Hacker News: usr1106

New comment by usr1106 in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

usr1106 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:27:05 +0000

I often hear the argument of savings in printing and postage.

Having seen all the over budget, years delayed or completely failed IT projects in the public sector, I wonder whether there are any savings at all in the end.

(Perspective from a couple of EU countries at different degrees of digitalization)

New comment by usr1106 in "Google's Gmail Upgrade Decision: 2B Users Must Act Now"

usr1106 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:17:37 +0000

While composing a reply to recipient B leaking some details that it "learned" when reading a mail from sender A, which you did not want to share with B. I have no idea how they organize sessions, indexes and whatever they use. But if no "side-channels" existed, I would be extremely surprised.

Of course reading generated text remains the sole responsibility of the user before clicking "Send". We all know that reading drafts can happen more or less carefully, especially when being in a hurry.

New comment by usr1106 in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

usr1106 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:14:19 +0000

Works just fine in powershell. Avoid using command prompt and life is already a bit better

New comment by usr1106 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

usr1106 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:11:16 +0000

There is no reason kids should use so called smart devices, except making certain companies richer. Kids have had a healthy development without such crap for thousands of years. We don't discuss what percentage of alcohol should be allowed in beer and wine for kids.

New comment by usr1106 in "StackOverflow's questions per day have fallen 99%"

usr1106 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:23:36 +0000

So how will LLMs be trained when SO has no longer any up to date, relevant information? From all the LLM-generated phony crap pages you hit nowadays?

New comment by usr1106 in "Emacs is the display server. Headless Firefox is the renderer"

usr1106 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:39:02 +0000

Except from being cool, we can do it, are there any benefits? Benefits for me would be avoiding interactions with the oligarchies and generally executing code on my machine that I don't need to consume Web content.

New comment by usr1106 in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

usr1106 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:21:08 +0000

Sure, I like Arch. Did not consider it for completely non-technical users, though.

New comment by usr1106 in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

usr1106 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:18:02 +0000

I know Fedora, although haven't used it recently anymore because it's not approved at my current job.

But is that something to use by non-geeks on really low end machines?

New comment by usr1106 in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

usr1106 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:39:56 +0000

According to https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-adding-a-free-vp... Mullvad might not be used for the free service. Whether that's correct or incorrect extrapolation we will see...

New comment by usr1106 in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

usr1106 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:20:18 +0000

I don't like snap and have always uninstalled it in the past. However, that gets more difficult in newer releases, so probably not a sustainable path. Still searching for the distro I could install instead of Xubuntu for friends and family who don't want or need the latest and greatest.

The main reason for my dislike is the closed source nature of snap distribution. App isolation is important and not easy. That bugs will happen and be fixed there is natural. Happens with every other system that was supposed to increase security, too.

New comment by usr1106 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

usr1106 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:27:55 +0000

I worked in a company where reviews took days. The CTO complained a lot about the speed, but we had decent code quality.

Now I work at a company where reviews take minutes. We have 5 lines of technical debt per 3 lines of code written. We spend months to work on complicated bugs that have made it to production.

New comment by usr1106 in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

usr1106 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:22:43 +0000

What makes me slower is the moment is the AI slop my team lead posts into reviews. I have to spend time to argue why that's not a valid comment.

New comment by usr1106 in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

usr1106 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:34:05 +0000

On track? Jolla has a track record of shipping late (or not at all in an unfortunate case). So if they kept their promises this time I would be more than surprised. Still, I do hope and wish them that they can ship at some point in time without any major disaster.

(Typed on SailfishOS)

New comment by usr1106 in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

usr1106 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:13:44 +0000

Using a Sailfish phone comes from the desire not to use Google or Apple. So wanting to pay using those companies seems an odd requirement. Luckily for paying there are still widely accepted alternatives.

New comment by usr1106 in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

usr1106 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:02:53 +0000

I still use Sailfish daily. I have no problem with the UI, but their Firefox is seriously outdated and predictive text for the keyboard is no longer available.

New comment by usr1106 in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

usr1106 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:39:36 +0000

Interesting: Despite its name Armbian seems to support RISC-V.

Disclaimer: I have never used any RISC-V board.

New comment by usr1106 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

usr1106 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:14:21 +0000

My HN account has no email. Not sure whether it would still be possible for a new account.

New comment by usr1106 in "Swiss vote places right to use cash in country's constitution"

usr1106 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:04:33 +0000

Not following Switzerland, so I don't know whether this was part of the discussion: Most cards in Europe, Apple and Google are American. With Trump treating Europe like an enemy, it's stupid to use any of those. This year I have returned to use 90% cash after having no wallet since 2021.

New comment by usr1106 in "I resigned from OpenAI"

usr1106 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:31:37 +0000

In Germany it made it even to the general news https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/openai-manager...

So it wouldn't even be worth a HN submission. Well, I think it can still go under exception for exceptional news.

Tell HN: Microsoft Edge self-destroys updating it in Debian based distros

usr1106 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:06:03 +0000

The newest version of 145.0.3800.58-1 of microsoft-edge-stable changes the repo to download further updates from to https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ At the moment this fails for me because I don't have Google's public key installed. But I doubt the URL is correct in the first place.

I guess Microsoft copies the maintainer scripts from Google's Chrome and forgot to patch the repo URL.

Yeah, I would not use any software from that supplier if my employer did not force me to...

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