Hacker News: na85

New comment by na85 in "Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)"

na85 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:08:25 +0000

Please delete my account and all its comments.

New comment by na85 in "Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)"

na85 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 05:55:09 +0000

How many without license plates?

New comment by na85 in "Who is the author “JC Shakespeare”?"

na85 — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 04:02:12 +0000

Your loss.

New comment by na85 in "TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML"

na85 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:18:26 +0000

>A lot of totally valid opinions out there about this, but I personally _love_ how the browser is becoming a very well-featured sandbox for shipping applications.

Unfortunately what's convenient for you as a developer is more often than not hostile and awful UX for me as a user.

Too often, developer convenience trumps good UX.

New comment by na85 in "Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest"

na85 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 07:11:21 +0000

As far as I can tell the host (Joe's Data center) has a clean ASN.

I'm open to recommendations for clean IPs/providers.

New comment by na85 in "Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest"

na85 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 04:03:10 +0000

A few months ago I wrote a comment on HN about algorithmic trading and someone emailed me about it. I sent him a reply from my self-hosted email domain, and I have no idea if he got it. I'm on a clean IP and clean domain, with a reputable hoster. I have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC set up correctly. Just last week I sent my gmail account a test email and sure enough it went to spam. There appears to be no rhyme or reason about it.

I believe the difference between people who say "email self-hosting is dead" and people who say "email self-hosting is trivial" is probably the volume of mail sent from their domain(s).

At my busiest, I was sending dozens of emails per day, but they were all from my work account. My personal account is pretty close to recv-only and probably averages an outgoing message count in the single digits per week. How can I reasonably keep an IP/domain reputation score fresh/warm if I send such a low volume? The answer is I realistically can't.

Self-hosted email remains an extremely difficult and time-consuming endeavor unless you happen to have some good luck, it seems.

New comment by na85 in "Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter"

na85 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 06:22:57 +0000

>This is always how it's worked, and it's nearly impossible to join any instance without following & interacting with people from other instances on a daily basis. It's like the one thing about Mastodon you can't escape knowing about even if you actively try.

I don't use Mastodon, so perhaps that's why. It always seemed like a Twitter clone except with fewer people and, importantly for this particular discussion, where you can't interact with anyone.

Guess I was mistaken, but that's why I never bothered to learn anything further about it.

New comment by na85 in "Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter"

na85 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 03:56:26 +0000

>The author seems under to be under the wrong impression that Mastodon servers are isolated communities (and therefore compares them to subreddits). This is incorrect. Mastodon is a platform where a server of your choosing hosts your account, like an e-mail provider hosting your inbox. From that account, you follow any other account on the network, regardless of which server hosts that account. Everyone you follow appears in your home feed, and everyone who follows you receives your posts in their home feed.

I've been aware of Mastodon pretty much since its inception and I had no idea that this was the case. The messaging really needs improved.

New comment by na85 in "Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'"

na85 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 02:31:04 +0000

Why would they be embarrassed? It's a PR piece, not meant to be actually secure against cryptanalysis.

New comment by na85 in "OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings"

na85 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:31:23 +0000

And thus the failure of BSD-style licensing is thrown into sharp relief:

Why are these projects that are used by many large and extraordinarily profitable tech enterprises dependent on community donations?

I recommend not donating, because to do so directly supports corporate parasitism.

New comment by na85 in "Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers"

na85 — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:32:44 +0000

Standard practice is to remove pacemakers. If you don't:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279940/

New comment by na85 in "FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet"

na85 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:39:24 +0000

It lets you run comparatively higher manifold pressures than an otherwise identical but unleaded fuel.

New comment by na85 in "US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia"

na85 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:27:19 +0000

>where for all

Wherewithal?

New comment by na85 in "US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia"

na85 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 01:17:04 +0000

Think of the marketing for Nvidia: "The GPU so powerful we're not allowed to export it. "

New comment by na85 in "134.5 kg Concrete Bike [video]"

na85 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:56:52 +0000

Good luck catching me on their intentionally-hard-to-push chair.

Think of the profits from thiw move fast and break things approach! Always be hustling.

New comment by na85 in "Performance Improvements in .NET 7"

na85 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:16:07 +0000

Microsoft is so incredibly bad at naming things it'd be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating.

New comment by na85 in "An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)"

na85 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:55:59 +0000

I used to feel the same way but lisp gets easier to read with practice, and unless you're writing code in notepad.exe or nano or something, your editor will show you the matching paren.

New comment by na85 in "A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2"

na85 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:16:16 +0000

Nintendo doesn't sell SNES carts any more. Who is the victim?

New comment by na85 in "A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2"

na85 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:06:37 +0000

It might be technically piracy, but who's really losing out on lost sales if I buy this and play SNES on it?

New comment by na85 in "A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2"

na85 — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:02:01 +0000

I think it's just a plain old web forum with a standard News/Announcement section.

In the before times (when WordPress was new and shiny, or even earlier) this was a run-of-the-mill setup and every community had a locked Announcement section where only moderators/admins could post.