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New comment by m3nu in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

m3nu — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:08:08 +0000

100% this. For my own company I mostly build deterministic workflows that may have a simple AI step in the middle using an appropriate Chinese model in a very limited way. I wouldn't want to burn tokens to satisfy some metric.

With this AI is a fallback and not the default. Sounds like large companies have it backwards.

New comment by m3nu in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

m3nu — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:46:26 +0000

Ansible playbook to mitigate and verify:

https://gist.github.com/m3nu/d85533bbf342edd3a9426711409a1b9...

New comment by m3nu in "Copy Fail"

m3nu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:21:16 +0000

What other kernel modules would you suggest disabling that aren't used usually?

New comment by m3nu in "Copy Fail"

m3nu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:14:35 +0000

Good idea. Added to the playbook for RHEL only.

On Debian normal unloading of the module works.

New comment by m3nu in "Copy Fail"

m3nu — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:55:05 +0000

I wasn't able to unload algif_aead on RHEL 9/10 because it's built in, rather than a module.

So here the next-best thing I found: Disable AF_ALG via systemd. Needs drop-ins for all exposed services. Here an Ansible playbook that covers ssdh and user@, which are the main ones usually.

https://gist.github.com/m3nu/c19269ef4fd6fa53b03eb388f77464d...

New comment by m3nu in "GitHub is having issues now"

m3nu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:31:20 +0000

Releases aren't being published for me.

New comment by m3nu in "Codex for almost everything"

m3nu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:50:13 +0000

I have a feeling that Codex is also getting lower limits. Got this email just now. Basically they copy Claude's $100 tier.

> To help you go further with Codex, we’re introducing a new €114 Pro tier designed for longer, high-intensity sessions.

> At launch, this new tier includes a limited-time Codex usage boost, with up to 10x more Codex usage than Plus (typically 5x).

> As the Codex promotion on Plus winds down today, we’re rebalancing Plus usage to support more sessions across the week, rather than longer high-intensity sessions on a single day.

New comment by m3nu in "Cal.com is going closed source"

m3nu — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:43:17 +0000

A Docker image would be good too.

New comment by m3nu in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

m3nu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:45:34 +0000

Also a user of their CDN, storage and container service for about 4 years.

My experience was more positive. One time I had a minor issue with their storage where I couldn't replace a file or something. This was fairly early after the product launched. They fixed it and gave me free credit for reporting it.

New comment by m3nu in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

m3nu — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:27:06 +0000

My bet is that phone hardware will be used more and more in mini PCs and laptops keeping the cost down and volume up. We see it with Apple and many Chinese mini PC makers I looked at.

New comment by m3nu in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

m3nu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:02:15 +0000

Interesting but link is dead? Would love to see this.

Found it: https://www.hankgreen.com/crc

New comment by m3nu in "The future is not self-hosted"

m3nu — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 08:52:37 +0000

I set up a service to make hosting those apps as seamless as possible while giving the user control of their data and also sharing revenue with authors to keep projects sustainable. Check it out here:

https://www.pikapods.com/

New comment by m3nu in "“Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”"

m3nu — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:47:13 +0000

In strength training 'programming' means the details of your workout plan. Like how many sets, reps and exercises.

New comment by m3nu in "Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024"

m3nu — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:02:08 +0000

4,414,142 TB = 4.4 Exabyte

New comment by m3nu in "Why did so many mid-century designers make children's books? (2022)"

m3nu — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:40:17 +0000

Also got into making children's books with AI. Midjourney mostly. Has been fun, but my son is running out of ideas. Good thing chatgpt is fairly creative, once you give it the right persona.

New comment by m3nu in "Show HN: Create legit-looking children's books with AI"

m3nu — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:15:07 +0000

Came here to say this is great and already did 2 books. My son loved it.

New comment by m3nu in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

m3nu — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:26:07 +0000

German speaker in Portugal. :-)

That's awesome. Just did one.

New comment by m3nu in "SSH Remoting"

m3nu — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:28:45 +0000

Also works well in vscode. Just wish the remote instance would keep running forever. Currently it's only a few hours it seems. Then one needs to reopen the workspace window.

New comment by m3nu in "Ask HN: How To: Internal Documentation?"

m3nu — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:38:45 +0000

In Bookstack organized by department. Simple to update and put access controls on it.

As others have mentioned, this needs to be a living document and the person doing the task needs to update the docs where needed. No tool can replace this, but Bookstack at least makes it easy.

New comment by m3nu in "Ask HN: What do you monitor on your servers?"

m3nu — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:42:22 +0000

Those are some great ideas for Prometheus alert rules. If they aren't already added here: https://samber.github.io/awesome-prometheus-alerts/