Hacker News: pilif

New comment by pilif in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

pilif — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:07:10 +0000

A migration like this is a monumental undertaking to the level of where the only sensible way to do a migration like this is probably to not do it. I fully expect even worse reliability over the next few years before it'll get better.

New comment by pilif in "The way CTRL-C in Postgres CLI cancels queries is incredibly hack-y"

pilif — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:25:55 +0000

it's also very tricky to do given the current architecture on the server side where one single-threaded process handles the connection and uses (for all intents and purposes) sync io.

In such a scenario, listening (and acting) on cancellation requests on the same connection becomes very hard, so fixing this goes way beyond "just".

New comment by pilif in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

pilif — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:45:11 +0000

Firefox is not in a position where it is the only browser allowed to run on a platform.

On iOS, you’re either doing a native app, sharing 30% of your income with Apple, or you’re restricted to Safari’s feature set. No browser in iOS can use anything but WebKit

The Discourse has been Automated

pilif — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/the-discourse-has-been-automated/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990444

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilif in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

pilif — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:17:32 +0000

On the other hand, by erroneously treating a SHOULD as a MUST, I would say that Google is the one who's not RFC-compliant

New comment by pilif in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

pilif — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:28:19 +0000

It’s open source and runs on all kinds of platforms. Original HL1 runs on old Windows and IIRC DOS. Nowhere else

New comment by pilif in "Vulnerability Unauthenticated MQTT Broker Access in Molekule IoT Air Purifiers"

pilif — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:30:25 +0000

I wouldn’t post some random vulnerability report, but the disclosure timeline at the end was very interesting to me and not putting the vendor in a great light

Vulnerability Unauthenticated MQTT Broker Access in Molekule IoT Air Purifiers

pilif — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://zuernerd.github.io/blog/2026/01/29/molekule-re.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834641

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by pilif in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

pilif — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:17:59 +0000

Isn't this asking for the exact trouble musl wanted so spare you from by disabling dlopen()?

New comment by pilif in "Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update"

pilif — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:13:18 +0000

You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem

New comment by pilif in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

pilif — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:56:30 +0000

what's especially strange to me is that in the more distant past, he was a pretty normal guy - at least as normal as any other linux user. Heck, he had a super great podcast (Linux Action Show).

Something changed in the 2014ish time-frame when it got more and more politically extreme.

New comment by pilif in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

pilif — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:06:58 +0000

> As for the fact that one cannot resize from inside the window,

if you check the screencast I posted, you'll see that you can indeed resize from inside the window. Not by a huge margin, but definitely from inside the actual window boundaries.

New comment by pilif in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

pilif — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:06:02 +0000

It wasn't meant as a rebuttal. Just as a point of thought: By showing that at least one application doesn't exhibit the problem, I thought I was showing that the problem might not be related to the Tahoe redesign at all but might have other causes.

It definitely serves to prove that this is not a design-issue but just a simple bug and thus has at least some chance of being fixed.

FWIW, I cannot reproduce the issue demonstrated in the original article with any window of any application on my machine (M1 Mac Studio), but I thought that listing a very commonly used application alone would be enough to challenge the article's assertion ("the macOS designers are stupid because they make me do something that doesn't make sense in order to resize windows").

New comment by pilif in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

pilif — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:32:53 +0000

As much as I like to hate on a new OS like the next person, I think it's worth pointing out we're probably not seeing the full picture here:

When trying to reproduce the problem as shown in the article by resizing the Safari window currently displaying the article, the drag cursor changes shape at the visible border of the window, not the shadow and consequently, dragging works as expected.

https://youtu.be/kNovjjvYP8g

This might be an application- or driver specific issue, not necessarily a common Tahoe issue.

New comment by pilif in "A faster heart for F-Droid"

pilif — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:15:23 +0000

400k would last me 13 years for a rack, power and 10Gbit/s bandwidth at my colo place (Switzerland, traditionally high prices)

New comment by pilif in "Bat v0.26.0"

pilif — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:28:07 +0000

Becky was so good for participating in mailing lists. I could slip by as a Unix user even though I was still mostly using Windows as my client OS.

New comment by pilif in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"

pilif — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:46:29 +0000

One thing that’s not quite clear to me is how safe it is to generate v7 uuids on the client.

That’s one of the nice properties of v4 uuids: you can make up a primary key of a new entity directly on the client and the database can use it directly. Sure: there is tiny collision risk, but it’s so small, you can get away with mostly ignoring it

With v7 however, such a large chunk of the uuid is based on the time, so I’m not sure whether it’s still safe to ignore collisions in any application, especially when you consider client’s clocks to probably be very inaccurate.

Am I overthinking things here?

New comment by pilif in "GNU Midnight Commander"

pilif — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:28:35 +0000

They are the same because both projects are inspired by Norton Commander for DOS which also used those keys.

New comment by pilif in "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"

pilif — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:02:48 +0000

> They may not be as energy efficient as using more exotic materials

yes and given that the energy you put in is practically free, it doesn't matter if it's not as efficient.

New comment by pilif in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

pilif — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:31:17 +0000

I understand this as an argument that it’s better to be down for everyone than have a minority of users switch browsers.

I’m not convinced by that makes sense.

Now ideally you would have the resources to serve all users and all the AI bots without performance degradation, but for some projects that’s not feasible.

In the end it’s all a compromise.