Hacker News: voxlax

New comment by voxlax in "Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give"

voxlax — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:44:23 +0000

This is an extremely important post. The wellbeing of tech workers is not important to anyone. Only short-term profits matter. Sustainability is irrelevant.

New comment by voxlax in "Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)"

voxlax — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:33:28 +0000

https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/hu/Radn%C3%B3ti_Mikl%C3%B3...

New comment by voxlax in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

voxlax — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:26:04 +0000

Oh, sry! Your comment came after I posted mine. I had similar experience with a bottle of organic thinner for paints.

New comment by voxlax in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

voxlax — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:24:14 +0000

I believe, he might have stored some solvent in the vicinity of the cable. Anyway it won't affect the optical performance of the cables. It's just the loss of mechanical protection. The disintegrating sheathing could be repaired by shrink tubing, which is more convenient than by wrapping it up in tape.

New comment by voxlax in "Recall for Linux"

voxlax — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:20:39 +0000

Ingenious! Now imagine an M$ ad: "Are you forced to work with Linux? Do you miss the convenience of Microsoft spying on you and keeping track of everything?

Fear not! This amazing tool will bring back all those great Windows Recall features that you have been missing: WINDOWS 11"

New comment by voxlax in "The ABS programming language"

voxlax — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:44:23 +0000

Another BS? Apologies, I actually do like it.

New comment by voxlax in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

voxlax — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:02:06 +0000

I don´t see the relation to this debate. HAM Radio communications do not need encryption, as they have a fully different purpose. You would not discuss private/sensitive matters anyway as the whole thing is just a hobby/learning/experimentation or sport. Your life´s important decisions don´t depend on this type of communication. Besides, I think one of the most important motivations behind this restriction is to avoid misusing frequencies for commercial purposes.

New comment by voxlax in "Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band"

voxlax — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:42:55 +0000

Yes, but if it hadn't been for the efforts of visionary scientists at NASA trying to reach the stars, there would be no means of putting those satellites into orbit.

New comment by voxlax in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

voxlax — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:41:50 +0000

It´s in the best interest of the people in the US to have the dominance of those corporations broken, before those companies eliminate democracy.

New comment by voxlax in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

voxlax — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:14:17 +0000

I´m living in the middle of a city, and PM2.5 levels get very high at times. We are way above the yearly 5ug/m3 recommendation. So I just bought a lot of air purifiers (just HEPA, everything else commercially available is useless) and they get switched on if the levels get high (via HomeAssistant). I have a device in the garden and another inside, so I am monitoring the difference on a regular basis. I optimize (manually, no fancy data crunching) for low noise produced by the filters and low <2-3ug/m3 PM2.5 values indoors. I don´t have forced ventilation, so I need to know how much do I open the windows to get humidity and VOCs down, while not letting in too much smog. Sounds more complicated than it really is.

New comment by voxlax in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

voxlax — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:09:24 +0000

You can get the same measurements and even more from AirGradient. Those are a bit cheaper and much more solid devices. Not so focused on design, but rather on accuracy: https://www.airgradient.com

I´m not affiliated with them in any way, but I´m using their indoor and outdoor sensors since a few years by now, and I am very satisifed. Btw. their HW is opensource and you can choose between their SW or can flash anything else. The measurement data of my outdoor sensor is publicly available: https://explore.openaq.org/?location=2070168#13.21/48.22244/...

New comment by voxlax in "Citronics built a router based on the Fairphone 2 mainboard"

voxlax — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:36:28 +0000

Also a single port? There are cheaper alternatives, capable of routing 1G between ports and with integrated 5G modem. Complete with case and smaller.