Hacker News: slig

New comment by slig in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

slig — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:42:34 +0000

DHH is an influencer and people like to follow them. I know I did 20 years ago when his videos influenced me into saving for a MacBook. He basically meme'd web dev with rails on TextMate.

New comment by slig in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

slig — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:46:23 +0000

Degaussing too.

New comment by slig in "How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk"

slig — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:50:28 +0000

Thank you for your clarification!

New comment by slig in "How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk"

slig — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:28:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing! How is this better/different than Libredesk? [1]

[1]: https://github.com/abhinavxd/libredesk

New comment by slig in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

slig — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:31:18 +0000

Ten percent is way too optimistic, I'd say 20% are destroying everything for the majority.

New comment by slig in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

slig — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:45:43 +0000

If you don't trust them and are unhappy, your only choice is migrating away. Vote with your wallet and don't host your email with someone you don't trust.

New comment by slig in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

slig — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:01:31 +0000

For a Linux user, you can already build such distro yourself quite trivially by getting some scripts and applying them on top of bare arch.

New comment by slig in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

slig — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:36:49 +0000

>for all the supposed savings, I certainly haven't seen any

Did you really expect them to decrease the prices of the subscriptions given the massive amount of money they had to pay upfront for all that nvme storage?

New comment by slig in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

slig — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:47:43 +0000

Try brave search.

New comment by slig in "_for-sale DNS records"

slig — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:44:57 +0000

Do you have any domains that you purchased with the intention to use and haven't been able to use them yet?

New comment by slig in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

slig — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:05:44 +0000

Do you plan to bet on this by buying PUTs? Should be easy money, right? /s

New comment by slig in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

slig — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:54:32 +0000

You're welcome!

New comment by slig in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

slig — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:44:33 +0000

You do you, I just want a search that shows what I asked and a browser that doesn't suck, is fast and has built in ad blocker, fingerprinting blocker and BS blocker (cookie popup).

New comment by slig in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

slig — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:42:36 +0000

This can be disabled, but the results underneath are still good.

New comment by slig in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

slig — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:27:22 +0000

https://search.brave.com/

Feels like Google Search from 2008.

New comment by slig in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

slig — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:18:09 +0000

Apple still sells 256gb disks, I'd say every GB still matters.

New comment by slig in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

slig — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:36:28 +0000

Must be nice to write code with the hopes that only intelligent people will read it.

New comment by slig in "Show HN: Trifle – Open-source analytics that stores answers, not events"

slig — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:13:20 +0000

Beautiful website, it's clear you care.

New comment by slig in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

slig — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:08:11 +0000

This is the scariest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581

New comment by slig in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

slig — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:07:22 +0000

I believe you did not see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581