Hacker News: zyberzero

New comment by zyberzero in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

zyberzero — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:56:26 +0000

To clarify the ”100%” part - the Python script generated the video output, and you did nothing? No video edit at all? Then I think it is impressive! Are you able to share the prompts you used?

New comment by zyberzero in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

zyberzero — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:10:11 +0000

Ah, that makes sense, thanks! I tried that way back when Windows phone was a thing (using my phone as a desktop), I even had a small dock for my Lumia 925. It worked well enough for presentations and RDPing into my workstation.

New comment by zyberzero in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

zyberzero — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:53:12 +0000

How often do you connect stuff to your phone, and for what purposes? I genuinely wonder!

I can't remember the last time I connected my phone to my computer for other purposes than charging the phone, but that's me and we all use our stuff different ways

New comment by zyberzero in "Immich 3.0"

zyberzero — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:33:29 +0000

Yes, at least for a year. There is a ”external library” feature, I think that does what you want.

New comment by zyberzero in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

zyberzero — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:29:37 +0000

I selfhost DNS as well, but I just use plain old bind zone files and it works well enough across a bunch of domains (and RFC2136 for my dynamic IP at home) that I haven't bothered to look into database stored records. I just need to remember the pesky serial number so that the changes get properly replicated :)

New comment by zyberzero in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

zyberzero — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:17:34 +0000

Not the parent, but I've seen the movie and read the book. I think there are a few gaps in the movie that's explained by the book, but there are some artistic freedom as well between the book and the film.

I would recommend reading the book first at least.

New comment by zyberzero in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

zyberzero — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:28:25 +0000

But a copy of production data in the test environment isn't production data... It's test data! :)

New comment by zyberzero in "Root System Drawings"

zyberzero — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:45:37 +0000

It says cm, so centimeters (1/100 meter) - slightly less than 0.4 inches

New comment by zyberzero in "Revisiting Image Maps"

zyberzero — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:36:45 +0000

Really? I'd say image maps was the name I haven't heard in a long time... As in I read a couple of paragraphs before it dawned on me that it was _that_ type of image maps that post was about - I first thought it was something regarding rasterized maps (like OpenStreetMap or something)

New comment by zyberzero in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

zyberzero — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:31:05 +0000

Yes, there is functionality to create groups in music assistant. You can even create groups between different types of sinks (so you can combine say Chromecasts together with home assistants media player together with airplay). However, I have not played around with that too much so I don’t know how well the players will sync with each other.

New comment by zyberzero in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

zyberzero — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:50:16 +0000

Timers works fine.

Music - yes, albeit a bit finicky to set up.

There's an addon called Music Assistant that controls the music, you can connect it to your provider of choice (local files, Spotify, etc), and you can let it connect to several types of sinks.

OOB the HA only knows a few commands (pause, next, etc) but there are some community driven effort to improve the support, such as "Play the album Dark side of the moon". [0].

[0] https://github.com/music-assistant/voice-support

New comment by zyberzero in "Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act"

zyberzero — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:53:21 +0000

We do have credit scoring, but I don’t think it is in the same sense as in the US though. If you look at ”your” UC (for example using the app Kreddy) you will get a credit score back.

New comment by zyberzero in "[dead]"

zyberzero — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:43:38 +0000

I noticed, but everything is fine on https://portal.office.com/servicestatus

Who would have guessed? /s

New comment by zyberzero in "Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)"

zyberzero — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:42:21 +0000

I was using Spotify Beta way back when, and they absolutely had songs named like that as well. I specifically remember one of Pink Floyd's albums (pretty sure is was a copy of the wall) as such.

New comment by zyberzero in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

zyberzero — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:34:48 +0000

Same. My (fairly modern, ~3 yo?) Husqvarna only show lies; it can show seven minutes left for ~30 minutes and then go straight to 0.

New comment by zyberzero in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

zyberzero — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:19:07 +0000

> What I'm missing out on is an (Android) app, and I think that this would be a good reason to think about moving over to HA.

There is! The Home assistant companion - it brings you a lot of functionality in terms of location, notifications, sensors and what not into the HA world.

https://companion.home-assistant.io/

New comment by zyberzero in "Lebanon is hit by more explosions as 'Hezbollah walkie talkies' detonate"

zyberzero — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:50:18 +0000

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-exp...

New comment by zyberzero in "Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?"

zyberzero — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:35:45 +0000

The protocol has already been reverse engineered. I’m using Home Assistant with bluetooth and it picks up one of my neighbour’s Oral-B toothbrush…

New comment by zyberzero in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

zyberzero — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:32:50 +0000

Fun fact: my local store uses different units for the comparisons. Not that you can choose from that many different units, but for example brand A corn flakes comparison price is price/serving while brand B corn flakes is compared by price/kg. Sure, the serving is based on weight but I still need to do some math to figure out which one is cheaper :)

This is one of the biggest food chains in Sweden.

New comment by zyberzero in "Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months"

zyberzero — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:17:20 +0000

I have been looking for Affinity Photo for a while - but can someone recommend a good alternative to lightroom? Perhaps something that integrate with Affinity reasonable well?

For mac. Plus points for linux support. Even more plus points if it can easily share the library between different devices.