Hacker News: neocron

New comment by neocron in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

neocron — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:52:59 +0000

I did the switch in 2013 and haven't missed it. For games I ran vga_passthrough and later VFIO and others until pretty recently (I think right after covid I switched to steam directly on linux)

New comment by neocron in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

neocron — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:34:14 +0000

Ah Bill Gates, the epitome of good software

New comment by neocron in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

neocron — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:12:42 +0000

If have a different opinion on this, as I think it's 100x better to learn sql and just write it directly instead of using the dozens of leaky abstraction of some framework.

New comment by neocron in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

neocron — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:15:40 +0000

Ok, that is assuming /boot is ON the raid which I wouldn't want to rate for probability

But even if it is, you could just pull one after the other and wait for the resilver before pulling the next one (you will hear if it resilvers automatically)

New comment by neocron in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

neocron — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:35:21 +0000

Can't I just extract the key from uefi/tmp in this case? Not that it's easy, but with the right tools you can so it offline with all the time in the world

New comment by neocron in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

neocron — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:33:30 +0000

Why wouldn't this work with Raid5? One of my raid5 hdds cought fire and the server was still running. Talking about mdadm in this case.

5 minutes is plenty to boot initrd from a vm... what's that gonna take? 10 seconds?

New comment by neocron in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"

neocron — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:20:56 +0000

Which server today doesnt have Raid? Just pull one hdd out, extract what you need or change the image.

Then you turn off the server, and just start a vm with the captured init and capture the key.

Now you can decrypt the server offline with all the time in the world.

New comment by neocron in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

neocron — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:51:11 +0000

Shouldn't AI be able to take this one step further and just analyze the binary (of the samba server in this case) and create all kinds of interface specs from it?

New comment by neocron in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

neocron — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:24:19 +0000

But then what, become a part of China? I don't think Russia could defend themselves from an attack of a lesser nation right now, and I truly wish one of them would take opportunity

New comment by neocron in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

neocron — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:21:11 +0000

The bad thing is, they always did this and it worked. The good thing is, those russians stopped growing back with birthrates being one of the lowest in the world. We might just see a world without any russians in a few decades. What a dream

New comment by neocron in "A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck"

neocron — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:08:58 +0000

Played the first "3" on the first PlayStation. Completely different game from where it went since GTA 3.

And while Vice City will always be my favorite, looking back, I think the originals were better and I had more fun. But maybe I was just younger ...

New comment by neocron in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

neocron — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:59:49 +0000

And yet people still support it by finding ways around it instead if just leaving mac in the dust, simply not supporting it. Worked for Internet Explorer, will work the same dor mac

New comment by neocron in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

neocron — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:47:14 +0000

Iike that you both started with Fedora. Same for me but almost 20 yrs ago

Haven't touched it in a long time ever since debian8 was the point in time where it was fine to run on desktop and laptop for me, not only on server. Ever since then I have it on all my 20something machines

New comment by neocron in "30 Years of ReactOS"

neocron — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:45:08 +0000

Aah, ReactOS, my hope from the era of windows xp. After 30 yrs it's still another 30 yrs from completion, kinda like nuclear fusion reactors

New comment by neocron in "Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace"

neocron — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:26:24 +0000

Might as well be replaced by optical connectors next years, but who knows in advance. Currently there is no competition

New comment by neocron in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

neocron — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:52:30 +0000

dann halt nicht

New comment by neocron in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

neocron — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:54:32 +0000

I assumed we are talking about IT professionals using tools like claude here? But even for normal people it's not really hard if they manage to leave the cage in their head behind that is ms windows.

My father is 77 now and only started using computer abover age 60, never touched windows thanks to me, and has absolutely no problems using (and administrating at this point) it all by himself

New comment by neocron in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

neocron — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:39:40 +0000

Not a big problem to make snapshots with lvm or zfs and others. I use it automatically on every update

New comment by neocron in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

neocron — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:37:22 +0000

I have to many machines standing around that are currently not powered on or are running somewhat airgapped with old software from around debian 8 and 9, so I guess they will be a safe haven once the AI overlords take over

New comment by neocron in "The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project"

neocron — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:58:47 +0000

I laid my hopes to rest to see some actual support for somewhat current desktop or even laptop hardware with bsd in my lifetime.

Think it's been 15+ years since I first tried and hardware only got more complicated and closed than back then