louismerlin

27 days agodiscuss

Looks like an openclaw instance built this entire website and project.

Really good cause but I would place 0 trust in any of this.

louismerlin

last monthdiscuss

Somewhat relevant: some of us have been using drawer-bound smartphones for web hosting.

https://far.computer

https://compost.party

louismerlin

2 months agodiscuss

I have been involved in Berlin’s permacomputing scene for a few years now, and have met a lot of very cool people through that. Can highly recommend you get involved in your local meetups or start your own !

https://permacomputing.net/Community/

louismerlin

5 months agodiscuss

Awesome! Gives me mnt pocket reform vibes.

https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform

louismerlin

5 months agodiscuss

Amazing to see my little phone pop up randomly on hacker news :D

Thank you stranger.

louismerlin

7 months agodiscuss

Yup that's right!

louismerlin

8 months agodiscuss

In my experience (in Germany and Switzerland) ISPs don’t care, but they will rotate everybody’s IP once or twice a year.

Friends from other countries, India for example, have had different experiences though, where IPs were on a much more frequent rotation and required scripted solutions.

louismerlin

8 months agodiscuss

You have the power to not host your own infrastructure on aws and behind cloudflare, or in the case of an employer you have the power to fight against the voices arguing for the unsustainable status quo.

louismerlin

8 months agodiscuss

Happy you're interested! I haven't set-up the website yet but feel free to reach-out via email (you'll find it in my hn profile)

louismerlin

8 months agodiscuss

Working on a charity + website (not live yet) that allows you to centrally manage your charity donations.

I'm in Germany so I'm working on a Germany-specific solution for now.

- you choose from a list of charities (right now I'm working with the list from the https://dzi.de plus a few such as Wikimedia Deutschland)

- you setup a recurring donation to our bank account

- we redistribute the money according to your split

- no spam in your email and snail mail

- one pdf at the end of the year for your tax returns

I'm not planning on taking any cut of the donations obviously, so this will be a fully self-funded project at first, but I'll reach-out to foundations once I'm up and running.

The URL will be https://super.giving/ (not setup yet, should be fairly soon).

I'm also planning on releasing the source code as open-source.

I'd be happy to hear your feedback, either here or via email :)

louismerlin

10 months agodiscuss

> Having no prior exposure to any European languages

I'd classify English as a European language. It is even classified as a Germanic language.

louismerlin

10 months agodiscuss

n=6

louismerlin

11 months agodiscuss

We joked yesterday with a colleague that it feels like the top AI companies are using the same white label backend.

louismerlin

3 years agodiscuss

These kinds of realizations have made me look into permacomputing [1], suckless [2] and related fields of research and development in the past few months.

We should be getting so much more from our hardware! Let's not settle for software that makes us feel bad.

[1] http://www.permacomputing.net/

[2] https://suckless.org/

louismerlin

6 years agodiscuss

  Location: Europe
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Anywhere in Europe and India
  Technologies: cybersecurity broadly
  Résumé/CV: https://louismerl.in
  Email: [email protected]

I'm a cybersecurity student at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, graduating this summer. My diploma is a double degree with ETH Zurich, where I spent a semester.

Will be looking this summer for a job in Europe, or remotely anywhere in the world ! I would also love to find opportunities in India.

I have experience in Linux, security, fullstack js, go and a few other technologies.

I'm always willing to learn something new !

louismerlin

Submissions

Kids360: Getting Adopted Globally

A Tiny E Reader

First Known Mass iOS Attack

An update on the Farphone's battery

How to repurpose your old phone into a web server

What happens when our self-reliance relies on technological providers [pdf]

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