spyridonas (u/spyridonas)

spyridonas commented on Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load github.com/sarusso/bedtim... · Posted by u/sarusso

spyridonas · a month ago

As a proud European citizen, I visited your site… and… wait… WHERE IS MY SACRED COOKIE BANNER?? This is outrageous. Are you seriously trying to serve me content without first psychologically torturing me with 47 sliders and a philosophy essay about legitimate interest?? I checked the dev tools… zero cookies?? …excuse me?? Are you even trying to be GDPR compliant or are you just openly mocking the entire European project??

Your project is awesome by the way

spyridonas commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen

spyridonas · 3 months ago

As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year.

Cloudflare > Bunny.net

AWS > Hetzner

Business email > Infomaniak

Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.

spyridonas commented on The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug github.com/Zephkek/Asus-R... · Posted by u/signa11

spyridonas · 5 months ago

My HP screen (HP Aero 13, not a gaming laptop, with a integrated gpu only) does flicker, turning completely off and then on, and this issue doesn't appear when connecting to external monitor. The same happens under linux as well. This post had me curious about the ACPI now... maybe I can follow along !

spyridonas commented on Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork github.com/segmentationf4... · Posted by u/segfault22

spyridonas · 7 months ago

Great analysis, well done ! Since you've already done VSCode, Trae, Cursor, can you analyse Kiro (AWS fork). I'm curious about their data collection practices.

spyridonas commented on Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner aeon.co/essays/for-over-a... · Posted by u/Caiero

spyridonas · 2 years ago

I remember growing up I watched a documentary on telekinesis. It concluded that people with high amounts of iron on their blood could move items from distance

spyridonas commented on Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024 davidrevoy.com/article103... · Posted by u/abhinavk

iamjackg · 2 years ago

I just got a Framework 16, installed Ubuntu 24.04 on it, and have been going through this exact struggle after avoiding it for many years. The screen DPI is just high enough that it's uncomfortable for me to use at 100% scale, so I set it to 125%, but any non-Wayland application would get artificially resized and look blurry.

There's a pending Mutter MR[1] to allow XWayland applications to handle the scaling themselves (which IntelliJ IDEs can do) but it hasn't been merged yet, and I'm probably never gonna see it on 24.04 anyway. Apparently KDE already supports this, but the Gnome folks have been reluctant to adopt the same approach.

I ended up going back to 100% scaling, increasing the system font size, and then setting `GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.25` in `/etc/environment` to tell all GTK programs to increase their scale. It's not perfect, but most things are the right size. I definitely would not have wanted to switch to Wayland any sooner than this though. Transitional periods are such a pain.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3567

spyridonas · 2 years ago

The new 13 laptop has a resolution that allows for 200% scale exactly!

spyridonas commented on Hysp – An independent package manager github.com/pwnwriter/hysp... · Posted by u/weinzierl

spyridonas · 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be easier to make a `snap install x x x x ` Or `flatpak install x x x x` script ? Isn't this type of issue what those two project's aim to solve ?

spyridonas commented on Hysp – An independent package manager github.com/pwnwriter/hysp... · Posted by u/weinzierl

yjftsjthsd-h · 2 years ago

> bin="/home/user/.local/share/hysp/bin/"

Why not ~/.local/bin?

spyridonas · 2 years ago

The /home/user/.local one doesn't require the user to be root.

spyridonas commented on India tells public to shun Starlink until it gets licence reuters.com/technology/in... · Posted by u/saguntum

errantspark · 4 years ago

Next to impossible to kill a starlink satellite and there are thousands of them, I don't think any country has the capability to to take starlink satellites down en masse by force. The US, russia and china could probably take down a few, but I doubt the stockpiles of anti satellite missiles of all three combined equal the size of the constellation. Guessing about that though.

You could probably blow up a nuke on orbit to EMP a bunch of them at once but that would have a lot of collateral damage.

spyridonas · 4 years ago

Doesn't hitting one of them be good enough for chainlink reaction due to space debris? They are all on the same height and pretty close to each other.

spyridonas commented on Intel to spend $20B on two new chip factories in Arizona nytimes.com/2021/03/23/te... · Posted by u/fortran77

cannaceo · 5 years ago

Can you explain what you mean when you say that TSMC 'peaked during the pandemic'?

spyridonas · 5 years ago

I think he means technical achievements (5nm,7+?) occurred increasing the demand by the companies for new nm, and at the same time the pandemic increased the demand