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New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:30:08 +0000

+1, guest network is risky. Even VPN/ts is risky, since you're actively hiding what you are doing. Mobile data only.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:28:12 +0000

> you could spend the whole day essentially however you wanted

Then, can I just not go to work on that day? Or am I forced to waste time in the office? Honest question.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Local Git remotes"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:58:05 +0000

"network fileshare" is not local. By the same logic, I can mount S3 bucket over fuse and call it "local". Sure, it will work, but in the context it is just nonsense.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Local Git Remotes"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:56:24 +0000

I can imagine it being useful for some obscure setup of local CI (like Jenkins) that expects a Git URL and for whatever reason cannot just copy files from one directory to another. Or maybe Argo/Flux tinkering to mimic real repo. But nothing usual should require such tricks.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Local Git remotes"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:53:13 +0000

But "shared SSH server" isn't local.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Local Git remotes"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:41:55 +0000

What's the purpose of this? I don't get it. Why push at all to "local remote", if you can just keep your changes on a local branch, and push it whenever "remote remote" becomes available again?

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "In-Browser Container Builds"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:31:50 +0000

> and we sometimes resign ourselves to the limitations of docker build and friends

What are the limitations of `docker build`?

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:18:54 +0000

It's a classic case of power vs responsibility. Generally SREs get all the responsibility but little power. Even if developers are also suffering on-call shifts, the first strike always hits SREs.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:11:46 +0000

You don't need account, that's for sure, but multiple times I've seen a big upsell popup that suggests that account is required, while the tiny gray button "skip to files" is on the very bottom. I hate such patterns.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "GitHub Actions down again today"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:41:25 +0000

Sounds like a very easy process to rewrite in bash/python and have it on hand if needed.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:41:06 +0000

> less human-readable version of JSON

Please provide an example, how YAML can be less readable than JSON. I struggle to think of any.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:20:57 +0000

> I just have everything in KeepassXC

Me too, but I rarely add/edit anything in .kdbx file, it rarely changes. So I just keep a copy on my phone and use KeePassDroid to open it sometimes.

If you change/edit your passwords all the time, and you like autofill and I assume other features, networked solutions are much better.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:23:08 +0000

For real. So many things do this. I'm particularly frustrated with Bluetooth. Why does it take multiple seconds for two devices to send a minuscule amount of rf data when connecting over known mac?

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

mystifyingpoi — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:31:43 +0000

I think that's correct. Which is kinda funny, I remember 10y ago that I was heavily relying on IntelliJ features to understand new codebases (jump to definition, find all usages of a function, navigate from SQL to the table in database tab etc.).

It turns out, that for a machine, find and grep is all that's required.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:23:02 +0000

Business side is different. I have a company provided Windows laptop and I could not care less about it's privacy or security - it's my employer problem, or at most my employer's IT/secops department.

But Windows for personal private use? No.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:03:47 +0000

That's one way to look at it, but you're right - taking "autocompletion" to the extreme, we arrived at a task executor.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Claude for Small Business"

mystifyingpoi — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:02:03 +0000

> and I had to pay 10 times as much, I still gladly would

That narration will make it become the reality at some point. Stop it please.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

mystifyingpoi — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:24:31 +0000

I was hit by the fire outage too, and the response was... mixed. I was able to start a new VPS in different region the same day and reconfigure everything, but data on the old instance has been lost. They also kept double-billing me for 3 months without me realizing, support had to step in to delete the instance that wasn't showing in admin panel, but kept generating costs. No refund suggested. I ignored it, since it was like $15 overcharge. Also months later the "deleted" instance reappeared and I had to kill it again. Strange stuff.

Aside of that exceptional case - overall they are pretty great and cheap.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "Docker images are MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:29:28 +0000

> Same as ARM nodes a few years ago: cheaper, denser, widely available – still not the default choice.

And rightfully so. Not everything can be guaranteed to work on ARM. It would confuse the hell out of less experienced people trying to launch a simple VPS or something.

New comment by mystifyingpoi in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

mystifyingpoi — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:56:36 +0000

Right, I mean that the logic of creating the packet was in the output tokens, sure. But the actual sending of the packet was done by bash command.