Hacker News: tonoto

New comment by tonoto in "[dead]"

tonoto — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:10:13 +0000

How much energy does a data center consume? A European law tailored to Big Tech makes it impossible to know.

https://elpais-com.translate.goog/tecnologia/2026-04-17/cuan...

(original link: https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2026-04-17/cuanto-consume-un-c...)

New comment by tonoto in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

tonoto — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:20:38 +0000

Start of summer.. June 21st? Is this statement true for US? Another thing to put in mind, besides Fahrenheit, yards, lbs.. at least time (besides 12 hour clock) seem to conform with the rest of the world...

New comment by tonoto in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

tonoto — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:49:10 +0000

It amazes me that 2026 corporations still choose MS Windows as their base for operations.. together with the Mordor 365 as the mail platform.

New comment by tonoto in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

tonoto — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:23:18 +0000

For quite many years I saw EU as something mostly good. Since ten years back I'm hesitating. Enforcements when it comes to cars (like the (EU) 2018/858) where the manufacturers are forced to implement "safety" features that customers don't want/need and "environmental" features (such as AD blue) that makes worse products. Regulations that perhaps were good on paper, but that will backlash on manufacturers and consumers (as the cars since then became way more expensive).

Regulations on sorting out textile (such as worn underwear, textile diapers) created huge issues in Sweden to take care of the textile waste to a big surprise for the politicians..

I believe we (the citizens of EU) deserve better

New comment by tonoto in "Many consumer electronics manufacturers will bankrupt due to AI memory crisis"

tonoto — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:12:24 +0000

The outcome of all this just a couple of months away, feels very hard to predict.

New comment by tonoto in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

tonoto — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:44:37 +0000

I saw paddles and thought, finally someone that incorporated a 2-4 speed transmission in order to put some form of soul in EV. But no.

New comment by tonoto in "MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake"

tonoto — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:56:44 +0000

To no big surprise. Why would the conversations take place with minutes/hours between replies? That alone raised direct concerns and disbelief to me during my couple of clicks to check what the buzz was about.

New comment by tonoto in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

tonoto — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:55:33 +0000

agent Smith, the one that don't care at all about conforming to POSIX?

"In fact, the way I see things the Linux API has been taking the role of the POSIX API and Linux is the focal point of all Free Software development. Due to that I can only recommend developers to try to hack with only Linux in mind and experience the freedom and the opportunities this offers you. So, get yourself a copy of The Linux Programming Interface, ignore everything it says about POSIX compatibility and hack away your amazing Linux software. It's quite relieving!" -- https://archive.fosdem.org/2011/interview/lennart-poettering...

New comment by tonoto in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

tonoto — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:44:52 +0000

Music Assistant (https://github.com/music-assistant) is really onto something good, and it looks like they are working towards native clients. Multi room, streaming, lyrics, DSP, catalogue of local media.

New comment by tonoto in "EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament"

tonoto — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:52:37 +0000

Is this the end of secure communication within EU?

Council reaches position on Chat Control

tonoto — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/11/26/child-sexual-abuse-council-reaches-position-on-law-protecting-children-from-online-abuse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46055863

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by tonoto in "EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives"

tonoto — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:46:58 +0000

There's lots of things that are not needed, but that are desired. I do not need a huge pick-up truck, but wouldn't mind a car with a great ground clearance and wheel base. I do know lots of folks that need big pick-up trucks that wouldn't agree on "engineered need". Perhaps you live in a big city?

New comment by tonoto in "EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives"

tonoto — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:51:55 +0000

The cars sell because that's what the customer wants (as opposite of what EU wants customers to buy/rent/share). There's not a single ordinary brand new car sold in EU that I'm interested to buy if I could afford. Cars used to be fun until 2010-2015 something (when instruments were still tactile and less "automatical" features were obligatory) - I do not want to pay for e-call, automatic lane assistant and so on. Might pay for rear camera and parking sensors though.

New comment by tonoto in "Omarchy Is Out"

tonoto — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:47:13 +0000

(2025 Version): I use NixOS, btw

New comment by tonoto in "Data from passports stolen in hotels on sale at dark web"

tonoto — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:26:18 +0000

Original source (in italian) https://cert-agid.gov.it/news/in-vendita-documenti-di-identi...

Data from passports stolen in hotels on sale at dark web

tonoto — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:26:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/hacker-hit-stolen-data-thousands-of-hotel-passports-AHeFQ99B

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909206

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by tonoto in "Canonicals Interview Process"

tonoto — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:30:41 +0000

Canonical brought us some interesting concepts, like cloud-init, and it's been my first choice for cloud-images, but this toxic culture of them motivates me to choose a better image. Or just something like Nixos.

New comment by tonoto in "Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack company networks"

tonoto — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:51:47 +0000

It baffles me that enterprises still choose Ivanti as their security solution 2025

New comment by tonoto in "Quality of a Video on Instagram Depends on Performance"

tonoto — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:28:25 +0000

They way those media giants treat the users.. even their own paying "customers".

New comment by tonoto in "Vimium – The Hacker's Browser"

tonoto — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:16:01 +0000

_giorgio_ is probably not a vi/vim/nvim/neovim user..

Many years ago I used vimperator and it made Firefox behave with a very much vi-like experience. Unfortunately, the halfway implementation of Vimium (and Tridactyl) is too annoying for me so I don't have it installed.