Hacker News: mrsssnake

New comment by mrsssnake in "Mitos editor is a fork of Helix"

mrsssnake — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:30:17 +0000

You mean humans stop using written text? No documentation, science papers, todos, longer form async communication, transcription, etc.?

New comment by mrsssnake in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

mrsssnake — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:47:14 +0000

The thing I hate with vibed apps the most is zero seconds spend on how things around what is being build are already structured and what problems was already solved, just focusing on shiny result.

`sudo sh scripts/install_debian.sh`, a 583 lines long script, basically now a whole software just to handle the installation of this project on one distribution, seriously? If we vibecode already, just do the normal packaging.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

mrsssnake — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:39:26 +0000

Skeuomorphic design was a solution to teaching the customer how to use the digital product, but I wish we have more of its side effects like shadows, icons that pop and other things that are pleasant for the eye and depth.

I don't know if it's just because it was better or am I just tired of the current white (like #FFFFFF white) backgrounds with everything flat and not connected. I would like my browser tabs to be in the shape of a physical tab in notebooks.

New comment by mrsssnake in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

mrsssnake — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:15:21 +0000

Is there some tool, language or way to early script together inputs and outputs or external programs, with some safety or "proper" (for lack of better word) programming languages but with convenience of Bash (no wrapping like "exec(programname)"?

New comment by mrsssnake in "Fuck Android Developer Verification Program"

mrsssnake — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:50:16 +0000

Honestly, beyond my deGoogled Android smartphone and a GNU/Linux laptop I am looking around for pocketable device between those. Mecha Comet looks like a perfect fit, but it is not released yet.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane"

mrsssnake — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:13:02 +0000

Tool like this exposes big problem with the current shape of the Internet, I believe.

Everything should be possible with just plain netcat and IP stack. Someone asks about NAT holepunching, encryption, static IDs, permissions, etc., yes this is what Internet lacks and why every P2P app reinvents it over and over again.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"

mrsssnake — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:43:34 +0000

Here is another, not so new, idea:

Username is your public key, password is your private key. So we get end to end encryption and account ownership out of the box. Something similar to how .onion addresses work. Needing easy to remember addresses? Build aliases on top of that. Needing server-side automation? Handle trusted server your private key.

Also, almost everyone carry a 24/7 powered and Internet connected device in their pockets. The Internet - network that allows globally sending any data between devices. Maybe with full redesign third-party email servers should be made optional.

I believe we should focus less on how to redesign whole service and build more universal layers instead. First, vsending any data to any machine. Second, optionally remotely accessing our data. Third, mail-like format of data.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Real Linux for your smartphone: Ubuntu Touch release 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4"

mrsssnake — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:35:55 +0000

"Real" here is very stretched, it is more on the Android than Fedora side, if we measure being "real" Linux as being close to popular desktop distro stack.

It is based on Hallium. And no Flatpak or swappable graphical environments here.

Still cool project.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

mrsssnake — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:02:14 +0000

"...avoiding OS security restictions by going through the debug port..." the user delibretry opened and paired to app with clear visual confirmation in order to use it.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

mrsssnake — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:33:10 +0000

What you are is one factor. What happened to MFA approach here? Also it is a factor we cannot change, so if someone obtain a video of our face like that or success in making a working fake, we cannot change our look like we can with a password.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Back to Kagi"

mrsssnake — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:46:29 +0000

Uruky allows JSON formatted output and basically started to use them as API for my private SearXNG instance. Basically using them as paid search API that is much more reliable than scraping DuckDuckGO and Brave, with the benefit of blocking common AI slop sites and manual ranking of domains. Having EUSP first and Mojeek second somehow gives very satisfying results, both small nearby European businesses and big sites are searched up well, even without depending on American index.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Back to Kagi"

mrsssnake — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:19:56 +0000

Almost all LLM do traditional web search in the background anyway. So if you want data straight from the source without probabilistic text generation, it will be faster to do the search yourself. Like if I want to know the country of origin of a company, would type its name and go to Wikipedia. While LLM would usually search literally "What is the country of origin of ..."? and then visit LLM generated sites that SEO optimized the query on which a fraction of text is going to be relevant after which the information is very low quality.

New comment by mrsssnake in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

mrsssnake — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:00:07 +0000

Abstraction and reusability is good even when copying is getting cheap.

In a same vain, why create functions or classes, when AI can rewrite the code in place and keep track of rules.

New comment by mrsssnake in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

mrsssnake — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:49:45 +0000

Even on the Android or iOS phone the EU app won't run if the device owner made even a tiniest change of the operating system without Google or Apple approval.

The EU developed system excludes the 1% of people for which the popular mobile solutions do not work and also make the rest 99% totally dependent on the selected corporations.

New comment by mrsssnake in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

mrsssnake — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:42:08 +0000

Even in a world where Android and iOS have 100% of market share, the law (including indirect but obvious consequences of the law) should not force using them.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

mrsssnake — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:53:35 +0000

JavaScript was a mistake.

New comment by mrsssnake in "Astro 7.0"

mrsssnake — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:18:52 +0000

tickle tickle

New comment by mrsssnake in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

mrsssnake — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:12:18 +0000

As some not deep into networking, just home(lab) stuff, learning OpenWRT took some time. But now cannot think of buying a router not for OpenWRT, once I learn what is possible I want to use it.

Fot example from my ISP I can have two options for PPPoE connection, first is legacy IPv4 only but lacks IPv6, second is IPv4 but behind CGNAT and with modern IPv6. With OpenWRT, I am able to make two PPPoE connection over the same wire and have the best of both worlds.

New comment by mrsssnake in "OpenPrinter"

mrsssnake — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:13:43 +0000

My point is not whenever this is good or bad, hardware tools cannot by nature be self-replicated like software tools, but they should not call it open source.

New comment by mrsssnake in "OpenPrinter"

mrsssnake — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:08:19 +0000

Does "open source" even mean something anymore, or should we give up and just accept it as common catch-all phrase for everything that suck less, without one definition?

Open source AI without a source. Open source software, oh but only up to 4000 users after two years of release for people on south hemisphere. Now open source hardware but your copies of design are for noncommercial use, only our copies are not restriced.