<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: redserk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=redserk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:24:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=redserk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "IPv6 is the only way forward"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If someone is still using the “remembering IP addresses” argument in 2026 (or at any point in the 21st century), I question their technical competence in configuring a network correctly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:22:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688692</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fiduciary duty is fun to define because I’d bet it could be argued both ways here. If you want to consider Costco’s low margins as a core factor as to why consumers choose them, opting for a decision that makes their customer base run off wouldn’t be very responsible to shareholders.<p>Consider the Target backlash last year. They’re since down 14% vs Walmart (up 30-ish%). Regardless of anyone’s political beliefs, I don’t think a 14% loss seemingly caused by behavior that a segment of customers considered hostile is thinking of the shareholders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:54:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648439</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It absolutely is silly. I’ve been responsible for managing low-thousands of Linux servers with systemd and it’s standardized a lot of things that otherwise would’ve been a lot of bespoke scripts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:48:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580673</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whether an appliance OS uses SystemD or not is as silly of a concern as “does the lead developer prefer cheddar or brie”<p>What about performance characteristics? Recoverability of workloads?<p>I’m interested in a FreeBSD base OS because it seems ZFS is better integrated and ZFS has a lot of incredibly useful tools that come with it. If Bhyve is at least nearly as performant as KVM, I’d be hard pressed not to give it a whirl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:21:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577836</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that this is what everyone should strive to do but this quickly hits a limit.<p>For example, IAM/S3/SQS policy evaluations can have profound impact on an application running but an abstraction wouldn’t help much here (assuming the developer is putting any thought into securing things). There just isn’t an alternative to these. If you’re rolling out an application using AWS-proprietary services, you <i>have</i> to get into vendor-specific functionality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:48:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476969</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, the opinion section was absolutely not pushed towards libertarianism.<p>Have you read it recently?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:41:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385159</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed. AWS is downright hostile about giving you any idea about what resources you actually have deployed, to the point where it must be deliberately malicious. Even their billing page is terrible for tracing down the root cause of usage with the default configuration.<p>You have to go into third party tooling if you want any chance of seeing what’s actually going on, especially if there’s any odds of you deploying stuff in another region and even moreso if you have more than 1 account.<p>At this point, I’d say it should be a best practice of owning 2 AWS accounts, even as a hobbyist: one payer account with a HEAVILY locked down SCP and then a child account with the stuff you’re deploying.</p>
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<p>This reads like vague posturing instead of accepting (or even just looking at...) the reality on the ground.<p>I have about a dozen friends spread across 8 different mid-to-high level universities around the country in biomed. Europe and Canada are definitely a preference but China is entering conversation and has been for the last few years.<p>The alternative is to abandon an entire career or field of interest because the funding is held up by irrational national political policy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082402</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47082402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "OpenAI should build Slack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s a size of enterprise where you can get away without PSTN integration but do need an answer for SSO and account provisioning/deprovisioning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021519</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47021519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I unsubscribed from the News app subscription over their decision to bake in ads.<p>I own multiple personal Mac computers, an iPhone, an Apple Watch, iPad Pro, a few HomePods, and a few Apple TV devices. I’ve already proven that I’m willing to pay for a product even when there are cheaper alternatives. Why they decided to make News a paid subscription with ads — especially low-quality ads is beyond me.<p>I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve deleted the News, Stocks, and Weather apps, and will just remove any additional apps they decide to chuck in. It’s a real shame their aggressive pursuit of services revenue is destroying what is a great hardware ecosystem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:54:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912232</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:15:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518882</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Again, how can you make these assertions without even knowing what these communities are?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:01:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515984</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How can you know the moderation style of the spaces I visit, when I haven't even linked them here?</p>
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<p>It depends how you want to measure engagement and activity. Quality of discussion is something to consider. It's very difficult to have a proper discussion when all of the responses are the same expected replies to low-effort ragebait.</p>
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<p>I'm tired of this point being repeated. This is not universally true. I'm in communities where the more active discussions are not ragebait.<p>I'd say HN's problem is rooted in that many folks participate in malicious contrarianism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:21:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514347</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ChatGPT is marketed as a tool to assist with real-world scenarios like looking up information, vacation planning, and other non-fiction scenarios.<p>Why do you find it surprising to find someone may expect to utilize the tool in a non-fictional way or that someone could interpret it’s output as non-fiction?<p>It’s unreasonable to apply this bizarre standard of “it should be treated as fiction only when I want it to be”</p>
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<p>I'd wager "scientist with a deep background in research of rocket propolsion technology in the 1950s" was a bit more difficult to come by than "early-career software developer who integrated a bunch of APIs and maybe wrote a frontend in React".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:27:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279185</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iCloud Private Relay<p>It's a very limited VPN as it only works for Safari/Mail and only anonymizes you to your region/country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:46:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275984</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps a quantity below "a single company causes enough of a spike in global demand that it'll have demonstrable impact in nearly every single industry"<p>And usually trade regulators would be the entity to start being concerned.<p>I assume you're on a quest to assert a "let a completely unregulated free market roar" position, but do recognize that global supply issues of critical components have negative market effects, especially when it'll have some impact on nearly every industry except perhaps lawn care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249045</link><dc:creator>redserk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redserk in "Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This does not change that:<p>- The Switch is primarily a gaming device for entertainment purposes.<p>- The eShop overwhelmingly focuses on providing games for said entertainment purposes.<p>- It can be assumed that the overwhelming majority of people do not use the Switch, or expect to use the Switch, for general lifestyle purposes.<p>(That said, I wish we lived in a world where the eShop wasn't the only way to get digital games on the Switch, but phones have evolved to impact a large segment of the economy in many ways)</p>
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