Hacker News: neitsab

New comment by neitsab in "Unified Arabic"

neitsab — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:17:27 +0000

When I was studying it, we were told Syro-lebanese was the cleanest and most easily understandable, with Egyptian a distant second despite being quite peculiar due to widespread popularity of their media production.

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

neitsab — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:06:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723677

Points: 75

# Comments: 34

New comment by neitsab in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

neitsab — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:49:41 +0000

I noticed the change because I wanted to persist Docker-related data between container instantiations on IncusOS. I couldn't understand why the custom volume I had mounted on /var/lib/docker didn't contain the downloaded images.

To keep both /var/lib/{containerd,docker} in sync, I use a single ZFS dataset ("custom filesystem volume" in Incus parlance) and mount subpaths inside the container:

  incus storage volume create local docker-data
  incus config device add docker docker disk pool=local source=docker-data/docker path=/var/lib/docker
  incus config device add docker containerd disk pool=local source=docker-data/containerd path=/var/lib/containerd

There are other ways to achieve the same of course.

New comment by neitsab in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

neitsab — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:41:43 +0000

Docker v29 (released 2025-11) switched to using containerd for its image store for new installs.

This means `/var/lib/docker` is no longer "hermetic": images and container snapshots are located in `/var/lib/containerd` now.

More info about the switch: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-engine-version-29/

To configure this directory, see https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd/.

Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs

neitsab — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986331

Points: 132

# Comments: 85

New comment by neitsab in "Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS"

neitsab — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:12:28 +0000

Look into https://gitlab.com/r3j0/incus-compose, it just published its first beta but it nicely gaps some of Docker Compose into Incus-land

New comment by neitsab in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

neitsab — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:08:34 +0000

As a French national, I am surprised to discover we are topping the charts according to this analysis.

Does anybody know why that might be the case? What's the story of IPv6 deployment in France?

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the 'easiest country to develop AI'

neitsab — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:01:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/japan_privacy_law_changes_ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692042

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Incus vs. Kubernetes: Why Simplicity Wins

neitsab — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:32:09 +0000

Article URL: https://pieterbakker.com/incus-vs-kubernetes-simplicity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549759

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by neitsab in "DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved"

neitsab — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:36:15 +0000

https://www.dnsperf.com/#!dns-resolvers

https://github.com/cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest

New comment by neitsab in "Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim"

neitsab — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:55:56 +0000

I read it as sincere, gratuitous and unfounded mud-slinging, which made me end this remarkable article on a pretty underwhelming note. We all have different senses of humor, mine would have needed some caption here :'-)

New comment by neitsab in "Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF"

neitsab — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:26:07 +0000

Let me present you a full 212-page RHEL 9 docs PDF on everything Podman, updated as of this month:

https://docs.redhat.com/en-us/documentation/red_hat_enterpri...

VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM

neitsab — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:50:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Workstation-KVM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013032

Points: 52

# Comments: 42

New comment by neitsab in "Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting"

neitsab — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:01:54 +0000

Funny how that kind of posts is now called "DevOps", while 10 years ago it was simply called "system administration" ;-)

Besides I fail to see any DevOps tenets in it, quite the opposite: a shell script at the bottom is little in the way of reliable automation.

To me this post reads more like someone relatively new to server management wanted to share their gathered tips and tricks, i.e. me 10 years ago when I started my self-hosting journey :-D

New comment by neitsab in ""Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you""

neitsab — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:18:48 +0000

Thank you so much for that! I was missing the ability to configure a very important option for me in Stable (layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override), but couldn't keep using Nightly because of its instability... You're a lifesaver!

New comment by neitsab in "Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool"

neitsab — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:21:49 +0000

Yes, it would be a great idea to update the wording as there is no way to derive that from the current one.

Even being sympathetic, my thought reading this was "probably bad code quality/rotten core despite the great feature set".

You can have a "History/Background/Origin" section where you put exactly what you wrote in your comment and it will be fine.

This notwithstanding, thank you very much for developing this app! I will look into deploying it on my server, it will be of great help to people around me who often need manipulating PDFs but are not super technical!

Do Not Try to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at This Time

neitsab — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:50:04 +0000

Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/do-not-try-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-at-this-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192317

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by neitsab in "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat"

neitsab — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:33:32 +0000

That sounds a lot like a corrupted ISO/install media! I suggest verifying the checksums and trying a different USB drive.

New comment by neitsab in "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat"

neitsab — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:03:47 +0000

Workaround: mount | grep -v snap

which you can record in an alias for easy access.

Not great, but you implement it once and are done with it.

New comment by neitsab in "Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains"

neitsab — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 17:00:58 +0000

A never mentioned but crucial issue with Cloudflare is that you are required to use their nameservers; you cannot change to use third party NS without transferring out.

Sources:

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/tran...:

> All domains using Cloudflare Registrar must use Cloudflare DNS on a full setup. This also means that you cannot change to another DNS provider while using Cloudflare Registrar.

- https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-step-by-step-guide-to-transfer...:

> We built our registrar specifically for customers who want to use other Cloudflare products. This means domains registered with Cloudflare can only use our nameservers. If your domain requires non-Cloudflare nameservers then we’re not the right registrar for you.

- https://community.cloudflare.com/t/can-i-register-a-domain-a...