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New comment by figmert in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"

figmert — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:46:22 +0000

> I'm going to try and solve it. Will share all.

Will he share all or will he try to sell you some fad instead? I wish him the best, and hope he recovers, but my money is on him trying to sell something new that won't work.

New comment by figmert in "Podman v6.0.0"

figmert — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:37:20 +0000

This has been my experience too. And that conclusion, I've found that if I really don't want to deal with such quirks, I can indeed literally just run the same docker compose file in rootful mode, and it works.

Making the changes required to run under rootless is often very simple.

New comment by figmert in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

figmert — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:58:40 +0000

Because Apple is not just a hardware company anymore. They track users and they sell ads. Sure, they are not at the same level as Meta and Google, but their ad platform is not insignificant anymore. Also that same software platform allows to get more money out of their users via their App Store.

Selling hardware with the software that helps them track means more revenue than the same hardware with the software.

New comment by figmert in "SMTP Relay with Web Dashboard"

figmert — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:09:46 +0000

I am still setting it up, but I've seen Mailrise and Apprise that essentially achieves this.

The nice thing about Apprise is that it can direct notifications to various places, not just another email server.

New comment by figmert in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

figmert — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:57:40 +0000

When I was working at Tesco some 7 years ago, the goal was to move to AWS. Surprised they're still not even close.

Good on them for sticking it to Broadcom.

New comment by figmert in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

figmert — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:58:40 +0000

Antibot measure also block real users at the slightest change they don't like. Anti-fingerprinting measure? You're a bot. Adblockers? You're a bot.

New comment by figmert in "Show HN: Agentspace – long-running YOLO agent sessions in Docker"

figmert — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:05:53 +0000

> - No death by tapping y. You work on an isolated copy of your code in a fairly safe environment always so it becomes easy to get out of the way and just let the agent do its thing without potentially compromising your machine. Agents spawned by agentspace run containerized in yolo mode by default.

> - Docker support inside the container via a docker-in-docker sidecar (Please note: `--docker` uses `--privileged` under the hood (required for DinD), so it's not a sandbox against actively hostile code. Use it for repos you'd trust on your machine anyway.)

These statements are pretty contradictory. If dind has privileged access, then that means the agent has essentially root access (or access of the host user if rootless)

New comment by figmert in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models"

figmert — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:51:30 +0000

Except when you have internet of course.

Yes I know you can run offline models, but it's hard to pass up on a little bit of snark.

New comment by figmert in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

figmert — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:33:23 +0000

This of course only supports http, not https. It's great for health checks e.g. in a docker environment. To do https, you'd have to use something like socat, but of course that doesn't use bash only.

New comment by figmert in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

figmert — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:45:42 +0000

I don't understand what's wrong with someone suggesting a book to an author? Do you think all authors have read all other books?

If you had pointed out the original commenter's patronizing comment, as if they with 100% certainty know better than the author who has just written a book about said topic (at least the commenter thinks so), then I'd have agreed with you.

New comment by figmert in "sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3"

figmert — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:28:27 +0000

Absolutely not. Maybe runtime overheads are minimal, but builds are so much harder to do. And yes, you need to figure it out maybe once, but it is still a lot more effort than just pulling in a new dependency. Now repeat that same effort for every new application, vs pulling that into every new application.

New comment by figmert in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

figmert — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:59:55 +0000

> Profitable isn’t related to “worth the dollars”. You need to look at income and how much is being reinvested into growth. Amazon famously remained unprofitable due to reinvestment and waiting for them to become profitable before investing was a bad bet.

Sure, but we the only thing we know about the company is the current S1 filing. Need to time to see what all of that looks like. Fast tracking it and essentially forcing other people to buy without scrutinizing is the problem. They may very well be worth the money they claim, but we won't know until after they've proven it. That's what the rules are there for.

New comment by figmert in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

figmert — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:41:55 +0000

Why is that relevant? The rules are in place for a reason, why does it matter what the percentage is? They're not profitable. When they prove they're worth the dollars, they can be included, per the rules.

Also, S&P500 has a current market cap of $67 trillion, 0.3% of that is some $200billion. That is essentially a wealth transfer to the rich. They don't need it.

New comment by figmert in "Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub"

figmert — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:42:26 +0000

But why? Mise does this and more. It can install binaries from github, gitlab, uv, npm, and many more.

New comment by figmert in "Stop Killing Games"

figmert — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:28:41 +0000

Not really my point. My point is more that you suggested no one has thought about this, but yes, they have.

To answer your question, there have been plenty of business who have created and published free software (albeit plenty have later closed them). Notable examples are Databricks, Hashicorp, Mongodb, RedHat.

Sure they've built a moat on top of their free software, but they have (or had) free software regardless.

New comment by figmert in "Stop Killing Games"

figmert — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:39:39 +0000

As the article mentions, these arguments are basically all the arguments of the FSF, and everything Richard Stallman pushed for since the 80s. So yes, there has been plenty of thought, scrutiny, improvements, etc. 40 years of it in fact.

Ask HN: What is your opinion on index rule changes to accommodate Mega-Cap IPOs?

figmert — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:55:55 +0000

I am curious what everyone's things are. Will you be making changes to your investing strategy to avoid and/or include them?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368083

Points: 18

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New comment by figmert in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

figmert — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:33:31 +0000

There's no reward for loyalty any more, and it's caused everyone to job hop (at least while that was possible), including me. At the time, employees complained about it, and in the same breath refused to give out any promotions and/or reward employees. Or they'd reward them with some shitty voucher.

The world has literally become the people vs corporations. There is no soul in working any more.

New comment by figmert in "MCP is dead?"

figmert — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:21:46 +0000

I don't know about it being dead, but i certainly stopped using it because it kills the context. A huge amount of tokens are wasted to mcp when in use. Skills use far fewer tokens. From my experience anyway. I'm also not advanced enough so maybe I'm not using it right.

New comment by figmert in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

figmert — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:53:49 +0000

Pretty sure there has been various efforts to do this, but they all eventually stall due to being unable to keep up with the GIMP source. I hope this time they're taking an approach that will allow them to keep up with the maintenance.