Hacker News: pluto_modadic

New comment by pluto_modadic in "OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)"

pluto_modadic — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:38:06 +0000

OsmAnd still hasn't fixed utah addresses. If I enter in how we call addresses in local slang, it has no idea how to find it.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

pluto_modadic — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:58:43 +0000

Why do I have a feeling that this will be ignored as biased by the people who need to read it the most.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

pluto_modadic — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:41:59 +0000

Excited to try this out on headscale someday :)

New comment by pluto_modadic in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

pluto_modadic — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:05:49 +0000

This is kinda... rude. Like saying that a GUI doesn't serve a purpose when people could read the TTY.

CI gives you areas for your bash scripts to run in self-contained small runs, that may trigger other runs, in a repeatable fashion on a clean environment, on a GUI anybody in your team can see. It gives you quick integrations into things.

CD lets you repeatedly deploy - without forgeting a step that was only known to Phil, the guy that retired three years ago, remembering all the steps and doing something dependably.

Or... you could do bash scripts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40SnEd1RWUU (Just use a VPS, bro)

New comment by pluto_modadic in "We are discontinuing the dark web report"

pluto_modadic — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:39:38 +0000

huh. did their source / login get burned?

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Key Transparency for the Fediverse"

pluto_modadic — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:13:37 +0000

oooooo. but can it play doom?

congrats. excited for this. hope the mastodon team can integrate it.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)"

pluto_modadic — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:19:38 +0000

neat! damn, wish you had security openings. That SRE one looks nice though.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones"

pluto_modadic — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:11:31 +0000

if you don't have anything nice to say... :3

New comment by pluto_modadic in "How to build a solar powered electric oven"

pluto_modadic — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 04:41:49 +0000

wonder if you could increase fire resistance by moving the grout layer so it's not touching the bottom cork except in key spaces with a more effective insulator?

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Self-help gets philosophical"

pluto_modadic — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:44:32 +0000

IIRC stoicism was written by rich people (and advisors to rich people) who didn't focus at all on improving the system. It's on-brand for the self-help influencer phenomena where you disregard disadvantages to others and systemic problems.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "AI scrapers request commented scripts"

pluto_modadic — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:56:45 +0000

ignoring a rate limit gets you blocked.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

pluto_modadic — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:35:07 +0000

makefiles /can/ do whatever you like. They can download anything on build.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust"

pluto_modadic — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:05:17 +0000

looks like the installer still doesn't support LUKS2.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Feed the bots"

pluto_modadic — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:55:37 +0000

if that floats your boat, sure. It's also home to most of the world's malware, and you usually don't need it.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Making a micro Linux distro (2023)"

pluto_modadic — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:36:59 +0000

I wonder what the level of difficulty getting this to run as a cloud image (e.g. on Vultr or Digitalocean) would be. Or getting it to boot a GUI and run firefox.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Making a micro Linux distro (2023)"

pluto_modadic — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:34:25 +0000

this is kinda cool. Does that mean you can use u-root to embed as a UEFI image? or to boot a u-root image over PXE netboot?

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

pluto_modadic — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:12:43 +0000

"when you need shiny tech (you don't)" (aka, when to use postgres/sqlite)

New comment by pluto_modadic in "JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart"

pluto_modadic — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:12:39 +0000

if they pull out the AI stuff that'll be soooo cool :D

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets"

pluto_modadic — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:07:54 +0000

...the solution to IDORs is to authenticate each user and check authorization per object.

full stop.

New comment by pluto_modadic in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

pluto_modadic — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:06:00 +0000

DNS is:

- simple

- battle hardened

- distributed

- affordable

blockchains are:

- essoteric, backwards, and not easily implemented

- new and unproven, frequently hacked

- effectively a ploy to centralize / redo Web 1.0 but owned by one blockchain

- ...waaaaaaay more about money and "owning something" than DNS is.