Hacker News: krylon

New comment by krylon in "Peter Salus has died"

krylon — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:36:15 +0000

Rest in peace, Mister Salus.

New comment by krylon in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

krylon — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:48:38 +0000

I remember running CoLinux back in my training days ~2005-2006. It seemed a bit like black magic to me at the time, but it worked quite well for my needs.

But CoLinux - IIRC - required the NT branch of Windows. I can only imagine the level of hackery it takes to make this happen on Windows 9x.

Part of me wants to weep at the sheer perversity, part of me wants to burst into manic laughter. It is indeed a world of endless wonders.

New comment by krylon in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

krylon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:58:37 +0000

I had the same reaction.

New comment by krylon in "Veracrypt project update"

krylon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:51:10 +0000

The outcome is the same, yes. With incompetence, there is at least a glimmer of hope things will get rectified. But you are correct, trust is destroyed this way, and it doesn't look like Microsoft cares much.

New comment by krylon in "Veracrypt project update"

krylon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:35:14 +0000

True, however, that has been the case for quite a while. This particular incident doesn't change that, except for the VeraCrypt developer, who is in a crappy situation now (not just regarding VeraCrypt, he mentions he was using the certificate for his main job as well, so this sucks a lot for him).

New comment by krylon in "Veracrypt project update"

krylon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:31:56 +0000

As much as I like bashing Microsoft, never underestimate people's capacity for incompetence, especially where large organizations are involved. I don't see how they would gain anything from this move.

New comment by krylon in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

krylon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:22:31 +0000

STRICT tables are something I appreciate very much, even though I cannot recall running into a problem that would have prevented by its presence in the before-time. But it's good to have all the same.

I don't think I've ever done much with SQLite's JSON functions, but I have on one or two occasions used a constraint to enforce a TEXT column contains valid JSON, which would have been very tedious to do otherwise.

New comment by krylon in "The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions"

krylon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:03:17 +0000

Tell that to Raymond Chen! ;-D

New comment by krylon in "The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions"

krylon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:40:12 +0000

The full title, "The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover" was too long for HN, apparently.

The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions

krylon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:38:45 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260401-00/?p=112180

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611635

Points: 4

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New comment by krylon in "Why I love FreeBSD"

krylon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:29:13 +0000

I haven't switched to pkgbase. Yet. I don't intend to for the time being. I set up a VM to test it, but I haven't gotten around to actually testing it.

New comment by krylon in "Why I love FreeBSD"

krylon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:26:20 +0000

Last I heard (~8 years ago), the RAID-like functionality in btrfs was very unstable and crash-prone. The impression I got was that there was not a lot of interest in fixing this. Then bcachefs came and ... appears to have gone nowhere AFAICT.

The non-RAID part of btrfs appears to be stable. It's the default filesystem on openSUSE and SLES. But I don't think it's ever going to reach feature parity with ZFS.

New comment by krylon in "Why I love FreeBSD"

krylon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:46:20 +0000

On openSUSE Tumbleweed, it is. Each Upgrade creates two snapshots, one before, one after, and if anything goes wrong, I can boot into a snapshot where the world was still in order.

I have a higher opinion of ZFS than I do of btrfs, but FWIW snapper+btrfs has worked well for me on openSUSE Tumbleweed for ten years now, too.

New comment by krylon in "Why I love FreeBSD"

krylon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:43:16 +0000

I have not thus far had anything to do with containers, so docker is unknown territory for me.

I run audiobookshelf in a Debian VM via bhyve, but I was gonna run a Debian VM anyway.

New comment by krylon in "Why I love FreeBSD"

krylon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:08:42 +0000

My home server has been running FreeBSD for ten years now, and it has never let me down. Except for one time I got fresh with /dev/speaker and triggered a spontaneous reboot (I don't know if it's FreeBSD's fault or the hardware, though).

I delayed upgrading to 15.0 after it was released, but last weekend I finally did it, and it left me wondering why I hadn't done it sooner, because it went quickly and smoothly.

Is there anything FreeBSD can do that, say, Debian cannot? Probably not (at least I cannot think of anything). When I set up the server, ZFS was a huge selling point, but I heard that it works quite well on Linux, these days. But I appreciate the reliability, the good documentation, the community (when I need help).

New comment by krylon in "FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement"

krylon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:24:37 +0000

I chickened out. :(

New comment by krylon in "Tony Hoare has died"

krylon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:01:10 +0000

Rest in peace.

New comment by krylon in "FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement"

krylon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:41:09 +0000

...just as soon as Linux takes over the desktop! ;-)

New comment by krylon in "FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement"

krylon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:39:31 +0000

> this is possible via snapper on Linux + btrfs but needs complex installation and is not so integrated

FWIW, openSUSE defaults to btrfs on the root filesystem and uses snapper in a very similar manner to zfs boot environments on FreeBSD. I don't have a lot of experience with the latter, but I have been running openSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop and primary laptop for about 10 years now, and the btrfs+snapper arrangement has worked pretty well for me.

(I also run FreeBSD on my home server and just did the upgrade to 15.0 this weekend, which left me wondering why I had procrastinated this upgrade for so long. It went perfectly fine.)

New comment by krylon in "KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd"

krylon — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:36:44 +0000

Huh. If you go through the hazing of installing arch without that new installation script, it is consistent, I suppose. One thing in favor of this approach, is that it is very straightforward.

Not what I'd choose, but I think that is the beauty of the whole free software movement - one thing you get in utter abundance is choice.