Hacker News: botto

New comment by botto in "UniFi 5G"

botto — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:03:08 +0000

Yeah, the fact you can use any of the ports on a dream machine as a WAN (its not optimal, but is an option) makes it really easy to have a couple of fallbacks if you really need high redundancy.

New comment by botto in "UniFi 5G"

botto — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:01:46 +0000

This product targets businesses where they will mount it in a fixed position and target a specific tower so they get the best throughput.

New comment by botto in "Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?"

botto — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:59:13 +0000

I have tried claude code on a few different size code bases and so far very impressed. The code it generates is usually in the same fashion and tone as the rest of the code base.

New comment by botto in "An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server"

botto — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:33:28 +0000

This is my thought as well, if you are in control then you also control which nodes go on your tailnet

New comment by botto in "Can't trust any VPN these days"

botto — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:35:01 +0000

Clickbait title, author didn't use a VPN provider, used own OpenVPN solution and didn't configure things correctly.

New comment by botto in "Ask HN: Why hasn't Drupal benefited from WordPress's current issues?"

botto — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:22:10 +0000

The delta going from Wordpress to Drupal is quite big, it's been few years, but I remeber quotes for Drupal 8 projects being a few times larger than quotes for Wordpress based projects.

TwoSet Violin 'ends chapter' after eleven years

botto — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:19:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thestrad.com/news/twoset-violin-ends-chapter-after-eleven-years/18751.article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853700

Points: 78

# Comments: 63

New comment by botto in "Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels"

botto — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:02:09 +0000

This is quite clean and tidy

New comment by botto in "Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels"

botto — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:01:02 +0000

I've used autossh to have a reverse tunnel open connection back to my work desktop, IT never found it and I had that in place for year

New comment by botto in "Autossh – automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels"

botto — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:59:48 +0000

That's what Tailscale is built for, when it can it sets up a P2P connection, it only ever sends data through Tailscales servers if you are in a restrictive network environment (i.e. corp network that controls all inbound and outbound traffic)

New comment by botto in "Textfiles"

botto — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:53:00 +0000

I really like this talk Jason Scott did at defcon about being sued for 2 billion dollars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74g7wSTYUso

Vodafone and Three agree UK merger

botto — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:55:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65842845

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36325167

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Suggestions for reading material to be a manager

botto — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:23:19 +0000

Any good books to read or suggestions for where I can find reading material on being a good manager/line-manager? I'm a software engineer and I'm going to be managing a software engineer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33240871

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by botto in "Signal is experiencing technical difficulties"

botto — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:18:18 +0000

Sorry, no. Although Telegrams has encryption it's by default Client-Server, you have to explicitly start a secret chat with individual people. Additionally group chats are not encrypted except between client and server.

I'm not sure of a good alternative as simple as Signal

New comment by botto in "All C++20 core language features with examples"

botto — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:48:51 +0000

This makes sense! Thank you

New comment by botto in "All C++20 core language features with examples"

botto — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:49:33 +0000

I'm curious if these new additions to C++ have genuine use cases (as in we could not do this because X) or if there are more academic driven arguments going on here.

Having recently done a lot of work using C++ previously coming from Go and Typescript I find it hard to understand all the reasons for the language to be so flexible.

New comment by botto in "Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer"

botto — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:41:16 +0000

Obviously right now is probably ill advised as various countries in Europe are dealing with the pandemic differently and vaccination might become a factor at some point down the road.

Find out which European country you want to live in, it's a wide ensemble of laws, culture and practices and simply "moving to Europe" will vary a lot depending on which country you move to.

Language is probably on top of the list, I know in some countries just speaking English will be ok and companies won't care, but you will want to do some research on that (i.e. I lived in Germany for a short time and I'm glad I knew enough German to get around).

As far as software development goes, there isn't a shortage of companies hiring, you might even be lucky enough to find a company that is willing to sponsor your. Check your own countries rules re earning money in another country, they might want to tax you.

Overall I'd say you need to research:

- Which country do you want to go to

- What are their immigration requirements (not all of Europe has the same immigration rules, despite what anti EU idiots think)

- Daily language use

- How much does it cost to rent a place

- How much does it cost to live there (food prices vary a lot)

- Right now this is a terrible idea, but go to the country and stay in the city you think you want to live in and test it out, this isn't a substitution for actually living there, but is a start to find out if you hate it or not

In ref to buying a passport, yes this is an option, some countries still do it, usually quite expensive.

New comment by botto in "Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer"

botto — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:37:47 +0000

Yes, developers jobs are well paid in London, depending on the company, there are several places that take advantage of their developers and pay poorly. My advice to most London devs is move company often until you find a salary you're happy with, companies need you more than you need the company.

New comment by botto in "CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet"

botto — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:36:30 +0000

The pitch of this project is not great imo.

Not sure saying it's an open source table is any better but calling it a tool for keeping projects on the go is also just weird.

New comment by botto in "CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet"

botto — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:33:57 +0000

Considering all the hardware and software is open source the repairability will be high, obviously you will need some tools to do it.