Hacker News: rb666

New comment by rb666 in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

rb666 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:59:16 +0000

The service in Europe is great in many many places. My experience with US service is that it feels very fake most of the time. Plus, staff having their own table/zone means you cannot ask any other waiter to help out cause "it's not their table". That's one of the many problems with this tip culture.

I agree with the tiered pricing argument, but ehm, you know you are allowed to tip in Europe also right? If you are rich and feel benevolent, feel free to leave cash on the table. You don't need others to be forced into dark-pattern PIN machines or feel guilty for not paying more than the bill for that reason.

New comment by rb666 in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

rb666 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:51:53 +0000

Isn't this what Helium is doing? I have been using it as daily driver for half a year, works a charm. Only would like better 1Password integration.

New comment by rb666 in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

rb666 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:07:25 +0000

His point is that the United States is the country acting in a hostile fashion.

New comment by rb666 in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

rb666 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:18:41 +0000

You know we kids did perfectly fine before there was social media? The point is, arguably we did a lot better.

New comment by rb666 in "How I block all online ads"

rb666 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:07:10 +0000

Note that using Helium, you can use a Chromium based browser and still enjoy uBlock Origin properly.

New comment by rb666 in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

rb666 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:25:27 +0000

That sounds like the behavior of the Eco program, which is often the default.

New comment by rb666 in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

rb666 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:59:50 +0000

If there was ever a game to play with KB+M, this is it. I don't get the need to stuff everything into a handheld. It's not Mario kart!

New comment by rb666 in "Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels"

rb666 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:27:29 +0000

Pangolin also uses WireGuard and does not lock features behind a paywall.

New comment by rb666 in "Lyon Drops Microsoft to Boost Digital Sovereignty"

rb666 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:40:04 +0000

There's been plenty Republican presidents who did evil things and mixed it up with acceptable or even positive change. Trump is the first one who's actually an evil fascist at heart. That's the difference.

New comment by rb666 in "The Worst Website in the Entire World"

rb666 — Wed, 15 May 2024 14:41:12 +0000

Just use Proxmox, it's fantastic for many vMware use-cases.

New comment by rb666 in "Geo Guesser identifies the location and seat number from an aerial shot"

rb666 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:41:47 +0000

Calling Elon a criminal is a going a bit far perhaps. But he does own it still.

New comment by rb666 in "My Overkill Home Network"

rb666 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:09:37 +0000

How is it an act? Caring about the climate is clearly morally superior than not doing so.

New comment by rb666 in "My Overkill Home Network"

rb666 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:06:42 +0000

Stick to Opnsense, it is better software that is better managed with a clean historical sheet.

New comment by rb666 in "Self-Host All the Things?"

rb666 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 10:27:54 +0000

That's minimum $60 p/m, a bit steep.

New comment by rb666 in "Turn your backyard into a biodiversity hotspot"

rb666 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 07:35:52 +0000

You know, you don't need to drink from or swim in the pond right?

New comment by rb666 in "Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act"

rb666 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:39:03 +0000

Stealthy dig at the European military acquisition strategy :)

New comment by rb666 in "Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address"

rb666 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:05:27 +0000

You're misunderstanding the concept of Mastodon.

New comment by rb666 in "Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address"

rb666 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 13:00:19 +0000

I have been a paying customer for years, and I don't expect to ever leave. My favorites are: - DNS capabilities - Friendly and fast customer support - Great, smooth, pretty UI on all platforms

New comment by rb666 in "“Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021)"

rb666 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:42:47 +0000

If you think building a house and writing complex software are in any way similar, you simply do not work on complex software, nor manage teams in this sector.

New comment by rb666 in "Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?"

rb666 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:31:00 +0000

Strongly disagree regarding 1Password, their client is continually improving and it is IMHO by far the best password managing service now, I have tried most of the other ones before it. Really have no issues with their Electron switch, I didn't even notice it, still fast!