Hacker News: Already__Taken

New comment by Already__Taken in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

Already__Taken — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:17:28 +0000

I don't really care to roll it up but why not an bit soft? To cup in my hand or fitted in my pocket would be nice instead of this brick. We can make lighter thinner phones if they don't need so much rigidity.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"

Already__Taken — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:31:13 +0000

Windows actually isn't very cheap.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Veracrypt project update"

Already__Taken — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:24:00 +0000

It's got a lot of analogy to restaurants banning Uber delivery for not handling their food to their standards.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Signing data structures the wrong way"

Already__Taken — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:58:43 +0000

Thats a fun read and a topic I've specifically looked into before and its one of those black holes of terms than cannot be searched. You get so much noise.

New comment by Already__Taken in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

Already__Taken — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:22:55 +0000

Growth. It's a disease. Can't just work on a good product it's got to make arbitrary growth targets.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

Already__Taken — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:43:51 +0000

Someone called it a number of years ago once each kind of brand new apple device couldn't plug into each other without a dongle.

New comment by Already__Taken in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

Already__Taken — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:13:35 +0000

No update for a year for something that opens weird files from the internet is a little scary, even just dependency changes. Not that 7-zip was ever any better at that.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

Already__Taken — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:50:53 +0000

You could if they built a donation & support trading app separate from the content app?

New comment by Already__Taken in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

Already__Taken — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:02:47 +0000

I'm confused what you'd want an IP certificate for when DNS A records update so easily and cheap? Is this a case of you'd want both not either, like setting up spf/dkms/dmarc?

New comment by Already__Taken in "Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE"

Already__Taken — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:29:12 +0000

btrfs has a real driver at least https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

It's what my steamdeck is formatted to so I could plop the drive into windows and rip steamapps across to shortcut a lot of downloading.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Xsight Labs E1 DPU a 64-Core Arm Neoverse N2 800G DPU"

Already__Taken — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:45:31 +0000

Those are very cool thank you. Still need the host device to remain powered on however so not quite.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Xsight Labs E1 DPU a 64-Core Arm Neoverse N2 800G DPU"

Already__Taken — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:26:46 +0000

I wish I knew hardware better but I'm coming to the idea that an xTB nvme and ~25gb/s PoE pcie card in my gaming PC would be a sic always on device. Lots of server roles really just need a tiny IoT device but storage/backup/media you're talking NAS and I just don't want a big NAS around all the time.

So an always on network storage in my PC that's sometimes-on. Between NVME-of and pcie that should be doable I would have though. PoE from my router that's got a tiny UPS and that's pretty sick.

Maybe Valve should make it so everyone with a gaming pc it's re-downloading their steam library or running 2 computers just to open a file.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Splice a Fibre"

Already__Taken — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:56:37 +0000

Yeh it's awful, but all of our CCTV was wired like this through patch panels with 24v/48v power injectors. 2 cameras a cable. So that's what I needed to document, because in reality I can't book scaffolding and change rooftop cameras for a documentation tool.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Splice a Fibre"

Already__Taken — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:53:23 +0000

Honestly that's fine I'm just glad I'm not crazy.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Splice a Fibre"

Already__Taken — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:02:06 +0000

I've always had stuff like this turned down by Netbox, they argue they want to model the logical topology as a source to trust, not the physicality, but then they model rack U placement. I'm always puzzled by their stance.

Like you can't model 1 cat5 split into two 100mb terminations, patch panels are kinda of hack, I think you can now but forever you couldn't just swap a termination direction because logically why would you (but their UI gets messy when 44 are done A-B and the 45th B-A)

Anyway that's thoughts as of maybe v2 or 3? Before the new UI when it was all jquery.

New comment by Already__Taken in "GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over"

Already__Taken — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:36:38 +0000

Reminds me a lot of Grafast too, a new stab at this the people that made postgraphile had. I liked using graphile, haven't needed to rewrite or start a new project yet for grafast. * https://grafast.org/

New comment by Already__Taken in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

Already__Taken — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:41:29 +0000

the cve isn't a zero day though how come cloudflare werent at the table for early disclosure?

New comment by Already__Taken in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

Already__Taken — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:01:27 +0000

imo everyone needs to try ChromeOS for the OOBE and living with sleep & instant reboot updates. Windows is a nightmare.

it's made me want to get into core boot and find Linux laptop hardware that hums along.

New comment by Already__Taken in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

Already__Taken — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:02:55 +0000

These aren't good because for 0-lists you have an empty parent containers so often you have a wrapping if outside all of that. More generally, template logic indent doubles up inside the indent levels of the template markup and I just find it ugly.

I like vue a lot more;

    
      {some.name}

New comment by Already__Taken in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

Already__Taken — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:29:07 +0000

In my completely uninformed opinion I think China is taking their toys and going home.

The UK gov stepped in to stop a Chinese firm closing our steel mill. Capitalism wasn't made to handle large strategic foreign investments closing their own company at nationally inopportune moments.

It feels like a slow burn of embrace, extend, extinguish but playing out on global critical technology and industry.