Hacker News: caboteria

New comment by caboteria in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

caboteria — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:50:10 +0000

It's difficult to take an announcement like this seriously when it's posted on Twitter.

New comment by caboteria in "A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy"

caboteria — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:34:42 +0000

Everything he quoted is a fact, which can be proven or falsified. Taken together (and if true) they're pretty damning.

You responded with an ad-hominem attack. If you can offer a rebuttal of the facts then please do, otherwise try to refrain from personal attacks.

New comment by caboteria in "Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes"

caboteria — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:16:24 +0000

Also "couch lock", i.e., reduced physical activity.

New comment by caboteria in "Serverless Horrors"

caboteria — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:31:25 +0000

The real serverless horror isn't the occasional mistake that leads to a single huge bill, it's the monthly creep. It's so easy to spin up a resource and leave it running. It's just a few bucks, right?

I worked for a small venture-funded "cloud-first" company and our AWS bill was a sawtooth waveform. Every month the bill would creep up by a thousand bucks or so, until it hit $20k at which point the COO would notice and then it would be all hands on deck until we got the bill under $10k or so. Rinse and repeat but over a few years I'm sure we wasted more money than many of the examples on serverlesshorrors.com, just a few $k at a time instead of one lump.

New comment by caboteria in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

caboteria — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:10:20 +0000

> I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

Follow-up: do you expect companies to fire employees who make mistakes?

New comment by caboteria in "DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase"

caboteria — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:15:07 +0000

I recently received an AI-slop bug report for a small open source project (PureLB) that I maintain, and the slop was generated by DeepWiki. It was very incorrect, but I didn't know what "DeepWiki" was so I wasted about an hour. If DeepWiki is causing garbage bug reports even on tiny projects like mine, I can't imagine how much maintainer time it's wasting over all.

New comment by caboteria in "Modernising the Amiga at Forty"

caboteria — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:44:00 +0000

> At what point do these things stop being Amigas?

Ah, the classic "Ship of Tramiel" gedankenexperiment.

New comment by caboteria in "Let me pay for Firefox"

caboteria — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:32:02 +0000

I use Firefox but donate to Ladybird and Servo. Mozilla Corp is too far gone but hopefully the next generation of browsers will have less corporate baggage.

New comment by caboteria in "Show HN: Flowcode – Turing-complete visual programming platform"

caboteria — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:39:00 +0000

The main link returns a 404 - maybe a griefer deleted example1?

New comment by caboteria in "Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case"

caboteria — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:11:45 +0000

I'll defer to Stringer Bell:

> Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

"Normal CEO things" don't include committing crimes, and they are only a "huge self-own" when they document those crimes.

New comment by caboteria in "How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare"

caboteria — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:30:12 +0000

I'm curious about the pros and cons of Cloudflare pages versus GitHub pages. Given that you're using GH as a repo, would it be simpler to also use it to serve pages?

New comment by caboteria in "Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball"

caboteria — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:07:17 +0000

You control the trackball with the fingers of your right hand, and there's a scroll wheel and right and left buttons under your right thumb.

New comment by caboteria in "Fire at Tesla dealership near Rome destroys 17 cars"

caboteria — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:09:13 +0000

Windshield washer fluid is just liberal tears, after all.

New comment by caboteria in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

caboteria — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:17:58 +0000

They did, and this is what they got.

New comment by caboteria in "LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting"

caboteria — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:50:14 +0000

No discussion of LibreOffice would be complete without a reminder that the Apache Foundation continues to harm the open source community by pretending that Apache OpenOffice isn't dead as a doornail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

Come on, Apache, admit what we all know to be true, and figure out a way to gently wind the OpenOffice project down.

New comment by caboteria in "BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021)"

caboteria — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:36:46 +0000

(2021)

New comment by caboteria in "Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?"

caboteria — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 16:22:56 +0000

It's worse than that. VistA is a world-class open source EMR that the VA has been trying to kill for decades.

New comment by caboteria in "Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming"

caboteria — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:56:58 +0000

What ads? https://ublockorigin.com/

New comment by caboteria in "How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment"

caboteria — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:51:33 +0000

I worked for a company that was acquired by LU/Bell Labs in the '90's and their IP notebooks were excellent: hardbound with a sturdy cloth binding and thick, high-quality graph paper. We were supposed to have each page countersigned at the end of the day but that rarely happened. We were too busy makin' the donuts.

New comment by caboteria in "Museum of Bad Art"

caboteria — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:25:07 +0000

Yup! And before that they were in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater.