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elkos

1,156 karma · joined September 13, 2010

Father, husband, vice-chair of Libre Space Foundation, Athens hackerspace member, polysomnography technologist at the University of Athens. Supporter of free and open-source technologies.

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elkos··on Grammarly editor writing services are malfunctioning
It also supports my language and it is pretty good at it.
elkos··on How to Move Your Google Photos
Would love it if there was an easy way to move Google Photos in a Nextcloud Instance
elkos··on Elon Musk gets a nod as a space pioneer from 'Star Trek: Discovery' (2017)
by a mirror universe character
elkos··on Tesla is launching their developer APIs
Tesla violated the GPL in the past https://techworm.net/programming/tesla-disclosed-autopilot-s...

Are they in compliance with the GPL now?

elkos··on Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor
does this work in KDE too or is there a similar solution?
elkos··on Microsoft Says the Days of Free Windows 7 to 10 or 11 Updates Are Over
Did the manufacturer had to pay or did Microsoft had to pay the manufacturer?
elkos··on Linux interop is maturing fast thanks to a games console
Thanks for writing insightful stuff in an engaging way then.
elkos··on Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
Battery health in most cases
elkos··on [dead]
Is he though? Or is that peffed to the current valuation of volative if not overvalued assets.
elkos··on Ask HN: Self-hosted open source AI meeting summarization?
I'm using a Live Captions application in Linux (comfortably available via flathub too) that uses whisper.cpp locally to provide Live Captions for me to read after meetings and make notes.

If you can pair that with LLaMa 2 you will be fine and dandy.

elkos··on I rented a Tesla for a month. It was a giant pain in the a*
Really there's isn't a stick there? I'm not expecting manual in an electric or most hybrids but how are you supposed to reverse, neutral or park the thing?
elkos··on Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner
I use stremio on phone or table when I need to relax, mainly since I have a thing with checking old videos from archive.org but you can actually use it for torrents as well.
elkos··on Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair
Ever wonder how much it costs them to build one? Who manufactures them? Does the Church have a manufacturing arm?
elkos··on Electronics Course (45 episodes, YouTube)
I have the gut feeling that a while back you could find it with a Google search. Nowadays I don't think I can find such stuff.
elkos··on Why the AGPL is often unenforceable (2015)
last time i checked several courts in EU tried and enforced the GPLv3 but I might be wrong
elkos··on Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end
Proprietary AND at least a while back violating the GPL? https://lwn.net/Articles/61292/
elkos··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
While my comment might be borderline off-topic, is this functionality somehow replicated on Linux, especially in KDE?
elkos··on Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla
Why 6 months looks to me like 3 months.
elkos··on Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla
Looking into it.
elkos··on Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla
I'm not familiar with Dojo and Optimus, are these some upcoming Tesla car lines like the Cybertruck?
elkos··on Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
I'm a European living in Greece, I drive a 2009 Suzuki Swift and have a wife and kid. It's a bit of a challenge to set it up to go for a trip on our island house during summer, and I seldom do any construction work more than simple stuff around the houses. But it is super easy to park around, has OK mileage, and the ferry ticket is cheaper than a big car and it is OK to park. It has a laughable boot, but if you fold the passenger seats it can be useful to move some bigger stuff.

There are trucks in Greece, just not that many twin cabs, mostly you will see them outside the city in the country.

Construction workers use mostly vans, and flatbed versions of vans (Like the ford transit) also called cab-over pick-up trucks. There are lots of small light cab-over trucks in the islands by Piaggio and Daihatsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck#/media/File:PiaggioTruck... which are pretty hand and often provide a pretty big flatbed for stuff. There are some construction workers like electricians, plumbers etc that love to use panel vans or their passenger versions using folded seats like the Fiat Doblo (Similar to the Ram Promaster City).

We are actually thinking of buying a mild-hybrid version of the passenger version of a panel-van to cover our family needs.

elkos··on Software ‘death dates’ are sending schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin
Would like more info in that quote from the article:

> Kimathi Bradford, a 16-year-old Oakland tech repair intern, has looked into whether there was a way to replace the outdated Chromebook software with a non-Google brand, but it ended up being a lot of work, Kimathi said, and the open-source replacement wasn’t up to par.

elkos··on Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)
nedit was awesome I really enjoyed using it on my old scrapy computer
elkos··on Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
Well to be honest my major concern on the ASUS, Beelink, Minisforum alternatives esp with the 7735HS is Linux compatibility and thermal management. If my setup can play well with Debian or Arch I'm sold.
elkos··on Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
I was looking for an Intel NUC 13 i5 since I have a very limited workspace at home and to my understanding Intel has a very decent quality offering and Linux support.

Which alternatives would people suggest?

elkos··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
Not currently, but maybe in the future.:)
elkos··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
Not a start-up but a non-profit.

I'm the vice chair at Libre Space Foundation (https://libre.space).We create open-source space technologies. Some of our projects:

- SatNOGS rotator: an azimuth/elevation rotator for directional antennas.

- UPSat: 1st cubesat build under open source hardware licenses that got in orbit (design deprecated)

- SatNOGS-COMM: next gen communications module for CubeSats

- QUBIK: even smaller pico-satellites that got also in orbit in Oct 22

- PICOBUS: pico-satellite deployer also in orbit Oct 22

- SIDLOC: a spacecraft location and identification beacon protocol and hardware, will be on the last stage of the Ariane 6 inaugural launch.

elkos··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
I'm personally using the Nextcloud Notes app, it covers my own needs pretty well and I have it installed on a couple of Android devices as well.

I wonder what you would suggest is the most valuable feature of proprietary solutions?

elkos··on Pay-frozen Microsofties not happy to hear of 'landmark year'
You said that their compensation is peanuts, is there a source one can look up upon? Just for the curious people like me.
elkos··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
keep in mind that several videos do have sponsored segments so again you can't get away from that without sponsorblock
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