Hacker News: karlshea

New comment by karlshea in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

karlshea — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:59:21 +0000

I don’t know what world you live in but it’s not this one.

New comment by karlshea in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

karlshea — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:33:14 +0000

Not saying I like the situation, but Firefox usage is about ~2-3%.

That's about where IE 6 and then IE 11 were when everyone was excited they could finally drop them. Why should anyone treat Firefox differently?

New comment by karlshea in "Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste"

karlshea — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:20:21 +0000

Hey thanks so much! I actually found your site a bit over a year ago while I was redoing my portfolio and used one for my header.

New comment by karlshea in "My Homelab Setup"

karlshea — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:06:52 +0000

Omg thank you, I had no idea they added this feature!

New comment by karlshea in "Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal"

karlshea — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:06:58 +0000

Dildos aren’t illegal federally but you can’t sell those using Stripe either. It is actually about puritans wanting to control what you do.

New comment by karlshea in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

karlshea — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:42:11 +0000

"Quality" and "features you happen to want" are two different things.

New comment by karlshea in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

karlshea — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:24:34 +0000

Unfortunately not satire, and the answer is $500

New comment by karlshea in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

karlshea — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:36:41 +0000

It appears he is selling a service where he comes to you (optionally with a Mac Mini which is probably why he's buying multiple) and sets up OpenClaw for you.

New comment by karlshea in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

karlshea — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:08:05 +0000

Yes

New comment by karlshea in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

karlshea — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:47:23 +0000

I definitely pirated Photoshop around 1996 from the macfilez (possibly zelifcam by then) AOL chat room.

New comment by karlshea in "Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time"

karlshea — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:36:26 +0000

The new version has improved a bit since launch, you may want to give it another try.

New comment by karlshea in "Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin"

karlshea — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:25:10 +0000

I tried getting Nix working a couple of months ago and ditched it because changing some Tower settings updates the global gitconfig (as it should in this circumstance) and Nix would wipe them out.

All of it seemed way too annoying compared to just having a dotfiles repo, and if it couldn’t handle the Tower/gitconfig issue I know for sure everything else I was going to run into wasn’t worth it.

New comment by karlshea in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

karlshea — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:01:22 +0000

One big cause of this is the multi-channel audio track when all you have is stereo speakers. All of the dialog that should be going into the center speaker just fades away, when do you actually have a center the dialog usually isn't anywhere near as quiet.

Depending on what you're using there could be settings like stereo downmix or voice boost that can help. Or see if the media you're watching lets you pick a stereo track instead of 5.1

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:47:34 +0000

It "finally hit the top of the project list" two years ago so we'll see lol.

It's "T-Mobile Fiber Home Internet" which looks to be a bunch of local ISPs they've been snatching up, so we'll see what happens. USI's customer service and reliability have been amazing so hopefully that doesn't get screwed up.

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:37:14 +0000

Use a ULA (unique local address) for everything internal that you want shorter. It's just like rfc1918 addresses except you don't need NAT.

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:34:02 +0000

These types of complaints are how I know the objection to v6 is not serious.

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:23:49 +0000

There are a total of 8 groups of 4 hex digits, so 8 minus however many groups you already have.

google.com: 2607:f8b0:4009:819::200e (5 groups) -> 2607:f8b0:4009:0819:0000:0000:0000:200e (3 groups of added zeros)

a ULA address: fd2a:1::2 (3 groups) -> fd2a:0001:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 (5 added)

localhost: ::1 -> 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:19:36 +0000

But IPv6 is "too hard"

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:21:05 +0000

":: is all zeros" is too hard??

New comment by karlshea in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

karlshea — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:18:47 +0000

My two IPv6 issues (even having had a HE tunnel in the past):

- My local ISP (US Internet, soon to be part of T-Mobile Fiber) hasn't enabled it, even though the CEO has said on Reddit for years that it's a priority. Now that they've been acquired who knows if it'll ever happen.

- Linode allows transferring v4 addresses between machines, so if I need to rebuild something I can do so without involving my client who usually has control over DNS. They do not support moving v6 addresses, which means that the only sites I have control over that support v6 are the ones that I control DNS.

Making IPv6 a thing seems like it would be super easy if a couple hours could be spent solving a bunch of dumb lazy problems.