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New comment by chillfox in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

chillfox — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:58:37 +0000

The taxi experience was pretty great where I live and where I traveled. I guess we were experiencing different parts of the world.

New comment by chillfox in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

chillfox — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:55:47 +0000

I assume this is a case of I live in a part of the world where it was different to how it was where you live... Or we value different things.

New comment by chillfox in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

chillfox — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:57:53 +0000

That actually sounds pretty good to me.

New comment by chillfox in "Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe"

chillfox — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:47:12 +0000

A lot of tech recently has just made things worse.

Uber made the taxi experience way worse and less predictable.

Now, I can’t just walk out of a bar, get into a clean taxi and go home, I have to fiddle with an app, wait, wave trying to identify “my” ride, then hope it’s clean and safe. It’s a nightmare compared to what we had before.

Uber eats made food delivery significantly worse and more expensive.

It used to be that I could get food delivered for a known fixed price, it would arrive while still hot and it would be delivered to the door. Now, the price is obfuscated, there’s an extra fee for getting the food warm, sometimes the drinks are spilled into the bag, delivery is to the curb so I have to go outside to get it.

There’s a lot more that has been made worse by tech companies.

New comment by chillfox in "The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale"

chillfox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:04:35 +0000

Just provide a docker compose file.

New comment by chillfox in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

chillfox — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:15:51 +0000

AI datacenters have very real negative effects on the communities they are located in like noise pollution and increased power prices. If you manage to defeat the water reason then people will just start using some other reason.

New comment by chillfox in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

chillfox — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:41:10 +0000

The Liquid Glass thing is a migraine trigger for my mum, and everyone I know with an iPhone has turned as much of it off as possible.

New comment by chillfox in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

chillfox — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:11:28 +0000

  Location: Australia/Darwin
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Crystal, Ruby, JavaScript, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chillfox/
  Email: mia@chillfox.com

Software Developer / Devops Engineer / Systems Administrator

I love learning and can generally pickup new programming languages quickly.

New comment by chillfox in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

chillfox — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:37:12 +0000

Nintendo still sells games fully on the card that can be played offline.

(yes, they are allowing third party publishers to use key-cards, but their first party games are fully on the card)

New comment by chillfox in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

chillfox — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:46:25 +0000

There is real value in having all the messy commit history, especially now with AI, but you do need some kind of description on them that indicates what they are.

One use I have got from it is asking an agent to go through the git history and categories the mistakes/bugs, then turn the common ones into CI checks or AGENTS.md rules.

A well curated history just hides a lot of valuable info.

New comment by chillfox in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

chillfox — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:32:22 +0000

The amount of sites that don’t persist rejecting feels very high, or it’s extremely painful when encountering. The cost of clicking reject is extreme if you have to do it on every page load as you navigate a site.

New comment by chillfox in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

chillfox — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:58:50 +0000

I cancelled my Reddit subscription when they killed third party clients and haven't really used the site since.

New comment by chillfox in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

chillfox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:47:14 +0000

I have been testing the various models, and I would not call Fable SOTA.

I can't actually get Fable to do anything. I only work on back-end code, and the moment Fable notices the jwt scope checks on the endpoints it's game over, it refuses to do anything because security is involved.

So for me, Fable is completely useless, the bar is very low, any llm that will actually attempt the task beats it every time.

New comment by chillfox in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

chillfox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:15:31 +0000

Didn’t know, but it makes sense to hand them that. And I still don’t see how it has anything to do with what we were talking about.

New comment by chillfox in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

chillfox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:42:56 +0000

The fuck has digital ID got to do with anything?

The ACCC goes after companies for anti consumer behaviour… Like taking away stuff you have bought, or misleading consumers by calling renting buying.

New comment by chillfox in "Kimi Work"

chillfox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:02:47 +0000

Why would the language matter? Just use your favorite.

New comment by chillfox in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

chillfox — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:28:44 +0000

Pretty sure you could get some action from the ACCC here in Australia if you go through the process to lodge a complaint.

New comment by chillfox in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

chillfox — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:53:00 +0000

you can also set those defaults with compile time flags, that's what I have been doing.

New comment by chillfox in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

chillfox — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:13:44 +0000

Infinite scroll is bad UX design and always has been.

It makes it impossible to click on any links in the footer of the page or even really reading what's in the footer.

I remember when it was initially introduced, everyone I spoke to about it hated it.

New comment by chillfox in "ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files"

chillfox — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:58:16 +0000

Thanks for building this, I am just about to give it ago with my self-hosted Garage cluster.

Does running `stat` against a file require pulling the whole file from s3, or can that be handled by the metadata?

Do you know what backup performance is like for something like borg/borgmatic or restic, especially on follow up runs where most files are just checked.

Is there any particular Redis/Valkey config you recommend when using it for `conditional_put`, or just default config?

Is there any chance for NFSv4 support?