Hacker News: kevinfiol

New comment by kevinfiol in "Dropbox Got Hacked"

kevinfiol — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:45:06 +0000

I replaced Dropbox and other cloud storage providers with Syncthing on all of my machines. It's not the equivalent, but I was surprised by how little I missed the cloud storage itself -- in the end, I just needed a way to have my files synced between devices automatically.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Hacker News now has an active (official) X account"

kevinfiol — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:17:50 +0000

Are you referring to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454431? Can you explain how I'm promoting communist symbolism or crucifying innocent folks for "swastika art"? What part or what did I suggest was not truthful?

New comment by kevinfiol in "Hacker News now has an active (official) X account"

kevinfiol — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:23:30 +0000

I don't use Bluesky much, but the software at least is not user-hostile like X.com. I can view threads/posts without logging in, or use alternative clients that support the AT Protocol.

As a sidenote, X is rightfully crucified for blatant anti-semitism and Hitler worship all over the site, complemented by Musk's own ridiculous anti-semitic dogwhistling and retweeting misinformation and conspiracy theories. The site is bottom of the barrel /pol/-tier trash. I literally searched "Hitler" seconds ago, and found a thread today full of people adoring him.

https://x.com/GrossAdmiral_/status/2092000855750832572

https://x.com/truthtroll_X/status/1840440966668579257

https://www.reddit.com/r/GetNoted/comments/1esj9uf/i_dont_th...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/16/elon-musk...

New comment by kevinfiol in "Hacker News now has an active (official) X account"

kevinfiol — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:51:41 +0000

Is there an official Bluesky or Mastodon? Especially after the Nitter cease-and-desist, I have run out of patience for Musk's propaganda machine.

New comment by kevinfiol in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

kevinfiol — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:30:49 +0000

I don't think they have to worry about that since they are self-hosting.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

kevinfiol — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:47:24 +0000

> when's the last time you've seen a coworker brag about using vim

Are you suggesting these people have increased or decreased in quantity? I feel like I've met more vim/neovim/tmux/theprimagen/tool-rewritten-in-rust geeks with every new job.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Codeberg Is Down"

kevinfiol — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:23:14 +0000

Has anyone used the Repository Mirroring Feature [1] to mirror repos across self-hosted Forgejo/Codeberg/Github? How effortless is it? Ideally, I'd like to only ever push repos/branches to my self-hosted Forgejo, and have those changes automatically reflected on Codeberg/GH without thinking about it.

[1] https://forgejo.org/docs/v15.0/user/repo-mirror/

New comment by kevinfiol in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

kevinfiol — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:38:36 +0000

Hey, just want to say thank you for your blog. I've learned so much about Docker, dev tooling, and engineering from reading it over the past 7 years.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Zed is 1.0"

kevinfiol — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:08:57 +0000

Congrats to the Zed team! I've been using a combination of Zed + Gram [1] (which I predict may lag behind this 1.0 release in features/fixes). They are both nice, fast editors. However, I switched to Sublime Text 4 again recently and... I'm surprised to see how much clunkier Zed feels than Sublime. I can't put my finger on it, but Sublime, although lacking in features, feels considerably more polished and performant.

[1] https://gram.liten.app/

New comment by kevinfiol in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

kevinfiol — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:00:01 +0000

To be fair, Github has several magnitudes higher of users running on it than Codeberg. I'm also a Codeberg user, but I don't think anyone has seen a Forgejo/Gitea instance working at the scale of Github yet.

New comment by kevinfiol in "YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable"

kevinfiol — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:59:09 +0000

Where did you get the impression that it's controversial to pay for YT Premium? Most threads I've seen on this topic are composed of roughly half of the comments endorsing YT Premium, while the other half endorse adblocking from a privacy/autonomy perspective similar to the opening paragraph of the uBlock Origin manifesto [1].

What minor controversy I have seen is a small minority that argue either 1. You shouldn't pay for YT Premium because it enables user-hostile business practices or 2. You shouldn't use ad-block because it's effectively "stealing."

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md

New comment by kevinfiol in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

kevinfiol — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:13:06 +0000

I'm going to assume you no longer live near family, or are not close to them. I was severely depressed for over a year where I lived alone (across the country from my parents) without pets after a painful breakup. Getting a remote job and moving back closer to my parents/cousins/grandmother helped the most, but other things that help(ed):

* Going to restaurants with bars (like diners or sushi bars) where I could attempt to make small talk with servers

* Regularly going to the gym. Cliche, I know, but at least 3 times a week at the same times and I started becoming friendly with other regulars who had similar schedules. If you get friendly enough with someone, don't be afraid to ask if they wanna get food or beer after.

* Volunteering (cliche as well, but it helps) at the same place once a week. I volunteered for a high school bringing near-spoiled produce from local supermarkets to their horticulture club. There's loads of ways to get involved, but maybe start with your city/county's website to look for volunteer opportunities, ideally ones where you see the same people every time. This lets you build trust and community with folks who are often from different walks of life.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Layoffs at Block"

kevinfiol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:08:20 +0000

Ha glad to see I'm not the only one irked by that.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Trump Fake Electors Plot"

kevinfiol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:22:16 +0000

Usually, the strategy is to draw a false equivalence to the 1960 presidential election, specifically the recount in Hawaii [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidentia...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot#1960_...

New comment by kevinfiol in "Trump Fake Electors Plot"

kevinfiol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:48:48 +0000

It always amazes me how successfully this was swept under the rug and how few people I talk to know about this. The Jack Smith public hearing [1] was so damning, it is unbelievable how quickly the media and the public have moved on. In my mind, this disqualifies this president and his supporters from ever being taken in good faith. Not only did he put your representatives in danger on January 6, he actively did so in order to undermine the election.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z56_LJtERCI

New comment by kevinfiol in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"

kevinfiol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:50:06 +0000

I actually think yes.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Fastest Front End Tooling for Humans and AI"

kevinfiol — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:18:43 +0000

It's been a while since I've tried it, but post-1.0 release of Bun still seemed like beta software and I would get all sorts of hard to understand errors while building a simple CRUD app. My impression from the project is the maintainers were adding so many features that they were spread too thin. Hopefully it's a little more stable now.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Dutch Lawmakers Approve a 36% Tax on Unrealized Crypto, Stock, and Bond Gains"

kevinfiol — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:12:09 +0000

> Kamala Harris's threat to tax unrealized gains just prior to the election is probably why we have Donald Trump in office today

It was not a good policy and was unpopular with many Democrats, but I think there were several other more major contributing factors to why as Trump won (ex. general displeasure with inflation post-COVID, high emphasis on the asylum crisis/trans issues, plus only having 4 months lead-up time after Biden's withdrawal).

New comment by kevinfiol in ""Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker"

kevinfiol — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:28:47 +0000

At least in the U.S., from my observations, it's mainly a right-wing phenomenon and borne from the same culture that brought us the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Hal Turner. As a teenager, my friends and I would laugh at this stuff and assume by the time we were having kids, Fox News and similar right-wing, vaguely racist, puritanical media would be diminished to a point where it was hardly noticeable. We were clearly very wrong.

New comment by kevinfiol in "Bunny Database"

kevinfiol — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:21:02 +0000

I'm surprised to see this is built on libSQL -- a while ago, I was told on the Turso Discord that libSQL was deprecated in favorite of the new `tursodatabase` packages. Is there a Bunny Database specific NPM package for the libSQL fork?