Hacker News: josephb

New comment by josephb in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

josephb — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:49:25 +0000

I loved this recent "Show HN", I found some gems for the reading list in 2026!

Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897

New comment by josephb in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

josephb — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:28:36 +0000

Yeah it's a lot more "just works" than Matrix, still some limitations but improving quickly.

New comment by josephb in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

josephb — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:33:59 +0000

It’s not just websites :-/

Things like Apple private relay (which way too many people seem to have it enabled) are tunnelled via Cloudflare, maybe using warp?

New comment by josephb in "Aggressive bots ruined my weekend"

josephb — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:49:53 +0000

As much as I love the service and enjoy the transparency, I do wonder about the future of smaller operator services as the Internet continues it's descent into a giant mess :-)

New comment by josephb in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

josephb — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:04:38 +0000

Tried them with a domain that gets a bunch of spam, unfortunately their filtering is not as good as others like Fastmail it seems.

New comment by josephb in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

josephb — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:01:17 +0000

Love the keyboard shortcuts in the web interface, killer feature. Also the rules management and folder management is beyond what a lot of other similar providers offer.

New comment by josephb in "Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org"

josephb — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 07:00:17 +0000

If you plan on running your own inbound email, you would be better using something like smtp2go, dnsexit or others for your outbound.

New comment by josephb in "Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app"

josephb — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:09:08 +0000

Chatmail relays can be run by anyone, they are designed to be fairly minimal and lightweight, just running what is needed to support the "encrypted chat" part, not regular email.

New comment by josephb in "Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law"

josephb — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 04:57:04 +0000

Yeah it's disappointing after recently moving things over.

New comment by josephb in "Porkbun partners with Proton"

josephb — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:39:46 +0000

FWIW I find https://tldes.com pretty useful for keeping an eye on who is currently offering the best renewal for various TLDs I use.

New comment by josephb in "Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order"

josephb — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 07:05:41 +0000

Similar happened in Australia, collect the data to keep everyone safe, it's private, but next minute...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/safewa-app-sparks-urg...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/breach-of-trust-poli...

New comment by josephb in "Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat"

josephb — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:11:03 +0000

> The provider was GMX and it was their fault, not DeltaChat's.

Noting that the team have put together "Chatmail" a minimal email suite designed for speed, security and convenience.

Also helps with the whole "onboarding to chat" and multiple identities not linked to existing accounts.

https://delta.chat/en/chatmail

There are multiple public servers which may be an option, instead of using an existing email account at provider X.

New comment by josephb in "Bluesky now has 30 million users"

josephb — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:44:18 +0000

The fediverse can be quite an echo chamber.

New comment by josephb in "Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile"

josephb — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:26:24 +0000

Suitably roasted, thanks for the laugh!

New comment by josephb in "Restic: Backups done right"

josephb — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:20:40 +0000

Restic user and also a long time user of Borgbase, their offering is pretty neat!

New comment by josephb in "Low Cost Mini PCs"

josephb — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:11:20 +0000

It would be great to be able to add some additional data beyond the listings to augment decisions.

For example passmark scores or power usage for an identified CPU.

I see there is very little standard format in the listings, so might need some logic to extract/guess at CPU versions etc.

New comment by josephb in "Google no longer offers new domain registrations"

josephb — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 22:19:04 +0000

https://purelymail.com/ https://mxroute.com/

Are two providers that I've used to catch-all and forward to an external mailbox.

New comment by josephb in "Domain registrar Gandi gets bought out, removes free mailboxes"

josephb — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:33:59 +0000

https://tldes.com/ is an alternative site for those look for pricing comparison for the different TLDs/gTLDs.

Personally I'm currently using Sav and Porkbun, with good experiences with Namesilo in the recent past.

New comment by josephb in "“How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”"

josephb — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:59:39 +0000

If you're a supporter of someones work in general, it should be far easier to just ignore what you perceive to be a mistake or blemish, and just move on.

The soon the better you do X, is quite an authoritative stance to take.

New comment by josephb in "Internet Archive takes down upload of BBC’s Modi documentary"

josephb — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 02:41:19 +0000

The second episode appears to have appeared in the last few hours.