<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: folknor</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=folknor</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:05:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=folknor" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by folknor in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could you please consider using something other than recaptcha?<p>There's been several alternatives mentioned on HN over the past year. A quick search through my browser history revealed <a href="https://altcha.org/open-source-captcha/" rel="nofollow">https://altcha.org/open-source-captcha/</a> as the most recent link I'd been to.<p>Just to say I have no experience of any of the "alternative" captchas, I just hate the one you're using.<p>Also please get your app up and running fast so we can use it for our vacation in early September, haha :-) Thank you.</p>
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<p>I upgraded my bed linens from standard cheapest cotton to satin.<p>It's such a huge difference I can't quite put it into words. It's completely different. I love it - some people might not though.<p>It feels cool and smooth. I sleep wearing only boxer briefs, and did previously as well.<p>One downside is you have to wash and dry them separately - but I already did that anyway because of the load.</p>
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<p>How so? Just because a drug is illegal doesn't mean it can't improve your life. Conversely, just because a drug is legal doesn't mean it can't destroy your life.</p>
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<p>Careful here - GP said Aarke Carbonator Pro, but luckymoose bottles do not fit the Pro. They fit the Carbonator 2 and 3.<p>EDIT: Actually they didn't say that, I presumed they did because the Pro model AFAIK is the only one that comes with glass bottles insted of PET. But still, make sure you check that these bottles work with your machine :-) They dont work with mine!</p>
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<p>Man oh man, how come I didn't find this tool 6 months ago? I think you need more topics/tags on the github repo :-D<p>Extremely cool, I will definitely check out lnav when I get a chance. I've been battling with the big players for a few months now and their systems are just so overengineered and complex for my needs that it's silly.<p>I just need tail -f for 10-ish servers and desktops.<p>I haven't even read the project readme, but I presume lnav is exactly what I wanted. Excellent!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:17:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110865</link><dc:creator>folknor</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by folknor in "Sunsetting Atom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting! I just wanted to let you know my perspective, which is probably quite unique.<p>I started using atom pre-1.0, a long, long time ago. I immediately jumped to vscode when I realised it existed.<p>The reason is a bit weird; it's the find-in-files/project (c-s-F/Ctrl+Shift+F) sidebar search/replace feature. Compared to the Atom (and from what I can see in the youtube talk, zed has the same "problem") which opens c-s-F results in the main window, vscode opens them in the sidebar and doesn't clutter the main view with it.<p>The reason this is powerful to me is that I code mostly in domain-specific, esoteric, private languages that have no API documentation, no stdlib or docs, and no online resources to learn from. So the only way to learn is by example, or talk to someone who knows. Learning by example is usually much faster than talking.<p>So what I do is any new project is just a subfolder in a workspace that contains all known code in the language and the way I find out how to do something is c-s-F.<p>When the results cover the main view, or even parts of it (which is also possible with atom), it's just way too intrusive. The sidebar file list is useless to me at this point - where the result comes from is irrelevant. So why not use that space?<p>Also of course the fact that vscodes cross-file search was blazingly fast was an upside as well (I believe they used ripgrep for that since the start?)<p>Another thing I want to mention is (and you highlight the keyword search in that youtube talk around 18:54) the power of the command palette search method that is available in vscode: first-letter-matching. I don't know what the proper name of it is, but essentially "ps" matches "pub struct" for example. Obviously it matches it with a lower score than something that starts with "ps", but it's very powerful for matching in the command palette.<p>Thanks for listening.</p>
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<p>I have no questions either, I also just wanted to say thank you for the website. It's a bit weird, because I've never actually used it myself except to report my findings.<p>I've made 8-10 reports or something like that, because it feels like the right thing to do. Which is a compliment to your sites design.<p>I see you're planning to redo the front page. Why? I've never used the front page. I immediately search for the game or manually edit the URL from my browsers location bar (<a href="https://www.protondb.com/app/{id}" rel="nofollow">https://www.protondb.com/app/{id}</a>) to insert the id of the game I want to report on.<p>After writing that, I do have a question; do you have objective, real data on what users want from the front page?<p>The only thing I want is a search box that responds to both game titles (with automagic for things like roman numerals and other game title oddities) and numeric IDs. The rest can be hidden.</p>
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<p>That's not what conservative means in my country, and frankly without a prefix it's indecipherable. If someone at the pub here says "I'm a conservative", you can actually infer nothing from that statement.<p>In most cases, you'd probably be correct in thinking that the person would be more inclined to preserve the status quo than changing it too quickly, for fear of unforeseen consequences.<p>Also, a simple Google search and 30-second skim of Wikipedia throws a wrench in your assertion.</p>
