Hacker News: blaerk

New comment by blaerk in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

blaerk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:36:24 +0000

Been happily and very successfully using the official binpkgs, it works really well, sometimes there's a slight delay for the binary versions of the source packages to appear in the repositories, but that's about it. I guess it's kind of running Arch, but with portage <3! And the occasional compilation because your use flags didn't really match the binaries

New comment by blaerk in "Sixos: A nix OS without systemd [video]"

blaerk — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:07:11 +0000

this is correct, there's even a precompiled kernel (dist-kernel), it works great! and when packages doesn't match your system settings, portage will pull the source and compile them. it's great!

New comment by blaerk in "Why Oxide Chose Illumos"

blaerk — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:28:07 +0000

I think some older instance types are still on xen, later types run kvm (code named nitro.. perhaps?). I can’t remember the exact type but last year we ran into some weird issues related to some kernel regression that only affected some instances in our fleet, turns out they where all the same type and apparently ran on xen according to aws support

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Alternatives to HashiCorp Packer?"

blaerk — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:35:36 +0000

If you’re using AWS there’s ImageBuilder, it’s by no means a drop-in replacement for packer and a closer look hints at just being ansible behind the scenes. You could probably achieve the same results with pure ansible and some cloud provider modules if needed. Ansible was bought by Redhat though, so still IBM, the licence is unchanged though

New comment by blaerk in "A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published"

blaerk — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:45:36 +0000

Leons daughter Vera talked a bit about her father, his relationship to Kubrick, art and family in “Sommar i P1”, a Swedish national radio show where people in “public interest” talk about whatever for an hour or so. It’s pretty interesting and provide some insights, but unfortunately it’s only in Swedish

https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1319508#

New comment by blaerk in "Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs"

blaerk — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:48:51 +0000

I really hope the crazy prize increase of vmware products will end the use of esxi and the rest of the vsphere suite, it is one of the worst applications and apis i have ever had the displeasure of working with!

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Best Password Manager without cloud login?"

blaerk — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:30:23 +0000

Second this, it’s simple, made with bash, git and gpg. Been using it for years myself, I’ve also used it as a shared password store at different workplaces with ease.

New comment by blaerk in "Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990"

blaerk — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:49:26 +0000

If anyone wants to run protracker like back in the day but on current hardware, there’s this neat clone https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone

New comment by blaerk in "The day Windows died"

blaerk — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:24:42 +0000

Running dos, win9x and others was quite a lot of fixing stuff as well. Getting your hardware to work with games and is took some patience and a lot of trial and error “back in the days”.

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Technical resources on video encoding/streaming?"

blaerk — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:41:34 +0000

It’s been quite a while since I played around with encoders, video streams etc. It seems the old doom9 forums (http://forum.doom9.net) are still somewhat active, even if the site tagline mentions dvd, the video encoding/decoding concepts probably haven’t changed much and the forums seem to cover later technologies than mpeg2. Protocols and methods for transferring the product is most likely out of scope for d9.

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Learn C in 2023?"

blaerk — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 18:25:29 +0000

Excellent choice! I started off 2022 with learning c and it’s a lot of fun!

As some other commenters, I really recommend Modern C by Jens Gustedt.

If you’re on Linux you can use man pages for most or all of the c stdlib, it’s a really convenient way to check up on stuff directly from the terminal, less tempting to rabbit hole into something else while in a browser.

I started contributing to a really small open source project, it was less daunting than a large well written, well formatted project and you get to run into “accidents”, figure them out, fixing them, learning from the experience. I realise this is a matter of personal preference, for me it’s a nice learning experience.

Also having (or making) friends who knows c is really helpful.

Good luck!

New comment by blaerk in "The Mod Archive"

blaerk — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:05:28 +0000

Since it's down you can get your mod fix from https://modland.ziphoid.com/pub/modules/ (features some good ol' directory browsing though)

I've had best listening results with https://github.com/libxmp/xmp-cli/

A friend of mine wrote an excellent player which uses libxmp and a bunch of other libs to play a bunch of old formats, it's rather good: https://github.com/intealls/modp fair warning though, there's no pre built releases but comes with a handy makefile :)

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Cross platform method for accessing system audio output?"

blaerk — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 09:00:19 +0000

Portaudio may be applicable, it supports most platforms I think.

http://www.portaudio.com/

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?"

blaerk — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:30:18 +0000

I did that as well, also running cp with the -s argument will create a symlink

New comment by blaerk in "Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?"

blaerk — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:16:43 +0000

For you can skip xargs for that and just add the -delete argument to find, for readability and profit(!?)

New comment by blaerk in "Quake on the Game Boy Advance [video]"

blaerk — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:56:32 +0000

Randy talked about the doom snes port (among other things) during fosdem 2021, can’t remember if he mentioned Quake , it was a very interesting interview though

https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/speaker/randal_lind...

New comment by blaerk in "Show HN: No Trash Search"

blaerk — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:14:47 +0000

I think https://www.qwant.com/ use their own, just started using it so I can't really say much about it other than it seems alright compared to ddg and google(?)

New comment by blaerk in "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code"

blaerk — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 20:30:19 +0000

I thought it was me being new to go that made some code bases hard to figure out

New comment by blaerk in "XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM"

blaerk — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:20:33 +0000

I know this thread is almost 20h old. But, I started using awesomewm maybe 8 years ago, decided on a look and config and haven't changed it since, every computer i use have the same setup, it is indeed awesome! Thank you so much for your time and dedication, it's a pleasure to use

Eudev, systemd-udev fork retires

blaerk — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 05:39:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-08-24-eudev-retirement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28298372

Points: 3

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