Hacker News: GabeIsko

New comment by GabeIsko in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

GabeIsko — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:25:05 +0000

I braced myself for this, and instead found that it worked surprisingly well for my uses. I only manage 4 gigs though.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

GabeIsko — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:20:48 +0000

Man, I always hoped to find a project like this on hackernews. I starred it.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

GabeIsko — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:15:31 +0000

It's pretty sad in the indie gamedev world that handling and versioning binary data is considered an enterprise feature. I understand that git was explicitly designed for source code, but it would be nice to have any open system that handled versioning binary files well. This is pretty much the only reason I am going to try out lore at some point, although I am not super psyched at some of its implementation.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

GabeIsko — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:50:31 +0000

What is a real text editor, by your estimation? NVim? Emacs? Genuinely curious.

I use VSCode/Codium since I maintain a GUI stack for general usage. But I have all the terminal tools installed for my work there as well. I hate customizing things too, which I find is necessary if you want to get the most out of terminal text editors. VSCode is pretty good out of the box, with terminal access and everything built in.

Jeez, I hope this doesn't turn into a text editor flame war...

New comment by GabeIsko in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

GabeIsko — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:49:00 +0000

I gotta say, Fedora plus KDE - have not had any major issue, and certainly none as bad as desktop utility performance degradation on Windows 11. Probably a little more fragile feeling than Windows 10, but it honestly has felt basically same, which I wasn't expecting.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

GabeIsko — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:21:16 +0000

This thing came by default on AlmaLinux, which I am evaluating for some HomeLab stuff. It's pretty neat! Definitely not a replacement for cotnainer management though - it is really more of a sysadmin portal where you can view services and open a terminal and such, but from a web console.

New comment by GabeIsko in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

GabeIsko — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:13:42 +0000

Let's assume they aren't correct - is the massive cost DOGE is incurring to taxpayers while destroying essential government services and weakening our national security a good thing?

New comment by GabeIsko in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

GabeIsko — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:17:02 +0000

If you have to render html, which is what markdown ultimately becomes, you might as well use a web broswer.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

GabeIsko — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:31:03 +0000

That's not it! Direct engineering effort towards new features that will drive new customers and markets. Functionality is unimportant. Haven't you ever worked in enterprise software?

I'm kidding btw.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

GabeIsko — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:31:16 +0000

Yes, but the cat is out of the bag now. Welcome to the era of every piece of creative work coming with an EULA that you cannot train on it. It will be like clearing samples.

New comment by GabeIsko in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

GabeIsko — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:17:26 +0000

I have been on the other side of this where engineers end up just being a technical support team, and are competed over to directly support accounts, and then there ends up being a plethora of hot fixes and custom solutions per customer. There is a ton of technical debt, because non of this stuff is tested properly and there are regressions all over the place. The whole thing goes under after a competitor, with their properly invested engineering resources makes a better and fully featured product than you.

To me, this screams a real failure of product management. They can't communicate the needs of their customer to their engineers or push back against them? Having engineers take sales calls is not going to scale when you have an actually mature base of customers.

If this product manager really wants Engineers to take sales calls, the Engineers need to earn part of the commission on the accounts. That is the only fair way to do this. I would never take a sales call without part of my compensation being commissions based.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

GabeIsko — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:17:06 +0000

See, that's the issue. I want my distribution to distribute the dependencies I need to run applications outside of containers. That's, like, it's main job man.

New comment by GabeIsko in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

GabeIsko — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:33:34 +0000

Not working with datasets. Binary files aren't that large, and these tools are generally bad for my use case - because I am not concerned about datasets.

I need to track changes in binary files of very reasonable size. Total repo size is <1GB. But even at these small memory requirements it makes much more sense to self host with LFS. I have written this up too many times on the internet to go into great detail about how LFS isn't perfect and how I wish there was something better, but in practice it has worked extremely well for tracking a small amount of binary files. Kudos to the devs.

New comment by GabeIsko in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

GabeIsko — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:10:28 +0000

How is forejo's git LFS support? I self host gitea (from before the split) but I am considering making the switch. LFS is a must for me though.

New comment by GabeIsko in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

GabeIsko — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:38:10 +0000

If enterprise corporations actually did a throughout investigation, they would probably find that a lot of their license deals have gone unfulfilled. They are really bad about this kind of stuff. It became super complicated to buy this kind of software once companies realized that they could force everything though a deal desk and try to extract as much money out of the government as possible.

We have had companies outright refuse to even give us a price when we told them we wanted to investigate buying a license. Such a PITA.

New comment by GabeIsko in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

GabeIsko — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:33:24 +0000

There has historically been massive investor and shareholder pressure for companies to show "Cloud Recurring Revenue" and multiple wall street analysts will start issuing higher price points for your stock based on this, and eventually large institutional investor adjust their positions accordingly.

I like the cloud for a lot of reasons. But, making your software worse to make your stock price higher seems like a loser for everyone long term.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

GabeIsko — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:40:12 +0000

Most government IT is using RHEL. You are correct, it is because of the thankless work they put into long term enterprise support. Microsoft doesn't do anything like that.

New comment by GabeIsko in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

GabeIsko — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:35:12 +0000

I can assure you, the DoD isn't a bunch of windows servers hosting sharepoint for the public. Federal government IT in general is a RHEL shop, at least serverside.

New comment by GabeIsko in "TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days"

GabeIsko — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:50:55 +0000

Let's Encrypt cert renewal comes out of the box on traefik? I haven't kept up with it. I'm on a similar set and forget schedule with configured nginx and some crowdsec stuff, but the API change ended up killing off an afternoon of my time.

New comment by GabeIsko in "TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days"

GabeIsko — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:40:11 +0000

Would you suggest something? I do this, but I'm not sure I would call maintaining my setup trivial. Got in trouble recently because my domain registrar deprecated an API call and it ends up that broke the camel's back in my automation setup. Or at least it did 90 days later.