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CountGeekon When oil prices spike, where does the money go?

I personally do not find it fine that The Netherlands exceeds the EU minimum floor (€0.359/L) by 135% and your Germany by 80%.

We have excise, stockpile levy and vat coming up to 47% of the almost 2.8 eur pump price

CountGeekon Backups Aren't Simple

I have successfully used this about 2 years ago from a Synology to perform a one-time backup (download) of about 380GB of photos and videos from my iCloud account - https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

CountGeekon Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

Surprised that https://github.com/fccview/jotty (ex rwMarkable) has not been mentioned.

CountGeekon OpenTrafficMap

I recently learned that with smart traffic lights cyclists can change traffic lights -https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/28/new-app-turns-traffic-lights-g...

CountGeekon Epigenetic fingerprints link early-onset colon&rectal cancer pesticide exposure

This isn't just a USA thing, the EU Commission literally just updated residue limits for it in July 2025 [1] and interestingly Corteva Agriscience which is the company selling it, supplies the safety data EFSA uses to keep it on our plates. [2]

[1]https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/1305/oj/eng#:~:text=C...

[2]https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2024...

CountGeekon Commission responds to cyber-attack on its Europa web platform

According to https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2038038430752374888?s=20

The EU Commission, ENISA, and the DG for Digital Services have been compromised by threat actor ShinyHunters.

Leaked data includes: ▪ Emails & attachments ▪ Full SSO user directory ▪ DKIM signing keys ▪ AWS config snapshots ▪ NextCloud/Athena data ▪ Internal admin URLs

CountGeekon Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds

This is neat. It reminds me of this https://curves-voluntary-livecam-sandra.trycloudflare.com/

CountGeekon Show HN: Lendy – Keep track of books you have lended

Plese put up some screenshots.

CountGeekon Self-hosting my photos with Immich

It has that. Select the media you want to delete, tap & hold, then scroll to the right in the menu and select Delete from device. At least on Android this is the way.

CountGeekon More random home lab things I've recently learned

Jellyfin, Jellyserr on a QNAP TS-464 runs perfectly well for serving even 4k x265.

CountGeekon NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy

So could I in practice train it on all my psychology books, materials, reports, case study and research papers and then run it on demand on a 1xH100 node - https://getdeploying.com/reference/cloud-gpu/nvidia-h100 whenever I have a specialised question?

CountGeekon Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

Maybe this is of interest https://laurentcazanove.com/blog/obsidian-rag-api

CountGeekon Good EU regulations

Pets remove plastic and instead poison ourselves.

  A 2023 Belgian study[0] tested 39 brands of straws (paper, bamboo, glass, stainless steel, and plastic):

  Paper and bamboo straws most frequently contained PFAS, sometimes at high levels.

  Plastic straws also contained PFAS, but less consistently.

  Stainless steel straws were PFAS-free in that study.

[0]https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00268...

CountGeekon Kagi should reach 50 000 users in about 10 days

I have tried Kagi for a month and it has been good. Clean results and on point for my basic searches compared to Google. Though not much different than when using my selfhosted searxng...

I am now trying to decide if I want it for the standard AI models or if I can continue scraping by the available free (restricted) offerings from various providers. There is a difference in the quality of responses between Chatgpt and when using Kagi. I guess that's what you get when using an agent...

CountGeekon Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode

Leaving a negative review is not outright illegal, but it can lead to legal consequences if deemed defamatory or false. If a review contains unsubstantiated claims or personal attacks, the business can pursue legal action for defamation.

The nuances of these laws can vary, so context matters significantly in legal interpretations.

CountGeekon Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S.

Come if you want - 56% income tax - housing shortage which is leading to landlords charging 1.5k eur for just a room - ever increase in public transport (train) unreliability and degrading conditions (shorter carriages during peak times) - increasing health insurance costs with fewer benefits - diversity, inclusion and acceptance by the community - directness (although it's a fine line between being direct and rude so YMMV) - poldermodel (things may take a few iterations to get done)

CountGeekon Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

A while back this was posted on HN - https://github.com/docmost/docmost/

CountGeekon Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline

And Docmost - https://github.com/docmost/docmost

CountGeekon Covid-19 speeds up artery plaque growth, raising heart disease risk

>"Additionally, the study was conducted at a single center in China, which may limit generalizability to other populations. The researchers also acknowledged that factors such as reinfection risk, vaccination status, and behavioral differences (e.g., medication adherence) could not be fully accounted for."

With no mention if the subjects were smokers, had diabetes, overweight or sedentary lifestyles seems to me like a wholelotta nothing burger.

CountGeekon Lucky young couple lands gig taking care of uninhabited Irish island

People can also apply to become "Calf of Man Ornithological Wardens" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-45965251

CountGeekon Ask HN: What's the best way to de-Google photos?

Similar situation whereas instead of swapping cloud for cloud I purchased a QNAP which can run containers and have setup immich & caddy on that.

WAF is good and even grandparents are able to use the immich app to view photos.

CountGeekon Schengen: Council decides to lift land border controls with Bulgaria and Romania

After 17 years since joining EU and 14 years since Romania met all the technical accession they were all able to join.

Since 2011 Romania was blocked by The Netherlands and Austria from joining. When one country didn't contest, the other did, and so here we are 14 years later.

CountGeekon He quit heading The Pentagon's UFO office. Now his report has shaken up ufology

And what if the government does eventually get its hands on aliens and their flying saucers? “It’s not their job [to keep it secret],” he says. “It would immediately get turned over to Nasa, and Nasa would immediately disclose it to everybody. That’s their job.”

Oh OK, NASA will disclose it like they did with the footage of a UFO entering earth(1)?

For those who are interested, these two podcasts are insightful (2) and (3).

(1) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-accused-of-cutting-live-fe...

(2) https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Gg4Qi578G5SXoEtaLVVpx?si=r...

(3) https://open.spotify.com/episode/04gQ8km0XhEitU1Vz4lA3j?si=m...

CountGeekon Ask HN: What are you doing to stay employable in tech in the next 1-5 years?

Are you that engineer that fixed that AS400? Back in the early 2010s, there were like 5 people across, the whole UK who could work on those mainframes.

CountGeekon My First Week at Google (2005)

>I tried to join Google in that era, unsuccessfully. (I got surprised by a weird whiteboard interview, with an interviewer who seemed to implicitly assume they were better than me, and came off as dismissive.)

>In hindsight, I wonder whether I would've 100% liked a company driven by software engineers (other than the apparent aspect of recent grads with senior-sized egos).

The same thing happened to me and left feeling the same in the early 2010s.

(Great experience however and any interview after that was a walk in the park)

CountGeekon Bellingcat Open Technical Questions 2024

Looks, like the CIA money dried up https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-c...

CountGeekon Hungarian Railways' Live Countrywide Map

The aim from March is for air and maritime travel to be part of Schengen, terrestrial not yet unfortunately.

CountGeekon Writing documentation for your house

There's this https://github.com/hay-kot/home box "inventory and organization system built for the Home User"

CountGeekon AnyTracker: Track any number on any website

For those who want to self-host - https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/

CountGeekon Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent

This list of Firefox forks was posted not so long ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735443