Hacker News: touwer

New comment by touwer in "Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?"

touwer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:59:47 +0000

Digital Sovereignty for Europeans is impossible with US based companies

New comment by touwer in "Ask HN: European Tech Alternatives?"

touwer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:57:21 +0000

Pitty that it only operates on Gcloud. Makes it not European

New comment by touwer in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

touwer — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:28:36 +0000

Even more embarassing is that the article adds really nothing to whatever was written before about rss. Probably gobbled up by AI

New comment by touwer in "'Miracle': Europe reconnects with lost spacecraft"

touwer — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:23:04 +0000

I'm glad that this site at least left ~10% of the screen on my phone to read the article, next to all banners and newsletter ads. It's not 5%, great!

New comment by touwer in "“Your frustration is the product”"

touwer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:23:49 +0000

It's crazy, sometimes I get 22 mb, sometimes 27, one time even 57.8!!!

New comment by touwer in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

touwer — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:16:40 +0000

love it!

New comment by touwer in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

touwer — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:20:45 +0000

Hardware wise the mx3 is the best mouse for me. The software is dreadful though. It seems more like marketing than software. Nice pictures on the site. Not designed by a team that cares about good software. They should take mos and linearmouse as examples

New comment by touwer in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

touwer — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:40:56 +0000

What a bs. It still grows. Beyond meet was just not unique enough to justify the valuation

New comment by touwer in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

touwer — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:29:43 +0000

LinearMouse on macos is also good. With Mos

New comment by touwer in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

touwer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:18:20 +0000

Maybe AI slop is the best thing that could happen to the users of old social media. It will get so bad, everyone leaves. Which is better for everyone, except the notorious owners

New comment by touwer in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

touwer — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:19:20 +0000

Happily for the ffmpeg machines, it's all lightweight content. Something more heavy would overload them

New comment by touwer in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

touwer — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:26:23 +0000

Plug for Fiper https://www.fiper.net

New comment by touwer in "Payment fees matter more than you think"

touwer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:50:48 +0000

It's time for Europe to process the own money. Strange that the dominance of Visa/Mastercard/Maestro was left for so long. Of course there is a lobby from them to attack the digital Euro

New comment by touwer in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

touwer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:08:10 +0000

Maybe they can redirect from stupid.gov

New comment by touwer in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

touwer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:06:59 +0000

It's not sad. It's smart to ban hate speech, blatant lies and things like that. We know, we had the Nazis. Seems the US still has to learn a lesson or two, considering the current political situation. Hope it will not be as bad

New comment by touwer in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

touwer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:04:08 +0000

All these strange stories about Europe. Reddit is not blocked in France. I live in Paris and can access it as usual

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

touwer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:39:26 +0000

I wrote about the comments, not about the post

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

touwer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:29:54 +0000

Every time again when it's about Europe, there are lots of commenters here complaining about the Eu or the rules, probably a lot of US commenters aping MAGA sentiments. Of course without solving the problem this law tries to solve. It's soooo easy to complain about something you know nothing about. As if the US is perfect

New comment by touwer in "Show HN: Running your own AI assistant for €19/month"

touwer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:06:09 +0000

Did you use an AI to write that?

New comment by touwer in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

touwer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:30:06 +0000

Money is like poison in politics