Hacker News: mcspiff

New comment by mcspiff in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

mcspiff — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:52:51 +0000

I can only speak for myself, but I'm just glad you're still a member of these communities. Take care of yourself, and I look forward to many more years of learning from your code!

New comment by mcspiff in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

mcspiff — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:59:46 +0000

> Third is I feel a responsibility to my projects and users.

I feel like this should be a bit of a two way street. Is there anything we can be doing for you?

I see there's an option for GitHub sponsorship, would that still be your preference?

New comment by mcspiff in "Web Bot Auth"

mcspiff — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:55:32 +0000

Couldn’t agree more — Much like running my own DNS or email server, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to running my own website directly on the internet. It’s just not worth the hassle. For stuff only I use, it sits behind my VPN. For anything that _must_ be public, it’s going behind a WAF someone else can run.

New comment by mcspiff in "Tmux – The Essentials (2019)"

mcspiff — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:12:48 +0000

It’s not perfect, but I’ve found wezterms multiplexer quite good for this: https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html

New comment by mcspiff in "Rpgp: Pure Rust implementation of OpenPGP"

mcspiff — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 22:40:21 +0000

I’m not sure you can really categorize rust as a high level language, unless you’re stating crypto primitives should only be written in assembly.

EDIT: Given this attack was also applied to OpenSSL, amongst many others this high level language comment seems doubly odd/dubious

EDIT2: another rust TLS implementation was among only 3 that was initially verified to be not vulnerable as well..

New comment by mcspiff in "Show HN: Build progressively enhanced reactive HTML apps using Go and Alpine.js"

mcspiff — Wed, 10 May 2023 04:11:22 +0000

Is there a tl;dr on why I’d want to boost? Vs say normal browser behaviour

New comment by mcspiff in "SBCL: New in Version 2.3.4"

mcspiff — Tue, 09 May 2023 03:20:13 +0000

Doesn’t seem like a particularly notable release, anything I’m missing?

New comment by mcspiff in "Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket"

mcspiff — Mon, 01 May 2023 21:37:35 +0000

I will given Berlin credit here — after checking in to our accommodations (took a taxi from the airport), I poked a ticket machine, quickly saw the Union Jack flag and got the machine into English. Couple minutes later we had our 1 week passes in hand. In general I found the system very approachable, using google maps for route planning.

New comment by mcspiff in "Why the Rust Trademark Policy was such a problem"

mcspiff — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 19:31:47 +0000

Yes. They own much of the infrastructure used by the project, and fund some of the people managing said infrastructure. In addition to the trademark.

New comment by mcspiff in "What happens when you leak AWS credentials and how AWS minimizes the damage"

mcspiff — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:42:21 +0000

I mean yes — that’s the point. If untrusted parties have access to your keys, it’s already game over. You’ve lost. Disabling them is the nicest thing an attacker can do for you.

New comment by mcspiff in "Plunge in regional bank stocks triggers spate of trading halts"

mcspiff — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:57:03 +0000

Canadian but also lived in the US. Have not lived in the EU.

For Canada, while geographically large population wise it’s very small compared to the US. The big Canadian banks are targeting a similar sized demographic to California.

I’m less familiar with Europe, but I’m guessing most nations still have prominent national retail banks, with some having an EU wide market? Those national retail banks would effectively be regional in the US.

New comment by mcspiff in "My Fear of Commitment to the First CPU Core"

mcspiff — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 04:34:09 +0000

That’s common enough there’s a term for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort

New comment by mcspiff in "My network home setup – v4.0"

mcspiff — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:41:19 +0000

Very much depends on location within Canada. BC has an open policy of allowing suites not to code for example

New comment by mcspiff in "Linux 6.3 to Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, I810"

mcspiff — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:04:43 +0000

Care to share more? Is this a daily driver or just a proof of concept thing? Genuinely interested

New comment by mcspiff in "Chinese Police on US Soil"

mcspiff — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 05:51:25 +0000

Canada as well

New comment by mcspiff in "Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars"

mcspiff — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 20:29:17 +0000

In Canada, electric block heaters for the engine are fairly common as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater . Similar concept to fire under the engine, but a bit more modern

New comment by mcspiff in "Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired"

mcspiff — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:23:57 +0000

This isn’t entirely true fwiw. That assumes a constant load on the systems. If you start running into a capacity crunch on a given system, your best case is scale horizontally or vertically using established procedures. But if you hit a limit there (vertical scaling limit, architectural limit) and actually need to refactor? Good luck!

New comment by mcspiff in "The HTTP crash course nobody asked for"

mcspiff — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 20:45:55 +0000

https://xeiaso.net/ is equally great content in a similar style in my opinion. Different area of topics a bit, but I enjoy both very much

New comment by mcspiff in "81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending"

mcspiff — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 05:17:17 +0000

The major cloud providers are designing their own servers, so we’re back at “growing your own food”.

New comment by mcspiff in "Never trust a system that seems to be working"

mcspiff — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:56:30 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort Might interest you!