Hacker News: sigio

New comment by sigio in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

sigio — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:09:03 +0000

Don't know if this is a regression from before, since in the RHEL 5/6 days I used XFS filesystems as my default filesystem on large storage-pools. Since XFS doesn't have a shrink option, I would create filesystems of a few gigabytes in size, and grow them whenever needed. I mostly used them for monthly archiving of uploads to a customer's website, so there would be a YYYY-MM lvm volume with an XFS filesystem, and during the month it would be grown automatically from a cronjob if space got tight. I'm quite sure I must have had a bunch of full filesystems there, and never ran into any crashing issues with full XFS filesystems (though these were not the 'root' filesystem). But even on my current laptop (with debian 12/13) I'm running XFS on all filesystems (besides /boot and /efi), and they report being full often enough without any crashes/reboots.

New comment by sigio in "Make zip files smaller with zip shrinker"

sigio — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:18:30 +0000

I think it's been in since debian 11... at least 12, it's been in my default ansible playbooks for a while.

New comment by sigio in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

sigio — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:23:24 +0000

it is in the UK, if the car comes with the feature, it must function. A warning light on the dash is enough to invalidate the roadworthiness.

New comment by sigio in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

sigio — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:21:01 +0000

While it would be nice, I think this would instantly write-off the car in UK and western europe, as various connected features not working on cars that came with them, or are 'new enough' to require them, cause mandatory yearly tests (MOT / APK(NL)) to fail, meaning you can't legally drive the car again until these are fixed and re-tested.

New comment by sigio in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

sigio — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:39:59 +0000

Yeah, my main reason to stay away from Keepass, everything is in a single versioned binary file. I like 'passwordstore.org', where every secret is it's own gpg-encrypted textfile in a git repo. Every change is a commit, easy to see history, easy to revert or know which version is newest. And easy to selfhost, you just need a place to git push/pull from.

New comment by sigio in "UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly"

sigio — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:03:22 +0000

23k even in some markets, ok, small low range cars. But yeah, the 30k ones start getting good.

New comment by sigio in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

sigio — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:26:42 +0000

It's an ODIDO ip, but from the old versatel block. I'm assuming it's a business netblock, not the typical ftth/dsl range.

New comment by sigio in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

sigio — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:20:04 +0000

Also worked for the dutch government for the last 5 years. All or most of the projects we did have been open-sourced on github over the years. Currently there are plans to move them to code.overheid.nl I think, though I no longer work there currently. (I was the github org-admin for the department)

New comment by sigio in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

sigio — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:31:49 +0000

Local government can quickly change that, if they get their act together. Here in the Hague, there's literally thousands of public chargers available on the city's residential streets. Coupled with the fact that the charging-price is city-mandated at a fixed rate (currently around 35ct/kwh), this gives a perfectly fine solution for most people. (I can charge at home, for 20ct/kwh currently, so that's even nicer)

New comment by sigio in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

sigio — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:50:52 +0000

On GrapheneOS (and maybe android generic?) this calls the emergency number, I just found out (with a 5 second timer to cancel this luckily)

New comment by sigio in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"

sigio — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:29:02 +0000

Yup, still get nightmares about glusterfs.... still have one customer running on it.

New comment by sigio in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

sigio — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:31:14 +0000

Time to use a VPN in your docker pipelines ;) Or run your systems outside of Spain.

Or can this be avoided by using an alternate DNS?

New comment by sigio in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

sigio — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:19:10 +0000

That's why I only buy Thinkpads from the business/professional lines... Replaced the keyboard om my t480 for $24, and replacing it myself was a 2 minute job (2 screws, pop 2 connectors, replace, and put back together).

New comment by sigio in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

sigio — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:11:20 +0000

I did the same with a limited subset of dutch laws a while back: https://github.com/sigio?tab=repositories&q=wetboek

New comment by sigio in "Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot"

sigio — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:33:52 +0000

My solution, put a cname record in your zone, to a subdomain, have that subdomain be served by a seperate DNS server (for example desec.io)

If something gets the credentials for desec.io, they can only use them to do stuff with the single txt record.

New comment by sigio in "Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot"

sigio — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:31:04 +0000

This got me to finally put effort into upgrading the firmware on my brother printer, which was still running stock firmware. There was only a password-entry, and that didn't let me access anything. After running Brothers updater in a VM, and sharing the usb-device, I managed to upgrade the printer. However, still no login, and now I need to get it reconnected to my wifi, ugh.

Try entering a long wifi-password via the 1-line lcd and 2 buttons on the printer, what a nightmare. (No way to configure via usb). Oh well, I still have a couple of days before I need to print a bunch of documents, so there goes the weekend ;)

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

sigio — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:39:36 +0000

For laptops, I always spring for the lowest amount of ram + hdd/ssd, and then instantly upgrade this from local after-market sources. However, this wouldn't work for apple devices (Hence I don't own any Apple devices).

For example, my current Thinkpad T14-gen5, was bought with 8GB ram and 256GB NVME, and then upgraded to 64GB ram and 2TB NVME, for the same price as 16G/512G would have cost at Lenovo. And then I still have the 8GB/256GB to re-use/re-sell.

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

sigio — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:34:54 +0000

At the same time, we had cheap consumer gigabit ethernet, and still have cheap consumer gigabit ethernet. 2.5 is getting there price-wise, but switches are still somewhat rare/expensive.

New comment by sigio in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

sigio — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:10:37 +0000

With adblock loaded, the page loaded a whopping 10MB, after scrolling all the way to the bottom.

So yeah. It might be bad, but I can only recommend everyone on low-data-rates/plans to always use an adblock/contentblocker.

(169 requests, 10.59MB / 3.28 MB transferred), total time 1.10 min)

New comment by sigio in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

sigio — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:46:01 +0000

Public AC charging in Germany isn't great, but DC/Fast charging is quite good. I traverse the entire country with a Kia Nero EV, and that's not really a problem using either EnBW, Tesla or Ionity chargers. Besides these networks there are enough others with mostly nation-wide coverage (but not as cheap as these).

(EnBW and Ionity for 39ct/kwh, tesla for a bit more or less, depending on time and location)