Hacker News: JoBrad

New comment by JoBrad in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

JoBrad — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:00:49 +0000

Thanks for that context.

New comment by JoBrad in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

JoBrad — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:55:52 +0000

Or, more charitably: use the Strangler Fig method to modernize your systems, and start with low-hanging fruit.

New comment by JoBrad in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

JoBrad — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:53:59 +0000

Did you forget your WiFi password?

New comment by JoBrad in "The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think"

JoBrad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:24:07 +0000

I agree that the US is wildly overpaying for what it gets, but from what I can tell we are directing that money to US-based factories. Just because those factories are also producing improved weaponry doesn’t mean they can’t produce more basic ammo, albeit at lower volume. We don’t need full-scale production capacity when we’re not in a large-scale war.

New comment by JoBrad in "The U.S. Ammo Shortage Is Worse Than You Think"

JoBrad — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:01:06 +0000

Whether true or not, the article’s author also argued this point in 2023 (link below), and this article uses some of the same language (empty bins) as the paper.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/empty-bins-wartime-environment...

For me, the main point comes down to exactly how much of a weapons stockpile should a peaceful nation carry? We (US) already have a large number of nuclear weapons, and have been fighting a proxy war of sorts with Russia for over a year. Now we’re the aggressor in several other high profile strikes that have taken out the leaders of several nations. In my opinion, this _should_ be stressing the supplies of our military, _because it’s not (or shouldn’t be) our normal mode of operation_. We already have mechanisms like the Defense Production Act which would allow us to rapidly scale the creation of weapons when needed. Carrying enough weaponry to fight an extended large-scale conflict is incredibly wasteful, and seems like it would mostly serve those who would profit from the required spending to accomplish it.

New comment by JoBrad in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"

JoBrad — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:12:08 +0000

Is humblebragcomplain a word? ;)

New comment by JoBrad in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

JoBrad — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:49:34 +0000

Limiting the creation of buckets that use the account namespace conventions doesn't affect whether other accounts can access it.

New comment by JoBrad in "Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead"

JoBrad — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:39:28 +0000

I think a better policy would be to disallow bucket names that follow the account regional namespace convention, but don’t match the account id indicated in the name.

New comment by JoBrad in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

JoBrad — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:56:43 +0000

If a sleep-deprived senior shouldn’t have access to prod, I think we have big problems, frankly.

New comment by JoBrad in "OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard"

JoBrad — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:49:03 +0000

But putting all of them in a tidy list definitely changes the value.

New comment by JoBrad in "You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer"

JoBrad — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:54:16 +0000

There are definitely problems with homebrew, but user-owned directories isn’t high on the list, imo. Your ssh private keys, startup scripts, and any number of other things that can do serious damage are all owned by your user. Frankly, if install vim as my user, I want it to execute instead of the built-in version, unless I’m running a command with sudo, in which case the system binaries take precedence. So I don’t even see path order as a major issue here. If someone has compromised your user, you’re compromised whether you’ve used homebrew or not.

New comment by JoBrad in "The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops"

JoBrad — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:17:52 +0000

It reminds me of The Engineering Guy, but with more detail.

https://youtube.com/@engineerguyvideo

New comment by JoBrad in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

JoBrad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:03:26 +0000

Looks like their ability to stop unauthorized launches is civil action.

https://spacenews.com/faa-fines-spacex-for-launch-license-vi...

New comment by JoBrad in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

JoBrad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:56:16 +0000

And it needs to communicate the data to and from a ground-based location. It’s all of the problems with satellite internet, but in your production environment!

New comment by JoBrad in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

JoBrad — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:00:11 +0000

I’d consider the latter scenario a feature :)

New comment by JoBrad in "Agent Skills"

JoBrad — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:57:51 +0000

My repos are littered with agent-specific files containing “treat this other file as if it were this one.” We’re moving so fast on so many fronts, and it seems odd that this is the persistent problem. It doesn’t even help lock folks into one agent, so I’m not clear why the industry hasn’t yet standardized on one project-specific file name yet.

New comment by JoBrad in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

JoBrad — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:12:53 +0000

Agree that someone should double down on competing with Office, but that alone won’t take them down. MS has spent decades listening to what SMB to large companies need, and has layers of absolute domination to bolster their lead. As an example, they have a stranglehold on catering to the Governance, Risk, and Compliance market. The most die-hard Linux folks I know turn to AD the minute they need to manage users and devices at scale. Need visibility into what is happening both remotely and locally, across your enterprise? MS has the typing and a smart sales deck that explains how you really just need another comparatively small investment to make your board sleep better at night. And that’s not even going into the license shenanigans they play to make Azure competitive against other clouds, for hosting MS-owned tools like Windows and SQL Server.

New comment by JoBrad in "The Codex App"

JoBrad — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:30:18 +0000

They don’t look native on Windows, either.

New comment by JoBrad in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

JoBrad — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:27:18 +0000

That’s pronounced “slope” or “slope”? ;)

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

JoBrad — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:36:44 +0000

Is this the TLS version of the Bible?