Hacker News: seany

New comment by seany in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

seany — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:39:38 +0000

FWIW You can put a rpi in gadget mode and use nbd kit to mount nfs/smb shares..

New comment by seany in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

seany — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:03:24 +0000

Having mobile downloads work in any kind of same way. Honestly just offering a download file with quality drop downs would solve the issue for most people

New comment by seany in "Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO"

seany — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:17:20 +0000

Secure boot is the first thing that gets disabled on any machine of mine. Why is this a bad thing?

New comment by seany in "Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year"

seany — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:37:10 +0000

This seems implicitly preferable than the beauacratic death of the alternative.

New comment by seany in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

seany — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:02:47 +0000

Data governance compliance is a huge issue for some industries. "The days can't leave the country" will drive AWSs normal customers to demand bespoke regions setup and turned on

New comment by seany in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

seany — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:15:31 +0000

The fact that all helium escapes the atmosphere, and is essentially impossible to produce makes things a bit more complicated.

New comment by seany in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

seany — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:06:12 +0000

A bunch of things break when you do that, though I do run my osx machine that way. The point is that it shouldn't be the default, it's the end of personal computing.

New comment by seany in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

seany — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:26 +0000

Gatekeeper should be banned. It's my machine, let me use it

New comment by seany in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

seany — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:40:51 +0000

The caveat here is that it needs to be local. I have a few things that work with HA, but they basically highjack the apps cloud login tokens ..

New comment by seany in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

seany — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:09:20 +0000

With the way legislation is going these days, self hosting is becoming ever more important. RAM for zfs + containers on k3s doesn't end up being that crazy if you assuming you need to do everything on your own. (at home I've got 1 1tb ram machine, 1 512gb, 3x 128gb all in a k3s cluster with some various gpus about about a half pb of storage before ~ last sept this wasn't _that_ expensive to do)

New comment by seany in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

seany — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:07:04 +0000

Just dump it in a gist. That your of knowledge should be free

New comment by seany in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

seany — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:34:23 +0000

A. Not even a thought required.

New comment by seany in "Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts"

seany — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:45:06 +0000

What's the recommended way to consume this with other ai? What kind of api is available?

New comment by seany in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

seany — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:38:45 +0000

The real thing they need to be behind is getting app makers to ignore Google Play integrity

New comment by seany in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

seany — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:29:12 +0000

This is basically the end of the Internet as it was. It's actually quite terrifying.

New comment by seany in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

seany — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:27:13 +0000

Honest question. Why do you care?

New comment by seany in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

seany — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:20:55 +0000

Isn't hosting stuff on tor/i2p the solution here? Putting stuff technically out of bounds of regulation had always seemed like the ideal end goal

New comment by seany in "Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund"

seany — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:04:39 +0000

Isn't this what monero is for?

New comment by seany in "Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps"

seany — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:13:43 +0000

This whole pile of bullshit is just to end anonymity. Decentralizing things, including finances seems like the only real path forward to keep the world sane.

New comment by seany in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

seany — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:14:56 +0000

This type of thing seems like the main reason to not use projects that need a CLA.