Hacker News: ultra2d

New comment by ultra2d in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

ultra2d — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:03:54 +0000

AI erlebnis.

New comment by ultra2d in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

ultra2d — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:13:47 +0000

It really depends on what you play. I've been playing online co-op regularly with a bunch of friends since Covid times. We're jumping to new (well, on sale) games regularly, and the only recent time I booted to Windows was because a 4-player mod for Remnant II _might_ not work on Linux. Can't remember the previous game that did not work on Linux. I'm so used to things working without major tinkering that I forget to check protondb most of the time.

New comment by ultra2d in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

ultra2d — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:59:27 +0000

The hardcore mode of Kingdom Come: Deliverance really made me appreciate the game (although that's the only way I played it). It became a very immersive experience.

Valheim without a map would be a bit too much for me. No way to quickly escape to some safe green pastures sounds too stressful :).

New comment by ultra2d in "I’m Not a Robot"

ultra2d — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:04:35 +0000

The short movie 'I'm not a robot' is also worth watching. The trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT0zlzjPVgg .

New comment by ultra2d in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

ultra2d — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:24:47 +0000

I vividly remember the thrill of taking out the entire T rush to site B myself in about two seconds during a clan match (not that high level ;)). It was like dominoes falling down in a neat row. It was quite unexpected to rush to site B; the other four of my team were already at site A.

New comment by ultra2d in "My Self-Hosting Setup"

ultra2d — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:09:00 +0000

Do you use encrypted ZFS?

I have dabbled before with FreeIPA and other VMs on a Debian host with ZFS. For simplicity, I switched to running Seafile with encrypted libraries on a VPS and back that up to a local server via ZFS send/receive. That local server switches itself on every night, updates, syncs and then goes into sleep again. For additional resiliency, I'm thinking of switching to ZFS on Linux desktop (currently Fedora), fully encrypted except for Steam. Then sync that every hour or so to another drive in the same machine, and sync less frequently to a local server. Since the dataset is already encrypted, I can either sync to an external drive or some cloud service. Another reason to do it like this is that storing a full photo archive within Seafile on a VPS is too costly.

New comment by ultra2d in "A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)"

ultra2d — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:00:36 +0000

Being used to Dutch bike infrastructure, the bike lanes in Taipei made no sense to me. The ones I've seen mostly are barely distinguishable from the actual sidewalk and at large intersections the "bike lanes" seem to overlap with the logical/natural spot for pedestrians to wait for a green light.

New comment by ultra2d in "Citrix acquired and merged with Tibco for $16.5B"

ultra2d — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 09:36:33 +0000

At a previous job I also made that switch. We already were running Xen Orchestra, so the offering of XCP-ng was a blessing. Later on we replaced XenApp with a default Microsoft set-up as that worked just as well.

Took a trip down to memory lane and found this recent post which is very recognizable: "How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix" https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/30/citrix_xen/

New comment by ultra2d in "How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need?"

ultra2d — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:29:34 +0000

Bergamo has a track '1 west' hidden away in a dark corner. They should have called it track 0 as that would be less confusing to non-locals.

New comment by ultra2d in "Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races"

ultra2d — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:21:07 +0000

Obligatory reference to him practicing an overtake [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y5-DZNjBOg&feature=youtu.be] before doing it in real-life. Also see https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Max-Verstappens-move-on-the-out... .

New comment by ultra2d in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

ultra2d — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 13:24:52 +0000

Targeting ads by tracking users will be banned in the EU, but micro-targeting will be possible (just pick the right influencer(s)) or might even become unnecessary.

New comment by ultra2d in "Key Reinstallation Attacks – Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse"

ultra2d — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:20:56 +0000

Having switched to an iPhone recently it does bother me that you can't download iOS updates via 4G. When this gets fixed I need to turn on wifi first (or install iTunes).

New comment by ultra2d in "Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov"

ultra2d — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 08:47:09 +0000

It no longer has a hard dependency: "since Signal 3.30.0 that is not a hard dependency anymore." [1].

[1] https://copperhead.co/android/docs/usage_guide#signal

New comment by ultra2d in "How to explain to a layperson why a developer should not be interrupted? (2011)"

ultra2d — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 09:20:44 +0000

My thoughts exactly. You don't suddenly drop all kitchen utensils to vacuum the living room, do you?

New comment by ultra2d in "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti"

ultra2d — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:32:19 +0000

I asked Asrock support earlier this week:

  MSI and Gigabyte explicitly mention "(operate in non-ECC mode)". 
  Is that also true for Asrock AM4 motherboards? Or do they fully support ECC?

Reply:

  From: ASRock Support 
  Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:17 AM
  Hello,
  ASRock AM4 motherboards fully support ECC function.

Still, someone will have to test to be sure.

New comment by ultra2d in "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti"

ultra2d — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 06:14:06 +0000

It does. Asrock support claims their AM4 motherboards support it.

New comment by ultra2d in "Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Content"

ultra2d — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:27:25 +0000

The same amount as a Netflix HD subscription more or less. Download speed can even be a bit lower than streaming rate, and the connection does not have to be as reliable, so it should be cheaper to provide. Unfortunately I think I am an outlier. Most people probably like the ready-to-use apps on tv/media box/phone/etc. .

New comment by ultra2d in "Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Content"

ultra2d — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:03:38 +0000

Although I really like Lovesick, it is only an original since the second season. That might be a really good strategy though, just buy up the best (cancelled) gems and let the original crew create more of it. They should have done that with Party Down too.

New comment by ultra2d in "Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Content"

ultra2d — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:35:32 +0000

Yes please. Let me automatically download episodes in the highest quality and watch them the way I like it, in Kodi: always full screen, 24p, CEC. In short, give me a legal usenet alternative.

New comment by ultra2d in "Pwncloud – Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module"

ultra2d — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 07:41:41 +0000

Someone is working on that. It's called ownCrypt: https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/4327 and https://conference.owncloud.org/conference/oCC2015/proposal/...