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New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE"

linuxrebe1 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:18:50 +0000

I don't mean this to be funny. But given that this is running the actual drivers. Would it be possible to take a standard PC floppy drive, and have it read at Amiga OS disc?

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs"

linuxrebe1 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:18:49 +0000

One thing I would recommend. Install instructions for Linux/Windows/Mac. Not finding them in the documentation.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

linuxrebe1 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 02:51:39 +0000

This could get interesting in light of recent changes to California law. A similar program designed to "normalize" rent. Is now illegal. Even the FTC has agreed that price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix....

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Ask HN: Could early 80s computers have had better software given today's CS?"

linuxrebe1 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:45:25 +0000

I would agree, I would also add that generally programmers today are not used to dealing with the memory limits of '80s computers. What is now considered an embedded device, back then was a desktop. My smartwatch likely has more memory than a PC Jr.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown"

linuxrebe1 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:50:06 +0000

Based on the way you were troubleshooting it. You can tell you're a programmer first. You went to your code, you went to your logs. Both reasonable, both potential causes of the problem. Both ignore the primary clue that you had. It worked on localhost.

As an SRE/devops/platform engineer or whatever the title of the day is people want to give. I would have zeroed in on the difference between the working system. And the non-working system. Either adding and then removing, or removing and then adding back the differences one at a time. Until something worked. What I see is two things. 1) you have an environment where it does work. 2) the failing environment was working, then started failing.

Is my method superior to yours, no. It just is being stated to highlight the difference in the way we look at a problem. Both of a zero in on what we know. I know systems, you know code.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

linuxrebe1 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:13:48 +0000

I'm curious if they're proposal will be capable of handling multi-os boots. I know grub can, I can have Linux and windows and possibly even a third OS if I want. I am concerned that red hats solution the well-intended, may be rather myopic, and be commercial only. What I failed to understand, is what problem this solves for systems that I probably only reboot once or twice a year. (Given that it only works with Linux only systems)

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "The Curse of Docker"

linuxrebe1 — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 04:56:16 +0000

99.9% of the problems you spoke to, which are very real. Could be solved if people building the software would just understand one thing. A container is not a mini VM. It is not in any way shape or form a virtual machine. If what you need is a lightweight virtual machine. Build that. Do not build a container because it's the latest and greatest buzzword. But instead I see large monolithic applications, shoved into a container, and then I hear a multitude of complaints about performance issues ETC. You may be able to drive a nail with a screwdriver but it's not a good idea.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "A C Compiler that fits in the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine"

linuxrebe1 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:02:14 +0000

This is scary. It hides in boot sector and can compile tiny C apps to bootstrap malware. Wipe system, rebuild, blackhat is soon back in, rinse and repeat. Th end solution ... destroy the box.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?"

linuxrebe1 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:57:43 +0000

AI induced reactive Observability. What if we could (ok we can just haven't) create a system that based on past solutions looks for a specific condition and then, when that condition is met, takes specific actions immediately and then reports to the human rather than reporting to the human and waiting for them to take a known set of actions. Beyond just "container died restart" but getting into "Container 2 is exhibiting performance that indicates it is suffering a very slow memory leak. Capture logs and readings to prove this, restart the container and report findings to a human"

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Why even let users set their own passwords?"

linuxrebe1 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 01:05:13 +0000

I'll ask, in the corporate world. Why even allow them to know their password. To login to their device a Yubi Key or Door key could be used (or similar) then once logged into their laptop they have an app the works like 1password or lastpass that inserts their passwords, updates their passowrds etc. for everything the company uses. (If they have a reddit account that is non corporate they could use their own pw manager.) This would also solve the "shared password" issue where a company that has a corporate Twitter account, they control access to the credentials and the credentials. Also gives you a paper trail in that you now know who used the credentials at the time of a post.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "If-then-else had to be invented"

linuxrebe1 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 17:20:14 +0000

Short would be, 'and' implies, coincidence, not causality. 'Or' implies choice. If-then implies causality ("If my pants are dirty, then they need to be cleaned")

The big difference I see is with 'OR' in programing the options are exclusive. Ex: "Are you tired or hungry" The answer is yes if you are tired. Yes if you are hungry, Yes if you are both. No if you are neither. This is natural English. In programming if you are both. The answer is No.(False)