Hacker News: dizhn

New comment by dizhn in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

dizhn — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:04:42 +0000

Author's own 'auth' project works with sqlite and postgres.

New comment by dizhn in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

dizhn — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:37:04 +0000

> Bae didn’t just wield a stick: He also dangled a carrot in the form of a promise to support research on networks that will support AI applications. But he also urged the three telcos to invest more in the networks – not just datacenters – to make AI applications accessible to all. ®

uggghhh

New comment by dizhn in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

dizhn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:53:41 +0000

It wasn't that simple. I couldn't find Firebird's original position post but this is close enough.

https://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3097.html

New comment by dizhn in "FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD"

dizhn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:30:42 +0000

Regarding your wifi example. I did have to replace it with an intel one on my Lenovo because wifi would not work with something connected to Bluetooth (might have been USB . I don't recall). This is on Windows by the way. I just replaced it instead of fighting it. Same reason people prefer AMD on linux but this is changing with better Nvidia support.

New comment by dizhn in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

dizhn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:56:29 +0000

Who are we to dictate terms to or divine the intentions of someone who releases software with say the MIT license? It might sound surprising but a lot of developers just want to share their work altruistically. There are some you couldn't pay if you wanted to. It's all voluntary.

> FOSS simply isn't sustainable if you want to make a living out of it.

This is probably true enough. Yet there are a million open source projects that existed, some for decades. There has go to be another way and another motivation.

> even those that don't actually matter to users that much - at the expense of the rights of developers

I would assume those developers would use a different license or even create their own terms.

> The only ones benefitting from the current situation are BigTech.

Paying the original developers will not change this. Big tech is big. They take whatever they can, sometimes killing the original project in the process. Perhaps a license like GPL is the solution to that particular problem.

I don't mean to come off snarky. I do agree with a lot of the things that you're saying but I see the free software movement as a completely voluntary and human thing. You could not get rid of it if you wanted. Paying for it is an auxiliary thing and concentrates too much on the wrong thing IMO. A lot of free software developers are already gainfully employed, some are millionaires. Yes some are struggling but then they are still voluntarily sharing their work with the whole world. That must mean they have their valid reasons for doing so.

New comment by dizhn in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

dizhn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:25:14 +0000

Firebird was actually the database whose name they hijacked when they had access to AOL's legal army.

Also K9Mail is now Thunderbird for Android.

New comment by dizhn in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

dizhn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:44:09 +0000

There is a ton of software that lives on because it matters to the developer(s). I know "but mah monetization" is huge on this forum but it's not an all encompassing rule and it does not completely reflect the existing reality.

New comment by dizhn in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

dizhn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:55:02 +0000

I saw a few videos of making glasses (cups) out of nice liquor bottles. Seems like a nice cheapish hobby.

New comment by dizhn in "Running out of disk space in production"

dizhn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:24:00 +0000

ZFS supports instant resizing of datasets. When that dataset is the virtual disk for a VM you can just increase its size on the hypervisor, then it's a simple growfs operation for the VM to see the increased size. On LXC the dataset is usually mounted directly so the resize operation is reflected immediately.

I use Proxmox as the hypervisor, and the ZFS resize part is supported on the GUI and it's trivial to use. Let me know if you need more details.

New comment by dizhn in "Veracrypt project update"

dizhn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:12:22 +0000

Microsoft disabled the developer's certificate so no windows releases can be made.

New comment by dizhn in "How to get better at guitar"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:14:48 +0000

He tells it everywhere. (Also demonstrates the thumb vs fingers playing independently everywhere.)

New comment by dizhn in "Donald Trump is threatening the extinction of an 'entire civilization' tonight"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:04:13 +0000

According to wikipedia there were others before. What does it mean? Since it's not even in the news, I don't get the significance of this. Is this a draft? Does it need support that doesn't exist?

New comment by dizhn in "The best tools for sending an email if you go silent"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:05:22 +0000

For "bus factor of one" stuff I am thinking about making some preperations. I was considering using ssh key based sudo or something like that and something like vaultwarden.

The people who i am thinking of can have access now. They just wouldn't know what to do with it.

New comment by dizhn in "The best tools for sending an email if you go silent"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:36:47 +0000

Telegram has a feature where it will delete your whole account after 3 or 6 months of inactivity. That's how my friends can now. :)

New comment by dizhn in "Running out of disk space in production"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:34:02 +0000

gdu is really nice but ncdu, though slower, is very useful and is usually available on distro repos.

New comment by dizhn in "Running out of disk space in production"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:31:41 +0000

Also if you VMs on a disk backed by ZFS it's trivial to extend those disks provided you actually do have space on the real disk. (Even automatic with LXC).

New comment by dizhn in "Generating Flashcards from PDF Underlines"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:22:26 +0000

This is a super simple and excellent idea. I am wondering why manual discovery of underlined words was necessary though. I suppose because they are using a pdf reader and not an editor?

By the way the kindle also has a similar feature. It makes a text document of markup base underlined words.

New comment by dizhn in "Show HN: Tusk for macOS and Gnome"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:04:22 +0000

It says (No Electron) now. They probably fixed it.

New comment by dizhn in "Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:07:19 +0000

They might be dumping the last of the stuff that was already in the pipeline.

New comment by dizhn in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

dizhn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:49:11 +0000

Thank you.