Hacker News: jedahan

New comment by jedahan in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

jedahan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:02:25 +0000

I wish tap trust operated at the author/committer level than identifier level.

New comment by jedahan in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

jedahan — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:39:12 +0000

Its very personal and situation dependent, but I truly believe that if you work at Amazon or Facebook and do not want to support this, you can.

New comment by jedahan in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

jedahan — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:37:18 +0000

This is the kind of rationalization I am referring to.

New comment by jedahan in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

jedahan — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:35:40 +0000

Not sure if you meant to reply here?

New comment by jedahan in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

jedahan — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:56:00 +0000

Reminder if you work for any of these companies (not unlikely on this site) you are actively enabling this. If your first reaction is doubt, deflection, rationalization or discomfort, there are ways out.

New comment by jedahan in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

jedahan — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:54:02 +0000

That network is shared with police departments in cities outside Seattle per the article.

New comment by jedahan in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

jedahan — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:30:29 +0000

Code is a liability - the more there is, the higher potential for bugs and poor performance. I'd recommend treating cheap code like cheap toxic waste, and try to minimize how much is generated.

New comment by jedahan in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

jedahan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:27:48 +0000

No need for the extra tap step, this works fine alone:

    brew install Arthur-Ficial/tap/apfel

New comment by jedahan in "Apple Just Lost Me"

jedahan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:47:16 +0000

They certainly have more choices than implementing in this manner, and can choose to not implement it as well.

Absolving Apple of responsibility gives more than they deserve.

New comment by jedahan in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

jedahan — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:41:31 +0000

great for astral, sucks for uv. was nice to have sane tooling at least for a few years, thanks for the gift.

New comment by jedahan in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

jedahan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:51:38 +0000

I prefer low effort human thought to low effort llm output.

New comment by jedahan in "Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications"

jedahan — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:39:56 +0000

Making home read-only can get there, and I can't find the project that forced using XDG paths. I think it used LD_PRELOAD or somesuch trick.

edit: https://soc.me/standards/defending-home

New comment by jedahan in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

jedahan — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:17:57 +0000

I do the same for years and had no idea that disabled emails are blocked, is that documented anywhere? Will have to switch if so.

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

jedahan — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:23:22 +0000

When I tested all the p2p messengers I could get my hands on for Android and iOS about two years back, the only one that worked at all without having a router around was Briar. Glad to see it helping people.

New comment by jedahan in "Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system (2024)"

jedahan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:20:22 +0000

I was wondering the same thing. My best guess is that is to guard against operator misuse. Like usb-a only plugging in one way. Anything that is secret will never accidentally print to stdout. String interpolation in bash with `—option $empty` might be safer than `8<$empty`. Have to explore more but yeah, this is a new pattern for me as well.

New comment by jedahan in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

jedahan — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:21:47 +0000

New comment by jedahan in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

jedahan — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:26:26 +0000

I am describing what I see on Element X on iOS today. If someone replies to threads, it is not hidden and navigable on this client. Even after switching the labs feature on, the app was showing the thread interspersed with the rest of the conversation.

Uninstalling the app, reinstalling, and making sure the labs option is turned on before navigating to a room with threads, is behaving how I expect.

So maybe, its a bug that the room does not re-render after toggling that setting.

New comment by jedahan in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

jedahan — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:52:43 +0000

I felt bad making a long thread once I opened Element X and saw it didn't have support for threads.

Someone let me know later that threads are hidden behind a Labs setting, but it only allows the client to reply to threads, but still exposes the entire thread inline for the channel which sucks up all the air in the chat.

New comment by jedahan in "GitHub partial outage"

jedahan — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:54:10 +0000

Pre-launch I seem to recall using an entirely different product with the same name, that supported CUE or HCL and had a better gui editor. I think post acquisition they scrapped it for the current (and IMO) worse reskin.

New comment by jedahan in "Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights"

jedahan — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:38:07 +0000

Good question - I am just putting up robots.txt, and seeing little to no decrease in traffic. I have not tried verifying that server logs user agent corresponds to specific IP addresses. Do you have resources where all the AI bots post their list of IP addresses? Would be easier to just ban by IP completely. From what I've read these bots rotate and use residential blocks so I am not sure I can even see all of them.