Hacker News: zeeZ

New comment by zeeZ in "Neocities: Create your own free website"

zeeZ — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:13:48 +0000

This is very similar to how I started out almost thirty years ago. Static files, a complicated JavaScript navigation, maybe even entirely flash based! Not everyone needs a hyperscaler!

New comment by zeeZ in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

zeeZ — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:59:23 +0000

One of the draft authors is already working on a cert-manager implementation. I'm optimistic it'll make it into cert-manager once the spec is ready and CAs actually start to implement it.

New comment by zeeZ in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

zeeZ — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:54:55 +0000

That would be DANE with TLSA (RFC 6698, not the stock ticker symbol). You've still got just another chain of trust with the DNSSEC requirement, and the recent DENIC outage breaking that for the entirety of .de isn't the greatest advertisement :D

New comment by zeeZ in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

zeeZ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:34:17 +0000

Jet Lag videos release on YT one week after they premiere on Nebula.

New comment by zeeZ in "CarPlay Is Additive"

zeeZ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:05:38 +0000

Consistency would be nice. YT music on Android Auto moved the buttons around again recently. You can still see where the thumbs up button used to be from my fingerprints. It's not smaller and on the other side.

New comment by zeeZ in "Why German trains are never on time anymore"

zeeZ — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:37:36 +0000

The problem is that until I think 2024, DB paid for maintenance, while the government funded replacements. Of course they let everything deteriorate until it wasn't their problem anymore.

The reform and merge into InfraGO with government funding is supposed to help fix that, but there's a massive backlog.

New comment by zeeZ in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

zeeZ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:26:32 +0000

Everyone using the road following the same set of rules makes their actions more predictable and thus safer (in theory)

New comment by zeeZ in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

zeeZ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:43:54 +0000

It's a German hosting company making a translation error from the German "IT-Branche". The wording doesn't appear in the German version, but very well could have at some point in the process.

New comment by zeeZ in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

zeeZ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:16:56 +0000

https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment...

Text in full:

> There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.

> The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price changes will affect both existing products and new orders and will take effect starting on 1 April 2026.

> We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.

> The price changes take effect on 1 April 2026 and are for both new orders and existing products. There is list of affected prices on Hetzner Docs at https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi....

New comment by zeeZ in "Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany"

zeeZ — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:38:41 +0000

Maybe this would have helped with something like Mastodon losing non-profit status? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s...

New comment by zeeZ in "Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany"

zeeZ — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:55:56 +0000

In addition to tax stuff there's a card you can get in most states, issued by cities/districts based on certain criteria, like doing a certain amount of hours per week of volunteer work, that will give you a discount or free entry to museums, pools, movie theaters, events.. There's listings online of all the institutions and businesses that give a discount.

New comment by zeeZ in "Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance"

zeeZ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:29:08 +0000

To expand on that, those websites mostly operate on random volunteers self hosting a (starting price) fairly cheap receiver and antenna with an open source stack that feeds the ADS-B data to the website operator in exchange for nothing or free "premium" benefits.

The spoofer could have just sent them fake location information drawing an image using latitude, longitude and altitude for color (in the default view flight paths have different colors based on the altitude of the plane at that point in time).

They could have built an antenna and actually broadcast this data, but that would be a lot more effort and most likely some form of crime.

New comment by zeeZ in "OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data"

zeeZ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:02:19 +0000

That data is already available. Including torrents.

https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

New comment by zeeZ in "OpenStreetMap overwhelmed by bots scraping data"

zeeZ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:11:10 +0000

Their data is freely available to download. There are weekly dumps of the entire planet and several sources for partial data. There's no need for most legitimate use cases to scrape their API.

New comment by zeeZ in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

zeeZ — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:55:33 +0000

It's a universal setting. You have to enable it per third-party app, though. You get to choose whether you want to see them listed with WhatsApp chats or in a separate folder

New comment by zeeZ in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

zeeZ — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:08:46 +0000

30% of households living in single family homes is not insignificant. In the villages outside the large cities there's plenty of space to charge your car at home and an increasing amount of solar on the roof.

New comment by zeeZ in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

zeeZ — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:38:56 +0000

Not being able to access the web interface where you have to manually upload a new certificate due to HSTS and the old certificate having expired a couple hours ago...

New comment by zeeZ in "Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?"

zeeZ — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:52:05 +0000

I've been told that since the privatization, the funding was split between DB paying for maintenance while the state provided funds for replacement and new lines. Allegedly this provided an incentive to let things deteriorate until they needed replacement.

Projects are planned, coordinated and funds allocated far in advance, so if the government can't agree on a budget and projects are shelved or canned, restarting the process causes a significant delay.

New comment by zeeZ in "Stop Breaking TLS"

zeeZ — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:30:28 +0000

They can, but the list of "if..." and "it depends..." is much longer and complicated, especially when getting to the part how the obtained information may be used

New comment by zeeZ in "I just want working RCS messaging"

zeeZ — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:10:10 +0000

Last time I had enabled RCS I received a flood of "DHL needs your address" and "Mom I have a new phone number" scams from the UK and the Philippines. So far I'm not aware of anything useful I've missed out on by not having it enabled.