Hacker News: mlfreeman

New comment by mlfreeman in "FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility: Top Laptops to Use with FreeBSD"

mlfreeman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:14:54 +0000

Weren't there iPhones that had wifi chips that ran Linux?

New comment by mlfreeman in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

mlfreeman — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:30:45 +0000

Uh, I just noticed the Windows NT for GameCube port actually claims Wii support too...so maybe one day we'll see a Wii dual boot NT4 and OS X 10.0

New comment by mlfreeman in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

mlfreeman — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:53:54 +0000

Also don't forget about working in "That's no moon. It's a space station." somewhere.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

mlfreeman — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:04:09 +0000

I followed the instructions link and read the scripts...although the TinyGPU app is not in source form on GitHub, this looks to me like the GPU is passed into the Linux VM underneath to use the real driver and then somehow passed back out to the Mac (which might be what the TinyGrad team actually got approved).

Or I could have totally misunderstood the role of Docker in this.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map"

mlfreeman — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:03:10 +0000

> In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps

I have four stations uploading there - looking forward to see the result!

New comment by mlfreeman in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

mlfreeman — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:56:02 +0000

Please provide links to the relevant regulations from an actual government website such as eCFR in the US (https://www.ecfr.gov/)

New comment by mlfreeman in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

mlfreeman — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:49:36 +0000

And the ToS probably has a clause that says "we can alter the deal any time we want and you should pray we don't alter it further".

New comment by mlfreeman in "Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages"

mlfreeman — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:31:38 +0000

Does anyone even compile these into a site?

New comment by mlfreeman in "STFU"

mlfreeman — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:15:53 +0000

In potentially-dangerous-animal country (e.g. grizzly bears, mountain lions, etc), it could be a safety mechanism...I was told repeatedly you need to make some kind of distinctive noise regularly so they won't get startled by you rounding a bend.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

mlfreeman — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:34:46 +0000

And Wingdings for classified material!

New comment by mlfreeman in "You want microservices, but do you need them?"

mlfreeman — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:04:28 +0000

Only allow clients to execute stored procedures?

New comment by mlfreeman in "US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data"

mlfreeman — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:31:20 +0000

Are the satellites being turned off, or could people with SDRs pick this up directly from space and offer it up for free?

New comment by mlfreeman in "Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos"

mlfreeman — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:27:01 +0000

I think this is the root of the problem.

I think library/runtime makers aren't saying "let's make an official/blessed take on this thing that a large number of users are doing" as much as they should.

Popular libraries for a given runtime/language should be funded/bought/cloned by the runtime makers (e.g. MS for .NET, IBM/Oracle for Java) more than they are now.

I know someone will inevitably mention concerns about monopolies/anti-trust/"stifling innovation" but I don't really care. Sometimes you have to standardize some things to unlock new opportunities.

New comment by mlfreeman in "In memoriam"

mlfreeman — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:27:35 +0000

The use of "unlikely" just screams that Ofcom will eventually pull a Vader..."We are altering the deal, pray we don't alter it any further".

New comment by mlfreeman in "CFPB 404: Page not found"

mlfreeman — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:51:28 +0000

It appears to literally just be their main page. Menu options bring up content and I logged in and and can still see an in-progress complaint I opened on Jan 7th.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion"

mlfreeman — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:47:18 +0000

What do the regulators writing this intend for this to slow down/stop?

I can't seem to find any information about that anywhere.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Why we use our own hardware"

mlfreeman — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:37:41 +0000

When I back up machines I only pull a full backup 3-4 times a year and then I stack weekly deltas on top of those.

I'd start with that and see how it seemed to work when trying to look through backups and test-restore things.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Why does storing 2FA codes in your password manager make sense?"

mlfreeman — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:05:16 +0000

> it does nothing to protect you in the event of a password manager compromise. This is not a hypothetical; LastPass has suffered multiple breaches, and the more popular a solution, the more likely there are to be attacks against that solution.

You can mitigate this risk by not depending on your password manager app to do cross-device sync..keep a file on Dropbox/OneDrive/iCloud Drive/SFTP/etc and use an app like KeePass/Strongbox/etc that just deals in managing credentials.

My KeePass file storage provider doesn't know what the hell I store there because it's encrypted (I hope there are no known issues with KeePass's crypto)

As a bonus, you can keep offline backups to mitigate other risks like house fire, lightning strike induced EMP frying things (happened to me), storage vendor goes out of business, and more.

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I think in the end, there is no universal solution - you really have to try to be reasonable about estimating your own personal threats and risks (such as asking "am I more likely to suffer a password manager compromise or more likely to break a device?") to decide whether to keep 2FA next to passwords or not.

New comment by mlfreeman in "Why we use our own hardware"

mlfreeman — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 13:51:21 +0000

I moved from my own colocated 1U running Mailcow to Fastmail and don't regret it one bit. This was an interesting read, glad to see they think things through nice and carefully.

The only things I wish FM had are all software:

1. A takeout-style API to let me grab a complete snapshot once a week with one call

2. The ability to be an IdP for Tailscale.

New comment by mlfreeman in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

mlfreeman — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:20:07 +0000

Are there any tools that can run (even across network on another box) to analyze possible duplication at various block sizes?

I am NOT interested in finding duplicate files, but duplicate slices within all my files overall.

I can easily throw together code myself to find duplicate files.

EDIT: I guess I’m looking for a ZFS/BTRFS/other dedupe preview tool that would say “you might save this much if you used this dedupe process.”