Hacker News: upstandingdude

New comment by upstandingdude in "Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer"

upstandingdude — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:55:28 +0000

Yeah I mean its over exaggerated but I think the blast radius estimation was way too optimistic.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer"

upstandingdude — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:23:35 +0000

"It has access to email, deeper personal context [...] If it gets compromised, the blast radius is an IRC bot with a $2/day inference budget."

Dunno, if it gets compromised it has access to ironclaw. So the blast radius is email access and access to personal data. Depending on the setup the blast radius could even be 'the attacker removed the api limits by resetting password and incurred astronomic costs' or worse.

Just tried it, its a public lobby where people see each others questions?! Now the blast radius became 'hosting a public hub that was used to share CP and other illegal materials'

New comment by upstandingdude in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

upstandingdude — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:37:43 +0000

Same with DHL, they basically train their customer base to trust messages from random channels like whatsapp containing links. They have all the urgency/nonsense markers of spam.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Optimizing typography of insect labels using free fonts and free software (2012) [pdf]"

upstandingdude — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:40:03 +0000

hmm for being a document about typography its quite an eye sore...

New comment by upstandingdude in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

upstandingdude — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:02:23 +0000

Imho thats overoptimizing. To me the next larger square box is the best most flexible solution. I get the allure of perfect fit places for everything but to me its not worth the continuous effort. (I got several gridfinity drawers)

New comment by upstandingdude in "People Who Are Obsessed with Success and Prestige"

upstandingdude — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:08:25 +0000

Yeah at first I liked him but after exery video I felt stupid and had learned exactly nothing, so I stopped. Glad its not me :D sweating

New comment by upstandingdude in "For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity"

upstandingdude — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:34:51 +0000

lol it also has a reputation for being super unreliable

New comment by upstandingdude in "SQL Murder Mystery"

upstandingdude — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:24:15 +0000

love it

New comment by upstandingdude in "The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)"

upstandingdude — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:36:17 +0000

ha +1 for the build tool mess. its like everyone goes "duuude this stuff is so complex lets build something on top to abstract it all away" and you end up with another level of complex stuff that builds the stuff that builds the that wraps the stuff that you originally wanted to use...

New comment by upstandingdude in "German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies"

upstandingdude — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 14:14:27 +0000

I don't know, smells fishy

New comment by upstandingdude in "Michael Apted's “Seven Up” series is reaching its conclusion"

upstandingdude — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 13:45:00 +0000

Yes please. Open -> paywall -> close.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket"

upstandingdude — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:25:54 +0000

not even one prototype picture :/ yeah ....

New comment by upstandingdude in "Driverless cars are stuck in a jam"

upstandingdude — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:05:25 +0000

Thats more or less prohibitively expensive, because your hiking location would be outside of parking zone most likely, thus you're on the clock the whole time. Not my idea of a relaxing experience. Looks like zipcar is even station bound which makes it worse. You have to get yourself and all the stuff to the station somehow and then take it back from there again when you are done.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Driverless cars are stuck in a jam"

upstandingdude — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:54:01 +0000

I live in one of those european cities. We have at least six companies offering small electric scooters, even more for bicycles, pedelecs, larger electric scooter, cars, trucks everything. They litter the streets can be rented on a whim with your smartphone, totally hassle free. I used at least four different of these company in the last four days. BUT I still own a car, scooter and my own bicycles because it is super expensive if you use it regularly. Usually 1 Euro up front and then at least 20 cent per minute depending on the ride maybe even more. We have public transport but its depressing and annoying and also expensive. I usually go everywhere with my own bike but its broken down atm. I absolutely love driving and its basically the only way to get away from the city on the cheap! All those fancy new mobility solutions are only good for moving within the city and if you have a well paying job. I don't ever want to miss the freedom of leaving all of this expensive busy crap behind with my own car. Its all an addition but not a replacement.

And its true that if you have to rent you don't go hiking often because the money ticks away even while you are parked outside the zone (which would be the case for hiking) so you are always stressed out about hurrying. Also you always have to decide, do I want to/can I spend 50 Euros today just to go hiking? Or you know you could use your own car. Yes it also costs money but its way less and more spread out.

New comment by upstandingdude in "New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics"

upstandingdude — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:49:48 +0000

Dunno the brits that live in Germany can just get a unlimited residency permit without any fuss.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Basecamp Didn't Want to Run This Ad"

upstandingdude — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:33:35 +0000

In Germany at least that practice is illegal as far as I know. You are not allowed to use brandnames in your meta info as well.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product"

upstandingdude — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:46:27 +0000

NO! Rocket Internet is known and have been busted for straight up copying even website source code, layout, everything. As in the source of the HTML is identical, just the color scheme changed. They are criminals make no mistake, learn how they got their riches, by scamming teenagers with ringtones.

New comment by upstandingdude in "Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product"

upstandingdude — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:43:22 +0000

They and their founding brothers are fricking leeches and deserve prison for life!

New comment by upstandingdude in "What happens when Google says “we aren’t going to pay your fines”?"

upstandingdude — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:53:40 +0000

Spoken like a true american...

New comment by upstandingdude in "Traveling the World on a Third World Passport"

upstandingdude — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:21:17 +0000

Pff, I am from Europe and if i want to go to say China its the exact same process. blah blah