Hacker News: zapu

New comment by zapu in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

zapu — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:36:21 +0000

Hah, oh no, if they (practically) ghosted q3k, then most of us have no chance.

New comment by zapu in "Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished"

zapu — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:19:25 +0000

It's even worse than that. Scammers are sending messages through booking.com, so you get a message from the hotel, in your booking.com inbox, with a link to a payment site that just makes a payment to the crooks. The root cause is either hotel employees installing session-stealing malware, either accidentally or by being part of the scam.

New comment by zapu in "Backblaze 2022 SSD Drive Stats"

zapu — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:36:03 +0000

I've been using F3 to test new SD cards: https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3

I think it does practically the same thing as your method.

New comment by zapu in "I love my GPD Micro PC"

zapu — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:20:56 +0000

Doesn't seem that you can get these for 300 EUR anymore, or am I missing something obvious?

New comment by zapu in "Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?"

zapu — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:02:42 +0000

Hey, thanks for the post. I was going to migrate some of my mailboxes to Zoho (ones that mostly receive netflix receipts and junkmail), can you elaborate about lack of unicode support? I can't find anything with a cursory web search.

New comment by zapu in "Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?"

zapu — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:21:35 +0000

Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_of_a_Distant_Star

New comment by zapu in "How I used a Google query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards"

zapu — Sun, 27 May 2018 13:40:27 +0000

I don't think that was always the case. Recently I was googling my name and I found out I have bunch of Trello boards for various student projects that I completely forgot about (think "startups" but we've never gotten anywhere with them). I was surprised to see that. I don't think we deliberately made it public.

New comment by zapu in "Induction of self awareness in dreams through low current stimulation (2014)"

zapu — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:21:37 +0000

Oh, wow, this is exactly how I dream as well. I could never have expressed this, though! Thank you for that post.

I always wonder how "real" do dreams feel for people who dream lucidly, but then I realize that it wouldn't matter for me. The level of realism, details, the feelings - are irrelevant, since it would only be a memory, at no point in time I would ever be experiencing it. It would be just a faint, happy, memory of something that didn't happen.

New comment by zapu in "Keybase's mission is to make encryption mainstream"

zapu — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:18:36 +0000

Sometimes, when Slack e-mails me that someone has mentioned me in a channel, and in the e-mail there is content of the message, I have a brief thought of "how do they know-... oh". I'm slowly getting used to e2e provided by various IMs, as well as encrypted at rest e-mail providers (personally I user Protonmail) - it's not something extraordinary anymore.

New comment by zapu in "Ask HN: How does an online game with AIs manage so many AIs?"

zapu — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 07:54:59 +0000

Regarding (2), there are some MMORPGs that went with this approach, producing hilarious results, obviously - talk about cheat programs allowing players to teleport monsters around etc.

New comment by zapu in "Waze for Android Auto"

zapu — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:11:49 +0000

Bought a Toyota SUV few years ago, they promised CarPlay update as well. Not that I believed that it would ever come, but still :|

New comment by zapu in "Ask HN: Secure automated backup?"

zapu — Wed, 17 May 2017 19:33:15 +0000

If you mean client performance in general, I never had problems with that, it's just the connection to the server overseas was not that great. I have my own dedicated server in Europe to which I have much faster connection.

New comment by zapu in "Ask HN: Secure automated backup?"

zapu — Sat, 13 May 2017 10:30:24 +0000

Crashplan worked well for me, sometimes I have to restore a file that I overwrite or that ends up being corrupted because of buggy (in-house) software and I never had any problems with that.

My main issue is that I went with free plan + my own server because transfers to their servers were really bad. But to supply your own storage, you have to install Crashplan on the server, which uses significant amount of RAM. So this rules out backuping to my NAS (not enough memory there, even though it's x86 and technically people ran Java on it).

The other issue is that file format is (AFAIK) closed, and also you an account and connection to Crashplan service, so I'm not completely sure that you really own the data. I didn't do much research here, though.

New comment by zapu in "Ask HN: Secure automated backup?"

zapu — Sat, 13 May 2017 07:40:37 +0000

Can you elaborate how Arq is buggy? I'm considering switching to Arq from Crashplan, because I supply my own storage for it anyway.

New comment by zapu in "Show HN: Resumegen – A single-page LaTeX resume generator"

zapu — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:43:34 +0000

I have an invoice generation script that outputs html, and I unfortunately have to open it in Chrome and "print to pdf" manually. If you control styling, you can usually set it to look the way you want. Also browser HTML headers/footers can be disabled.

wkhtmltopdf output never looked quite right to me.

New comment by zapu in "Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes"

zapu — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:59:02 +0000

Thank you, I've just realized how... different (to not say "awful"...) it is in US after reading more comments here.

To be honest sometimes I'm anxious when my bill ends up some number that's hard to tip from; but if I don't tip, nothing will happen.

New comment by zapu in "Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes"

zapu — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:44:18 +0000

View on Europe on HN seems to be a little skewed. We have tipping here as well, maybe not to the same extent as in US, but it's definitely present. Even sandwich or coffee places would have "tip jar" where people would drop their change when they pay cash, but it's not required or even expected. It's not like there is no concept of tipping at all.

New comment by zapu in "A profound apology"

zapu — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:25:41 +0000

I wonder why this is getting downvotes. There is a lot of insight about the situation in the linked comment.

New comment by zapu in "Ask HN: What's your backup setup?"

zapu — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:52:39 +0000

I'm using CrashPlan and I have recovered multiple files over past couple of years, that I either mistakenly deleted or overwritten. I haven't tried any full-scale restore, yet, though.

New comment by zapu in "Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM"

zapu — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:46:55 +0000

Also [1], which relies on watermarking audio of content, which then can be detected by hardware players and the playback can be stopped if it discovers that e.g. you play a BluRay rip from USB stick. It survives encoding with different codecs. I'm not sure if it has been cracked yet or not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia