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New comment by anderspitman in "Ask HN: YouTube keeps suggesting vids I marked “not interested”. What can I do?"

anderspitman — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:47:48 +0000

You can start investing in open platforms and services that get better, not worse, over time. Centralized tech doesn't result in less pain. It's just amortized over eternity.

New comment by anderspitman in "Derek Siver's shell script for tech independence"

anderspitman — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:45:41 +0000

Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546255

New comment by anderspitman in "Tech Independence"

anderspitman — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:44:59 +0000

Tunneling solves the ISP problem and the complexity problem of handling inbound connections. It also has some nice security benefits

New comment by anderspitman in "Tech Independence"

anderspitman — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:43:30 +0000

One advantage of tunneling is your ISP doesn't know what the traffic is. Also I expect ISP competition to slowly improve. More people are getting access to fiber all the time.

New comment by anderspitman in "Tech Independence"

anderspitman — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 04:54:07 +0000

Sandstorm is awesome but requires significant modifications to apps in order to work within the system. Also, it doesn't solve the complexity problem. You still need a programmer or sysadmin to set it up and manage security.

New comment by anderspitman in "Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software"

anderspitman — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:09:13 +0000

That link is corrupted. HN thinks the ");" is part of it:

https://forum.restic.net/t/continuous-backup/593

New comment by anderspitman in "Any Mullvad Alternative?"

anderspitman — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:47:35 +0000

Any sufficiently popular/reputable VPN provider will eventually remove port forwarding functionality. It's almost exclusively used for scams and torrenting and creates a fat target for litigation.

New comment by anderspitman in "SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas"

anderspitman — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:36:50 +0000

How would you synchronize them?

New comment by anderspitman in "Building a Centralized Logging Infrastructure"

anderspitman — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:55:35 +0000

For small deployments, you might be surprised how far you can get with just systemd/journalctl. It even has built in aggregation over a network.

New comment by anderspitman in "How to Program in Your Sleep"

anderspitman — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 14:00:52 +0000

I was introduced to this concept as a kid by "The Great Brain" book series. Was surprised to discover as an adult that it actually works in many ways. I'm a huge proponent of sleeping when I'm stuck on something. The tricky part is recognizing when I'm in an unfruitful debugging session and pulling myself away.

New comment by anderspitman in "No one wants simplicity"

anderspitman — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:39:43 +0000

> We all claim to hate complexity, but it’s actually just complexity added by other people that we hate — our own bugbears are always exempted, and for things we understand we quickly become unable to even see there is a potential problem for other people

Threads.net now supports IndieWeb microformats rel-me

anderspitman — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239273

Points: 1

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New comment by anderspitman in "John Warnock has died"

anderspitman — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:03:59 +0000

Dr Warnock spoke several months ago at an awesome graphics symposium at the University of Utah: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H4lCCyKkChk&pp=ygUkdXRhaCBncmFwa...

New comment by anderspitman in "Demystifying ESIM Technology [video]"

anderspitman — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 16:39:20 +0000

I've had a great experience with eSIMs these past few days during a trip to Europe (coming from the US). It's so convenient to be able to arrive at a city and use airport wifi to download a mobile data package for a few bucks. The process is slightly clunky but not bad at all.

New comment by anderspitman in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

anderspitman — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:26:01 +0000

There's a lot of use cases outside traditional tablet functionality, such as running a webserver or turning those excellent Apple screens into a secondary monitor.

New comment by anderspitman in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

anderspitman — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:52:22 +0000

Would love to see it, but my guess would be only if there's ever regulation to force Apple to allow it under climate concerns or right to repair type policy.

StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks

anderspitman — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks/6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37170594

Points: 4

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New comment by anderspitman in "Every phone should be able to run personal websites"

anderspitman — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:45:08 +0000

Not refuting your valid points but just another angle to consider, do all websites need to work all the time? If my family knows they can go to apitman.com to see my latest trip photos, if it's down occasionally that's not going to significantly impact their experience. They can just try again later.

That said, when I imagine self hosting from a phone I definitely think the phone + USB drive in a closet approach makes more sense.

New comment by anderspitman in "Every phone should be able to run personal websites"

anderspitman — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:38:57 +0000

> 99.99999% of people want to host nothing at all

While I agree this is true today, people also didn't know they wanted cars or smartphones until good implementations were made. Smartphones existed for many years but were niche before the iPhone. We as an industry have thus far completely failed to show the value of self hosting.

New comment by anderspitman in "Every phone should be able to run personal websites"

anderspitman — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:36:33 +0000

I'm a big proponent of this idea. Unfortunately IPv6 alone isn't enough, due to firewalls. It's just not realistic for the average person to be expected to set up port forwarding etc. Now, if something like UPnP was universally deployed alongside IPv6, that would pretty much do it.

Personally, I think the future of self hosting is going to happen through IPv4 tunnels[0] with SNI routing. You also get the added benefit of not exposing your actual IP address, and dealing with things like DDoS become the tunnel provider's concern.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling