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Lukas_Skywalker

1,695 karma · joined August 27, 2014

Creator of code-fabrik.ch and examzone.ch
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Lukas_Skywalker··on What About Rails?
For me personally, the effort to type on a mobile phone is too much. If I can't complete an interaction with maybe two sentences, I much much prefer typing on a computer, and if required, copy everything over.
Lukas_Skywalker··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
This was OpenAI. It is as if Ford employees ran over people. They absolutely should be charged. We would be charged as well.
Lukas_Skywalker··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
https://archive.ph/jaL2u
Lukas_Skywalker··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
If the enshittification continues, it might be time to go back to rsync [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Lukas_Skywalker··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
I did the same when I tried to copy a friends music from his iPod to my iTunes library. Wiped his iPod instead. I think we have a tie there...
Lukas_Skywalker··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
Nuclear reactors do exactly that
Lukas_Skywalker··on Show HN: I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript
Very cool! There's a bunch of tools I regularly use, but usually just pick the first result of the search engine. Might warrant a bookmark :)

Nitpick: the image compressor page seems to show the instructions for the IP address converter.

Lukas_Skywalker··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
This is a pretty good resource for some basic tuning (mostly buffer sizes and connection count): https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/
Lukas_Skywalker··on Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle
The way it's worded in the readme makes it sound as if this was exactly the intention.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle
Lazy commenters need to look at the README to see that the bloom filter is mentioned as a next step. The hacker is indeed clever.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Immich 3.0
I have synced ~9000 photos from my phone in february. That worked pretty well. I was done in about 10 hours. I don't remember whether the originals were downloaded, or whether they were deleted automatically afterwards. Felt like a smooth process though.
Lukas_Skywalker··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Maybe the confusion stems from the word "chip". Creating a chip usually means designing and producing a microcontroller or a processor, not a printed circuit board that you populate with existing chips.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite
The demo shows exactly that with the density dots, no?
Lukas_Skywalker··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Bought the Framework 13 in March 2022 with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD for about $1000. Later, I upgraded RAM and SSD to 32GB/2TB (for about $180), which made it a breeze to run multiple VMs and Docker containers in parallel. Meanwhile, the Macbook M1 Pro I got from work half a year earlier cost more than $2500 for 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD and crashes when I dare to open Docker or the Android Simulator and keep a browser open for too long. I really like the M1, but it is unusable for my current workloads, and there is no way to adapt it.
Lukas_Skywalker··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
I have both the Framework 12 and the Framework 13. While I agree that the 12's display is not the best in class, it has one of the nicest touchpads I've ever used. It's hard to describe what makes the difference, but your fingers can glide nearly effortlessly across it. Both my Macbook and the FW13 have touchpads that feel a bit more "sticky".
Lukas_Skywalker··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
They did notify Collins Aerospace in the past, so I assume they do report internationally.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Does anybody like React?
While I understand the advantage of using the built-in language features (and I know why it is required to be done that way), I still think using

    {enable && <Form />}
for conditional rendering, or

    {collection.map(x => <Item x={x} /> }
for looping are not the most obvious choices. If you ask people how conditionals and loops are written in JS, you will get 'if' and 'for' or variants of 'while'. So I get where the v-if and v-for are coming from.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
Now that I looked closer, you seem to be right. Hotmail does it as well. But Gandi didn't back when I used it, and MxRoute doesn't. That's probably why I was surprised.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
I did the same and am a big fan of their services. Still, a word of caution: their policy states that they delete emails in folders named „Trash“ and similar after 30 days. It is documented, but I realized it too late. And the list of folder names in the docs is „non-exhaustive“.

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2351/understanding...

Lukas_Skywalker··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
That's probably unrelated. The date of a commit in git can be modified to whatever you want. I once backdated commits because my timezone was off, and I wanted the timestamps to match the ticketing system. Github displays the date stored in the commit, since there is not really a way to verify it.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
I understood it as a phishing page imitating their own system, targeting their own employees. Nothing related to AWS, except for being hosted there.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
But the Ubuntu update servers are necessary to serve the update. Taking them down prevents the users from downloading the update. I don't know whether the update servers were affected though.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'
I have a Prusa MK3S and it has been very very reliable. There's also a ton of mods you can download and print, which modify or extend the printer for specific use cases. They are a bit more expensive then their Chinese counterparts, but in my opinion, it's definitely worth the extra cost for the peace of mind.
Lukas_Skywalker··on Rotten Dot Com
People who want to see it can search for it, but posting without a disclaimer is unnecessary.
Lukas_Skywalker··on The Physics of GPS
True. But the GPS receiver doesn't know whether you are on the surface or not (and at what elevation), so it must always assume 3d space, hence a sphere.
Lukas_Skywalker··on The Physics of GPS
The explanation about the spheres is slightly inaccurate. With one satellite, you won't get a circle on the earths surface, but a sphere.

GPS is not constrained to earths surface (or the oblate spheroid approximating it), luckily.

Lukas_Skywalker··on FreeCAD v1.1
Oh. I didn't even know there were macros. But that looks very useful!
Lukas_Skywalker··on FreeCAD v1.1
The only issue I have with the Spreadsheet is that I need to add an alias for every value I want to use in the Sketch or Part Design workbench. In practice, this usually looks like

    A       B
    width   2mm
    length  3mm
and for every cell in B I add an alias with the same value as in column A. Is there a way around that?
Lukas_Skywalker··on Chuck Norris has died
I did something similar when Microsoft gave away Windows Phones for every app published on the app store. I used the Chuck Norris API though. The one I used is sadly no longer available (I think it was called CNDB). But there's a new one: https://api.chucknorris.io
Lukas_Skywalker··on Returning to Rails in 2026
I also think it's the opposite, since the dependencies are almost guaranteed to be compatible with each other. And I think Ruby libraries in particular are usually quite stable and maintained for a long time.
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