Hacker News: mvanbaak

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

mvanbaak — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:55:04 +0000

BT and (although very very limited) NFC can be used for tracking and location detection.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

mvanbaak — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:51:09 +0000

> I am curious why Safari in particular is getting a lot of the hate here

Here is HN, where apple is the bad boy in town.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

mvanbaak — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:32:19 +0000

I'm a vim user. for decades. Your post does not align at all with my experience.

If you prompt and hand-hold the LLM it is a big help. Things like boilerplate, basic crud etc etc is something I dont have to worry about anymore. And if I am looking at an unknown codebase or area, the llm can explain things to me, it's the rubber duck that talks back.

I'm not using vim plugins (yet) for LLM, tmux and a couple of panes etc is all I need at the moment.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

mvanbaak — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:03:02 +0000

I am reading the comments to see if there’s a merch shop haga

New comment by mvanbaak in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

mvanbaak — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:01:28 +0000

> You don't talk about all the assembly high level languages make, or at least it's no longer how people view things. We don't say "look at this assembly I compiled." Instead the entire concept fades to the back.

Some still do. Os and compiler devs to name a few

New comment by mvanbaak in "The happiest I've ever been"

mvanbaak — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:47:43 +0000

What if the the alternatives are worse?

New comment by mvanbaak in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

mvanbaak — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:47:40 +0000

Welcome to capitalism

New comment by mvanbaak in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

mvanbaak — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:37:48 +0000

how will it help you to break free from apple if it only supports pixel phones?

New comment by mvanbaak in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

mvanbaak — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:39:11 +0000

but then you send a mail to $person, and this $person uses gmail, and now your mail is still indexed by google.

The only way to get around this is to use encryption. dont send plain text email.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

mvanbaak — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:34:05 +0000

and how are you going to prove your ID? you might as well be the one abducting them, and especially if you refuse to use an app to identify yourself... (playing devils advocate here)

New comment by mvanbaak in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

mvanbaak — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:25:07 +0000

'then they can be fined into oblivion' with capital CAN. Give me an example where this actually happened. (not just a statement that it will be done, but an actual example of a company going under because of the fine)

New comment by mvanbaak in "OpenAI should build Slack"

mvanbaak — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:43:49 +0000

so is IRC

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

mvanbaak — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:43:43 +0000

How about using a 3rd party app? Gemini and chatgpt apps can already do a lot!

New comment by mvanbaak in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

mvanbaak — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:12:12 +0000

for now ...

New comment by mvanbaak in "Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"

mvanbaak — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:44:02 +0000

In that case they should add a warning there in my opinion. It makes a lot of difference in my testing

New comment by mvanbaak in "Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"

mvanbaak — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:38:32 +0000

`-rxcsum -txcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum6 -lro -tso`

Why disable all offloading? It's not explained anywhere.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Bugs Apple loves"

mvanbaak — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:16:34 +0000

There's a reason I have 3 alarms set ;P

New comment by mvanbaak in "Bugs Apple loves"

mvanbaak — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:13:47 +0000

It might be a very tiny issue for you, but for others it's huge.

As a single datapoint: it has been years since I used a physical card. both payment or public transport. Always use contactless payments using my phone.

New comment by mvanbaak in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

mvanbaak — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:51:22 +0000

This is the reason one should always ask the LLM to create scripts to complete the task. Asking it to do things is fine, but as you stated you will forget. If you ask the LLM to do something, but always using a script first, and if you ask: 'Create a well documented shell script to ', you will have auto documentation. One could go one step further and ask it to create a documented terraform/ansible/whatever tooling setup you prefer.

New comment by mvanbaak in "FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)"

mvanbaak — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:35:30 +0000

TrueNAS scale is, TrueNAS core is still FreeBSD (legacy, but it's still there)