Hacker News: mistertrotsky

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Fastmail breaks UI in production"

mistertrotsky — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:36:31 +0000

This doesn't actually work. The mobile app is just a wrapper around the web interface.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Directory Opus – King of the Dual Panes"

mistertrotsky — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 18:36:54 +0000

Directory Opus is the perfect example of an ultra-high-quality Windows application. I love it.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers"

mistertrotsky — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:17:02 +0000

My sites in Newark are up. The situation is not as alarming as the submission title would suggest. They've updated the status page to indicate that it is limited to an issue with DHCP.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default"

mistertrotsky — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:18:14 +0000

I use Firefox Nightly on a MacBook (Retina) and it performs very well with WebRender on and gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque set to TRUE. Faster than Safari even! Worse battery life though.

Time Is Running Out for NTP

mistertrotsky — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:04:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3144546/security/time-is-running-out-for-ntp.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13059531

Points: 111

# Comments: 31

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Syscall Auditing at Scale"

mistertrotsky — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:57:17 +0000

This is super great.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "My Raspberry Pi cluster"

mistertrotsky — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 13:32:38 +0000

You can now get a PoE adapter for the Raspberry Pi: https://www.pi-supply.com/product/pi-poe-switch-hat-power-ov...

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Hey Look, It's Every Bootstrap Website Ever"

mistertrotsky — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 04:19:49 +0000

I laughed.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "[dead]"

mistertrotsky — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:40:11 +0000

This feels like an attack piece on Sanders in disguise.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "NAS Distribution Shootout: FreeNAS vs. NAS4Free"

mistertrotsky — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 05:10:52 +0000

You're probably not going to have a good time trying to use a USB WLAN dongle as an access point. Even if you manage to track down a) if the driver supports AP mode, and b) put together a whole hostapd configration, you're still limited by the transmit power of the little thing, which I guarantee isn't a lot. Another thing is that acting as an AP is a lot more taxing on a piece of hardware than just acting as a client; there's a chance that the USB WLAN thing will be extra flaky and maybe even overheat.

Instead... just get something that will run OpenWRT. Check out this list: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start. Running and configuring it at the command line is way more pleasant than you'd expect, and the (optional) web GUI is functional if inconsistent.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "OpenZFS on OS X"

mistertrotsky — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:05:07 +0000

Congratulations on the site launch! I've been using trunk builds in production for the last three months. Very few issues for pre-alpha software.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users"

mistertrotsky — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:11:15 +0000

I would absolutely trust someone named Jeremy Cloud on this subject.

On emotional availability

mistertrotsky — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:20:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wilchak.com/on-emotional-availability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659597

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mistertrotsky in "SSL And The Future Of Authenticity"

mistertrotsky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:21:13 +0000

Fuck yeah, I wasn't aware of these projects. I thought the article was exceptionally good and I'm very pleased that there are people taking the initiative to actually do the hard work in search of resolution for the problems detailed. Thank you.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "FreeType Development and Maintainance"

mistertrotsky — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:16:10 +0000

Wow, I didn't realize iOS used FreeType as its rasterizer. I wonder why Apple didn't just use the OS X subsystem?

New comment by mistertrotsky in "Lights"

mistertrotsky — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:27:21 +0000

Really well-done! This impresses me a lot more than dropping a sphere in a box of water.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "The Significance of OS X Lion"

mistertrotsky — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:01:13 +0000

If only I could have a FireGestures-type interface connected with the Windows desktop environment. I would probably throw out my MacBook.

New comment by mistertrotsky in "How John Perry Barlow gained enlightenment and lost his mind on acid"

mistertrotsky — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:34:49 +0000

a) I didn't know this guy was both involved with the Dead AND the EFF! Fascinating.

b) I didn't know that such interesting business happened in Millbrook. Millbrook! Man that is like twenty minutes away.