Hacker News: justusthane

New comment by justusthane in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

justusthane — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:27:29 +0000

That was their whole business originally. The block storage is a newer offering.

New comment by justusthane in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

justusthane — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:14:18 +0000

That’s what the Public Suffix List is for

New comment by justusthane in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

justusthane — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:24:20 +0000

Obviously that script is more convenient, but if you’re on a system where you don’t have it, you can do the following instead:

    mkdir /some/dir    
    cd !$   
    (or cd )

New comment by justusthane in "RMS Lifestyle"

justusthane — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:23:26 +0000

If you think that’s just about defending a friend, than I think you haven’t read enough of the quotes on that page.

New comment by justusthane in "Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program"

justusthane — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:04:55 +0000

I looked at the website, but I don’t really get what this is about. Is anyone able to summarize what it means that it’s programmable, or how that sets it apart from other programs?

New comment by justusthane in "Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests"

justusthane — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:53:27 +0000

I’m not an expert in this field, but I don’t think I agree. The problem with a browser monopoly is that the monopolist does not have to obey specs — you can just do whatever you want, and force the specs to follow you.

If you fork that monopolist’s engine, you’re not making any immediate difference to the market. You’ll adopt all their existing behavior, whether or whether not it conforms to spec (and I would guess you would continue to pull in many of their changes down the road).

A brand new implementation is much more difficult, but if it works it’s much more meaningful in preventing a monopoly.

New comment by justusthane in "Tcl-Lang Showcase"

justusthane — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:52:51 +0000

I’ll do another nitpick: “rebuttal” is a noun. “Rebut” is the verb you’re looking for.

New comment by justusthane in "Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web"

justusthane — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:36:17 +0000

I found https://gizmo.party/ via your site, which I am also very much enjoying! Very fun use of vibe-coding, which I’ve been overall pretty resistant to.

Although I do wish it wasn’t such a black box — I wish the code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded elsewhere.

New comment by justusthane in "Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web"

justusthane — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:56:46 +0000

Found this on there, which is really neat: https://slingshot.trudy.computer/

New comment by justusthane in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

justusthane — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:34:42 +0000

That plastic is still going to be there thousands of years after the property passes out of the current owner’s hands.

New comment by justusthane in "Some interesting stuff I found on IX LANs"

justusthane — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:47:26 +0000

> The switch sees the IP, recognizes it's not part of your LAN (because you've set your network up as 192.168.168.0/24 and that IP's not part of that range) and forwards it to its gateway, the router.

This may be nitpicky, but assuming we’re talking about a switch in the strictest definition (a layer 2 switch), this is not correct. Your computer sees that the destination IP address is not in its local subnet, and addresses the packet to the MAC address of its default gateway (the router). The switch receives the packet and forwards it to the appropriate interface based on the destination MAC address.

Even if we are talking about a layer 3 switch, then we would be assuming that the gateway resides on the switch, and it is still the computer that makes the decision to send the packet to its default gateway.

Given the rest of your comment I’m assuming you already know this, and I’m not posting this as a correction to you, but rather for the benefit of others.

New comment by justusthane in "Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker"

justusthane — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:25:02 +0000

It’s hard to quit when you’re ahead when you think you can keep winning.

New comment by justusthane in "A simple way to measure knots has come unraveled"

justusthane — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:21:52 +0000

I’d add the adjustable grip hitch to your (very good) list.

New comment by justusthane in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

justusthane — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:42:38 +0000

It’s one of the very, very few independent browsers built from the ground up and not on top of one the few existing engines (Gecko, Chromium, WebKit), which is extremely important to the health of the open web.

Imagine a world where Chromium is the only browser engine. Standards wouldn’t matter and Google could just do whatever they wanted — we’re pretty close to that as it is.

New comment by justusthane in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

justusthane — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:13:14 +0000

If you’re using the dash on your keyboard (which is a “hyphen–minus” character) in place of a en dash or em dash, then you are using the wrong character. That’s fine — it’s certainly more convenient, and I wouldn’t call you out on it — but it’s silly to assume that other people don’t use the correct characters.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/da...

New comment by justusthane in "I once appeared in The Old New Thing"

justusthane — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 03:01:22 +0000

I believe that the article is referring to a maximum which is hardcoded into Bitlocker (not user configurable). If the administrator configures via GPO a minimum key length which is longer than the hardcoded maximum, then it spits out the error in question.

New comment by justusthane in "MapSCII – World map in terminal"

justusthane — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:43:00 +0000

Mouse movement is signaled in the terminal via ANSI escape sequences, which are just in-band character sequences which your terminal is smart enough not to display, so Telnet itself doesn’t actually have anything to do with it. As far as Telnet knows, they aren’t different from any other characters.

New comment by justusthane in "Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)"

justusthane — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:03:38 +0000

I think GP’s point was that it’s talking about LE vs BE while simultaneously explaining what a “play” button is.

It reminds me of my “electronics” class back in school (2010): Day 1 was learning how to use a computer mouse. Day 2 was straight into how a CPU works on an electrical level.

That’s awesome though, re: serving the site from a camera. Are there details on that somewhere?

Edit: Nvm, found it here: https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2

Edit 2: I also like this thread, in which they are considering moving the site to a Galaxy S5, but decide not to after seeing that the site survives the HN hug: https://lenowo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28

New comment by justusthane in "Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format"

justusthane — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:18:19 +0000

Did asciinema hurt you? Because you seem to be on a vendetta here.

I’m not sure if you’re an asciinema user or not, but I am, and I’m happy to see the rewrite — it signals to me that the author is still passionate and invested in the project. And he added new features (live streaming) with the rewrite.

It’s people like you who make maintaining open source projects exhausting. Find a more worthwhile hill to die on.

New comment by justusthane in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

justusthane — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:42:07 +0000

> a pass vault can still be useful for recovery codes and API keys

You might already be aware of this, but Bitwarden also has a CLI client that can be used for this purpose, at least casually.