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New comment by redkoala in "Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster"

redkoala — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:42:08 +0000

“ Pot of Greed is banned in official Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament play in America (TCG) and has been since 2005. It is deemed too powerful because it allows a player to draw two cards with no cost or restrictions, providing a free advantage in any deck. ”

Reminds me of how Black Vise and Demonic Tutor were handled before the introduction of different tournament modes like Legacy.

New comment by redkoala in "404 Deno CEO not found"

redkoala — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:23:16 +0000

This site (from nx), while biased, explains it best. https://monorepo.tools/

In a poly repo setup, agents are less effective having to infer changes across repo boundaries using specs rather than code as context. Changes that impact multiple repos are also much messier to wrangle.

New comment by redkoala in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

redkoala — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:29:05 +0000

Is there a combination of open standards to drop in to replace AD integration with self management?

OAuth enabled systems aren’t enough, central management of users and machines are huge. If that core matures, it opens up the market for replacements in other areas. Teams, Outlook and the Office Suite need first grade replacements.

New comment by redkoala in "A simple web we own"

redkoala — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:39:26 +0000

The equivalent self contained home server exists today in the homelab community, either with Mac Minis or NAS systems running Unraid or TrueNAS with community apps. Add in Tailscale on top for remote access.

What’s needed is a lot of work on the software front to make it much easier, with interoperable standards. Self-hosted WYSYWIG options as easy to use as the social media tools for photos and writing and social posts. Ability to run distributed chatroom style instances with tracker like discoverability to replace Discord. Built in backup options with easy offsite backup replication.

New comment by redkoala in "Eight more months of agents"

redkoala — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:19:47 +0000

What are those 3 sentences that the author typed to replicate Stripe for his situation?

New comment by redkoala in "New Lego smart-play system"

redkoala — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:14:42 +0000

It’s a 2 x 4 Lego brick with a speaker/lightsand custom ASIC built-in, with light and sound sensors, reacting to IOT beacons that allow different sounds or light sequences. And it’s rechargeable like an electric toothbrush. It also has accelerometers that change the sounds as you twist and turn them around. The sounds themselves are generated, with the speaker driven by an onboard synthesiser.

New comment by redkoala in "Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it"

redkoala — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:26:29 +0000

Servo is pretty well run, and their regular donations have been improving. Details below if you want to also help https://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/#donatio...

New comment by redkoala in "Bookmarks.txt is a concept of keeping URLs in plain text files"

redkoala — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:07:05 +0000

I’m using a similar format to keep my links organized on an iPhone. A bookmarks.txt note kept in Apple Notes with markdown # headings to separate each category, allowing me to not keep open 500 tabs on Safari.

New comment by redkoala in "Obsidian Bases"

redkoala — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:53:33 +0000

One thing I still need is the ability to paste screenshots in-line in notes easily, like how OneNote handles it.

New comment by redkoala in "Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source"

redkoala — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:25:01 +0000

Open source licenses as they exist today aren’t sustainable to run a business. We’ve seen with the cloud providers how easy it is to launch a competitor if you don’t have protective licensing. Gumroad’s licensing is still small business friendly and protects another Gumroad clone from being launched.

New comment by redkoala in "Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source"

redkoala — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:22:38 +0000

As a marketplace platform, it’s still lower than Apple/Google/Valve’s 30% cut. You pay for distribution, security, pre-integrations, shopping cart and other capabilities if you don’t want to do your own software development.

New comment by redkoala in "Collapse OS"

redkoala — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:20:24 +0000

Solar powered micro-controllers might be the way to go that could hook up to crude automated farm machines. Depending on the life span of batteries, solar powered ebook readers to store those farming manuals and other guides, solar powered computers for spreadsheets and planning software, and solar powered cb ham radios for communications with built in encryption keys.

New comment by redkoala in "From where I left"

redkoala — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:39:37 +0000

It’s the entire premise of public goods, and the sustainable funding model for that would be through government funding or funding of open source foundations like the CNCF. For example, the IETF standards body is founded by the global charitable organization the Internet Society. How do we continue to build on this public goods funding model for projects like this?

New comment by redkoala in "Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine"

redkoala — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:51:42 +0000

Vertical tabs and privacy focused implementation gives me a good combination between the Arc browsing experience and the privacy protections that Mullvad browser (or private mode Firefox) deliver.

New comment by redkoala in "Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online"

redkoala — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:26:29 +0000

Consider caching your API results, and eventually upgrading to a paid tier to increase your API limits. Also, I should be able to enter a stock ticker on your website and see the corresponding model without needing to sign up.

New comment by redkoala in "Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died"

redkoala — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:17:00 +0000

It sounds like scuba diving, having enough in the tank to go for dives in the outside world at a time before returning to sleep in the lung.

New comment by redkoala in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

redkoala — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:58:57 +0000

Would you support compatibility with .http files in the future?

New comment by redkoala in "Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"

redkoala — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:39:39 +0000

In highly regulated national security impacting industries like defense, that makes sense. Google has not developed that rigor yet, although it's becoming obvious that their business has high national security implications now.

New comment by redkoala in "Dad died in 2022. Since 2023, things he selfhosted have slowly begun breaking"

redkoala — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:08:22 +0000

Can you open source the information structure for this "death book"? I imagine it's a common need. Of course every family is different, so over time modularity / extension should be build into the system structure.

New comment by redkoala in "Paying people to work on open source is good"

redkoala — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:05:25 +0000

We need more funding, not less.