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New comment by genbugenbu in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

genbugenbu — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:14:06 +0000

I love that you've made this, but in a world of never ending subscriptions, a subscription to a taskbar is just not something I (or many I imagine) can justify - no matter how low the price.

We really have entered the age of everything being a subscription.

New comment by genbugenbu in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

genbugenbu — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:52:58 +0000

Take a look at ZSAs oryx configurator for Voyager (52 keys) - you'll see some general configs and development ones etc.

In general, for my moonlander I would have the first layer with all the normal alpha numerics and a few symbols like <>?

But the second layer would contain most symbols, arranged/grouped in a manner which was natural for programming - e.g. grouping keys together like (), [], {},

New comment by genbugenbu in "Paged Out"

genbugenbu — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:02:06 +0000

Wicked - had a skim through and there's some great content in here!

As a security engineer/reverse engineer I'm absolutely subscribing to this and sharing among colleagues.

New comment by genbugenbu in "NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”"

genbugenbu — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:02:13 +0000

That's a pretty naive take imo ; divulging such information leads to change in behaviour of nefarious actors.

I totally get the viewpoint, but there are other perspectives to consider