<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mfashby</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mfashby</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:18:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mfashby" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's essential on narrow shared paths e.g. a canal towpath, when you're approaching a pedestrian from behind in order to avoid startling them when you pass.<p>Most people walking the canal towpath around here know this, runners in particular will sometimes be give a wave or visual acknowledgement they've heard you without turning around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:57:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690304</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Force interoperability one way or another. WhatsApp is a closed system, if I want to use an alternative I'm stuck with adversarial interoperability, so stuff like Beeper (which is great, but...) which might get my account banned. Or waiting for some legislation to force WhatsApp to open it's API and let me interact with my contacts there without being locked into their apps</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800480</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46800480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "I made my own Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>in a similar vein; Write yourself a Git was fun to follow <a href="https://wyag.thb.lt/" rel="nofollow">https://wyag.thb.lt/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:22:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781169</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can definitely buy the replacement screen for the FP4 as it's on their online shop. If you were going for repair under warranty it does seem odd not to just send you the part if you're happy installing it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:32:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685422</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed having _every_ part replaceable would be great. Then I could have Theseus's phone in several years time :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:29:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685395</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also had an issue with the power button on my FP4, sadly it became stuck _on_ so the phone just bootlooped and was immediately unusable.<p>I ended up posting it for repair, over Christmas, which did take about 2 weeks but it was fully covered by the warranty.<p>I've successfully replaced the USB port after accidentally filling it with sand once, and that was trivial apart from UPS losing the package the first time. I really do appreciate the repairability, even if it could be better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:03:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683769</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've got an openbsd server, postgres installed from the package manager, and a couple of apps running with that as the database. My backup process just stops all the services, backs up the filesystem, then starts them again. Downtime is acceptable when you don't have many users!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545820</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I moved us off docker swarm to GKE some years back. The multi node swarm was quite unstable, and none of the big cloud providers offered managed swarm in the same way they offer managed k8s.<p>It's a shame I agree because it was nicely integrated with dockers own tooling. Plus I wouldn't have had to learn about k8s :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:08:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545769</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I believe calibre can pull the files from the kindle as well as push to it. But I've only got an old kindle not a new one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:03:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143175</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43143175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But it would be healthy for everyone if people supported a DRM-free and non-surveillance ebook ecosystem.<p>I try nearly every time. The book I want (usually sci-fi recommended to me by friends) is never available from any DRM free shop I can find.<p>I end up buying from Amazon because their DRM is the most convenient to remive. And I go to the effort to remove it because I want to keep the content I buy, not have it disappear when the DRM key holder decides to take it away from me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:38:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072489</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Adaptive cycling. I've met folks well into their 80s riding trikes to get places (hip replacements and all).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976272</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The front loading variety can fit car seats for infants. My 2yo fits on a rear seat no problem.<p>Might not work for absolutely everyone but it sure works for some.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:33:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975896</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "America's "First Car-Free Neighborhood" Is Going Pretty Good, Actually?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cargo bike?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:27:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975851</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "NsJail: A light-weight process isolation tool for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah there is some capability for this, for example <a href="https://criu.org" rel="nofollow">https://criu.org</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:12:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946443</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Oh Shit, Git?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Related, you can get this as a nice printed zine <a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/10/27/new-zine--oh-shit--git-/" rel="nofollow">https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/10/27/new-zine--oh-shit--git-/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730894</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "WordPress Is in Trouble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can actually still use infinity for Reddit it's just a pain to get it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689258</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42689258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Beeper seems to be working ok for me for the moment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 07:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42211954</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42211954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42211954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Ask HN: What open source projects need help?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for plainoldrecipe! Such a handy tool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:24:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159006</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Show HN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not what you're aiming for with this comment, but I bet git would actually make a pretty good storage tool/format for archival of mostly static sites.<p>horrible simple hack: use `wget` with `--mirror` option, and commit the result to a git repository. Repeat with a `cron` job to keep an archive with change history.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:33:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428577</link><dc:creator>mfashby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mfashby in "Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does anyone know of a service where I can feed in my Spotify playlists, and it tells me where I can buy those tracks?</p>
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