Hacker News: MikeKusold

New comment by MikeKusold in "Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland"

MikeKusold — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:01:32 +0000

I thought this was going to be related to the excellent libghostty based iOS terminal client: https://github.com/kitknox/rootshell

New comment by MikeKusold in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

MikeKusold — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:33:47 +0000

Seaweed has been around for a long time. I think you just discovered what legacy codebases look like.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets – Larvitz Blog"

MikeKusold — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:17:32 +0000

> I'm struggling to understand how something like this can be reproduced consistently across environments. How would you package this inside a Git repo? Can it be managed through GitOps?

I manage my podman containers the way the article describes using NixOS. I have a tmpfs root that gets blown away on every reboot. Deploys happen automatically when I push a commit.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

MikeKusold — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:58:49 +0000

Thanks for that. I thought my Vivoactive 4 battery was just shot so I bought a new watch since it was only lasting a few hours.

I keep waiting for the Apple Watch to last multiple days so I can leave Garmin.

New comment by MikeKusold in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

MikeKusold — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:00:10 +0000

The final cost of the bill matters more than anything. A server at a higher-end restaurant where the bills regularly exceed hundreds of dollars will earn more in tips serving fewer tables than a server that works at a cheaper casual-chain restaurant (IHOP, Applebees, etc).

New comment by MikeKusold in "Tuning the Prusa Core One"

MikeKusold — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:46:32 +0000

This article highlights why Bambu has been eating Prusa's lunch the past few years. Imagine spending over $1000 then needing to print parts to get it to work properly.

I swapped my Ender5 for an X1C two years ago, and since then, I have only had to do whatever maintenance the X1C tells me. Using my X1C feels much closer to using my laser paper printer, whereas my Ender5 ended up being a hobby in itself.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it?"

MikeKusold — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:55:00 +0000

At some point you'll want to upgrade the hugo generator, and then you'll need to wade through their release logs. I neglected my personal site for years and I had to hunt down various errors and deprecations. It's out of reach for non-developers to do. A 1.x compatibility promise would go a long way.

My wife's site runs on Squarespace, and she's been self-sufficient since it was set up.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed"

MikeKusold — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:54:19 +0000

Eno? Up until recently, that was the only way to generate virtual cards. It's a useful feature for retailers that are too small for me to trust their security. I guess I'll need to start using their website now that it is an option.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK"

MikeKusold — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:54:41 +0000

Those people aren’t enabling ADP to begin with.

New comment by MikeKusold in "An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)"

MikeKusold — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:16:47 +0000

The counterpoint is how many children would love their own stuffed Hobbes to be sitting next to them as their parents read a few comics to them.

You can merchandise things without going overboard and losing your soul.

New comment by MikeKusold in "How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing? (2020)"

MikeKusold — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:19:10 +0000

That’s because all of those safety engineering improvements have caused the average cost of a vehicle to skyrocket.

New comment by MikeKusold in "One of Florida's most lethal python hunters"

MikeKusold — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:09:49 +0000

We shouldn't even be doing that for cats.

Domestic cats are an invasive species that decimate the native wildlife. "free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually."[0]

Since we're talking about Florida, this is what their Fish & Game department has to say on the topic:

> * Domestic cats are not a part of Florida’s natural ecosystem. A single individual free-ranging cat may kill 100 or more birds and mammals per year. Scientists in Wisconsin estimate that cats kill at least 7.8 million birds per year in that state alone. Even cats with bells on their collars kill or injure birds and small mammals.

> * Cats compete with native wildlife and can spread disease. Outdoor cats have been identified as the primary host in the transmission of toxoplasmosis to wildlife, a disease which has caused death in manatees and other mammals.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380 [1]: https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/feral-cats/

New comment by MikeKusold in "Apple Watch Series 10"

MikeKusold — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:58:28 +0000

Garmin's own product webpage highlights the biggest problem with Garmin.[0] They have too many options, with very little distinguishing features. Instead of making hardware to justify the number of models, they cripple watches in various ways using software.

For example, on my Vivoactive 4, recording a "Hike" activity is impossible. Instead, I have to record all my hikes as "Walks".

They should trim their offerings down to fewer than 10 models instead of the 28 currently listed.

0: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/wearables-smartwatches/?curre...

New comment by MikeKusold in "Mistral NeMo"

MikeKusold — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:36:37 +0000

Those are regulated industries, where as software development is not.

An AI spitting back bad code won't compile. An AI spitting back bad financial/legal advice bankrupts people.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host"

MikeKusold — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:19:41 +0000

I disagree. You lose out on granular permissions and magicdns.

I run a tailscale instance per service, even if the services are colocated in the same VM. This lets me take advantage of tailscale serve, and I can also move services between VMs without changing access or dns.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Spotify, Epic Games pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of DMA"

MikeKusold — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:21:18 +0000

Fortnite isn’t available on the iOS store, so at least Epic is putting their money where their mouth is.

New comment by MikeKusold in "Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America"

MikeKusold — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:52:17 +0000

Somehow I don’t believe your Pentium 3 (1999) or your Pentium 4 (2000) processor is still your main computer.

Windows and Ubuntu have dropped support for 32 bit processors.

New comment by MikeKusold in "FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'"

MikeKusold — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:22:13 +0000

Here is the EFF Take Action page on FISA Section 702:

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-absent-major-change...

New comment by MikeKusold in "Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPU"

MikeKusold — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:32:13 +0000

I thought CUDA was NVIDIA’s moat. Is that no longer the case, or did AMD come up with a good alternative?

New comment by MikeKusold in "Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law"

MikeKusold — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:33:17 +0000

They were probably surprised because the insurance company would have paid the fair market rate for the replacement (parts & labor based on various quotes), regardless of if a professional did the work, if you DIYed it, or even if you never decided to repair it.

You likely talked yourself out of additional money.