Hacker News: drKarl

New comment by drKarl in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"

drKarl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:56:41 +0000

I found this which is kind of hosted self-hosting: https://www.pikapods.com/

New comment by drKarl in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"

drKarl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:50:53 +0000

Lol that's hilarious, the url resolves to https://localhost:1313/posts/self-hosting-like-its-2025/, how ironic!!

New comment by drKarl in "Functional Rick and Morty Butter Bot can roam your breakfast table"

drKarl — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:34:46 +0000

And it's sentient

New comment by drKarl in "Ask HN: Terminal Only Code Env?"

drKarl — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:00:12 +0000

I think it's important to mention that when using Neovim as an IDE the secret sauce is LSP. Search in Google or YouTube Neovim as an IDE for some help setting everything up

New comment by drKarl in "A man who turned his dead father into a chatbot"

drKarl — Sat, 18 May 2024 01:14:25 +0000

Black mirror continues to predict the future, like this 2013 episode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

New comment by drKarl in "Someone connected Windows XP to the internet, and it didn't survive long"

drKarl — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:03:50 +0000

Alright so the claim is that "hackers" are constantly scanning the internet in search for vulnerable systems and a few minutes is enough for the "hackers" to find it and infect it. There are more than 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses, assuming a probe takes like 10 seconds to identity the IP, it would take more than 1000 years to scan all of the internet. Even if you use a distributed botnet it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Ok let's ignore that and assume they found the XP machine. Typical viruses and Trojans require the user to download and execute an infected file but this assumes unattended infection. Not saying it's impossible, as there are exploits that can open a back door but dedicating so much time and effort to hack an old machine that is not a high profile target seems unlikely.

New comment by drKarl in "Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI"

drKarl — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:32:50 +0000

It seems that senior management in these companies you are talking about are following Royce du Pont's advice.

New comment by drKarl in "The window for great-grandmothers is closing"

drKarl — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:49:00 +0000

> This will continue until at least 2100 when numbers may finally peak and then fall.

That's due to the higher fertility rate of countries like Niger, Angola etc which far outpace the declining rates of most of the rest of the world like China, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Corea, USA, etc.

New comment by drKarl in "The window for great-grandmothers is closing"

drKarl — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:36:14 +0000

I see a lot of comments here focused on their individual experiences and opinions, which is fine. But on those comments I see a lot of people saying they won't have kids. Which individually is their choice, but collectively, combined with people who do have kids have them older which can lead to fertility issues when they want to have them, combined with the increase in the number of people who is LGBTQ+ which again it's their choice and nothing wrong with that individually, but as a species we can see how these factors combined, and other factors, are the cause of drop in number of children born in all countries. I recently read that in Japan there are more adult diapers sold than baby diapers because of drop in births and increase of aging population. This seems to be driving us to extinction as a species, just food for thought.

New comment by drKarl in "The Future of Identification: Mobile IDs vs. Traditional IDs"

drKarl — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:58:15 +0000

This is an infomercial. We don't need our id to be held captive in a private company, we need decentralized self-sovereign identity.

New comment by drKarl in "AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs"

drKarl — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:45:53 +0000

I didn't know about this novel, Manna, it is 21 years old and more relevant today than ever (I'm on chapter 4).

New comment by drKarl in "Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Nuclear Weapon?"

drKarl — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:04:51 +0000

Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Rogue AGI/ASI?

New comment by drKarl in "The Steam Deck OLED Still Out of Stock in Japan"

drKarl — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:28:09 +0000

There are better options anyway like the Lenovo Legion Go

New comment by drKarl in "Zuckerberg hunkers down in Hawaii to wait out apocalypse"

drKarl — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:28:15 +0000

May he be planning to escape the riots of most of the population who lost their job to AI agents and robots (in the following 5 to 10 years)?

New comment by drKarl in "Rare half female, half male bird spotted by University of Otago zoologist"

drKarl — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:12:10 +0000

What are their pronouns?

New comment by drKarl in "The movement known as "Effective Accelerationism" wants to unshackle powerful AI"

drKarl — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:39:30 +0000

This looks like a war between the worshippers of Roko's Basilisk and its detractors.

New comment by drKarl in "Exploring Self-Hosted Email Services"

drKarl — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:33:53 +0000

For me it's not worth the effort to self-host, plus figuring out SPF, DKIM etc. Not being included in a blacklist because your server's IP address is on the range of a spammer... I use Mailfence for a couple of emails with my own domains, works well

New comment by drKarl in "Evernote Free accounts will have fifty notes and one notebook"

drKarl — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:09:35 +0000

Good thing I moved to Obsidian

New comment by drKarl in "Ask HN: Why do people use password managers?"

drKarl — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:17:15 +0000

If you're going to use KeePass, do it right and use KeePassXC (that's what I use). It's cross platform. I sync the password file between my computers and my phone and I use KeePassXC client on my phone as well. And I use a completely different KeePassXC password file for work related passwords which I keep on my work computer. How many times have Okta and LastPass been hacked already? If you have some really sensitive passwords you could have your password file inside a Veracrypt container. Also, you can use a key file (can be anything including an image) along with your password for added security.

New comment by drKarl in "AI is coming after the tech bros and their easy money"

drKarl — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:41:02 +0000

That article seems to be written with resentment