<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RulerOf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RulerOf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:52:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RulerOf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "The Amazon tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>App Store search is so bad that I won't use their search at all anymore. I search the web and grab the link from the app maker's website.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:38:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363843</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do the same, but I switched from cert-per-subdomain a couple of years ago.<p>They're either using Passive DNS logs or a historical dataset.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:09:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281713</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Just Pay the Subscription"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Keep track of which apps had been opened every month, only pay the subscriptions for the ones I’ve opened, and allow me to set monthly limits.<p>That turns app icons into land-mines though.<p>Idk what the happy medium is, but there's gotta be something between "buy this kids game once" and "pay $13 a month until he gets sick of it," and I don't think we've quite found one that's equitable for all parties yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847325</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>36 bays and only 24T of storage?<p>Can't you get that in a single disk that costs less than a kilodollar?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:19:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834596</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a pool heater and an air conditioner, and I'm running both at the same time. They're fifty feet apart, but this thought crosses my mind constantly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:53:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832002</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48832002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you mean?<p>I ask because I find Apple's wired EarPods to be less... selective than AirPods are—by that I mean they'll pick up more background noise whereas AirPods seem to only transmit my voice—but EarPods' clarity exceeds AirPods if you grab the mic and hold it next to your mouth, which you obviously can't do with AirPods.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:42:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711976</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was looking at roughly the same, m5 max, 128G with 4T. It was ~$6000 out the door.<p>The same config on their site is now $8000 before taxes and AppleCare.<p>A couple weeks' notice would've been nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:29:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677420</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get that, but I don't care.<p>I want the PDF (or CSV) emailed to me as an attachment because that's the workflow that  doesn't suck.<p>Everything else sucks in one way or another, and much of it is security theater.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:07:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656716</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That'd be nice, but I'd even settle for the plain pdf attached to the email.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:33:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652432</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why can’t I set up Windows or MacOS like that? I know the answer I just find the answer annoying.<p>I wish I still cared about this. I had intended to build an iPXE boot menu via a small web service that would act as a windows install XML template editor/selector, but I never got around to doing it after learning enough web dev to pull it off.<p>I built a few similar things that worked inside of WinPE, but the slowness of waiting for it to boot was always what drove me to do as much config as possible in the PXE boot menu—you can get into that in seconds versus minutes for the PE.<p>I used to install Windows a lot, and found a lot of tech around it to be a little too opinionated. SMS/WDS were just too legacy-leaning and Microsoft Enterprise-flavored. FOG was a little too heavy-handed (though very good). Glazier excited me but I never actually used it to determine if it has the flexibility I wanted...<p>But I digress. OS installs should be a lot easier and faster to accept your configuration preferences and get to work when the goal is "erase this machine and reinstall" than they are even today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:24:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513997</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was the point as I read it. Payload signature verification is a good and sometimes desirable alternative to transport encryption when the payload itself isn't secret.<p>Highly-cacheable resources like game and OS updates are often intentionally delivered over http as signed payloads to facilitate middlebox caching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:55:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508050</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I saw a helpful ad once.<p>The organic search results didn't offer what I needed at all, but the ad took me straight to an e-commerce site that sold what I wanted. I had it in my hands at a reasonable price about 5 days.<p>It was for a Nintendo Wii component video cable, back in 2007.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:52:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225739</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Finally, AWS isn't a silver bullet. For anyone in us-east-1, you know [0].<p>I probably should have commented on the original article here, but I pulled all of my company's production infra out of that AZ back in 2019 because AWS dragged its feet for too long deploying 5th gen hardware there.<p>I assumed the racks were full or something.  I still don't know if they ever did get newer hardware in that AZ—I just avoid it like the plague.<p>I had a light chuckle this week when I discovered the work I did out of sheer frustration saved us from a partial outage seven years later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 22:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088959</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Another alternative is Mellanox with RDMA. You need CX4+ for optimal performance over TCP/IP, while the cheap CX3 is excellent with IPoIB.<p>Do these benefit the iSCSI target end of the equation too, or just the initiator? And do they work like an HBA, where you configure the card in a firmware setup menu, or does it just transparently accelerate the software initiator on Windows/Linux?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:14:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056339</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is absolutely fascinating. I'm gonna have to pay attention the next time I open an iPhone box. I'd bet they're sitting on their faces in the box.<p>I really wonder how the wireless data transfer works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883511</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They did?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:47:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872068</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought it really excelled at displaying the timeline—it was quite novel to see a timeline for a video I was watching that didn't occlude any part of the screen—but quite annoyingly it would go black due to inactivity.<p>And of course the virtual function keys were awful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:28:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850195</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've wondered for a while if it would be possible to do that with a USB FXS adapter[1], and something like a Pi, but you'd basically need a soft modem of some kind to make it work and the only module for Asterisk isn't up to the challenge (last I checked five years ago).<p>However, to be frank, it'd make more sense to do PPP over null modem with a straight serial connection.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.amfeltec.com/usb-fxs-adapter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amfeltec.com/usb-fxs-adapter/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:48:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631318</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't remember my ipv4 addresses either, but I recognize them as mine when I see them.<p>I've never recognized an IPv6 address or prefix used in my networks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:04:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609196</link><dc:creator>RulerOf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RulerOf in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure the UX would suck, but you could use hcl2json[0] and then transform that to YAML.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tmccombs/hcl2json</a></p>
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