Hacker News: zecg

New comment by zecg in "They Killed Old Reddit"

zecg — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:52:58 +0000

Finally, I'm free

New comment by zecg in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

zecg — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:41:54 +0000

> Resilient replicas of your data will live in the US (for now). As we only have one location in Europe so far, the geographically separate copy will remain on servers in one of our US locations.

Wow, it's nothing. How about writing your PR after the data is not going to the US at all?

New comment by zecg in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

zecg — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:44:16 +0000

> The moment I am too scared to do something because I might damage the tool, it stops being a tool.

What? You can damage even the most robust and simple tool by using it wrongly or inattentively.

New comment by zecg in "Organic Maps"

zecg — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:11:12 +0000

You mean this one: https://www.comaps.app/download/

New comment by zecg in "The Vado 3 EVO is like a two-wheeled wearable"

zecg — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:19:08 +0000

When I heat the word "digitizing" I reach for my gun.

New comment by zecg in "First G-SHOCK with a heart rate monitor, also featuring Smartphone Link"

zecg — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:09:22 +0000

> smartphone pairing enables automatic time correction

I like how they're advertising this shitty feature that's much more cumbersome than what their watches have now, namely https://gshock.casio.com/europe/technology/radio/

More like, automatic time correction is the best reason we found for mandating smartphone pairing and we hope you won't remember there's a better solution.

Also, 35 days that the battery lasts is 1/10 of a year, compared to 10 years that radio-synced watches have, so two orders of magnitude less. Fuck off with smartphone pairing, Casio.

edit: 35 hours, lol, so more like three orders of magnitude less.

New comment by zecg in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

zecg — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:42:45 +0000

Except today games all work and invariably markedly better on Linux. Even the games that stopped working on Windows for me work great, like https://www.protondb.com/app/2008510

New comment by zecg in "I Quit Editing Photos"

zecg — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:50:45 +0000

This FLOSS RAW editor works really well, btw: http://www.rawtherapee.com/

New comment by zecg in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

zecg — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:49:50 +0000

> What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better.

Fuck your weasel words

New comment by zecg in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

zecg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:33:36 +0000

...for people who insist on using only Windows on their personal computer.

New comment by zecg in "The enshittification of Amazon paperback books"

zecg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:17:28 +0000

I gave up, bought a kobo libra2 that never saw an internet connection (you can find updated firmware online to download) and now just borrow epubs in the soulseek library.

New comment by zecg in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

zecg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:54:44 +0000

Luckily, they well enshittified it prior to this move, so my account is already deleted. I wish Discord a swift irrelevance.

New comment by zecg in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

zecg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:21:06 +0000

I don't want to download the code or models for those features in the first place, Mozilla.

New comment by zecg in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

zecg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:08:42 +0000

You can on Android, using this: https://f-droid.org/it/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/ (it's also on Google's store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celzero.br... )

Set it as a local proxy to channel all network access through it and you can selectively block any app from accessing any network, or isolate it.

New comment by zecg in "Mozilla makes over 680M dollars in revenue in 2024"

zecg — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:05:12 +0000

I can tell, because I now use forks of Firefox decrapified by nerds in their basements.

New comment by zecg in "Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights"

zecg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:55:29 +0000

> In europe , this is not news, never.

That's just false. Example, here's a shitty tabloid in Croatia:

https://www.24sata.hr/news/vrh-europske-komisije-mijenja-pra...

New comment by zecg in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

zecg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:56:11 +0000

> Vibe coding didn't make me a 10x engineer. But it gave me permission to build again. Ideas I've had for years suddenly feel achievable. That's honestly the bigger win for me.

Did fucking AI also write your article?

New comment by zecg in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

zecg — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:06:44 +0000

CachyOS, it's basically a nice installer to jump into rolling arch. (I made sure it's a Ryzen thinkpad, might be relevant)

New comment by zecg in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

zecg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:25:29 +0000

I feel like people who say this haven't seen KDE in a very long time. On a thinkpad it not only "just works", it works flawlessly, never demands attention without justification (i.e. no ads or superfluous items in notifications), every bit of hardware works, all the special keys, fingerprint reader and it's all recognized and usable and configurable from KDE.

New comment by zecg in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

zecg — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:46:21 +0000

I'd download epubs of everything from Anna's Archive and/or soulseek (Nicotine+ is nice) and kindly tell them to fuck off with their account.