Hacker News: lordkrandel

New comment by lordkrandel in "Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad"

lordkrandel — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:35:15 +0000

I have bought advertised things, but never through the platform. Like, I discovered The Vegan Butcher, Ohuhu alcohol markers, and a Tatoo convention. All things I would have known also through Google. Is that enough to sustain a 24/7 economy based on ads? What's the real ROI? Who spends that much money buying stuff from socials?

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications"

lordkrandel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:24:29 +0000

uh, micasa.dev has a nice concept, I should investigate that. Thanks!

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: What is your opinion on TUI applications"

lordkrandel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:23:06 +0000

I was a fan, until I found in developing them, the same friction of a frontend developer. All of a sudden, I realized that the command line is already the TUI I want. Commands can be piped, while graphic interaction cannot. Now I rely on standard input and standard output, and `fzf` for all the rest.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: What's your go-to queue system?"

lordkrandel — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:23:49 +0000

Postgresql tables, like everybody does in the end xD

New comment by lordkrandel in "I Moved from Arch to Boring Debian Testing"

lordkrandel — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:34:42 +0000

I've successfully removed every single AUR package from Arch. It's not that hard. There are many alternatives to stuff

New comment by lordkrandel in "Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed"

lordkrandel — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:41:56 +0000

That's what we need to hear. Automation is for work tasks, industrial production, not a substitute for human connection and experience. It doesn't matter if it can utter words, a dog _speaks_ much more than ChatGPT

New comment by lordkrandel in "Europeans should learn to love the air conditioner"

lordkrandel — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:37:58 +0000

The US A/C consumption is one of the reasons the world is so hot right now. Comparing ourselves to that is comparing Milan to one deep round of Hell. A/C doesn't create cold: it spits hot outside, making the city more unlivable, not less. We need more trees to make the city traspirate the heat away.

New comment by lordkrandel in "I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?"

lordkrandel — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:42:32 +0000

Hey, thanks, nice adventure! I will have a look. I'm trying to ditch Arch for NixOS and I'm starting from Distrobox probably. Super useful!

New comment by lordkrandel in "Protecting Yourself from Malicious AUR Packages"

lordkrandel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:50:20 +0000

I have checked not being infected and proceeded to remove every single package I got from AUR.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?"

lordkrandel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:31:32 +0000

I've succesfully uninstalled yay and removed all the packages, and am still employed. Most were zombies and stuff that could be replaced. Rest is from Arch main repos.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?"

lordkrandel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:29:25 +0000

Thank you very much! I've found alternatives or removed about 30 packages. The only AppImage I have is Librewolf, no Flatpaks.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?"

lordkrandel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:00:02 +0000

It's installed from AUR, which has been compromised.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-400-Compromised

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dropbox

Ask HN: Is anyone else leaving AUR?

lordkrandel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:59:50 +0000

I'm spending a lot of my time removing AUR packages for alternatives in the official Archlinux repositories.

I've shifted from Dropbox to RClone, from acpilight to brightnessctl, from spotify to spotify-launcher and so on.

Has anyone else having the same trust problem? Also, how do you stay updated with the situation?

I work in a corporate environment and malware is a no-go.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595300

Points: 8

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New comment by lordkrandel in "The UKs Smartphone Nude Filter Plan Is Insane"

lordkrandel — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:46:17 +0000

Yes, I read that. It's simpler to block the entire Internet than to separate legal from illegal. So, if you make connecting to the Internet illegal to minors, you already solve the problem. Do you understand what I mean now? Next time read better yourself instead of telling me to.

New comment by lordkrandel in "France's sovereignty push can't escape the Microsoft gravity well"

lordkrandel — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:39:39 +0000

Can we just oblige public sector workers to use Linux and that's it?

New comment by lordkrandel in "The UKs Smartphone Nude Filter Plan Is Insane"

lordkrandel — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:57:51 +0000

No, not insane. Provider checks the ID for the age.

Under 16? Sorry, internet not allowed. Only Youtube kids.

End of the trouble.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: Is anyone growing further from capitalism?"

lordkrandel — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:06:10 +0000

Move out to another house and have a loss in the family. Then, you won t care so much about money anymore. All the things we own, they own us

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: What problem did AI create at your company that didn't exist before?"

lordkrandel — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Reviews, issues that have no meaning. Trust issues in submissions. Fomo.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"

lordkrandel — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:35:10 +0000

For build environment, doesn't `tcc` suffice?

"More conventional" is often an opinion, it just means it's not popular enough.

New comment by lordkrandel in "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"

lordkrandel — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:57:05 +0000

Dwm and dmenu. Top notch polish, true minimalism