Hacker News: joombaga

New comment by joombaga in "Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer"

joombaga — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:55:03 +0000

Looks fine to me. SHA 256 fingerprint A0:84:61:B9:2F:87:20:2B:05:E6:9C:A1:99:EC:BB:FE:01:7B:AA:97:56:1F:C8:73:CA:46:B5:A8:32:04:82:15

New comment by joombaga in "Run macOS Software on Linux"

joombaga — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:55:37 +0000

It runs on Rosetta w/ a few fixes.

https://gist.github.com/JoshCooley/095b80f9639a4dc7e762208ae...

New comment by joombaga in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

joombaga — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:46:38 +0000

They make a replacement screen too. The feature set depends on the firmware, and you pick the right firmware for your screen (or make your own, it's FOSS).

New comment by joombaga in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

joombaga — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:42:57 +0000

I use one of these daily. Got the expanded screen too. I love the USB design (the side of the board fits inside a USB micro B cable).

New comment by joombaga in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

joombaga — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:18:52 +0000

I think it's obvious too. I'd call out any case of `${{ }}` interpolation in a `run` block, and it's something I watch for in PRs. I also know other people don't watch for this, as I've corrected it about a hundred times. Over the last 10 years my average colleague understands less and less about injection or to watch for it at layer boundaries.

New comment by joombaga in "My server is a phone now"

joombaga — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:01:18 +0000

That's surprising to me. It's been a standard feature on laptops for 20 years.

Edit: Or I should say, it was 20 years ago. Maybe modern stuff is worse, but my M2 MacBook Air and Framework 13 Intel Core both power on without a battery.

New comment by joombaga in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

joombaga — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:40:17 +0000

Can you link it?

New comment by joombaga in "Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?"

joombaga — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:59:54 +0000

fine-work-team.com has been reported as suspicious. Cloudflare is blocking it now.

New comment by joombaga in "PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days"

joombaga — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:27:23 +0000

The semantics are important. A release is composed of multiple distributions (sets of files). Each distribution does have a one-way hash value. This is what you lock to. Adding files does change the value of that hash. Files cannot be removed or changed.

You lock to the distribution instead of the release so your build doesn't have to download distributions for platforms you're not using.

New comment by joombaga in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

joombaga — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:36:53 +0000

It's this blog's MO

> A running transmission of half-formed thoughts, sketched before they cool into language. Pages that perform their ideas instead of explaining them.

New comment by joombaga in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

joombaga — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:06:14 +0000

Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned.

I was happy to find this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle

New comment by joombaga in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

joombaga — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:06:01 +0000

I'm with you. My current code is a superset of the task I'm trying to accomplish, test code, leftovers from experiments, etc. I often have to break it up into logical chunks that get merged separately. I tried the jj flow and it's just not my thing. Git matches my mental model exactly, but I used it second (after subversion) and in my most formative years as a developer. Maybe there's a universe out there where things worked out differently.

New comment by joombaga in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

joombaga — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:03:16 +0000

Who are you quoting?

New comment by joombaga in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

joombaga — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:11:05 +0000

You can't turn it on without an external drive attached, even though it saves local backups. It works if you mount a disk image and then point TM to it with the CLI.

New comment by joombaga in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

joombaga — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:31:42 +0000

WARNING: This triggers an emergency call on Android.

New comment by joombaga in "I made a terminal pager"

joombaga — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:48:20 +0000

Yes. It calls the default pager (or whatever you specify).

New comment by joombaga in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

joombaga — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:57:20 +0000

I use MO2 on Linux through Steam's Proton runtime, to play TTW (Fallout NV mod). Works fine. The TTW installer did require an older Proton version though.

New comment by joombaga in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

joombaga — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:50:11 +0000

Maybe not exactly an antimeme, but my mind went to biology. Measles can destroy memory B-cells and T-cells, causing immunological amnesia.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002885

New comment by joombaga in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:00:42 +0000

Yes! But I only know because someone mentioned it during an interview. It's not something I keep track of on a per-employer basis.

New comment by joombaga in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

joombaga — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:53:25 +0000

Software jobs for sure, but I've been applying for jobs with employers that have other types of jobs too (nursing, accounting, industrial engineering, etc.) and the requirement is not solely for their software jobs. Some have fields that pattern match (for these I put something like "https://linkedin.com/I_DO_NOT_USE_LINKEDIN") while others use an integration that actually require you to sign in to Linkedin (some of these I've created accounts for and then deleted them, some I've managed to bypass by hacking on the POST a bit, and others I've decided not to apply for).