Hacker News: mekster

New comment by mekster in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

mekster — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:28:58 +0000

Biggest problem being not being able to paste much of the complicated code found online. You can save it and run it via bash command though.

oh my zsh can recreate much of the fish functionality while maintaining good bash interoperability.

New comment by mekster in "N8n raises $180M"

mekster — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:36:29 +0000

You could let your team mates to star as well.

New comment by mekster in "The End of Tt-Rss.org"

mekster — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 05:13:37 +0000

NextCloud news did just fine as a replacement.

New comment by mekster in "PuTTY has a new website"

mekster — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:38:12 +0000

Come on, AI can make a better looking site in 10 minutes these days.

New comment by mekster in "Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS"

mekster — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:31:35 +0000

I haven't tried the app yet but I have managed Linux servers for 20 years and still think this app can be pretty useful.

You can use whatever tools to set up the initial state of a server using this app.

New comment by mekster in "Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS"

mekster — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:27:33 +0000

Tell me how you use Ansible to check cron jobs, docker container states and read logs.

New comment by mekster in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

mekster — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:16:17 +0000

Use SeaTable.

Rows can be very flexible and I've been using it for years for my to-do list (also issue tracker on smaller projects) and it works very well.

Works well on mobile as well.

New comment by mekster in "Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts"

mekster — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:56:58 +0000

How do you mean can’t be sure if it recovers? It’s not hoping for inconsistent states to be recovered by the db but they’re supposed to be in good state with file system snapshotting.

https://serverfault.com/a/806305

https://zrepl.github.io/v0.2.1/configuration/snapshotting.ht...

New comment by mekster in "Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)"

mekster — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:51:57 +0000

Since when did LAMP go down? Maybe only Apache is getting less popular but still has no problem.

New comment by mekster in "Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption"

mekster — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:31:50 +0000

How is the performance for both?

Last time I used restic a few years ago, it choked on not so large data set with high memory usage. I read Borg doesn't choke like that.

New comment by mekster in "Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts"

mekster — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:29:15 +0000

For regular DB like MySQL/PostgreSQL, just snapshot on zfs without thinking.

New comment by mekster in "Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts"

mekster — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:26:43 +0000

3-2-1 analogy is old. We have infinite flexibility on where we can put data unlike before cloud servers existed.

I'd at least have file system snapshots locally for easy recovery in case of manual mistakes, have it copied at a remote location using implementation A and let it snapshot there too, copy same amount on another location using implementation B and let it snapshot there too, so not only you'd have durability, implementation bugs on a backup process can also be mitigated.

zfs is a godsend for this and I use Borg as secondary implementation, which seems enough for almost any disasters.

New comment by mekster in "Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager"

mekster — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:01:09 +0000

Not to mention the easy to use web UI.

New comment by mekster in "Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day"

mekster — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:59:08 +0000

Why not?

I have unbound with upstream set to 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9.

New comment by mekster in "Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels"

mekster — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:27:10 +0000

Which one is as feature packed as Pangolin with a working web UI?

New comment by mekster in "Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day"

mekster — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:14:46 +0000

Who are looking up PTR records?

54.in-addr.arpa looks to be Amazon's range and there are several others.

New comment by mekster in "Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day"

mekster — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:13:42 +0000

This just shows that domain is incorporated not just in documents but on systems that actually trigger accessing it all over the world.

New comment by mekster in "Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day"

mekster — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:09:06 +0000

Isn't part of the reasons to run a public DNS to sell these hard earned info for profit to marketers etc but they just release publicly? Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg of the information they gather.

Really interesting to know though.

Some just look way high up and could mean buggy implementation without proper cache usage or persistently banging the domain.

New comment by mekster in "Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day"

mekster — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:06:11 +0000

So are YouTube, Wikipedia and GitHub.

New comment by mekster in "Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels"

mekster — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:44:27 +0000

You found it early enough. I guess it's not even 1 year old.