Hacker News: planetafro

New comment by planetafro in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

planetafro — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:05:34 +0000

Self-hosted Gitlab is great. A lot of the US government uses this via bigbang if familiar. Designing things with an "airgap" in mind and control of your services is paramount in today's AI rush of slop.

New comment by planetafro in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

planetafro — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:42:37 +0000

I use Niagra. So good once you get used to it.

New comment by planetafro in "Steam Machine"

planetafro — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:14:48 +0000

Bro. I played what I consider a basic game, Inscryption, on my MacBook Pro M4 Pro with 24Gb and that thing sounded like an aircraft taking off. ...meanwhile the weak sauce Steamdeck plays it flawlessly. Fan hardly even spins up. There is a lot of work to do IMO on the Mac front. I doubt Apple cares.

New comment by planetafro in "Disney+ Subscribers Face a Wave of Cancellations"

planetafro — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:50:00 +0000

When we cancelled, I found it interesting that there was no place for a comment. My back-of-the-napkin theory, in-line with this post, is that they don't want the data to be available for these shareholders with questions.

Corporate fuckery all around.

New comment by planetafro in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

planetafro — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:49:27 +0000

...and fatalistic attitudes like this are what erode our freedoms imo. if we don't try, then what?

New comment by planetafro in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

planetafro — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:12:35 +0000

Have you seen the pico8 software?

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

New comment by planetafro in "GPT-4.5"

planetafro — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:09:21 +0000

I think search and chat are decent products as well. I am a Google subscriber and I just use Gemini as a replacement for search without ads. To me, this movement accelerated paid search in an unexpected way. I know the detractors will cry "hallucinations" and the ilk. I would counter with an argument about the state of the current web besieged by ads and misinformation. If people carry a reasonable amount of skepticism in all things, this is a fine use case. Trust but verify.

I do worry about model poisoning with fake truths but dont feel we are there yet.

New comment by planetafro in "What docs-as-code means"

planetafro — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:56:28 +0000

I can't even count how many times that I've had the DRY vs. verbosity of code conversation in trying to norm a team.

I'm in the camp of a little verbosity and repetition for the sake of clarity is worth it.

New comment by planetafro in "WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)"

planetafro — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:40:16 +0000

Also remote play is amazing!

New comment by planetafro in "FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users?"

planetafro — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:26:58 +0000

Really? The logo is literally a cartoon and there is a more friendly version if you choose to look.

I suppose an overweight penguin is more apt for that audience. I digress.

New comment by planetafro in "How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system"

planetafro — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:21:33 +0000

I feel like you are correct while thinking Apple's stance is the smarter play. My family ditched the entire Amazon ecosystem because Alexa was so utterly useless. Keeping people generally happy and entertained creates a positive mentality on the entire company as a whole. Let me tell you, having the kids on board is huge and prob a missed opportunity. You could literally be training kids to be little Amazon shills if this was done right. Mine loved talking to Alexa and then she got less and less intelligent and we swapped to Google's products -- same story there. Now it is pretty much a weather-bot and that is all.

New comment by planetafro in "Kaspersky releases a malware scanner for Linux systems"

planetafro — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:08:45 +0000

#1 Kaspersky #2 Impossible to schedule #3 Cant update, must re-download

Am I missing something or is this a pile of dark patterns to drive you to a paid product?

New comment by planetafro in "iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload"

planetafro — Tue, 21 May 2024 20:01:56 +0000

Did you actually read the article? The conclusion is exactly what you state. No big deal. It's just a meandering and fun read. YMMV.

New comment by planetafro in "Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split"

planetafro — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:37:36 +0000

I use WSL2 on Win11 and it uses my GPU, no issues. I'm not a power user so YMMV.

New comment by planetafro in "Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split"

planetafro — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:35:20 +0000

...uh, everyone doesn't run a Mac? I run adn Nvidia GPU in Win11/WSL, so this should prove helpful in a running models that push my VRAM limits.

New comment by planetafro in "Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git"

planetafro — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:15 +0000

As long as the source is available, I always take the provided bins as a convenience versus a default negative attitude.

New comment by planetafro in "The hater's guide to Kubernetes"

planetafro — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:32:58 +0000

Just a thought as well in my corpo experience: Unfortunately, there are some spaces that distribute solutions as k8s-only... Which sucks. I've noticed this mostly in the data science/engineering world. These are solutions that could be easily served up in a small docker compose env. The complexity/upsell/devops BS is strong.

To add insult to injury, I've seen more than one use IaC cloud tooling as an install script vs a maintainable and idempotent solution. It's all quite sad really.

New comment by planetafro in "Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?"

planetafro — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:51:10 +0000

Kevin Mitnik was famously held for 4 and a half years before his trial. That's where I learned about this shitty practice.

Anyone else rocking the "Free Kevin" bumper sticker back in the day?

This and civil forfeiture stuff always has pissed me off immensely.

New comment by planetafro in "Show HN: Tell YouTube Ads to Fuck Off"

planetafro — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:00:39 +0000

Turned off, yes. ...but at the same time, I am violently against greed and psychologically manipulative processes to acquire wealth. YT is insidiously screwing with peoples minds for profit. They can Fuck Off.

New comment by planetafro in "“Ansible for DevOps” eBook by Jeff Geerling Is Now Free"

planetafro — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:38:06 +0000

I do understand your point but would counter that, if done right, you can revert your last commit. :)