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j4nek

532 karma · joined October 23, 2022

germany mail: j@sax.de
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j4nek··on Ask HN: USB-to-WiFi print server for old printers – do you want it?
i really like the packaing of your device, this makes me smile! :)
j4nek··on Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
someone on irc once posted a link to a hn discussion. :)
j4nek··on Can we please stop with curl | sudo bash, PLEASE
made my day :D
j4nek··on Moss: A Linux-compatible Rust async kernel, 3 months on
hi! thanks for sharing - really impressive! this also seems not to be coded with ai!
j4nek··on Tell HN: I Downgraded from macOS Tahoe to Sequoia
same here - i upgraded every release on the release day, but tahoe is the first one i downgraded, not bc of all the bugs..
j4nek··on Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P
to me this all seems heavy much vibed - take a look at the github repo
j4nek··on 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
>I think we all know that Spotify doesn’t pay artists appropriately and we want to help sustain the music we love.

not a big fan of all music streaming services, but they only keep about 30% of their revenue. the rest goes to the labels, and this is where most of the problem is. before the 2000s, very small artists hardly earned any income from the sale of (physical) media. I don't like the new platforms such as Spotify, Tidal, etc. either – but this kind of discussion often just distracts from the mafia-like structure of the major labels.

j4nek··on Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
senior engineer for what?
j4nek··on BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem
bgp.tools is one of my most used sites - thanks to ben for doing this so great!
j4nek··on I would enjoy an HN chat. Is there one?
would be in.
j4nek··on Ask HN: Almost a thousand dollars for a 20 minute new patient visit?
by voting for trump, haven't americans actively decided against solidarity-based health insurance?
j4nek··on Ask HN: What's the Oldest App You Still Use Daily
my mail user agent says: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
j4nek··on Ask HN: Best way to learn STM32 and embedded for beginner
you are on the right way if using HAL feels like cheating! i always recommend starting with implementing a UART bare metal, since you will need a UART for debugging / talking with the chip all the time.
j4nek··on Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript
Many thanks for the interesting article! I normaly don't read any articles on AI here, but I really liked this one from a technical point of view!

since reading on twitter is annoying with all the popups: https://archive.is/ETVQ0

j4nek··on Ask HN: Old Unix technologies like cron and SSE in modern workflows?
I am a young developer (22y) but find me almost all the time using "old" frameworks / programs form the unix world. i find most of the modern tools just overwhelming and hard to debug due to the increased complexity. or me, Unix is like a construction kit made up of individual components that simply work, Do One Thing and Do It Well - this always ensure that you can just clue that stuff together.

I am always amazed that many of these things (Unix, C, IP, Ethernet) were developed in the 70s/80s and are still relevant, useful and today. At that time, people also had a technical interest in developing software and had to deal with very limited resources, maybe this is no longer the case in many cases today

i am helping maintain a big automation system for a customer which is generates several million in sales per year and is built just with simple unix tools, perl, mqtt, nginx - a very low tech stack - running on a small 2 core machine.

the cloud-based solution that existed before had enormous performance problems, ran unreliably, was difficult to debug and was several times more expensive in terms of both development and running costs

j4nek··on Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1
> Can't believe the sense of entitlement in this thread. I guess people think bandwidth grows on trees.

bandwidth is super cheap if you dont use any fancy public cloud services.

j4nek··on It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)
being 10x more productivie with ai doesn`t mean that someone is now a full engineer. ^^
j4nek··on Ask HN: Best dev environment for C in 2024?
i am still using vim + git + gcc + make
j4nek··on Ask HN: Why is the .IO gTLD uncertainty not getting press here?
> URL just to blindly follow a policy, then they will have proven themselves an incompetent arbiter of the domain name system.

Of course I can understand if someone finds the situation stupid. However, ICANN is clear with its rules and every entrepreneur has to take possible (political) uncertainties into account when choosing a .tld, which many have simply not done. You could also accuse them of "incompetence".

When choosing a domain for .de, I explicitly decided against a podcast bro tld like .io / .ai etc. because of these reasons.

j4nek··on Ask HN: What is one software product that boosted your productivity?
vi/vim and in the second step that it doesn't matter how fast I can edit something.

Most of the time I make mistakes out of ignorance or lack of experience. Unfortunately, there is no tool for this. But it's good to think about how (technical) things work in everyday life and to take a look at the theory in a dry way This can be books, wikipedia or listen to what pepole from the the peak days of software development says (something before 2005)

j4nek··on Ask HN: Terminal RSS Reader
i am using rss2mail and reading the news with mutt, works excellent!
j4nek··on Ask HN: Who is still thrilled with their M1 Mac (Mini or otherwise)
recently upgraded from my m1 air to m3 mbp 14 for ports reasons and for having bigger keyboard. but where happy til last day using it. perfomance was absolutely fine for running vim + firefox...
j4nek··on Power over fiber
costs were under 10 bucks iirc, same specs.
j4nek··on Power over fiber
I was working i a company (EMC testing) which decided to build their own "Power over Fiber" solar cells, also in the 500 or 600mW power range. Yes, you can buy such stuff now from boradcom but these are simply too expensive.
j4nek··on Google Groups ending support for Usenet
can you explain this a bit deeper?
j4nek··on Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
ISDN
j4nek··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2023)
SEEKING Work | Europe | remote and in Dresden, Germany

Hi,

in case you are seeking some one helping out with the following topics:

* C embedded development for AVR, STM32, etc.

* Unix (Liunx, FreeBSD, OS X) development and administration (Mail, WWW, VPN)

* Networking (IPv6, legacy IP, Wiregurad, 802.11)

* all kind of telecommunication stuff (rf/wired)

* hardware development / automation

contact: janek@freescale.de

j4nek··on Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?
using Apple Notes sync via self hosted mail server. (Apple Notes is doing this via IMAP)
j4nek··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
interesting that most submission here are startups which are selling some hardware where ML is the main product and no-one who is doing discrete (analog) electronics
j4nek··on Ask HN: Home Energy Monitor Recommendations?
https://www.shelly.cloud/en/products/energy-metering-energy-...
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