Hacker News: miah_

New comment by miah_ in "Crystal 1.22"

miah_ — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:44:01 +0000

People who work at the leopard breeding factory being upset that the leopards are being bred to eat their faces..

New comment by miah_ in "OpenBSD 8.0"

miah_ — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:02:31 +0000

Arch upgrades are really fun if you don't run pacman for a year or more. It rarely works in your favor to not run pacman on a extremely frequent schedule.

New comment by miah_ in "How Poor People Buy Cars"

miah_ — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:00:56 +0000

I still drive a '97 4runner that I bought for 5k around 2020. I've probably put 5k into repairs. I've spent less on it than anything I could buy new, and it will probably outlast us all. Nearing 300k miles on it now.

New comment by miah_ in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

miah_ — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:50:28 +0000

The easiest way to deal with the usual suspects is to just block the entire countries network range(s). There really is no reason they should be connecting to your home router anyway, and you lose nothing from blocking them.

Sure their packets will still hit your router, but if they are dropped immediately at least you're not wasting a syn-ack on them.

New comment by miah_ in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

miah_ — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:22:50 +0000

Have you ever read it? It was published in _1970_ and the content isn't really about stealing books, but about fighting against the government and corporations. Its more political commentary than anything else.

Yes, bookstores should stock it, and libraries should shelve it. Its something everybody should read at least once, for some perspective at least.

New comment by miah_ in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

miah_ — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:52:46 +0000

Some programmers import a sarcasm library while others could write their own.

New comment by miah_ in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

miah_ — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:05:43 +0000

Ahhh jerkcity. A classic.

New comment by miah_ in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

miah_ — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:35:31 +0000

.NET is still installable as a standalone thing. In fact I probably have several versions installed on my current Windows PC. No reason Windows Lite couldn't also have .NET installed _when you need it_.

New comment by miah_ in "Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times"

miah_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:24:58 +0000

I wondered if it was the same but he says he built this car in 2008 which would have been three years after that video.

New comment by miah_ in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

miah_ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:53:33 +0000

This happens with any TV or Movie that has music, and its incredibly frustrating. Always best to download to not confuse yourself as to why the media is somehow different than you remember.

New comment by miah_ in "OpenBSD 7.9"

miah_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:53:55 +0000

syspatch and sysupgrade have made things substantially easier these days.

New comment by miah_ in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

miah_ — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:02:47 +0000

At that point you've re-invented emacs.

New comment by miah_ in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

miah_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:17:02 +0000

No thanks.

New comment by miah_ in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

miah_ — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:05:12 +0000

I've worked in tech since the late 90's and recently became an apprentice potter. My work in pottery is so much more fulfilling than any tech work I've done. I wish I had started sooner.

I'm still working in tech, and likely will forever in a much reduced capacity. But pottery is my life now.

New comment by miah_ in "My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?"

miah_ — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:13:06 +0000

0% AI, 80% YAML Jockey, 10% SSH Shenanigans, 10% Python programming

Been doing sysadmin since the 90's. Why bother with AI, it just slows me down. I've already scripted my life with automation. Anything not already automated probably takes me a few minutes, and if longer I'll build the automation. Shell scripts and Ansible aren't hard.

New comment by miah_ in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

miah_ — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:12:27 +0000

Similarly that people are interested in running anything made by him after he's repeatedly shown his true colors.

New comment by miah_ in "High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers"

miah_ — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:28:07 +0000

Maybe, but carpentry, plumbing, electrician, mechanic, etc all typically have apprenticeship opportunities and its extremely rare to encounter anything in the tech field like this.

Additionally, the trades above don't have new tooling that comes out every few years that completely changes things, while the tech industry loves to re-invent the wheel frequently.

New comment by miah_ in "iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess"

miah_ — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:25:18 +0000

If they sold replacement parts and batteries we'd be fine and they're have their recurring revenue.

New comment by miah_ in "UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts"

miah_ — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:30:05 +0000

Scumbag companies continue to be scum.

New comment by miah_ in "How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop"

miah_ — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:19:29 +0000

Clearchannel (which became IheartRadio) owns most radio stations (>850) in the US. They fired hundreds of DJ's in ~2011.

https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2...

When I was a kid in the 1980's I used to call the DJ and request songs A LOT. When I was a teen I used to call in to win contests. Now when I listen to a 'I<3Radio' station in the garage, its clear all the DJ segments are pre-recorded and everything is automated. Its all soundbites. Its all garbage. Its all advertisements. Its the same ~30 songs on rotation.