Hacker News: gh02t

New comment by gh02t in "Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

gh02t — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:26:02 +0000

It's an enjoyable read, hopefully it's the start of a whole new arc in the series with more to come. My only real complaint is it's short and I want more. If you never read his other Interdependency series, it's also great.

New comment by gh02t in "Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

gh02t — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:35:22 +0000

It usually says somewhere in the description I think. E.g. this one (good series, btw): https://www.amazon.com/Shattering-Peace-Old-Mans-Book-ebook/...

> At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Not sure how universal that is, but I've seen similar language on several other books.

New comment by gh02t in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

gh02t — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:57:33 +0000

Hasn't menu bar applets crowding with no official overflow menu been a problem with MacOS with an obvious solution (add an overflow menu) for... 2+ decades now? I know third party solutions exist and it's kind of an edge case, but still, I remember encountering this back in the day on my ancient plastic Macbook.

New comment by gh02t in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

gh02t — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:32:42 +0000

Care to point me to it? The best I can find searching a bit with unlimited data is capped to 64 kbps for $100/yr, which is quite a bit worse.

New comment by gh02t in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

gh02t — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:55:16 +0000

Philips has made "smart" TVs for years, including OLEDs, and they're more or less Android TVs like most other manufacturers. So I wouldn't hold your breath for them.

New comment by gh02t in "Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol"

gh02t — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:42:43 +0000

You can after the initial discovery step, the article mentions this. The MAC routing is for the first step where the device is reaching out to try and find a controller and signal it's available for adoption, which uses an IP address at least in the scheme that is relevant for hosted operators. After that initial channel is established, the controller uses it to tell the device what its hostname is, and you can switch to more normal HTTP proxy routing thereafter.

New comment by gh02t in "The worst acquisition in history, again"

gh02t — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:37:15 +0000

Does Oracle still significantly use Solaris? I was under the impression they barely keep it on enough life support to satisfy leftover contracts from Sun.

New comment by gh02t in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

gh02t — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:20:21 +0000

I mean, yeah, isn't that the main purpose of client isolation? It sucks when you're on something like a locked down university dormitory network but it also stops (or at least, inhibits) other people from randomly turning on your lightbulb or worse, deploying exploits on your poorly engineered IoT device and lighting you up with malware.

New comment by gh02t in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

gh02t — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:21:38 +0000

Citations are too open ended and prone to variation, and legitimate minor mistskes that wouldn't bother a human verifier but would break automated tools to easily verify in their current form. DOI was supposed to solve some of the literal mechanical variation of the existence of a source, but journal paywalls and limited adoption mean that is not a universal solution. Plus DOI still doesn't easily verify the factual accuracy of a citation, like "does the source say what the citation says it does," which is the most important part.

In my experience you will see considerable variation in citation formats, even in journals that strictly define it and require using BibTex. And lots of journals leave their citation format rules very vague. Its a problem that runs deep.

New comment by gh02t in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

gh02t — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:55:04 +0000

It's unfortunate, GoTenna was (still is) pretty cool. Beartooth is similar and you can just buy them, but they unfortunately still have military-level pricing for what is pretty simple hardware.

Though in their defense, I'm not sure GoTenna was ever "popular." Probably not enough to pay the bills, given their pivot.

New comment by gh02t in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

gh02t — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:09:18 +0000

Eh, Meshtastic was originally for sparse off grid comms less than big public networks. In that role (which is still what I mostly use Meshtastic for) every client repeating messages makes more sense.

New comment by gh02t in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

gh02t — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:28:20 +0000

Meshtastic also struggles with high density and high traffic networks. Some modifications can be made to work better, but with the default settings it really grinds to a halt, and modifying the settings to be better suited requires some expertise and foresight. It works amazingly in off grid, relatively sparse networks, but it's got some major limitations.

New comment by gh02t in "Many hells of WebDAV"

gh02t — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:44:06 +0000

YMMV and a lot of people hate it, but I've run Nextcloud for this for years. It has pretty comprehensive support for WebDAV and CalDAV. Has sharing and lots of different authentication options; I use OIDC with PocketID.

It used to be a constant headache to keep running, but ever since I switched to the TrueNAS/Docker plugin it has worked smoothly. I know a lot of other people also have had good luck with the much lighter Radicale if CalDAV is your primary concern.

New comment by gh02t in "Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner"

gh02t — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:03:05 +0000

Android TV can run Tailscale or Wireguard natively. AppleTV has a native Tailscale app, and I think you can also use Passeportout for Wireguard on AppleTV but I haven't used it. Alternatively if you're on the go a lot and want to use a streaming stick in your hotel you can use a travel router that supports VPNs like GL.inet.

Airplay and Chromecast are a different story. Maybe someone else here knows different, but while it's not literally impossible it doesn't really work because of mDNS. A layer2 VPN might, but not so much on Tailscale/Wireguard.

New comment by gh02t in "A History of My Homelab"

gh02t — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:21:42 +0000

Damn, that's still pretty harsh.

New comment by gh02t in "A History of My Homelab"

gh02t — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:07:32 +0000

I'm seeing an average cost in CA of 30c/kWhr, which should be more like $150. Is your electricity bill really running 60c per? Ouch.

New comment by gh02t in "The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn"

gh02t — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:05:55 +0000

To be fair to e.g. Baldur's Gate, finding game breaking builds appeals to many people in the core audience of that sort of game along with classic TTRPG players. Making those builds harder to achieve by accident is a good thing, but doing away with them entirely would probably be detrimental for the intended audience. True brilliance is also have systems that make that sort of build still fun to play, e.g. BG3 has some pretty amusing hidden interactions if you steamroll events you're not supposed to be able to win.

New comment by gh02t in "Emacs is my new window manager (2015)"

gh02t — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:39:29 +0000

So is X11, though the reference implementation of X11 is also widely agreed to have some serious problems going forward on top of problems with the protocol itself.

New comment by gh02t in "Emacs is my new window manager (2015)"

gh02t — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:37:24 +0000

The drama was mostly over whether or not Wayland should have been the replacement. AFAIU, everyone agreed X11 development was effectively unsustainable or at least at a dead end.

New comment by gh02t in "Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager"

gh02t — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:07:41 +0000

Taskwarrior has a phone app on iOS and Android, and can sync with the cli one if you set up a sync server. They also revamped the sync server not long ago to be less janky than the old one.