Hacker News: butshouldyou

New comment by butshouldyou in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

butshouldyou — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:45:26 +0000

Can you expand on "use Deno" for installing dependencies? I assume you don't mean to use Deno as the runtime, just for dependency management.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license"

butshouldyou — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:45:38 +0000

Literally next week Bitnami will pull all of their Docker images from public use. They were relied on by many people but since being bought by Broadcom, they just exist to be milked for cash.

They don't list a price for their new enterprise subscription, instead making you contact their 3rd party, outsourced sales team.

The quote I heard from a colleague was USD5'000 pcm. No wonder they don't want to publish that!

New comment by butshouldyou in "Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective"

butshouldyou — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:29:40 +0000

It's funny that you mention this because in my discussions on this subject (Svalboard, ergo keyboards in general) it's the first thing that numerous people have mentioned. The thing is, I'm the only person who's used my computer in many years.

I have a non-standard layout and keep a second (small wireless) keyboard around for exactly this reason but to date it hasn;t been needed.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Our Farewell from Google Play"

butshouldyou — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:51:27 +0000

How do you even get to the point of installing F-Droid without first setting up Android, which, in my experience, requires a valid Google login.

When I set up my Android device, there wasn't an option to set it up without a Google Account.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

butshouldyou — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:15:19 +0000

Huge quantities of english speakers, who are not from the Commonwealth, learn British English.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

butshouldyou — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:30:58 +0000

Firefox would have to be seriously broken for me to consider moving away. Chromium's lack of ad blocker support is a deal breaker.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Building my own solar power system"

butshouldyou — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:53:48 +0000

Every reply is talking about how wind doesn't make sense, how its uneconomical, or how its a nuisance. I can offer an opposing take:

My father has been using wind power in a semi-suburban area in the Uk for close to 20 years now. They have a large wind turbine now but had a much smaller one for a long time. Outside of cookie-cutter estates, there's sufficient tree and building cover that its barely visible to the neighbors. It provides most of their home power.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Building my own solar power system"

butshouldyou — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:50:03 +0000

However, the implied meaning is significant. This site is full of engineers who, if they're good, invest a lot of time into understanding the implied meaning of what's said.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Building my own solar power system"

butshouldyou — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:46:35 +0000

There really aren't any HOAs in the UK. Some newer houses have a covenant which resticts some things but people push back on those pretty hard.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Building my own solar power system"

butshouldyou — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:39:37 +0000

They're in Switzerland.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor"

butshouldyou — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:26:22 +0000

Unfortunately, lots of end users refuse to read the password policy and won't understand why their password reset interval is "random" or shorter than their colleague's.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Potatoes in the Mail"

butshouldyou — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:58:03 +0000

How? Postal workers shouldn;t be carrying things that are too heavy. I suspect the USPS would have to arrange a special delivery.

New comment by butshouldyou in "UK creating 'murder prediction' tool to identify people most likely to kill"

butshouldyou — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:38:23 +0000

Who's money? I don't follow the point you;re trying to make.

New comment by butshouldyou in "CSS Naked Day"

butshouldyou — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 21:36:57 +0000

Visible on macOS, possible that it's hidden on other OSes.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union"

butshouldyou — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:16:38 +0000

We have a similar thing in Switzerland for the gastronomy (food and drinks) industry. The industry is pretty abusive - here and abroad - so the "union" makes sure there's protections for workers.

Because of this, there's free management training, free skilled training, and holiday and pay minimums. Plus, free advice and legal support for workers.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition"

butshouldyou — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:09:07 +0000

Nice little game! One correction: Swaziland has been called Eswatini since 2018. Lots of websites still use the old name, unfortunately.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition"

butshouldyou — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:02:42 +0000

So does this english person! That's the UK.

New comment by butshouldyou in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

butshouldyou — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:25:55 +0000

Funnily enough, that's exactly what they're doing in this announcement. They're rewriting `tsc` in Go and shipping native binaries, rather than shipping JS.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker"

butshouldyou — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:53:30 +0000

May I ask what issue you ran into with Docker? I'm interested in Podman simply because I'm curious, but I can't think of any reason to move away from Docker besides that.

New comment by butshouldyou in "Pi-hole v6"

butshouldyou — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:38:53 +0000

Lots of screenshots circulating of posting the word "Cisgender" being flagged by Twitter. Not sure if they just flag or remove it though, as I don't use Twitter any more.