Hacker News: frantathefranta

New comment by frantathefranta in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

frantathefranta — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:34:36 +0000

I thought it was just Tailscale trying to style their blogpost into a news article.

New comment by frantathefranta in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

frantathefranta — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:12:14 +0000

Honestly I think kitchens have way less stuff than a lab like this and following Alton Brown's advice of avoiding "unitaskers" will basically guarantee you don't get overwhelmed.

New comment by frantathefranta in "How to turn anything into a router"

frantathefranta — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:53:19 +0000

pon.wiki is a great resource

New comment by frantathefranta in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

frantathefranta — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:23:30 +0000

Blaming voters for being stupid is not widely accepted yet.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Why I love NixOS"

frantathefranta — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:34:48 +0000

I agree with the many levels of abstraction, but at the same time, directly managing systemd units is also so much easier with Nix then any other distro I've tried.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

frantathefranta — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:09:55 +0000

> In isolation, nobody _wants_ their vehicle to spew black smoke.

Honestly, when I was 12 years old and my dad floored the TDi in our Land Rover (with the diesel particulate filter deleted), it felt satisfying in a way, like the machine is allowed to be its most efficient self.

Now that I'm adult, I know that it's marginal gains for the car and terrible for the environment, but there are people that have the thinking capability of a 12 year old driving these trucks. I don't think all of them do it because of spite (though I'm sure most do).

New comment by frantathefranta in "AirPods Max 2"

frantathefranta — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:52:35 +0000

I assume Apple ecosystem integration and also they give off that "I bought an expensive Apple product" vibe that an iPhone or Macbook no longer do IMO.

As someone with an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and a Macbook, I never got into Apple's headphones. My Sony WH-something-4 that I bought refurbished 4 years ago are more than enough for me.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Rebasing in Magit"

frantathefranta — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:25:53 +0000

GUI Emacs on a 12 year old processor (i5-4590) feels faster than on a M4 Pro Macbook. I think it's just something to do with the window manager on each of the systems (my experience is mostly with Wayland KDE) rather than the speed of the CPU.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"

frantathefranta — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:19:09 +0000

Yeah for single person use, this only really makes sense with IPv6. I'm interested in doing this in the near future and I think the yearly price for all-in (IPv6 /48 allocation, AS allocation + necessary VPS connections) comes out to about $200. It goes up to $300-400 if you want a PI subnet instead of PA (PI follows you to another LIR, PA does not).

New comment by frantathefranta in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

frantathefranta — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:57:17 +0000

I'm in the same boat. I have a TikTok account so my wife and friends can send me videos (mostly cute dogs). It's funny when people probe why I don't use TikTok and they think it must be because I'm against the Chinese/Larry Ellison influence or other common reason. No, I just don't like the format.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Why do Americans hate A.I.?"

frantathefranta — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:56:49 +0000

This is obviously anecdata but I was back home in Central Europe over Christmas and a staggering amount of people use ChatGPT (in public). Most usage I've seen was on public transit and in restaurants. My mom has replaced her Google usage with ChatGPT. Meanwhile in the US, my friend group makes it a point of pride to not use "AI" for anything, and 90% are not in tech. I had a feeling that us Americans are being forced to use Copilot/Gemini/whatever more than Europeans and have slightly more animosity towards it.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Kitchen optimizations"

frantathefranta — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:42:58 +0000

Teflon tape is your friend when plumbing things together.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

frantathefranta — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:27:12 +0000

I’m in the same boat, this just feels like someone born 1996-2000 finally has some decision-making power at Google.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Systemd v259"

frantathefranta — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:18:36 +0000

I don't recommend getting familiar with Nix because your chances of getting nerd sniped by random HN comments increase exponentially.

New comment by frantathefranta in "High Performance SSH/SCP"

frantathefranta — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:22:00 +0000

I admittedly don't really know how SSH is built but it looks to me like the patch that "makes" it HPN-SSH is already present upstream[1], it's just not applied by default? Nixpkgs seems to allow you to build the pkg with the patch [2].

[1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/security/...

[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d85ef06512a3afbd6f9082...

New comment by frantathefranta in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

frantathefranta — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:00:19 +0000

I’m with you on this, especially this year LPR seems to stand for license plate recognition (Flock and others) much more often.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B"

frantathefranta — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:51:19 +0000

Jaguars?

New comment by frantathefranta in "Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B"

frantathefranta — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:24:36 +0000

Our family has owned a '97 Defender 110 (originally bought for my parents' surveying business) for about 16 years now and I still don't understand how some people used to buy these for status. Not having owned a Land Cruiser (but am a happy owner of a Prius) or a Wrangler, I'd probably choose the Toyota over the Land Rover and leave the Jeep in the last place, though I do like the early generations.

New comment by frantathefranta in "Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B"

frantathefranta — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:09:06 +0000

Upper middle class Americans are weirdly obsessed about LR, especially the new Defender. Jaguar I'm not sure how it survives (if it even really does nowadays).

New comment by frantathefranta in "Pasta Cooking Time"

frantathefranta — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:31:20 +0000

As someone who makes pasta 3 times a week, the comment sums up my experience with cooking better than the article. I don't really ever have issues with pasta getting too soft in my alla gricia, cacio e pepe or aglio e olio.