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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/entropie; my proof: https://keybase.io/entropie/sigs/kZ9a2lfY_aCYnTjRwNET5ogLgQK--yTQaBKB_lGmp4c ]
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entropie··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Yeah, its way faster.

Its not because chatgpt is so superior. Its just because google search is dogshit.

They work on killing the web as we knew it and I fear its kinda working.

entropie··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold
> The RGB leds were one of my favorite features of early Android phones. I

Right man. I had forgotten that my nexus 7 had this kind of LED and I really liked it and missed it later.

entropie··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
They said that putting your phone away and reading a book before going to sleep improves the quality of your sleep. That's just not true.
entropie··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
Which is total unrelated and therefore i dont know what you want to commit to the discussion.
entropie··on Hacker Public Radio
Yeah soma.fm is very good. I hear it for like 20 years now on off.
entropie··on Hacker Public Radio
I really hoped for a radio station with nice music.
entropie··on Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data
Good stuff.

Maybe you can make a playback speed option for the simulation/play button? I fail to follow up.

entropie··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
They might hardcode DNS. It's not certain that this will work.
entropie··on Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes
> Most criminals are dumb

You mean most criminals who get caught?

entropie··on Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
> I actually read the first book and it was so poorly written it made me wonder if I should continue

In his defense, that was early in his career, and in one of the countless afterwords or prefaces, he also mentions that he has, of course, evolved since then.

"The Gunslinger" is really a bit borderline. The next one, "The Drawing of the Three" is much more complex and better written. You could also read the last book first ("The Wind Through the Keyhole"); it’s separate from the main story and set somewhere in between, but it’s the final book.

> Cormac McCarthy

No country for old men? Its probably in my top 5 of all the books (and movies) that I read. A masterpiece.

Edit: i realized i mixed the names up. Its not black, its "The Gunslinger". Its translated as black in the german series and confused me.

entropie··on Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works
Really cool!

> The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

I did not refresh to check if you already have that, but I really find it very strong. Its from Kings "Dark Tower - Black" (edit: its "The Gunslinger", not Black. its named "Schwarz" in the german translations) the first of 8 books in the series.

If you dont know it; its not like the usual King books. It mixes fantasy elements (inspired by LoTR), western, scfi (robots, AI-trains) cyberpunk and horror. Its a great series!

entropie··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Patch could be applied via pants.
entropie··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking...
entropie··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
I used brave a bit and really liked it.

But its obvious that these guys are semi shady and they will show sooner or later. I liked chrome derviates and used them over a decade. I got tired of feeling forced to switch after vivaldi/brave so I went the firefox way last year.

The circle is completed.

entropie··on Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable
> My Belgian Tervuren and I have a basic herding title and about 4 years of herding experience.

Do you happen to have any videos of a Tervuren doing actual herding work or competing in herding trials?

I was apparently under the wrong impression that Tervurens are no longer bred for herding. My girlfriend just told me that there are still dedicated herding lines, but when I started looking into it, I could hardly find any footage. Compared to the thousands of videos of Border Collies working stock, there seems to be very little material available.

I'd also be interested to hear more about what your dogs are like. Are they from a specialized herding line?

Do you see them as being closer to the typical working Malinois - very intense, high-drive dogs with a strong prey focus - or more like a blend of the classic German Shepherd and Border Collie traits?

The latter type, at least in my experience, can make excellent everyday companions as long as their owners know what they're doing and provide enough mental and physical stimulation.

The reason I'm asking is that I've been considering getting another Malinois. I used to own a fourth-hand Belgian Shepherd who eventually turned into a reasonably good everyday companion, but it was a long and sometimes difficult road. There were also certain situations where he could never really be trusted.

He also had a habit of finishing arguments that my Pointer started in a very Malinois-like fashion, while my Pointer was generally too stupid(and proud) to learn anything from that experience.

Feel free to write a wall of text if you feel like it.

entropie··on The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
Ok, that makes actually sense.
entropie··on DaVinci Resolve 21
Yes, it sucks at the beginning. But eventually it clicks. It did for me.
entropie··on The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
> For those who haven't followed the camera world for a while, at this point a lens for a mirrorless camera will have a USB-C port to receive firmware updates.

Iam not sure if this is a general truth. I recently bought a canon rf 24-70 f/2.8 which is pretty SOTA and it does not have an USBC port.

entropie··on DaVinci Resolve 21
I used lightroom over a decade and besides the initial quirks i fucking love darktable. After 6 month I actually like it more than lightroom and never looked back.
entropie··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

    Location: Leipzig, Germany
    Remote: preferred
    Willing to relocate: reluctantly
    Technologies: js, react, vue, ruby, rails, docker, linux, sql, git
    Résumé/CV: github.com/entropie
    Email: mictro@gmail.com

I'm looking for 20–30 hours per week of work in Linux administration and/or (web) application development. I'm good at solving problems in unconventional ways. I've developed several (web)applications - some of them quite complex - either on my own or as part of a small team. I have a strong moral compass.
entropie··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Two vertical displays are awesome.
entropie··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
8gb ram is not enough for normal browsing if you are forced to use windows 11 which eats easily half of it.
entropie··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
> If you want to, you can report any vulnerabilities to the Finnish Cyber Security Centre and they'll handle all of the reporting and mediating the issue with the affected party.

The CCC (Chaos Computer Club) in germany will probably do the same.

entropie··on Hacker News front page as a site
Which might be fine? Since web pages are not newspaper sites one might say its just not the ideal way of presenting information.
entropie··on More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access
You - as a company - can just avoid any copyright stuff when your extension saves the stuff only on the client. I see there are many other issues then.

The torrent approach is nice. I could imagine a selfhosted way to store the data (for a group of people)

entropie··on News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
I really like this also reasonable priced.

Is there a way to export/download my saves in a reasonable way?

entropie··on Googlebook
> Their hardware is usually fine when it comes to support.

Pixel stands were horrible. And discontinued.

entropie··on Running out of disk space in production
> I rushed to run du -sh on everything I could, as that’s as good as I could manage.

I recently came across gdu (1) and have installed/used it on every machine since then.

[1]: https://github.com/dundee/gdu

entropie··on Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp
Which in the case of yt-dlp might not be fast enough.

I use a telegram/mqtt/homeassistant wrapper (1) to let my mother download audiobooks which are saved in jellyfin so she can listen or download them from my (home)server.

Keeping yt-dlp up2date (and therefore) working is not that easy, especially since I dont systemupdate every other week. There were a few phases yt-dlp version in nixpkgs-unstable were just not working. I created a little wrapper that updates a venv so I always have the HEAD running for my bot.

[1] https://github.com/entropie/ytdltt

entropie··on Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
I guess you just send newlines as in multiple messages and disable flood protection on the server or whitelist your bot.
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