Hacker News: remram

New comment by remram in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

remram — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:46:00 +0000

I had no issue with regular distro update channels (those have mirrors all over) but couldn't get updates from PPAs (i.e. third-party). Feels backwards a bit.

New comment by remram in "GitHub Is Down"

remram — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:22:09 +0000

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946827

New comment by remram in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

remram — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:23:09 +0000

Bit of a tangent, but what I'm looking for is a S3-compatible server with transparent storage, ie storing each file (object) as an individual file on disk.

Minio used to do that but changed many years ago. Production-grade systems don't do that, for good reason. The only tool I've found is Rclone but it's not really meant to be exposed as a service.

Anyone knows of an option?

New comment by remram in "Steam Store is offline"

remram — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:08:33 +0000

Their regular maintenance window is Tuesdays, and there are often issues then.

New comment by remram in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

remram — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:04:12 +0000

When the device sync finally works reliably or bookmark tags work on mobile, I will concede that you've turned a corner. What I expect is more theming and AI bullshit, time will tell.

New comment by remram in "Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch"

remram — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:30:04 +0000

I'm not trying to argue against it, I think "slave" branches make no sense anyway, but to GP's point BitKeeper didn't enslave anybody, just used the word.

If we believe we should remove allusions to negative things why are we ok with "kill", "orphan", "evict", "bash", "cut", "isolate" etc? What is special about that terrible concept that we should stop using the word even when not applied to people at all?

New comment by remram in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

remram — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:05:01 +0000

Is there a way to configure alternate mirrors in containerd?

New comment by remram in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

remram — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:07:27 +0000

AFAIK, Web Wormhole is the only one of those tools that can be used both as a command-line tool and from a browser. It looks like the site is down at the moment though. https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole https://webwormhole.io/

New comment by remram in "Hetzner Storage Boxes"

remram — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:45:39 +0000

GB or TB?

New comment by remram in "Longhorn – A Kubernetes-Native Filesystem"

remram — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 03:48:29 +0000

Be aware of its security flaws -- https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/1983

Allowing anyone to delete all your data is not great. When I found this I gave up on Longhorn and installed Ceph.

New comment by remram in "Show HN: FeOx – Fast embedded KV store in Rust"

remram — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:36:38 +0000

Do you see any single user/desktop application that needs the kind of speed boasted in the README? The one you are trading durability for?

New comment by remram in "CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox"

remram — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:11:30 +0000

Is there some high-level overview of this "cascade of Ribbon filters" data structure? I understand bloom filters, but couldn't get any intuition for this one from FB's blog post.

edit: found an overview here that helps a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27800788 This seems good but will take more time to absorb: https://pangyoalto.com/en/ribbon-filter/

New comment by remram in "Obsidian Bases"

remram — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:55:11 +0000

I've been using the 'DB Folder' and 'Dataview' plugins, I'll definitely look into this new option. Does it work with Dataview at all?

New comment by remram in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

remram — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:01:26 +0000

You're right, I had the wrong date for LFS on GitHub.

New comment by remram in "A privacy VPN you can verify"

remram — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:58:24 +0000

What does the verifiable program do though? With a VPN, what I'm concerned about is my traffic not being sniffed and analyzed. This code seem to have something to do with keys but it's not clear how that helps...?

New comment by remram in "The future of large files in Git is Git"

remram — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:53:44 +0000

letsencrypt launched 3 years before git-lfs

New comment by remram in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

remram — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:56:37 +0000

Why? They can't read my CV? Send me an email if you need clarifications. Don't waste my time trying to appeal to a bot.

New comment by remram in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

remram — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 10:11:25 +0000

Unfortunately education everywhere is getting really hurt by access to AI, both from students who are enabled to not their homework, and by teacher review/feedback being replaced by chatbots.

New comment by remram in "Self-Signed JWTs"

remram — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:26:17 +0000

Yeah that's not happening. In fact most services with free tiers still ask for a credit card number, and if not still ask for a lot of information. It is a marketing scheme after all.

New comment by remram in "What is gVisor?"

remram — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:01:10 +0000

Who is "we"? What are "container plugins"?