Hacker News: ggiesen

New comment by ggiesen in "K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s"

ggiesen — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:56:03 +0000

I can bootstrap an entire RKE2 VM (VM + RKE2 + join cluster) in like 5 mins with Salt (although I have no reason to think you couldn't do it with Ansible).

It's a cool project, but I didn't think the K3s part was the hard part.

New comment by ggiesen in "Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?"

ggiesen — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:29:35 +0000

I setup Linux Mint on an old HP laptop for my 7 year old. Things jist worked out of the gate. She doesn't use it for much else other than Roblox (Sober), Minecraft, YouTube, and OBS (to record videos - NOT stream), but it's teaching her how to use the keyboard and mouse and navigate by using something other than touch on a tablet. It also teaches her the basics of window managemen: minimizing, maximizing, putting them side-by-side, which has been a big adjustment but she's quickly gaining proficiency.

New comment by ggiesen in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

ggiesen — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:54:56 +0000

Yeah, I agree based in rewatching that I've either misrecalled the original material, or I got it from another source.

I agree that based on that source, it's more like "meh, we don't really care" (until they do)

New comment by ggiesen in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

ggiesen — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:32:35 +0000

For context: https://sfconservancy.org/videos/2023-07-14_FOSSY-2023_RHEL-... (FF to 37:34)

New comment by ggiesen in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

ggiesen — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:18:19 +0000

It's supposedly the opinion of Oracle that the CDDL is GPL-compatible and that's the reason they won't do that.

New comment by ggiesen in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

ggiesen — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:16:15 +0000

Bitwarden is pretty usable, we use it at our org, and while still has a rough edge or two for corporate use, gets better all the time.

New comment by ggiesen in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

ggiesen — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:14:09 +0000

And can run a local webserver to expose an API (though they still need to tighten up security on it)

New comment by ggiesen in "Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python"

ggiesen — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:13:09 +0000

Nope.

New comment by ggiesen in "Europen Union creates Fedora-based Linux distribution for the public sector"

ggiesen — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:45:34 +0000

Fedora would seem to be an unusual choice given its 6 month lifecycle, and I would have expected an EU-based distro to use something like OpenSUSE.

New comment by ggiesen in "Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found"

ggiesen — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:55:51 +0000

I remember another brand, JTS, from the 90's. While Connor was bad, JTS was the undisputed king of data loss. They didn't last long as a company.

New comment by ggiesen in "Busy Status Bar"

ggiesen — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:49:22 +0000

You absolutely do. Many coworkers will bug you to ask instead of doing their own research, bug you to chitchat, etc.

They can always book time with you, send an email/IM, etc if there's something they can't resolve on their own.

You have your own deliverables and being interrupted every 10 minutes with inane questions that a web search or a look at the internal wiki/KB would have resolved is not a productive use of anyone's time.

Also, forcing them to wait produces better quality, better researched questions as hopefully they should make some attempt to resolve things on their own.

New comment by ggiesen in "ESPHome"

ggiesen — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:53:09 +0000

I second the Olimex ESP-POE boards. I use them for all my ESPhome projects as I'm a big fan of wired connectivity and having the ability to power them over PoE is awesome.

They also have a wide variety of sensors that connect with a ribbon cable (they call it uEXT) with no soldering required. Many of the sensors are supported by ESPHome.

New comment by ggiesen in "The unreasonable effectiveness of VMs in hacker pedagogy"

ggiesen — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:25:39 +0000

Vagrant is also great for filing bug reports in software. It allows you to give the developers all the commands to reproduce the bug in a clean environment.