Hacker News: zenmac

New comment by zenmac in "Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files"

zenmac — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:07:16 +0000

Wonder this guy is doing it? Or is it also not open sourced?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207002

New comment by zenmac in "Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout"

zenmac — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:50:40 +0000

>NFP’s solution was to add redundancy, similar in principle to a data-storage technique called RAID (redundant array of independent disks). Instead of sending each piece of data once, we send extra information that allows missing or corrupted packets to be reconstructed.

A bit disappointing TBH if that is their solution. Seems like everything is trying to pigeon hole everyone into the proof of work scenario. If we have more power/energy then we will beat you in everything security, coding and censorship circumvention.

New comment by zenmac in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

zenmac — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:08:23 +0000

Also onion doesn't require a domain register

New comment by zenmac in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

zenmac — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:00:04 +0000

Thanks you. This is what the parent post was trying to say. Don't know why it is down-voted. AI or not, if the API end points are well secured, for example use uuid-v7, then their is little that the ai can gain from just these points.

New comment by zenmac in "Can Claude Fly a Plane?"

zenmac — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:49:10 +0000

It would be interesting to see if Claude can land and take off. Don't think the autopilot can do that yet.

New comment by zenmac in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

zenmac — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:50:56 +0000

Nice drunk theme! All web site should have one.

New comment by zenmac in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

zenmac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:33:34 +0000

>https://archive.ph/vwuA1

Link seems to be down ATM. Is this caused by that cloud flare issue affecting archive.today that was just posted recently?

New comment by zenmac in "Migrating to the EU"

zenmac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:19:28 +0000

>For a long time, I was a satisfied Namecheap customer. They offer good prices, a wide selection of available domains, their DNS management has everything you need, and their support team has helped me quickly on several occasions. But now it was time to look for a comparable provider in the EU. In the end, I settled on hosting.de. Some of the reasons were the prices, reviews, the location in Germany, and the availability of .is domains. So far, everything has been running smoothly; support helped me quickly and competently with one issue; and while prices for non-German domains are slightly higher, they’re still within an acceptable range.

Have you tried zone.eu? Think they are related to the Nodemailer people or they acquired them. Would fit the whole Migrating to the EU theme of the article. And it is in English ;-) Couldn't really navigate the hosting.de site without using Google Translator.

New comment by zenmac in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

zenmac — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:50:56 +0000

> First, in a watertight plastic bag and then in the water?

Was wondering, but this the most duct tap hacker solution!

New comment by zenmac in "Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme"

zenmac — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:31:22 +0000

>And I would be much happier if my money went to struggling artists I like and support, rather than to the global top 10, of whom I never played a single song.

Why don't we have a platform like that?

New comment by zenmac in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"

zenmac — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:00:12 +0000

It is nice that they have the default set to "None". However to have this feature in pgAmdin is as distraction from the project.

If it is just calling API anyway, then I don't want to have this in my db admin tool. It also expose surface area of potential data leakage.

New comment by zenmac in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

zenmac — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:21:11 +0000

A non rooted device is NOT really my device, just seems like a leased device.

If we want to use banking app we have to use a non-rooted/leased device. That is what is really messed up. Personally I only use bank now that has website for banking. If they don't have a web site only app, then it is a red alert for the company.

New comment by zenmac in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

zenmac — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:31:56 +0000

>If I had any discipline around this it would make sense but if I accidentally double tap on the screen I've got a passkey and it's stuck on my phone.

The problem is not with passkey rather system such as iOS keeps a tight lid on how files are uploaded and retrieved from the device. There is a real disconnect between desktop and mobile file system now days.

New comment by zenmac in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

zenmac — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:21:24 +0000

Should have stuck with NemID a previous paper alternative or only offered MitID as a digital alternative. The rush to go all digital is coming back to bite them in the .....

New comment by zenmac in "TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)"

zenmac — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:37:48 +0000

Dose it work behind a reverse proxy such as nginx? Especially for the m3u8 files?

New comment by zenmac in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

zenmac — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:01:06 +0000

>I've given up tbh. It's like the apathetic masses want the billionaires to become trillionaires as long as they get their tiktok fix.

Especially at cost of diverting power and water for farmers and humans who need them. And the benefit of the AI seems quite limited from recent Signal post here on HN.

New comment by zenmac in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

zenmac — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:33:27 +0000

easier to type without using the shift key, and in pg you can just use LIKE not ILIKE to find the word.

New comment by zenmac in "AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines"

zenmac — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:43:57 +0000

Thanks for providing this from PG perspective. Also wonder if storage engine such as OrioleDB would be better suited for FDWs to handle consistency between copies of the same data between DuckDB?

New comment by zenmac in "Deno Sandbox"

zenmac — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:31:21 +0000

>Deno Sandbox gives you lightweight Linux microVMs (running in the Deno Deploy cloud)

The real question is can the microVMs run in just plain old linux, self-hosted.

New comment by zenmac in "Deno Sandbox"

zenmac — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:29:18 +0000

Saw quite bit on HN.

A quick search this popped up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486006

If we can spin up microVM so quickly, why bother with Docker or other containers at all?