Hacker News: MongoTheMad

New comment by MongoTheMad in "XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging"

MongoTheMad — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:14:20 +0000

XML is the reason why XMPP is not widely adopted. XML is such a painful configuration structure.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework"

MongoTheMad — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:25:35 +0000

This CMS appears to be a breath of fresh air amid the toxicity in the WordPress world.

Considering devs are looking at complaints/features in this thread, I will post one: In WordPress, I can copy a plugin folder from one old project into a new one and enable it in the ui without touching code or cli. I see the benefit of defining plugins through a cli tool, but I also like the copy-paste folder structure of early 00's software.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Texan used Apple AirTags to discover plastics in Houston aren't being recycled"

MongoTheMad — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 03:57:14 +0000

> Wright Waste Management did not allow CBS News to enter and inspect its premises. Still, the news team's drone camera discovered that all the trash picked up from the Houston Recycling Collaboration (HRC) was apparently just sitting there on its premises, stacked more than 10 feet high.

Anyone else bothered by CBS's lack of decency here? They flew a drone inside a place they could not enter.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious"

MongoTheMad — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:18:00 +0000

break off chrome and enable AD block again.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Ask iFixit: Does Blowing Into Gaming Cartridges Actually Fix Them?"

MongoTheMad — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 02:59:21 +0000

(in a middle 30's aged voice:) This youngin does not realize that blowing in the cartridge did three things - 1.) Allowed the cartridge to reset, 2.) Removed dust particles on the contacts, and 3.) lowered the temperature inside the hot electronics which had no ventilation.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes"

MongoTheMad — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:45:36 +0000

Is this barebones puppet/salt/Ansible?

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors"

MongoTheMad — Thu, 30 May 2024 04:25:55 +0000

Native English speaker here that has a Fedora box as a daily driver.

I thought this title referenced cars driving in a south american rain forest.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "So long, and thanks for all the bytes"

MongoTheMad — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 05:12:19 +0000

Now I know why Android is written in Java - they are a bunch of comedians! Everything is a joke to them!

In all seriousness, career changes are very hard. I hope the best for him.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail"

MongoTheMad — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:26:28 +0000

I am glad these phones were not Nokias. Who knows what damage they would have caused.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

MongoTheMad — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:41:55 +0000

Why is it that one can have a Happy holiday, birthday, thanksgiving, halloween, etc., but only have a Merry Christmas??

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services"

MongoTheMad — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:58:07 +0000

This is a good guide to set up an email server, yet it lacks describing PTR Records (aka reverse DNS) and that some cloud providers block outgoing email unless you ask support to turn it on.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued"

MongoTheMad — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:21:42 +0000

It means they cannot schedule time off of work to care for an illness, surgery, etc. It would prompt most to search for other lines of work but, in rural counties, not much else is available.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "A rural post office was told to prioritize Amazon packages. Chaos ensued"

MongoTheMad — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:16:32 +0000

I think he means the end time is between 9pm and 11pm. The start of the shift is not mentioned.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "The Curse of Docker"

MongoTheMad — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:29:18 +0000

The author needs to look into confd. I wrote about it in 2017: https://andrewwippler.com/2017/11/28/reusable-containers-wit...

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Linux being secure is a common misconception"

MongoTheMad — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:15:58 +0000

Am I missing something? Isn't SELinux supposed to mitigate/stop the attacks described?

New comment by MongoTheMad in "What if money expired?"

MongoTheMad — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 19:26:43 +0000

I already live in a world where money can expire in 60 to 120 days.

It's called a check, and hardly anybody accepts them anymore.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "The thrill of the bargain hunt at unclaimed baggage"

MongoTheMad — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:39:10 +0000

The common denominator for getting a good bargain is camping outside to arrive early or visiting regularly. While I like a good deal, I do not care for those style of deals.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "University of Minnesota Gopher software licensing policy (1993)"

MongoTheMad — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 05:16:17 +0000

This is simply not true. My grandpa was an early adopter in '92 and had an internet connection to his home in Little Falls, MN.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "The .ing top-level domain"

MongoTheMad — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:56:05 +0000

I am old. I forgot about this hunter2 password filter phish reference.

New comment by MongoTheMad in "Global CO2 Levels"

MongoTheMad — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:00:17 +0000

Interesting graph.

I believe too much CO2 in the atmosphere is a bad thing, but it is hard to find good, global suggested remediations to this issue.

- I use public transportation with my family of 6. (We do not own a car). - My kids walk to school ~1 mile away. - I stopped buying oak, because I read somewhere oak removes a good amount of CO2 over other types of trees. - We live in an area where it is easy to find evironmentally-concerned food producers and buy from them.

What else is there left for us to do?