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New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

mystifyingpoi — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:07:37 +0000

Precisely. My uncle has been using the builtin Samsung web browser for years on his phone, just because it said "Internet" in the name, and "Chrome" just wasn't a familiar name to him. Most people are like this.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Audacity 4.0"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:40:22 +0000

Reaper install is 13 megs. I have no idea how is this possible today.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:27:53 +0000

You are mixing up "being an asshole" with "doing abuse". Ordering 10 t-shirts and returning 9 of them could be classified as assholery (subjectively, I'd classify it as that), while it's very likely not abuse, we'd have to check the ToS of a specific seller.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:41:45 +0000

All these /boost, ultracode and other magic incancations seem to be just "throw more money/tokens at the problem and maybe it helps".

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Bug Blindness"

mystifyingpoi — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:20:51 +0000

No, when they hit a problem with Windows, they blame Microsoft and/or their hardware. When they hit a problem with Linux, they blame the person that recommended it to them.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Bug Blindness"

mystifyingpoi — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:18:51 +0000

Matches my experience. I think that 98% of the people that used our software were using only 2-3 battle-tested happy paths, and just never hit any bugs, not because there weren't any (there were hundreds of bugs in JIRA spanning 3+ years of development) but simply they didn't trigger the non-hot code path ever.

The software was crap, but it made money, so it wasn't crap.

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

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:53:12 +0000

> In the case of tailscale the added value seems to be avoiding going into your router and activating port forwarding?

Well, ignoring the tone... kinda yeah? I mean, if port forwarding works for you, and you have public IPv4, and you have no CGNAT, and you need a connection only between 2 hosts, then port forwarding is actually a half-decent idea. However, it's not what Tailscale excels at.

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

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:43:24 +0000

> pain in the ass to configure it

Idk? I found it pretty easy to configure by blindly following the tutorials and copy-pasting keys. The only footgun is the keepalive setting, which will screw up the tunnel if one end is behind NAT, that tripped me hard, but besides this, no issues at all.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "There's no such thing as a small software team anymore"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:11:51 +0000

> Fire up a coding agent for each one, tell it to “improve performance”, and there’s a good chance you ship significant improvements across all of them.

But I can do this like what, once or twice? Maybe once every release? Then my agents finish "improving performance" and it's Monday 10am. What the fuck I'm supposed to do the rest of the week?

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:58:30 +0000

I find it easier. In the office a boss can stop me and ask to stay late, a coworker might ask question at 4:59pm, etc. When wfh, literally no one can stop me from closing the work laptop.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:49:48 +0000

Exactly on point. Shit happens, performance bugs appear, someone messes up Kafka config and it starts consuming from the beginning of the world, etc. Limiting CPU is a must. I could see maybe if someone has a super good monitoring + oncall response team, then letting things go loose for a bit is a lesser evil than working out limits, but still.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "What I love about Django"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:20:50 +0000

Unironically, AI could automate the boycott.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:59:41 +0000

That's some hillarious misnaming, I love it. It probably was meant to be something like "make more comprehensible, use simpler language but more words" and we got this.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Antigravity 2.0"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:07:21 +0000

> The only time I want a TUI is when I'm SSH'd into a machine

Well, that's your need and it is fine. For me, I want TUIs all the time for everything. They blend really nice with... well, all the other TUI tools I already use all the time.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:36:02 +0000

That was trivial to do in ~2019, when one could quit a job today and be sure to find another one next month. Today, not possible.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:20:23 +0000

Can anyone share their experience with such 1+ month "vacations", while having a family with wife and 2+ kids?

It's cool to read about author's experiences with travelling and making new friends abroad, but that's only possible if you live alone with no dependent people. I know if I took such vacation today, all the 8h of time gained daily would be just sucked out by my kids and everyone around.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:10:14 +0000

I second that, EU here. Most of my colleagues take either 5 days (which creates 9 days free in a row effectively, when combined with weekends) or 10 days (which creates 16). Any normal vacation over this requires special approval and I know only 1 person that even wanted that. The only cases when someone is away for longer are medical leaves after severe accidents (in practice unlimited) or parental leaves (could me maxxed to ~1.5 years when done smart, but doesn't happen in practice).

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:02:40 +0000

I am very fond of pico retirements, I mean, going home at 5 pm and not working until 9 am the next day. I highly recommend everyone to try such.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

mystifyingpoi — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:02:08 +0000

What is "better code"?

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "The session you cannot take with you"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:37:22 +0000

Well then you need a better password manager. Like a .kdbx file which is ~100% available, given enough copies I guess.