Hacker News: fuckinpuppers

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

fuckinpuppers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:02:17 +0000

Hopefully this is just boot issues, and not VC in general moving forward for now. I just centralized on leveraging VC for container encryption. I actually moved away from VC back to Bitlocker for FDE just a couple weeks ago (I forget the exact reasons why)

But I still like it for containers, and I hope they can figure out a way to get it fixed for VC and WireGuard or they can figure out alternate signing options and a migration path.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

fuckinpuppers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:56:27 +0000

Azure is garbage at all levels

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

fuckinpuppers — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:40:01 +0000

Don’t count on Backblaze to back it up anymore either. They don’t backup Dropbox directories or other cloud sync products. It wasn’t broadly communicated just a line item in release notes.

I’ve now decided to move on from BB. They changed that without notice or workaround and my files (which I pay for long term versioning) are gone from their backups too.

If anything I would have expected my files to be retained, no new syncing of the directories. Not simply disappear (which could be because it appears deleted if the client is skipping them) - even then though my long term versions should take over.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

fuckinpuppers — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:24:44 +0000

Too many. Rebranding Office 365 as Copilot 365 or whatever .. seriously?!?

They already screwed up Outlook (having to ask people “do you open the outlook app on your desktop computer, or do you type outlook.com?” And still not getting a helpful answer back from non technical people SUCKS)

Things people know that don’t need to be renamed: Windows Office Azure Xbox Bing GitHub LinkedIn

adding a “Copilot” AI “buddy” to everything is a little confusing as-is, unless the end goal is for it to be a persistent buddy for the user no matter where they are at in the Microsoft ecosystem. But rebranding entire products is crazy

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

fuckinpuppers — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:06:19 +0000

That would be funny if people started printing off log crap onto shirts because they did | tee to them

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

fuckinpuppers — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:37:12 +0000

It is shocking how absolutely garbage azure is.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)"

fuckinpuppers — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:55:09 +0000

I googled “DD photos” and got a totally different response

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

fuckinpuppers — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:53:32 +0000

Good for him, he made a boatload probably on something more silly than interesting!

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

fuckinpuppers — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:41:17 +0000

This was always a concern of mine, nowadays I deploy cheaper KVM over IP devices. Way cheaper than PiKVMs now:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-rm1/

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

fuckinpuppers — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:25:30 +0000

relay looks kind of like what I was hoping for, I think...

except it's ANOTHER charge then. I have more than 2 devices...

I'm confused as well, does this wind up hijacking / using its own syncing? It's not just a "skin" on top of Obsidian itself, to get the benefits of it you have to use their "sync client" ?

This feels like it's something that should be part of the core product or at least Obsidian's own Sync product

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

fuckinpuppers — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:14:55 +0000

I will double check this, I was pretty sure I've done this already (seemed obvious) but perhaps something weird happened with the binding

ahhhhhhhhhh I thought it was a hotkey difference, I thought I've gone through all the settings many times, but maybe not. Found it. thank you!

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

fuckinpuppers — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:48:49 +0000

This will save me the overhead of running it in a docker container (I think it used mono or something) so that’s cool.

I am still split using Evernote mostly because the experience feels a little more purpose built. I have some annoying usability issues with Obsidian. Control-N starts a new note not in the folder I’m in, but at the top level. Then I have to go move it by hand.

Having multiple vaults open winds up with multiple individual windows. A hack is to have one meta vault that encompasses all the sub vaults, but that itself is weird.

I would love to have an official multi-vault option. I have separate vaults so I can have work specific things or other things that aren’t exposing the fact I have other vaults tied to my account. However I have some systems I want all of my vaults available, but not multiple instances of obsidian running rather than one instance addressing all vaults - there is a workaround but it feels a too brittle and unofficial. The editor is a little rough comparatively too, even with a couple plugins to help, and I’m not even someone who cares to embed images, pdfs, other things directly in notes. Evernote is overkill and obsidian feels slightly off. Almost there. I’m sure it can be customized better, for example

items render well in Evernote but obsidian shows them as markdown and the switching between view, edit and realtime seems difficult to get right.

So I’m still paying for both… and I’d prefer not to. Obsidian feels like a better fit overall, I don’t care about all those Evernote features or AI or crazy rich experiences…

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

fuckinpuppers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:46:56 +0000

Also many services, like Backblaze, usually give a heads up on new pricing and give you an opportunity to renew at the same price one last time. That was a further disappointment here too.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

fuckinpuppers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:45:51 +0000

“AI-powered item naming” is confusing to me. Do we need AI for that? It’s the site name, it’s worked fine for years.

Anything else seems self explanatory and a single thing the user needs to decide (title for a secure note, things like that)

It’s amazing how things are more efficient but at the same time more expensive because enshittification and capitalism.

This is a pretty big change percentage wise. Instead of the simple $1/month style bump like Spotify or all the other services.

If I recall correctly 1P used to be a one-time purchase then it wound up becoming a subscription. Unless they’re losing money as a company I don’t see a reason for this much increase. There isn’t a huge demand for a lot more features, their cloud bills for their services for sync and stuff should be benefitting from efficiencies…

This concerns me because this feels like the writing on the wall for the application. It’s going to become even more complex, bogged down and expensive, when it was working so well without all of that for so long.

I still have issues on my iPhone with the extension enabled. It makes safari reload pages and crash oddly. Not sure why, just makes it unstable for some reason, and has for easily a year if not a couple. I’ve just dealt with the headache. I’ve got no way to reproduce it in a meaningful enough way, but disabling that makes safari behave normally. That’s how I isolated it.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

fuckinpuppers — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:37:26 +0000

Just imagine if the administration actually supported solar adoption!

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

fuckinpuppers — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:18:56 +0000

I’ve had an idea for something like this myself, more about the different things it would do rather than the design. But this looks cool too.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Bunny Database"

fuckinpuppers — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:09:25 +0000

I used their cdn years ago and it was amazing. Did realtime image branding with signed urls and video delivery and it wasn’t even as spendy as I thought, it was like fractions of a penny when I thought it’d be a couple pennies… their api was easy to use.

S3 compatible storage was an exciting thing to look forward to. But some of their stuff off the shelf was cost effective and worked well

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018"

fuckinpuppers — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:29:36 +0000

I don’t view it as any way to “preserve value”

To me it’s only true use is to anonymize payments (which requires some work to truly anonymize properly) - I see it as a system you dive in and out of. Not hold in. Simply because it’s not backed by anything it has no implied stability. At least the dollar (not backed properly anymore) has one of the largest world powers behind it keeping it floating along. There isn’t one of those for BTC…

I think most crypto is really all about another market for pump and dumps, a Wild West without much regulation…

Much like AI’s promise about letting humans enjoy a life with less labor, the idea sounds great but its reality is the majority of people just truthfully to make more money one way or another.

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

fuckinpuppers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:41:51 +0000

AI = actually Indians

New comment by fuckinpuppers in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

fuckinpuppers — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:02:41 +0000

Another thing this administration reverted. It never ends.