Hacker News: fuzzy2

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

fuzzy2 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:38:52 +0000

I think it's a little more nuanced. Most people cannot fiddle (with PCs). They would have to learn to, first. Does this mean they deserve to have shit shoved down their throats? No. However, they are very vulnerable, and companies want to capitalize on this fact.

Hackers (whatever kind) are just one portion of the total populace. Others deserve genuinely good products, too. And maybe sometimes even a hacker wants to take a break. ;-)

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

fuzzy2 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:52:51 +0000

Why wouldn't they be? No fiddling, super compact form factor, (usually) far superior energy efficiency, maybe phone apps, did I mention no fiddling?

Also, the form factor!

New comment by fuzzy2 in "1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed"

fuzzy2 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:26:31 +0000

Oh yeah, that combination of fear and lack of knowledge probably plays a big part. I was once involved with creating a privacy policy for a B2B(!) web application. What a farce. In the end, the process was cut short (counsel too expensive and not nearly familiar enough with tech). The resulting document was at least 50 % stuff the app simply does not do.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

fuzzy2 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:12:27 +0000

It's also not the optimal choice in most situations: https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-...

New comment by fuzzy2 in "EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster"

fuzzy2 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:47:20 +0000

If you join multiple/many tables, you could end up with a large volume of data. And yes, this is bit-for-bit duplication—on the network. The query result is (typically) a single table. This table will get serialized as-is, with all duplicate data.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Chatto is now open source"

fuzzy2 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:44:44 +0000

This should be the source: https://github.com/chattocorp/chatto/tree/main/apps/docs-web...

It's Astro and Astro Starlight. I feel it looks very similar to other contemporary docs website generators.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

fuzzy2 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:44:21 +0000

https://travic.app/

Basically all of Europe, with varying levels of detail.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Organic Maps"

fuzzy2 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:27:35 +0000

I actually think the search feature rocks, because you have high fidelity OSM maps to query. Can't search for drinkable wells in Google Maps!

But then, it of course isn't Google Maps. It is likely to be more out of date and will not understand "natural" search queries as Google does. I believe it just takes some getting used to. There is overlap between the two, each service has its strengths and weaknesses, but also unique features.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Podman v6.0.0"

fuzzy2 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:34:02 +0000

Why not? On my home server, k3s (single-node master), sitting idle (no workload, no changes), has amassed as much CPU time as a full virtual machine running Home Assistant: 17.75 hours in 106 hours of uptime.

All those abstractions and cluster features do not come for free.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle"

fuzzy2 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:33:40 +0000

To each their own, of course, but: If you're within a 1-hour walking or cycling radius (and you have access to showers at your destination), this is no problem at all. Plus, the mental and physical health benefits are simply incredible.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle"

fuzzy2 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:16:23 +0000

Man if only there was a solution to this. It's almost as if we could design our environment to minimize this (bike- and pedestrian-friendly routes) and then deal with the aftermath if it happens anyway (showers).

I do not consider employers that do not offer showers.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "NixOS 26.05"

fuzzy2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:30:17 +0000

It's great. It's complicated. I have a MacBook Pro Late 2013 – very old. NixOS runs totally great! Even the proprietary hardware just works, with the nixos-hardware channel. Battery life is awesome, 4 hours of office work.

There is a snag however: Drivers for the built-in Broadcom Wi-Fi card are unmaintained and bug-ridden. Replacements do not exist either. The driver doesn't work most of the time nowadays and I have to rely on a USB Wi-Fi adapter that is sooo slow.

Maybe more recent Wi-Fi chipsets in Intel Macs are better off. Or maybe you don't need Wi-Fi!

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

fuzzy2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:56:22 +0000

Very cool. The download progress bar is broken though, it receives values 0-1 but the max is set to 300.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

fuzzy2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:52:57 +0000

Hetzner is almost exclusively offering consumer-grade hardware.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

fuzzy2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:13:28 +0000

Arguably, this situation is already broken right now. If an organization can't be bothered to use their tools (Sharepoint and the wider O365 ecosystem) correctly, it's entirely on them.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

fuzzy2 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:26:32 +0000

That's what I feel. Whenever I see someone writing something to the effect of “LLMs will replace X” (where X could be literally anything including software developers) I get an intense urge to write something against it. Not something nice, mind you.

I also find takes from the anti-LLM to be exceedingly dumb at times. Oh this text has this and that, it must have been written by LLM and thus is not worth even considering.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

fuzzy2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:50:28 +0000

Unfortunately, they often lack what we gained over the last decades. Namely navigating with a mouse and being self-explanatory and same-y.

The latter is mostly because certain GUI patterns simply cannot be implemented with a TUI.

And then everyone has their own idea of what keyboard shortcuts should be like. Yuck

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

fuzzy2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:40:59 +0000

Extremely unlikely. Automating Office (the desktop application suite) simply does not scale. It's not needed, either. Libraries exist that can extract information from Office documents (both legacy and OOXML) much faster. Many(!) orders of magnitude faster, in fact.

AI is entirely unrelated. This is simply yet another push to get more SaaS subscribers.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

fuzzy2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:08:45 +0000

> Frontend projects are very repetitive.

I’m sorry, what? This is such a shit take, I don’t even know where to start. What’s repetitive about them? That all UIs contain buttons or what?

If this is something that people actually believe, I can understand why UX has went to shit and then got even worse since the 90s.

New comment by fuzzy2 in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

fuzzy2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:59:04 +0000

Yes, it can be sniffed. It will at least use transport encryption, like TLS. For everything, yes. So you'll only get encrypted data you cannot read. You could attempt a Man-in-the-middle attack on this connection. Unless the app is badly made, this will not succeed.

And then, even if you could look inside, there's another type of asymmetric cryptography going on: the remote attestation itself. Again, if properly designed and possibly backed by a hardware security chip, it cannot be spoofed. This isn't something trivial like a shared secret in an HTTP header.