Hacker News: papascrubs

New comment by papascrubs in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

papascrubs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:58:15 +0000

Two of the three components of LittleSnitch for Linux are open source. The eBPF (kernel portion) and UI are fully open source.

New comment by papascrubs in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

papascrubs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:43:31 +0000

I like to call it the "gray" market because the substances themselves are gray, not because of their source. My weed dealer doesn't sell GLPs (yet, but I can see that coming). I haven't seen anyone arrested for having GLPs yet either-- although I have seen plenty of US based vendors have to close up shop due to legal pressure.

I do that believe that risk can be (mostly) mitigated, mainly by sticking with longstanding vendors and by trying to minimize risk with the actual substances (researching proper dosing protocol, batch testing, not assuming dosing, starting out on lower dosing with new kits etc). There is definitely risk associated, that said I'm often dabbling in non-FDA approved substances, so regardless I have zero recourse if something happens.

Are there any testing/safety protocols that you follow?

New comment by papascrubs in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

papascrubs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:00:25 +0000

Depending on your appetite for risk, there's always the gray market. It's also a lot cheaper depending on what your insurance covers. I think I picked up a year's supply of semaglutide for under $200. I've been on some form of GLP for the last 2 years and for me there have been several tangible benefits related to ADHD.

https://gray.guide is a good starting point.

New comment by papascrubs in "I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today"

papascrubs — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:03:58 +0000

I'm sure some of these ransomware groups probably offer health insurance and 401k matching.

New comment by papascrubs in "LoRA Without Regret"

papascrubs — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 01:43:59 +0000

Not just me then. It's always the first thing that springs to mind.

New comment by papascrubs in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

papascrubs — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:30:03 +0000

And yet when the two Minnesota politicians were assassinated, that subreddit was full of its own blend of insensitive comments. Complete drivel all around.

New comment by papascrubs in "The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years"

papascrubs — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:44:06 +0000

I follow what you're saying, but many folks on this planet have far less opportunities than such a trip might provide. Guaranteed food, housing, access to cutting edge healthcare, a likely united community. I'm assuming these ships would be fairly big. It would definitely be different but-- would it be as bad as we think?

New comment by papascrubs in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

papascrubs — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:52:46 +0000

Sure!

Technitium is a full fledged authoritative recursive DNS resolver with adblock, whereas pihole is more focused solely on the adblock experience. Technitium supports full zone management, DNSSEC, and all DNS record types. Pihole is limited to a handful of types and can't do custom zones and the management is somewhat clunky IMO. Technitium has full DNS logging, statistics, conditional forwarding, and a full rest API for management.

I think Pihole is a great project, but Technitium caters better to power users and people that want/need more complex control over their internal DNS infrastructure (while still remaining relatively simple from a management perspective).

Simply put, Pihole is adblock with some DNS sprinkled in, Technitium is a DNS server first with adblock support. I don't think you can go wrong either way, but if you're going to need more advanced DNS capabilities at home, roll Technitium to save yourself a migration down the line.

New comment by papascrubs in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

papascrubs — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:09:48 +0000

I run Technitium DNS server at home in a container. It supports DoH, DoT, multiple upstream resolvers (and multiple upstream queries, adblock support and a sleep of other goodies (API). If you're self hosting an internal resolver I highly recommend checking it out. I prefer it to pihole.

https://technitium.com/dns/

New comment by papascrubs in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

papascrubs — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:18:29 +0000

Swarm syntax is much better than the YAML sprawl of k8s. That said the underlying engine was pretty buggy and lack of customization for lower level components was a pain. Their whole plugin system was a great idea, but actual plugins developed by vendors ended up being very brittle. That said, yeah I'd prefer that timeline

New comment by papascrubs in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

papascrubs — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:59:53 +0000

The year is 2030: The junior engineers of the Adeptus Mechanicus stand in a circle around the holy monitor, chanting prayers to the Omnissiah. Their arcane books and lore guide the machine spirit, ensuring the correct holy words of blessing are entered into the holy prompt. Petitioning the machine spirit for its most truthful, secure holy answers.

Oh wait, wrong distopian future.

New comment by papascrubs in "CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations"

papascrubs — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:04:12 +0000

Shouldn't it be distributed to just the employees of those companies? Why are we including every citizen. That seems to dilute that overall picture.

New comment by papascrubs in "Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year?"

papascrubs — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:10:28 +0000

Better fix your about page ;)

I've dabbled in NixOS and come to many of the same conclusions. The learning and troubleshooting overhead just isn't there yet (for me). I appreciate the concept and I do think declarative configurations do have a place in the near future, especially in corporate environments. I'll probably give it another go in a year or so to see if it's gained any more polish.

New comment by papascrubs in "Using Windows 10 past EOL (via LTSC supported to 2032)"

papascrubs — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 01:14:22 +0000

Massgrave ISOs actually download from Microsoft. It's just a small wrapper app that links you to the correct version. Microsoft also provides hashes, so it's pretty easy to validate that you're getting a legitimate ISO.

No comment on the other scripts. Although the source is available...

New comment by papascrubs in "Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point"

papascrubs — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 02:52:06 +0000

https://archive.is/LQfXa

New comment by papascrubs in "Excitable cells"

papascrubs — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:53:13 +0000

I have the same condition. I was diagnosed at a very younger age with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. It might be worth looking into.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wolff-parkins...

New comment by papascrubs in "Excitable cells"

papascrubs — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:51:00 +0000

I have a similar condition. Mine is:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wolff-parkins...

I have the same bouts of tachycardia. They are very intermittent, no real cause. And the same breath holding technique works for me. Very interesting stuff!

New comment by papascrubs in "Firefox 136 Desktop gets Vertical Tabs"

papascrubs — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:23:36 +0000

Per their FAQ, usually within 72 hours. That said it appears to be out now although the setting for vertical tabs is somewhat hidden (right click on the bookmark bar)

New comment by papascrubs in "An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox"

papascrubs — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:33:49 +0000

Built on top of chrome (electron actually). Same issues as every other chrome form. Also, doesn't support extensions.

New comment by papascrubs in "Microplastics are accumulating in human brains, study shows"

papascrubs — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:54:23 +0000

https://archive.is/qMP4W