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athrow··on The lost joy of music piracy
Beyond here is something like a utopia - no false advertisement here. Some good memories: COFFE & salinger leak, filling in one of the largest bounties of obsure german electro pop for internet glory points, good memories.
athrow··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
Hacker culture isn't dead. It just smells funny.
athrow··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
> Communism in Poland meant two things: not a lot of disposable income

The issue wasn’t so much the lack of income it was scarcity of items to purchase.

athrow··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
Apparently gpt 5.5 thinks I’m a metal folk musician, i wish.
athrow··on Last.fm is now independent
Spotify is pay to win (play) - especially user curated ones playlists.
athrow··on Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars
> the Flying V shape is not really playable while seated

it needs to be played in a classical position (with a footrest ideally) but it's more ergonomic than the standard strat position.

athrow··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
What does he have to show for it?
athrow··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Anthropic taketh and Anthropic giveth.
athrow··on New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges
Scummy approach, we have buyer protections for a reason.
athrow··on Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)
In Poland Canal+ was encrypted like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z83bIGiRVy4

I'm guessing it's a latter version?

athrow··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
> You know what the best part of being a software engineer is? You can meet and talk to people who think like you. Not necessarily the same interests like sports and TV shows and stuff. But they think about problems the same way you think of them. That’s pretty cool.

That hasn't really been my experience, for every 50 people I meet maybe 1 is here for the craft, the rest want to do 9-5, have a visibility at work, work on impactful projects but actually talk about their problems, their opinions in a deeper way - almost never.

athrow··on A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Looks like a board of a crypto(scam): weak, unclear profiles, frequent changes, no board experience, personal connections. It's quite amazing they've seemingly stumbled upon $100b product.
athrow··on Why is the plural form of "house" not "hice"? (2016)
> This question was marked to be a duplicate of "Goose"–"geese" vs. "moose"–"moose" and Why is the plural form of Moose not Meese?

Never change, SO, never change.

athrow··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
Except there really isn’t a better product to back up these issues. There were some important improvements made to the gameplay, traffic system, certain things were reworked, nicer graphics etc. It feels like an iteration and not a ground-breaking game rhat would justify the performance issues we’re seeing.
athrow··on Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud
No problem, honestly I think for the price it's really hard to beat considering that you get unlimited (subject to fair use I'm guessing) traffic and backups included in the price. Also, supposedly v25 of NextCloud does offer big improvements (including for Photos) - Hetzner are yet to implement this.
athrow··on European teams ditch pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar World Cup
I don't find categorizing something as "alt-right conspiracy stuff" is a serious rebuttal. Since you've complained about the fresh accounts perhaps you should also consider reading through the comments guidelines yourself (your comment is easily violating the top 6): https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
athrow··on Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud
Couple of issues:

1) It seems that some movies are placed first in the Photos screen, no correct thumbnails are generated for these. I'm unable to play the vide of these movies (.mov files). This means that when opening the Photos app I'm met with a wall of thumbnail placeholders.

2) It seems that for the photos the thumbnails aren't being pre-generated. There is a wait time until the thumbnails are generated. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/config...

3) Random error loading of the photos - some photos just don't open and display the placeholder thumbnail.

4) Linked to 1) - some videos appear between photos so I'm getting a mix of photos thumbnails and placeholder thumbnails.

5) As I scroll down the thumbnails are generated so there is a noticeable lag between scrolling and photos appearing. iCloud can generate thumbnails almost as quickly as I'm scrolling so the difference is noticeable.

6) Lack of any AI integrated into the product (face matching etc.)

athrow··on Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud
Hetzner offers a managed product -I'm still on version 24.0.5. The users aren't given the possibility to upgrade or configure the product. For example, I'm not able to turn on the option to create the photo thumbnails.
athrow··on Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud
I pay 4eur for 1tb managed NextCloud from Hetzner - it's a good service overall but it's unusable for photos. Apart from iCloud at 10eur per month are there any alternatives with a good photos (viewing, sharing, tagging, ai etc) integration?
athrow··on Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
> This persons visa is dependent on their employment so now they get to go into a city they don't know and try desperately to find employment with an employer who is interested in sponsoring someone from abroad (which is a small fraction of the total employers).

Alternatively they can just return to India? I'd be surprised if they didn't receive reallocation package (16k USD according to teamblind?). I don't expect any employer to go above and beyond their contractual obligations.

There is also certain irony here in Meta employees expecting ethical behavior from Meta whilst happily creating and maintaining unethical outcomes for the customers.

athrow··on How to Succeed Once Hired?
Success: getting through the probation period, not getting on PIP, getting recognition for work done, setting myself up for promotion. I’ve read a couple of accounts of people getting sacked on Team Blind due to not speaking up in meetings and various other reasons which I’m guessing could be avoided.
athrow··on How to Succeed Once Hired?
Thank you, I’ll check it out.