Hacker News: Ajunne

New comment by Ajunne in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

Ajunne — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:50:26 +0000

I love how they always make it sound like this is by choice.

"VoidZero is joining Cloudflare"

As if they chose to do that. Yes, they agreed to it, but in the end it was just a huge financial transaction.

But i guess "Cloudflare buys VoidZero" just sounds less friendly. Even though that is exactly what happened.

New comment by Ajunne in "Why ReCAPTCHA Is Spyware"

Ajunne — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:38:56 +0000

While this is true, I see no reason why the contents of the rest of the video might be untrue or affected by the sponsor.

It would have been better for the creator to use a different sponsor for the video, or choose to not sponsor this video due to the journalistic value of the content. They have also adressed this in the pinned comment under the video, stating that the sponsor didn't get any editorial say.

New comment by Ajunne in "Gumroad CEO is no longer hiring junior/mid-level software engineers due to AI"

Ajunne — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:39:05 +0000

Absolutely no way this can go wrong of course.

Sometimes I wonder if we are the last generation that can still code by hand, and if more companies start to implement the same hiring rules as this guy, soon there will be no more junior devs since nobody can get a job, so give it 10 years and the amount of senior devs will be a finite resource that will slowly die out.

New comment by Ajunne in "Brazilian Electric "Suicide" Shower Heads [video]"

Ajunne — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:42:04 +0000

Electroboom did a video about these things 5 years ago too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06w3-l1AzFk

New comment by Ajunne in "Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?"

Ajunne — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 14:37:49 +0000

Absolutely nothing, it's weekend.

New comment by Ajunne in "Send a message to teams channel on Linux server SSH connexion"

Ajunne — Fri, 19 May 2023 12:45:24 +0000

Or to actually get a login shell, but without loading the profile:

> ssh host -t "bash --noprofile"

New comment by Ajunne in "Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs"

Ajunne — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:27:16 +0000

Seems like a non-issue to me. People using Oracle JDK for their applications can easily switch to one of the OpenJDK variants (Temurin, Corretto, you name it, heck even Microsoft or AliBaba if you really hate yourself), if they haven't so already (Oracle has been charging money for their JDK for quite some time, while there are more than enough free alternatives). The only reason to stick with the Oracle JDK would be to use an application that only supports that specific JDK (like WebLogic), which probably means another Oracle product, so you are giving them $$$ already, so that won't make a difference.

New comment by Ajunne in "Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?"

Ajunne — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:45:45 +0000

This. And the second reason is "We have KPI's with Microsoft about teams: they guarantee that it works in x% of the time, and they guarantee that it complies with our security guidelines". Notably the security is something that can never be beaten by any other application, be it on of off premises. No matter how brilliant it is. It can never beat Teams, because Teams is "good enough" and "free" at the same time.

New comment by Ajunne in "Watching 'Spirited Away' again, and again"

Ajunne — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:40:06 +0000

Had to scroll down quite a bit on the HN page to find your comment, obviously it has been downvoted because having this opinion is apparently not allowed in this world. That being said, I fully agree with you.

I've tried watching this movie multiple times. When it originally came out so many years ago, friends of mine recommended it to me and they were absolutely lyrical about it. I've tried watching it high, I hated it. I've tried watching it sober, I hated it. I've tried watching it many years after it came out, I still hated it. There is something about this movie that totally grinds my gears, and I cannot put my finger on it.

New comment by Ajunne in "Ask HN: How do you keep social life if WFH?"

Ajunne — Fri, 06 May 2022 14:55:40 +0000

At work, we have a permanent channel in Jitsi (a meeting in Teams will work too) that people can join when they have no other meeting going on. It's silent sometimes, but also the place where people ask silly questions that they would normally ask when standing at someone else's desk, or where people share non-work related stuff and discuss random things.

After two years of almost permanently working from home, it's grown to the place where the whole team just hangs when they're working to have someone to talk to when sitting alone at home, but also to ask serious questions, and equally so to talk non-work related banter from time to time.

Since the last few releases of Jitsi, we're also using breakout rooms to discuss some more in-depth things without annoying the rest of the team. Previously, those people would move to another meeting and come back when they're done. Now, they can stay in the one permanent meeting, and the rest can see them sitting in a breakout room, and go in and ask them when something urgent is going on.

I honestly think this approach has kept the whole team sane during 2+ years of full time working from home.

New comment by Ajunne in "A case for ending lockdown"

Ajunne — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:12:52 +0000

It's been a long time, but I see we've returned to "I'm not an epidemiologist or virologist but a software engineer, and I'm writing a blog post because I know things better".