Hacker News: TheChaplain

New comment by TheChaplain in "DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it"

TheChaplain — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:51:13 +0000

If you have any domains that does not use email, it may be a good idea to set up some DNS records to prevent it being used.

DNS SPF record: mydomain.io. TXT "v=spf1 -all"

DNS DMARC: _dmarc.mydomain.io. TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; adkim=s; aspf=s"

That ought to stop anyone trying to use your domains as source.

New comment by TheChaplain in "German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications"

TheChaplain — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:29:52 +0000

It's not that bad, they still make money on consumer- and micro batteries. Needs a bit of restructuring.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

TheChaplain — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:10:05 +0000

I don't really see a problem with this decision (or the one regarding crypto), they were voted on by the active members of Codeberg, simply a democratic outcome.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

TheChaplain — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:48:34 +0000

You need to specifically register as an active member to get voting rights.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig"

TheChaplain — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:32:49 +0000

Ah slight disappointment, first I thought it was a revival of the hack-n-slash Moonstone-game from the Amiga era.

But projects made in Zig are just as cool :)

New comment by TheChaplain in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

TheChaplain — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:48:40 +0000

They could just sidestep it, by making the electricity free but the transport or cable use more expensive, no?

New comment by TheChaplain in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

TheChaplain — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:40:08 +0000

I've tried to learn rust of the longest time but failed, it's not the community that is the problem but the language itself. It is far from aesthetically pleasing, a child of perl and c++ meta template programming that inherited the worst traits of both.

Go and Python are my current preference, and C being an old soul mate.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

TheChaplain — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:45:26 +0000

If I understand it correctly, their target is projects like the recent pgrust (PostgreSQL in rust) which are full conversions of projects that no-one else will ever use. It's just noise.

New comment by TheChaplain in "The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth"

TheChaplain — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:28:05 +0000

I am not a believer, but pray that whichever $DEITY is watching over Donald Knuth allows him a healthy and long life to reach the achievement of finishing volume 7.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux"

TheChaplain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:14:42 +0000

This is really good!

I use htop often but pretty much only use it to find pid or cpu-culprits, and never really understood the rest.

New comment by TheChaplain in "The Vespa at 80"

TheChaplain — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:06:13 +0000

Euro5 also means >90% less exhaust fumes compared to Euro1 which was introduced 1999 iirc. The difference between a 1950 and 2026 Vespa must be huge.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy"

TheChaplain — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:25:31 +0000

Funny that the article didn't mention it.

Infineon got €1bn of tax payer money to open the plant (~$1.1bn).

New comment by TheChaplain in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

TheChaplain — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:19:54 +0000

48kHz has been the recommended setting with Premiere Pro as long as I can remember.

44.1kHz, isn't that what lameMP3 uses as default?

New comment by TheChaplain in "Fable Converted Pylint to Rust"

TheChaplain — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:46:45 +0000

IMHO there is little point of these conversion projects. It screams of "look at me, see what I made" and when the attention goes down a little nothing was ever pushed to the repo ever again.

Perhaps I am out of touch, but a project with author/s that have passion for every line, function and purpose, feels more real and worth my trust to spend time using it.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It"

TheChaplain — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:58:34 +0000

Not often you encounter a site that makes scrolling choppy.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition for Its Smart Glasses to Phones"

TheChaplain — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:26:56 +0000

I don't have Facebook nor Instagram, but my partner does and so does my siblings, parents and cousins.

Photos of me undoubtedly exist on their platform, with my name as well.

Not sure I am ok with random people instantly knowing who I am and who my relatives are.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Angular v22"

TheChaplain — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:03:00 +0000

I like Angular, it feels a bit like Django. Easy to use with everything included.

New comment by TheChaplain in "Voxel Space (2017)"

TheChaplain — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:41:20 +0000

I really love this kind of articles, so much to learn.

New comment by TheChaplain in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

TheChaplain — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:19:04 +0000

I am 100% certain, that if you go to a Ferrari dealer and buy one of their cars, they will clearly inform you of their rules.

Of course you can have a friend to buy it for you, but again, it's Ferraris choice who they want to conduct business with as long as they follow the laws to the letter. Their car is their brand and they want to protect it.

New comment by TheChaplain in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

TheChaplain — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:28:18 +0000

You are free to do whatever, but companies are also free to choose who they conduct business with.

In the case of Ferrari, their products are essentially also rolling advertisements, so modifying them goes against what they are trying to sell.