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New comment by kevinmgranger in "Love systemd timers"

kevinmgranger — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:25:07 +0000

unit files barely have any nesting, so the INI-like format is already 90% of the way towards TOML, no?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough"

kevinmgranger — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:24:17 +0000

I believe its original motivation was just speeding up boot times by starting fewer services, even if you'd eventually want the service running. This was achieved in the past with xinetd, but systemd made the approach more popular for the masses.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

kevinmgranger — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:40:13 +0000

I thought part of Tor's design was routing through multiple relay nodes, so even an exit node doesn't see the source IP?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

kevinmgranger — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:23:02 +0000

I'm gonna push back against the "backbone of Obsidian" part. I'll argue that vanilla Obsidian is plenty powerful enough.

I know many people swore / swear by the datatables plugin, but now that Bases in core, you can get pretty far without it, no?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Just Use Go"

kevinmgranger — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:49:46 +0000

.Net can compile to a self-contained binary: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Just Use Go"

kevinmgranger — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:49:05 +0000

Another reason why it's worse is how it breaks logical laws thanks to the nil interface bug: https://go.dev/doc/faq#nil_error

Well, they'll call it a design decision, not a bug. I guess I'm being charitable.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "The bottleneck was never the code"

kevinmgranger — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:04:28 +0000

Or the alternative explanation: there simply is no better name for it

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

kevinmgranger — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:22:15 +0000

Any reason why those containers can't be run ephemerally?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "I am worried about Bun"

kevinmgranger — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:25:00 +0000

Deno has sqlite: https://docs.deno.com/examples/sqlite/

New comment by kevinmgranger in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

kevinmgranger — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:18:02 +0000

What's this about Zed? I've been considering switching to it but I want to know more about what you mentioned.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

kevinmgranger — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:15:51 +0000

> a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code

This isn't enough. What was the _full train of thought_ for this? Why would it be added when AI isn't used?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "United Wizards of the Coast"

kevinmgranger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:30:29 +0000

Do you have any figures that show it's _most_? I sure hope not, but I wouldn't be surprised either.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "The woes of sanitizing SVGs"

kevinmgranger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:22:10 +0000

> This was fixed by using a regular expression to remove script tags.

The infamous you can't parse (X)HTML with regex¹ meme is from 2009, yet this fix was done in 2019. I guess the SO answer never mentioned SVG.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/1732454/1

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

kevinmgranger — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:01:46 +0000

Are ASCII diagrams painful for screen reader users, though?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Isn't WSL2 just a VM?"

kevinmgranger — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:00:21 +0000

I keep reading that WSL2 uses 9p, but that's not _exposed_ anywhere, right?

New comment by kevinmgranger in "The most male and female reasons to end up hospital"

kevinmgranger — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:35:37 +0000

I'm starting to think the person who handed me a bread bowl for this wasn't a doctor.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files"

kevinmgranger — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:46:25 +0000

I've often wished I could find back-references and search my bookmarks as if they were part of my Obsidian database. This would help with that.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits"

kevinmgranger — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:18:40 +0000

Rust had something similar: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871

New comment by kevinmgranger in "ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion"

kevinmgranger — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:02:35 +0000

I'm not sure about proxmox, but ZFS on Linux does have encryption.

New comment by kevinmgranger in "Go-Safeweb"

kevinmgranger — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:33:46 +0000

The policy(?) change came ever since "SSL added and removed here ;-)", right?

That's when I remember seeing a broader shift towards app-terminated TLS.