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<p>I think you mean "is certainly a slur." It's not "transphobic" - the word "tranny" is not irrationally afraid of transgendered people.<p>:-D</p>
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<p>I just have to point out that your comment reads to me like you are crying wolf.<p>However, I'm not a US citizen so I don't follow the situation closely.</p>
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<p>How is it relevant to CPAC that it was used in Charlottesville?</p>
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<p>In my country, the party (and we have representatives from ~20 parties that are in nationally significant seats of power, 9 parties in the national assembly) that is considered the most "right-wing" actually supports _expanding_ the universal healthcare (EDIT: specifically, they want it to include dentistry, which we currently pay for except for in rare circumstances.)<p>It's not a centrist policy at all - the parties (I think there are two, one of which is probably the Libertarian party) that don't support it here don't hold _any_ elected seats on any level. Not even a single city council seat in a backwater town in the middle of nowhere.<p>So yeah, this is the norm. I'm not saying this to argue, I'm saying it to reinforce you (hopefully that's obvious) :-)</p>
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<p>I've updated the gist so it now can be used without my luash fork, and can be used with ((luash+curl) || luasec || lua-curl). Just for fun :-)</p>
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<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/S6XryYW" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/S6XryYW</a> screenshot of browser toolbox with the print preview DOM visible + site with @media print background color change. Note that you need to expand "More settings" in the print preview and enable "Print backgrounds" for that specific test to work.</p>
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<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolbox" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Toolb...</a><p>The Browser Toolbox is the normal DOM inspector, just extended to the whole user interface. If you open the print preview, then open the Browser Toolbox, you can inspect the preview and edit styles just like any other document.<p>Also, @media print {} works fine, I just tested it. But I'm not sure how that relates to the original question.</p>
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<p>I forgot to mention: before running the script (as if anyone ever would), create a file called "notified" in the same folder with the content "85.0.0" without the quotes, or whatever recent firefox release version you want to build from. The script also needs to be able to write to this file.</p>
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<p>Take a look at my reply to the OP</p>
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<p><a href="https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/tags" rel="nofollow">https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/tags</a>
<a href="https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/atom-tags" rel="nofollow">https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/atom-tags</a>
<a href="https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/rss-tags" rel="nofollow">https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-unified/rss-tags</a><p>And here's my lua script that uses notify-send to notify me of new releases: <a href="https://gist.github.com/folknor/32f703b270c6ad72bc12d98feb2f7034" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/folknor/32f703b270c6ad72bc12d98feb2f...</a> I modified it slightly before posting it here, but it's mostly useless unless you're me :-D Because when I write shell scripts (which I always do in lua), I always use my fork of luash (from my github), and I don't imagine anyone else has it. It's easy enough to rewrite the script to not require it, though. Also, the other obscure dependency it uses is lua2xml, which is notoriously unreliable, but I still use it in all my shell scripts that interact with XML.</p>
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<p>The main problem in trying to help out is that your request is so broad.<p>- "HA" just means "high availability", which means whatever your marketing team wants it to mean. I don't use any provider of any external SaaS that doesn't guarantee 99% uptime - that's HA enough for me. But maybe you mean HA in the sense of "can handle a /. flood without interrupting service"? Or perhaps some other definition. Also, HA of what?<p>- Distributed databases. Distributed what? Distributed how? Distributed on what? Distributed through what? I mean, I'm not trying to be hostile here - it's a wide field, and there's probably dozens of resources available for each configuration of answers to my drill-down questions.<p>- VPC Peering, this is essentially a tunnel between subnets. But perhaps you're specifically asking about how to set up/use VPC peering in AWS or some other vendor-specific solution?<p>I don't even know where to begin with any of these questions.<p>I'm guessing that's why your question gets little traction and lacks replies.<p>But perhaps I'm wrong - perhaps all the things you listed have some sort of obvious industry standard that I'm not aware of, and anyone "in the know" reading your question will automatically fill in whatever context I'm missing. I'm not from the US, and don't work for any of the big tech companies, so it wouldn't surprise me.</p>
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<p>Should be possible using the Browser Toolbox to inspect the entire interface? I just checked and the HTML is definitely in the inspector at least, but I'm not sure what your requirements are.</p>
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