Hacker News: computerfriend

New comment by computerfriend in "SSH Secret Menu"

computerfriend — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:17:35 +0000

The drawback is that if you think your session is hanging and want to bail with ~., you have to press enter, which might actually make it to the server and execute something.

New comment by computerfriend in "A decade of Docker containers"

computerfriend — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:41:09 +0000

I'm not sure if I was just holding it wrong, but I couldn't create images reproducibly using Docker. (I could get this working with Podman/buildah however.)

New comment by computerfriend in "How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone"

computerfriend — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:42:10 +0000

Another anecdote: I have not had problems with OTA updates.

New comment by computerfriend in "Good software knows when to stop"

computerfriend — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:09:32 +0000

I also felt a little guilty when making the switch! Totally irrational of course, but still there's something to be said for sticking to the the original.

New comment by computerfriend in "Good software knows when to stop"

computerfriend — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:08:24 +0000

> everyone just wants to use nano (which I understand

I do not understand.

I have a very capable colleague/friend who uses nano. Unix hacker type, so I think it is what he is used to from growing up. I still find it strange, but such is the nature of preference.

New comment by computerfriend in "You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents"

computerfriend — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:11:50 +0000

> Humans rarely typo a traversal.

I don't think this is true?

New comment by computerfriend in "Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident"

computerfriend — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:48:59 +0000

This isn't about toxic combinations, it's about various low-hanging security bugs (and I think it was written by an LLM without disclosing it).

New comment by computerfriend in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

computerfriend — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:59:59 +0000

2. I think split-divider-color does what you want.

New comment by computerfriend in "What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics"

computerfriend — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:51:06 +0000

> notoriously mathematics runs on javascript

After being a software engineer for a while, coming back to mathematics really felt like this at times. Amazingly good analogy.

New comment by computerfriend in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

computerfriend — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:38:08 +0000

Branches can be sorted.

    git config branch.sort ...

New comment by computerfriend in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

computerfriend — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:05:08 +0000

Yes? It's a famous diagram, at least in the world of Git workflows, so I would expect a reviewer of Microsoft's Git workflow documentation to be familiar with it.

(But the main issue is that the diagram is slop, not that it's a copy.)

New comment by computerfriend in "Vim 9.2"

computerfriend — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:31:06 +0000

Strange that there's no v9.2 tag in https://github.com/vim/vim/tags.

New comment by computerfriend in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

computerfriend — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:04:31 +0000

Yeah, their "standard library" so to speak (basically everything under the actions org) is lacking. But for this specifically, you can use the gh CLI.

New comment by computerfriend in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

computerfriend — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:40:29 +0000

Same, plus my VPN connection.

New comment by computerfriend in "I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input"

computerfriend — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:02:40 +0000

I do something similar with LoadCredential and it is quite amazing, especially when you want to run the application as a dynamic user.

New comment by computerfriend in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

computerfriend — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:56:03 +0000

YouTube NonStop: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-nonst....

New comment by computerfriend in "[dead]"

computerfriend — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:52:03 +0000

The kidnapping of Abu Omar.

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

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGsr3SzCZc

New comment by computerfriend in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

computerfriend — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:27:39 +0000

They thought I had a gun in Toronto airport and were surprisingly calm about it. (I didn't actually have a gun.)

New comment by computerfriend in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

computerfriend — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:23:34 +0000

I also can't help but feel bad for the author. However, when the first line of the README is

> A production-grade Matrix homeserver

this is engineering malpractice. It is also unethical to present the work of an LLM as your own.

New comment by computerfriend in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

computerfriend — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:16:54 +0000

Signal has exports.