Hacker News: yuumei

New comment by yuumei in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

yuumei — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:09:03 +0000

Wow that list of commits is brutal. Libre Office is dead. Just another corporate take over of an open source project.

New comment by yuumei in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

yuumei — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:55:27 +0000

Euro office looking very suspicious here

New comment by yuumei in "UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment"

yuumei — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:30:24 +0000

As are Bedfordshire police: https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-police-workin...

New comment by yuumei in "Parametric CAD in Rust"

yuumei — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:52:58 +0000

Note that one of the co-authors of the source is "Claude"

New comment by yuumei in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

yuumei — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:26:30 +0000

This is a semi joke answer but I have worked at some of the big corps and see how they use OSS software. One way I have continuously thought about to prevent usage is to make all of the variables/function names/APIs contain profanity and PR incorrect jokes. I do know that every single corp has a profanity filter to prevent any bad word being added to code. It’s not bullet-proof but certainly makes it a lot more difficult to get that code on corpo servers and past legal.

New comment by yuumei in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

yuumei — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:28:19 +0000

That’s my issue with it: iot devices shouldn’t have access to the internet by default. With Matter it’s possible. No one is going to create outbound firewall rules for these things.

New comment by yuumei in "NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD"

yuumei — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:34:14 +0000

Same but I can’t access archive.is either because of the VPN

New comment by yuumei in "EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided"

yuumei — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:02:18 +0000

Worth noting that with RIPA (2000, activated in 2007) UK has enforced key disclosure. It is illegal to fail to disclose a password for any data for any reason (including random data).

I would say the UK has worse privacy than any other country on earth. I'm really hoping for plausible deniability to become more common to help protect against the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...

New comment by yuumei in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

yuumei — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:09:35 +0000

> The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans. > Anubis – confusingly – inverts this idea.

Not really, AI easily automates traditional captchas now. At least this one does not need extensions to bypass.

New comment by yuumei in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

yuumei — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:44:01 +0000

If you are looking for OSS support for things like libre office, graphics, bluetooth, WSI, upstreaming, kernel and more, Collabora is a UK based company that can help~

New comment by yuumei in "Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update"

yuumei — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:27:24 +0000

I have the same Samsung sound bar and absolutely nothing works. We need to hard reset it every day because it refuses to work, switching between programmes in Netflix causes a horrible loud crack, the latest one is having speakers out of sync. Really bad. Unfortunately the rtings reviewers didn’t seem to test any of these things.

New comment by yuumei in "DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up"

yuumei — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:10:50 +0000

The government wants to introduce a law to make it illegal to possess AI tools that are capable of CSAM output. As we know this is impossible, any company starting in the UK with AI will likely fail compared to other countries if this law passes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d90qe4nylo

New comment by yuumei in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

yuumei — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:28:47 +0000

As a test: I am always on a vpn

New comment by yuumei in "Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience"

yuumei — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:26:23 +0000

But at least with Google captchas you can use AI to solve them. I use the buster captcha extension to solve them. It moves the mouse around like a human and solves automatically. I pay for captcha solvers for hcaptcha which is worse but cloudflare is just cancer. It’s made the web unusable

New comment by yuumei in "RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available"

yuumei — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:27:13 +0000

The last SiFive board I had died after about a year of use and is no longer supported so buyer beware

New comment by yuumei in "Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)"

yuumei — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:07:20 +0000

I use AI to solve my captchas now. Pay for the service from nopecha, the internet has been killed for VPNs without it

New comment by yuumei in "Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux"

yuumei — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:39:01 +0000

Has the btrfs sub volume quota bug been fixed yet? I always had issues when using it

New comment by yuumei in "Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy"

yuumei — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:31:44 +0000

I'm using Octopus mentioned in the article, I got paid £0.67 to use 12.62kWh over 4 hours due to spare energy in the UK on 8th June. So not really worth it financially, but the ability is there already to help even out the load.

New comment by yuumei in "Ask HN: Best way to remove CO2 in a bedroom?"

yuumei — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:22:43 +0000

Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery is a common term (MVHR). Basically a fan but it tries to recover the heat lost in winter. Usually comes as a whole house system but there are some that do single rooms.

New comment by yuumei in "ESASky"

yuumei — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:01:56 +0000

Beautiful, but could do with using quaternions for rotation to avoid gimbal lock. At least I assume that’s the problem with getting stuck on the poles