Hacker News: avtar

New comment by avtar in "The Emacsification of Software"

avtar — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:30:30 +0000

> Oddly enough, Google’s LLM is the only one that has been answering my questions well on a research project these last weeks.

Google Search declined in quality when results started containing more noise (more ads, SEO spam) that required sifting through. Gemini isn't displaying all that garbage.. yet.

New comment by avtar in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

avtar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:53:18 +0000

Given the context, they're probably referring to epubs. Files could contain just generic malicious javascript or malware that attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in specific ereaders.

New comment by avtar in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"

avtar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:37:14 +0000

TBH that part of your landing page exhibits some confusing UX. Perhaps it's just me but when I see a UI image with a play button I assume that clicking it is going to play a video, not redirect me to a login page.

New comment by avtar in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

avtar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:23:35 +0000

Got a link or more info regarding the theme?

New comment by avtar in "Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault"

avtar — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:54:57 +0000

> and price seems to have gone down

They sent an email a couple months ago stating prices were increasing as of Mar 27. The family plan went from $59.88 USD per year to $71.88 But it's still worth it IMO.

New comment by avtar in "Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small"

avtar — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:05:59 +0000

Maybe Lemmy without federation?

New comment by avtar in "Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small"

avtar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:24:02 +0000

Thanks for the quick fix :) Nice to see more Discord alternatives these days.

A few other landing page issues if you feel like addressing them:

- Attempting to navigate with the Tab key results in tab order following nav elements once, where focus indicators aren't visible, and then the same elements get iterated over again but this time focus indicators are visible.

- Tab order doesn't include screenshots and jumps to the FAQ

- Clicking a thumbnail shows the larger image but without any elements for closing the overlay

- Pressing Esc doesn't close the overlay

- No skip links on any of the pages

New comment by avtar in "Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small"

avtar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:26:02 +0000

Please consider adding screenshots of the UI that provide an idea of what the experience will be like without having to log in using Bluesky or other credentials.

New comment by avtar in "My Homelab Setup"

avtar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:19:07 +0000

Thanks for clarifying :) I'll try it out this weekend.

New comment by avtar in "My Homelab Setup"

avtar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:17:32 +0000

This would be perfect with TLS. The docs don't make this clear...

> tailscale serve --service=svc:web-server --https=443 127.0.0.1:8080

> http://web-server..ts.net:443/ > |-- proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080

> When you use the tailscale serve command with the HTTPS protocol, Tailscale automatically provisions a TLS certificate for your unique tailnet DNS name.

So is the certificate not valid? The 'Limitations' section doesn't mention anything about TLS either:

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services#limit...

New comment by avtar in "Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state"

avtar — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:59:52 +0000

Unfortunately communities tend to be endangered species these days. Perhaps this issue and other seismic societal shifts will change that.

New comment by avtar in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

avtar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:01:39 +0000

I guess let’s say we also add Colorado to the growing list

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

New comment by avtar in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

avtar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:35:13 +0000

Young people are more into TikTok than CNN, and the Ellisons already control that in the U.S.

New comment by avtar in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

avtar — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:37:44 +0000

Looks like books.google.com

New comment by avtar in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

avtar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:21:22 +0000

> Pair it with Debian

A KDE dev mentioned on a podcast that issues related to Debian Stable get closed automatically on their bug tracker because fixes don't get backported :/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pneqp4/kde_dev_do_n...

My wife was complaining about Windows issues so I ended up installing Fedora with KDE on her laptop. I would have preferred Debian but using Testing (as suggested by the dev) doesn't some ideal.

New comment by avtar in "Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system"

avtar — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:47:50 +0000

There’s also notmuch with various frontends which will let you index and search colossal mail accounts

https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

New comment by avtar in "Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st"

avtar — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:51:45 +0000

While not a one-to-one situation, probably Blender and specifically Grease Pencil?

New comment by avtar in "Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers"

avtar — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:48:57 +0000

I thought that the blog's domain looked familiar. The author maintains an awesome and well maintained Emacs starter kit https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock

New comment by avtar in "Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters"

avtar — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:16:30 +0000

Rancher Desktop comes to mind. Maybe Podman Desktop https://podman-desktop.io/docs/migrating-from-docker

New comment by avtar in "Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files"

avtar — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:34:42 +0000

> though from a quick search it doesn't seem to have a "Vagrantfile" equivalent (is that correct?)

It's just YAML config for the VM's resources:

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/instances_...

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/inst...

And cloud-init for provisioning:

https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/jnt6/incus-config/-/blob/main/co...