Hacker News: hrbf

New comment by hrbf in "macOS Command Line"

hrbf — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:23:55 +0000

Author here. I don't expect people to pay me for anything. My main motivation was (and still is) to just give back, since I profit from free information and software created by others as well. I fully expect this temporary increase in traffic to net exactly what it has netted before: almost nothing. And you know what? I'm fine with that. Donations are not the reason this little project exists.

What I am is struggling to make ends meet for some time. A new laptop is near the bottom of my priorities right now. Money will run out around the beginning of February. It makes me sad to read cynical comments like this. That's all I have to say.

New comment by hrbf in "Mona Sans and Hubot Sans"

hrbf — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:06:18 +0000

May I recommend Berkeley Mono (https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/). It's a paid font but well worth it, given you're spending hours every day looking at it. I have found it to be excellent for the shell and editors.

Michael W Lucas: Good-Bye Twitter

hrbf — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://mwl.io/archives/22428

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33785517

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by hrbf in "Panoramas of Deus Ex Human Revolution"

hrbf — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:18:05 +0000

If the TLD didn’t already somewhat give it away, the fact that one of the panoramas is titled „Buero of David Sarif“ is just so very “German” – confidently using the entirely wrong expression.

Berkeley Mono v1.008 Released

hrbf — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:53:02 +0000

Article URL: https://berkeleygraphics.com/public-affairs/bulletins/BT-001/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33614114

Points: 39

# Comments: 2

New comment by hrbf in "Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?"

hrbf — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:53:39 +0000

That’s what I meant with digital services being a decade behind here. I attribute it to extreme conservatism to preserve jobs that aren’t in fact necessary. Bureaucracy is incapable of seeing beyond itself, just like so many other areas are as well.

New comment by hrbf in "Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?"

hrbf — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:40:47 +0000

I believe the author’s point to be that due to no English translation available, the already involved process in Germany becomes unnecessarily hard for a non-native speaker. As a native speaker I can attest to lots of gobbledygook official documents I had to deal with in my lifetime. The amount of paper you have to deal with when running a business is truly staggering.

Bureaucracy is indeed a rampant runaway force in Germany. Every attempt at reducing it will inevitably create more of it, because, in the bureaucratic mind, you now have to create an oversight committee to control the adherence to the decree of reduction.

I believe this to be a universal constant: you cannot task bureaucracy to with making itself superfluous. Digital services are a decade behind here, since most bureaucrats fight tooth and nail against them, for fear of losing their job.

New comment by hrbf in "Why does zsh start so slowly?"

hrbf — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:23:01 +0000

The caching vs. update issue could be trivially addressed by running a daily cronjob to update the static completion file.

New comment by hrbf in "Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned"

hrbf — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:12:08 +0000

I believe the main point to be the common thread of increasingly infantile behavior in all of society that appears to be amplified by Twitter’s “engagement” circus.

Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned

hrbf — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 08:30:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-twitter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33581172

Points: 7

# Comments: 5

New comment by hrbf in "GitHub is replacing Rails front end rendering with React"

hrbf — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:25:54 +0000

Is this intended as satire or actually a serious statement? I increasingly cannot seem to make a confident distinction nowadays.

New comment by hrbf in "Taler Systems SA is looking for investors for development of GNU Taler"

hrbf — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17:58 +0000

I see. It appears to be yet another instance of Stallman being Stallman. I’m going to be very surprised if this goes anywhere at all.

New comment by hrbf in "Taler Systems SA is looking for investors for development of GNU Taler"

hrbf — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:21:41 +0000

”Chief moral officer” – is this some kind of weird in-joke or meant verbatim as stated? I don’t get it.

Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable

hrbf — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 10:01:25 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/11/foreseeable-consequences/#airdropped

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33558874

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by hrbf in "Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work"

hrbf — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:04:46 +0000

At this point this is the only explanation that makes any sense. Elon Musk may very well be a moron who has been incredibly lucky until now.

New comment by hrbf in "GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)"

hrbf — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:25:55 +0000

I thought we were discussing GitHub stars' correlation (or lack thereof) to donations. I don't see how usefulness for many people should be limited to software only. Anyway, I've said what I wanted to say.

New comment by hrbf in "GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)"

hrbf — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:16:09 +0000

One of it is, in fact, a static document, basically just a very large README.md file chock full of information. It could be a book.

New comment by hrbf in "GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)"

hrbf — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:12:41 +0000

You know, let them. Whatever I decide to share with the world, I do for reasons of giving back. If some grab, run and foul-mouth, that’s their issue.

The main idea of free culture is building on each other, not maximum extractive consumption. I believe the idea to be further ahead than our economic systems and accompanying incentives though.

New comment by hrbf in "GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)"

hrbf — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:36:05 +0000

What about those self-contained ones like mine?

New comment by hrbf in "GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)"

hrbf — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:21:41 +0000

I have done exactly this, after being fed up with GitHub. Surprising no one, if you set out to build the “social media but for code”, that’s what you get.

I’m using a combination of cgit, Gitolite and Nginx. Once set up, it’s easy to use and rock solid. Gitolite configures through a Git repository. I’m not going back.

About 14 days ago, on a post about Gitea incorporating, I shared my writeup of the install in case you’re interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33341191

Regarding your GitHub account, I suggest to simply replace the content you moved with a notice to the new URL and then archiving the repo, making interaction impossible. Even if you’re looking at deleting everything, maybe keep the account itself around, it’s free and you may need it later.