Hacker News: rubinlinux

New comment by rubinlinux in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

rubinlinux — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:04:05 +0000

I encountered this as well. If you only send a few email verification emails, the bounce rate is high. The only way to fix is to email the verified accounts regularly to push the stat on that side of the equation.

New comment by rubinlinux in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

rubinlinux — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:04:58 +0000

The use of init.defaultBranch here is really problematic, because different repositories may use a different name for their default, and this is a global (your home directory scope) setting you have to pre-set.

I have an alias I use called git default which works like this:

  default = !git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@'

then it becomes

  ..."$(git default)"...

This figures out the actual default from the origin.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Tractor"

rubinlinux — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:15:37 +0000

Wonder if the author is aware that in the 1970's during the gas shortages, GE developed an electric lawn tractor called Elec-Trak. See https://myelec-traks.com/E20.html It used DC attachments for everything, lawn mower blades (they sounded like an electric razor), chain saws, snow throwers, tillers, AC inverters etc etc. All powered by 6 golf cart batteries.

This build in the article reminds me of the one I owned for a while, was a lot of fun. Hope the kid has as much fun with theirs as I had with mine.

New comment by rubinlinux in "We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)"

rubinlinux — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:02:47 +0000

| Since emails are sent from the individual’s email account, they are already verified.

This is not how email works, though.

New comment by rubinlinux in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

rubinlinux — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:15:31 +0000

There is a product called BOESHIELD T-9 which actually does, reportedly, work for this. It was suggested in some thread years ago and I got a can, it appears to work well enough keeping rust creep off my ancient drill press table.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Sentry is now Fair Source"

rubinlinux — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:06:47 +0000

Nobody wants to 'read' your source code!

The entire point of choosing to use open source projects is that if you, the author, begin to enshitify the product (Or simply start to move in a direction different from users) users can fork the project and carry on an un-enshitified version.

If you can't compete with the author, you can't do that. So what is the point of picking software using this license over traditional closed source?

New comment by rubinlinux in "The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems"

rubinlinux — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:52:05 +0000

Emergent behaviors are something it seems none of the tech-bros attempting to re-invent things from first principles ever account for in their plans. You can't just reason out complex systems because emergent things cannot be predicted that way.

The reason your carefully reasoned worldview isn't correct/doesn't match with reality is because of emergent behaviors.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted"

rubinlinux — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:45:18 +0000

The thing this and MANY similar approaches take that rule them out for my use is they dont do drawings. I draw in my notes somewhat infrequently but when i need to I need to. I've been stuck with onenote for that reason.

Please remove my copyright notice from the source code

rubinlinux — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/544

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537343

Points: 3

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New comment by rubinlinux in "Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader"

rubinlinux — Fri, 03 May 2024 14:59:21 +0000

How do i know if i want to sub to this if i cant see what type of things they post first?

New comment by rubinlinux in "Optery's Statement Following Investigative Report on Onerep by Krebs on Security"

rubinlinux — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:05:13 +0000

Suggestion: A lot of people live as couples at the same address. Your plans don't provide an easy win for them.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Why I Live in IRC (2015)"

rubinlinux — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:30:25 +0000

Surprised no one even mentioned the matrix protocol yet. Its still very rough around the edges, but for an old school IRC person talk of Discord as an alternative just hurts me.

Do I want my community to be completely owned by a corporation, so that all the work we put into the network effect belongs to a company and they can impose/change rules at any moment? Have we learned nothing?

Matrix is the modern IRC alternative, not discord. And in some cases, you can run a bridge between the two, so I use a matrix client as my daily IRC interface -- best of both worlds.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Lie About Your Birthday"

rubinlinux — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:47:38 +0000

For years I have been putting postmaster@ for required email-to-download forms. Enjoy reading your own spam, jerks.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again"

rubinlinux — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:16:19 +0000

It is a very common theme in Elite Dangerous, to the point that the station controller will sometimes say "Oh seven, commander" to you.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses"

rubinlinux — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:37:54 +0000

Article claimed its from James Bond

New comment by rubinlinux in "Razor 1911"

rubinlinux — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:39:12 +0000

> Dycus, a member of Razor 1911, died of throat cancer in 2012.

New comment by rubinlinux in "What differentiates front-end frameworks"

rubinlinux — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:31:20 +0000

And vuejs has a browser plugin which can sort-of show you which components call which components to get there.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Ask HN: What is the morale like inside Reddit, as an employee?"

rubinlinux — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:54:14 +0000

Reddit was a co-op between a few groups of people.

General low effort content scrollers

Power users and mods who appreciate creating and contributing to make a community

Advertising interests

The deal was, the ad seeking was for the mainstream strollers, and the contributing power users and mods could opt out of the bs. The community builders get a nice environment for their community, the scrollers get content, and the ad people get to shiw thejir ads.

I always thought spez understood this. Its why the api existed. Its why old.reddit.com existed. It was the commercial machine's compromise to the content generators in exchange for the moderating and commenting.

But he seems to have forgot. I wonder why?

Without the compromise the whole thing falls apart. Reddit becomes digg.

New comment by rubinlinux in "Is there a wider internet outage today?"

rubinlinux — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:40:34 +0000

All of the MS subscription stuff seems to be slow today: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/microsoft-outlook-...

New comment by rubinlinux in "My Dating App Method May Be Unorthodox, but Good Lord Does It Work"

rubinlinux — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:00:46 +0000

tldr; bumble works better than fish, and the author is confused why.