd in it then). Sure the keyboard keys are a bit wobbly but otherwise I really loved that machine. Nice form factor. Would love to be able to get a new 400$-ish 10-11” netbook with 6+ hour battery that would fly with some minimal Linux. Recommendations?

New comment by teekert in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

teekert — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:17:45 +0000

Maybe the voters also got confused and that's why it passed?

New comment by teekert in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

teekert — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:54:59 +0000

This is a nice piece of democracy right here:

"a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure the required absolute majority of 361 votes. As a result, mass scanning is now permitted again until 2028."

"Oh no we can't get a majority to pass the law!"

"Have you tried getting a majority to not pass the law?"

"Worth a shot!"

"It worked, should we also do this multiple times?"

"Of course not! Pass the law, quickly!"