Hacker News: JoBrad

New comment by JoBrad in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

JoBrad — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:02:09 +0000

That’s how you get zombie processes and memory leaks.

New comment by JoBrad in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

JoBrad — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:57:11 +0000

It’s not about this administration. The lawsuit was filed in 2021.

New comment by JoBrad in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

JoBrad — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:53:33 +0000

Then they don’t need to unmask users to get testimony, right?

New comment by JoBrad in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

JoBrad — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:53:40 +0000

On the other hand, I’d hate to accidentally rearrange my cards while trying to party with an alternate one.

New comment by JoBrad in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

JoBrad — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:33:41 +0000

Are you suggesting they have explicitly loosened the guardrails for LGBTQ+ individuals, where they wouldn’t for grandmas?

New comment by JoBrad in "Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day"

JoBrad — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:41:16 +0000

I think the point was fine motor control at 2.

New comment by JoBrad in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

JoBrad — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:09:08 +0000

Cloudflare isn’t anywhere near being the second worst registrar. I’ve never had anything remotely similar to this occur, and I’ve had hundreds of domains with Cloudflare for years.

New comment by JoBrad in "Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)"

JoBrad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:53:32 +0000

They all have variations of a bitter aftertaste to me. It’s not sweet or pleasant at all.

And it’s a different form of bitterness than the one you get from kale/collared greens, brussel sprouts, etc., whichi quite enjoy. I _almost_ want to drink a diet drink along with one of the “bitter” vegetable or even a crème brûlée to quantify the difference.

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