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New comment by kobieps in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

kobieps — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:19:41 +0000

Did you look at PowerSync? It's "just" SQLite on the client. Wound be curious to hear what you think of it in the context of your lock in concerns

New comment by kobieps in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

kobieps — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:03:01 +0000

I learnt about this knot 16 years ago from a comment on cpbotha's blog :

https://cpbotha.net/2010/04/07/weekly-head-voices-20-a-lamar...

It has changed my life. I was also part of mountain rescue at the time, and nobody in the team knew about it. Now everyone swears by it.

So if you're part of any kind of first responder team - please tell your colleagues about this knot!

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:05:12 +0000

honestly given these types of shenanigans from the big platforms, I think buying physical discs is underrated. At least for the classics that you really want to add to your long-term collection

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:04:04 +0000

Whaaat... oh wow that's bleak. I guess Apple do whatever they want.

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:02:01 +0000

yeah exactly

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:51:01 +0000

Ah very nice. I suppose it makes sense that music is DRM-free but films aren't

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:26:36 +0000

Not at all (hence saying "obvious in hindsight"). Simply pointing out that, at the time, my purchasing decision wasn't influenced by how many use cases it would restrict.

Also, IIRC, there was a period where you could burn Audio CDs from music that you purchased on iTunes.

edit: turns out music purchased on iTunes is DRM-free!

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:13:35 +0000

Great documentary on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6qcJt2NPY8

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:10:54 +0000

A recent experience I had was :

1. buy movie on iTunes 2. have kids that can't do long distance drives 3. obtain dvd players for car 4. realized I can't play films that I "bought" on DVD players

It feels like the "Buy" button on iTunes/Apple TV is misleading, and should be renamed to "License to watch on Apple devices". Obvious in hindsight, but this type of DRM severely restricts use cases.

New comment by kobieps in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

kobieps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:08:12 +0000

agreed. the walls are closing in so skills need to remain sharp.

SSH authorized_keys command restriction to isolate container access

kobieps — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:22:04 +0000

Article URL: https://vxlabs.com/2026/05/30/ssh-command-restriction-container-to-host/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335880

Points: 2

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Easy Tauri integration tests with vitest

kobieps — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://powersync.com/blog/tauri-integration-tests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150132

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kobieps in "Starship V3"

kobieps — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:06:00 +0000

The outcome is guaranteed to be entertaining

New comment by kobieps in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"

kobieps — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:41:01 +0000

I spend a lot of time in wilderness areas that I don't know, and I simply pull my phone out of my pocket to see where I am. My watch measures my heart rate and that's it. While I have no doubt that pedometer++ is great and the work that went into it is impressive, I can't really see myself switching away from a big screen workflow to see exactly where I am. And I don't need to check where I am every 5 minutes. Typically only every 30 minutes or longer. Dunno, maybe I'm missing something :shrug:

New comment by kobieps in "GPT-5.5"

kobieps — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:35:11 +0000

Balaji's "AI OVERPRODUCTION" post is the most compelling thesis that I've come across

New comment by kobieps in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

kobieps — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:56:56 +0000

Could those external APIs point to locally hosted models?

New comment by kobieps in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

kobieps — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:42:41 +0000

I'm currently learning the fountain pattern and it's cool to know that it should only take about a month. After that though...

New comment by kobieps in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

kobieps — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:17:46 +0000

This

New comment by kobieps in "Choosing a Sync Engine for Local-First in 2026"

kobieps — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:04:35 +0000

No it's a full story, more akin to zero (at the highest level that is, many many differences and trade-offs).

Unfortunately I'm not qualified to answer that last question... I'm on the PowerSync team. What I can say is that we get a lot of praise from users (the ones that survive onboarding that is, lots of DX improvements we still need to make)

New comment by kobieps in "Choosing a Sync Engine for Local-First in 2026"

kobieps — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:21:49 +0000

Wonder why PowerSync isn't on the radar for a post like this, not evaluated or didn't make the cut for worth mentioning?