Hacker News: meitham

New comment by meitham in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

meitham — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:06:36 +0000

I read somewhere that Spotify initially seeded their db with pirated music! Now they go after anyone following their suit! It’s like a mafia’s boss that became mayor and is suddenly tough on crime, without acknowledging his past history!

New comment by meitham in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

meitham — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:08:30 +0000

I’m sorry to hijack this thread but can you run Ai agents like Claude or Cursor on BSD? I’m considering making a switch for development environment

New comment by meitham in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

meitham — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:58:14 +0000

I haven’t come across lesswrong before! Great site and this caffeine article is great presentation of data.

New comment by meitham in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

meitham — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:03:36 +0000

Agreed. Minus the nuclear and air defence, Iran is more advanced than US and Russia in many other weapons capabilities.

New comment by meitham in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

meitham — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:48:43 +0000

The global Shia’s population is even larger than Russia’s population, and more willing to fight the US/Israel. Russia is of course superior to Iran technologically but Iran has the larger support worldwide.

New comment by meitham in "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab"

meitham — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:58:52 +0000

The article promotes the value of UI for the infrastructure by touching on ZFS. But in this age of Ai, what I’m really looking for is a good api or cli one can let LLM drives. I basically care more about using my infrastructure than how to create it. I know proxmox can do this, but I wish there was a nixos like system where all my VMs are in one file I can verify between LLM making the change and deployment

New comment by meitham in "Having Kids (2019)"

meitham — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:28:30 +0000

As a father of 3, nothing is more satisfying than raising kids.

New comment by meitham in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

meitham — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:11:54 +0000

It’s not just about the seat they must lose their “lord” title

New comment by meitham in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

meitham — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:53:29 +0000

Could you please tell me which forum this was posted on

New comment by meitham in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

meitham — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:13:56 +0000

How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names? In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!

New comment by meitham in "Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)"

meitham — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:59:21 +0000

erm, I think they're now called "sex workers" but self-employed or digital prostitutes is more correct now, given the inability to tell if you're dealing with a person or AI hologram!

New comment by meitham in "Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)"

meitham — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:56:50 +0000

This ban targets children, prohibition covered adults! This more like requiring proof of id when you purchase alcohol

New comment by meitham in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

meitham — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:48:41 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by meitham in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

meitham — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:56:29 +0000

Madness! How do I harden my network against that?

New comment by meitham in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

meitham — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:20:20 +0000

I like how Apple introduced the CMD key, with copy/paste linked to it in the terminal, leaving CTRL to work as intended. Even outside the terminal basic emacs key binding work as intended, such as c-k c-u etc

New comment by meitham in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

meitham — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 06:17:35 +0000

The author of Kitty, Kovid Goyal, calls running tmux on local sessions an “anti-pattern” in the linked GitHub issue. I can’t help but find that a bit ironic, because the very first time I tried Kitty, I was in the middle of work when I discovered Arabic support was broken - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/536 . I simply launched the macOS Terminal app, attached to the same tmux session, verified my Arabic text rendered correctly, and then closed Kitty. Without tmux, I would’ve been forced to recreate my entire workflow from scratch.

New comment by meitham in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

meitham — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:35:35 +0000

The benefits it works everywhere, even on the blink app on iPhone when you suddenly have to pull out your phone in an emergency, connect to your tmux session away from your usual workstation.

New comment by meitham in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

meitham — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:19:03 +0000

Absolutely! You also have full control over the history size, along with powerful search capabilities. You can move panes and windows seamlessly across sessions, and even share those sessions with other users. My yank script integrates with tmux buffers, so copy/paste works flawlessly, even in vertical splits. I strongly disagree with the article; I simply can’t imagine using a terminal without tmux.

New comment by meitham in "Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis"

meitham — Sat, 31 May 2025 07:49:22 +0000

Totally agree! If you don’t want AWS turning your project into a paid service without giving you a dime, you’ve got to pick a license that stops that. BSD doesn’t cut it!

New comment by meitham in "Building my own solar power system"

meitham — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:40:16 +0000

Thank you, I think that's the one!