<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: predictabl3</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=predictabl3</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:55:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=predictabl3" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "TPM provides zero practical security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The absolute dumbest shit here gets up voted regarding Linux.<p>No dang, I don't care about the spirit of the site when absolute ludicrous mindrot garbage is up voted here constantly. You'll note on the Wayland thread that, despite being the 30th Wayland thread, the only substantive reply agreed with me. It's a joke.<p>Don't worry, I'm changing my password to a random guid, you'll be free of me in 45 seconds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437278</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Exa Is Deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol, as a distro package maintainer, I've literally stopped packaging and stopped using software that uses autotools. Given me meson or give me a software compiled in a respectable language, or preferably, death. I'd take cargo and its crates.io namespace warts every day over autotools, and twice on every day of the week.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:37:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421610</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Exa Is Deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh never stop HN. I should never use anything except 30 year old gnu tools because they've definitely never gone through development lulls, or changed ownership. Etc. "They'll still work in years", as if exa doesn't still work just fine. People here just say the stupidest shit without an ounce of consideration of how ignorant it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:35:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421589</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Man, HN really just can't handle harsh truths. Do I need to go dig up 6 year old issues about this? Or the half dozen times it's come up on HN over the last 5 years?<p>I love Rust, I'm a big fanboy, but we need to stop pretending there aren't glaring blind spots.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:07:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401802</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Plastic Money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for at least offering <i>something interesting</i>. To be honest, the state of crypto is past what I can keep up with, but that gives me some concrete foot-holds to look into Phonon vs Lightning more.<p>thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401796</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Deno KV Is in Open Beta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genuine question, are there folks hyped about Deno that don't come from a nodejs background?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:03:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401775</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Rust crate rg typosquatting/redirect to ripgrep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This issue has been pointed out so many times, it's clear it just doesn't matter, really, to anyone on the Cargo team. Meanwhile, years after this criticism was first offered, the problem remains, only more entrenched.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:58:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37395400</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37395400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37395400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Plastic Money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please don't scorch me HN, this isn't an endorsement, just a question for thought -- but isn't this one of the things Lightning is sort of meant to solve?<p>lol, literally less than 20 seconds.<p>> Then, when does reconciliation happen? When either party goes online? What if it is not a closed loop system? Then, reconciliation needs to happen for both parties independently. How long can either party stay offline and continue to make transactions? Is it both send and receive or only send on one side and only receive on another side? What if one party (merchant/receiver) is more likely to be online (almost always). Does it just become online payments problem then? NFC tap and pay is exactly this scenario.<p>Again, literally the exact problem statement and value proposition of Lightning, but <i>stupid, stupid</i> me for daring to mention it here, I guess. Feel free to ignore that the idea behind Lightning could be useful without being tied to crypto, but can't possibly have a conversation about that. Nope.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:36:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381517</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "California tech transplants unhappy with exodus to Austin, report says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I absolutely love that Texas has managed to convince their citizens that the states' problems are definitely most certainly all those California transplants (that they encouraged to immigrate) and not the states own self inflicted bs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 17:40:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372348</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't they get tired of being wrong, too? I've used software from these types of people and their stuff crashes and segfaults as much or more than their equivalents, certainly than the rust equivalents I use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 16:37:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37371768</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37371768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37371768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you not see people warning against this previously?<p>These warnings are like "make backups", "use a password manager". Afaict, people are either going to, and have, or they're going to be lazy and assume it won't hurt them until it does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:27:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37365220</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37365220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37365220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Keep your files inside your VM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard to trust this when the conclusion is to use NFS instead of VirtioFS. I don't buy that NFS over network, to a VM is faster than 9p, and certainly isn't faster than VirtioFS. Though "share from the VM" is good advice for NFS, since you can just reboot the guest when some part of NFS inevitably hangs (not-so-distant trauma here, including learning how to force power-off when shutdown is broken by NFS).<p>And yes, it works with Windows: <a href="https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/howto-windows.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/howto-windows.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37344349</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37344349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37344349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Show HN: Squabblr – A Twitter/Reddit hybrid platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm getting a self-signed SSL cert and then a generic Under Construction page. :/ Mostly just fyi: <a href="https://images2.imgbox.com/59/43/iBpTIRgT_o.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://images2.imgbox.com/59/43/iBpTIRgT_o.png</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:46:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343462</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37343462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "OpenTF Is Disconnected from Reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't believe I bothered reading that. Luckily the discussion of the client side encryption feature request gave me enough context to immediately stop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37339778</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37339778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37339778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Desktop Gets Unboxed, Offers Strong Linux Performance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As with all of these types of boards, it ships with some oddball u-boot bsp version, and from what I can tell upstream efforts for u-boot are going slowly (<a href="https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/?q=lichee" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/?q=lichee</a>). YMMV. If you want to play ball with the shipping LicheePi4A bsp u-boot, you have to specially put firmware bins in /boot so that u-boot can slurp em and load em.<p>Contrasted with VF2 which appears to maybe even now be bootable from upstream u-boot with NVME. Something not even yet true of Rock5B from Collabora's "hardware-enablement" repos. (<a href="https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/u-boot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...</a>)<p>I'm supposed to be forgetting this. Maybe passing on the trauma is my way of healing.<p>Something I am (why, someone stop me?) curious about is the differences in toolchains used. I've seen it reported in several places now that stock GCC produces noticeably inferior code to the optimized th1520 toolchain. Is that going to change/be upstreamed/ etc?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 01:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37331517</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37331517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37331517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Show HN: Remote terminal via WebRTC, incl. file-transfer – no SSH/VPN required"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I personally would wait to show it until it's usable. The self-hosting docs say "forthcoming". I'm quite interested to learn more, whenever that might be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:14:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330879</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My CC company has been happy to handle this for me. A gym in a country I no longer reside in ignored all attempts to reach them to cancel a renewing, but non-contract, gym membership. The CC did a charge back and stopped future charges. Took a few minutes on the phone.<p>Additionally, I've taken to using my providers throwaway card generator to make site-specific ones that I can then one-click disable whenever I feel like it.<p>Granted, they only have this exposed through a fairly buggy browser extension, you can't just "do it" easily on the website, so I won't bother giving them the free marketing of mentioning them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:23:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37328469</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37328469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37328469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since I'm the one that said it originally, I tend to strongly agree. I really can't stand it. Its such an absolute, unnecessary respect killer.</p>
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<p>Nym?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:35:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308571</link><dc:creator>predictabl3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by predictabl3 in "Ask HN: How can I meaningfully object to WhatsApp processing of my information?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Technical details 404, nothing about what distinguishes it from other chat platforms and hosts it's own community on discord. No.</p>
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