Hacker News: rfmoz

New comment by rfmoz in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

rfmoz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:08:13 +0000

The Amazfit Neo was already doing something very similar a few years ago, a Casio-like design, always-on monochrome display, physical buttons and a 28-day battery life, while adding notifications and basic fitness tracking.

New comment by rfmoz in "SNET offline internet Cuba [pdf]"

rfmoz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:55:39 +0000

Details of SNET (StreetNet), a massive user-built offline intranet in Havana

SNET offline internet Cuba [pdf]

rfmoz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:55:39 +0000

Article URL: https://michaelannethomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/snet_cscw_2019_repair_r_r-5.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224751

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rfmoz in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

rfmoz — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:32:09 +0000

This matches what I’ve seen in practice, individual tasks may become faster, but the overall development process doesn’t automatically improve. Heavily dependant of the real hands behind.

New comment by rfmoz in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

rfmoz — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:17:00 +0000

Another SQLite user here. My site gets constantly hammered by crawlers, and SQLite just keeps going on hit miss. Anyway, the real magic is on the ram and the ssd perf.

New comment by rfmoz in "Collection of Digital Clock Designs"

rfmoz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:51:34 +0000

What would be the best device to put any of these ones over the desk? And old phone? Maybe an esp32?

Mobile Web Computing Before Smartphones. (University of Liverpool, ~2010) [pdf]

rfmoz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:49:13 +0000

Article URL: https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~trp/Teaching_Resources/COMP327/327-Lecture4-MobileWeb.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672569

Points: 16

# Comments: 3

New comment by rfmoz in "OpenBSD 7.9"

rfmoz — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:26:44 +0000

The main differences between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD

https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-main-differences-between...

New comment by rfmoz in "OpenBSD 7.9"

rfmoz — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:22:20 +0000

I used to run it on a laptop too, but the battery life was shorter and the laptop ran noticeably hotter than under Linux, so I eventually switched back.

That said, OpenBSD feels unusually coherent (ej. check wifi connection from terminal). The whole system has a level of consistency that's hard to find elsewhere, also between other BSDs.

For pet servers, it usually fits perfect.

New comment by rfmoz in "The vi family"

rfmoz — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:15:57 +0000

Totally agree, Vis really hits an spot between modern feel without losing what made vi great. The structural regex is a game-changer.

New comment by rfmoz in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

rfmoz — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:38:47 +0000

I miss on the list Counterpoint GUI for Amstrad PCs with MS-DOS

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/Counterpoint/index.html

New comment by rfmoz in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

rfmoz — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:04:12 +0000

Any provider for critical domain vault?

New comment by rfmoz in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

rfmoz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:02:46 +0000

Search on bios-mods for a modified whitelist BIOS firmware -> https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Forum-WiFi-WWAN-Whitelist-Re...

New comment by rfmoz in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

rfmoz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:20:31 +0000

There are modified BIOS firmware that allow any WiFi card. Good luck

Most complex cloud service dependency chain you've seen?

rfmoz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:42:07 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494178

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rfmoz in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

rfmoz — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:57:38 +0000

Vis editor [0] also has multicursor and powerful sam's structural regular expression

[0]: https://github.com/martanne/vis

New comment by rfmoz in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

rfmoz — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:41:35 +0000

Yes, "everything is a file" but the mouse on Rio is written in stone.

Aside of that, plan9 wins on the theoretical side, it was a research OS, but in the practical one... it's opinionated.

New comment by rfmoz in "The Book of PF, 4th edition"

rfmoz — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:24:02 +0000

Linux Firewalls by Steve Suehring covers nftables. It’s a good book to know the basics.

New comment by rfmoz in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

rfmoz — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:04:09 +0000

Give a try to Meshcore, their design has proven to be reliable in realworld use.

New comment by rfmoz in "LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet"

rfmoz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:46:22 +0000

Chinese AI is doing large amounts of request in the past weeks.