Hacker News: tomkaos

New comment by tomkaos in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

tomkaos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:18:28 +0000

I’ve been using it for years, and the one time I needed to restore a file, I realized that VMware VMs files were excluded from the backup. They are so many exclusion that I start doing physical backup again.

New comment by tomkaos in "How wolves became dogs"

tomkaos — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:47:26 +0000

I read somewhere that he could have change human sleep. Human can have a deeper sleep knowing a guard will alert of danger.

New comment by tomkaos in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

tomkaos — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:08:48 +0000

I avoid cron job at this time for this reason and for many other random problem because 3:00 am seem to be often choose for a maintenance like automatic update, server reboot, database backup..

New comment by tomkaos in "How large are large language models?"

tomkaos — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:50:02 +0000

Same thing with image model. 4 Go stable diffusion model can draw and represent anything humanity know.

New comment by tomkaos in "Scroll-Driven Animations"

tomkaos — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:33:11 +0000

Not really useful when it's not support on most recent Firefox version.

New comment by tomkaos in "The best $4 ever spent"

tomkaos — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:55:16 +0000

I have travel entire Vietnam with people with kids. After seeing all the pagoda, park, cave, amusement park.. the best part of the travel for the kid was the pool at one hotel.

New comment by tomkaos in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

tomkaos — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:43:18 +0000

Still use my gen 1, the best 20$ spend in my life. I just have a annoying bug with youtube video that google won't fix.

New comment by tomkaos in "The Google Pay app is dead"

tomkaos — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:09:00 +0000

And Android Pay, I forgot my wallet one day, decide to use Android Pay but was block with : "Android Pay is replace by Google Pay, you need to update...". The shame of not been able to pay loose ma confident to use Google for this.

New comment by tomkaos in "Pirate IPTV Co. & Seven Workers Fined After Raids Eight Years Ago"

tomkaos — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:38:33 +0000

Some people think it's legit because they pay for the service and the decoder (firestick with a app) is sold in a real store.

New comment by tomkaos in "Mistral Large"

tomkaos — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:55:11 +0000

You probably get a better control on what a happen with the data. I have the impression that GTP-4 is more of a black box and privacy problem.

New comment by tomkaos in "Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance"

tomkaos — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:07:48 +0000

This probably became cheaper and simpler to put a camera than a real code bar scanner.

New comment by tomkaos in "Google enables OS upgrades for older PCs post-Windows 10 support cutoff"

tomkaos — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:27:16 +0000

Windows 11 block installation on old generation of computer.

New comment by tomkaos in "Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database"

tomkaos — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:58:44 +0000

That look like what Microsoft has done with Microsoft Fabric. SQL Server going full parquet file for table storage.

New comment by tomkaos in "MS Paint Cocreator, a new AI-powered experience powered by DALL-E"

tomkaos — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:21:32 +0000

Paint need internet now ? Does the prompt is sent to Microsoft or OpenAI ?

New comment by tomkaos in "GM confirms $130k Cadillac won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto"

tomkaos — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:39:37 +0000

Hope you don't have to enter your Spotify account/password on the car screen to just listen music. I already have in my phone all my service and account, I don't want to relogin on everything on TV or car screen. I don't care about smart TV since a have a Chromecast.

New comment by tomkaos in "Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features"

tomkaos — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:22:09 +0000

I always know about google product too soon or too late. When the new product is not available yet and when they announce they kill it.

New comment by tomkaos in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

tomkaos — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:10:01 +0000

...and Canada

New comment by tomkaos in "Google Bard waitlist"

tomkaos — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:25:02 +0000

"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country." The fast adoption of ChatGTP was not is quality but the easy access. I hear about it and the day after I had a shortcut in my browser. If I need to have a reminder to check each week for "Is available yet ?" I will probably lost interest.

New comment by tomkaos in "Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available"

tomkaos — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:23:40 +0000

The funniest part is he have to use two smart thermostat in each room and he realize that one smart thermostat heat up the other one and fucked up the temperature reading.

New comment by tomkaos in "Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B"

tomkaos — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:58:26 +0000

Funny that in the cryptoworld transaction is block because : "The banks are not open for another few hours"