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New comment by spacemule in "Show HN: I solved my study problems by talking to a goose"

spacemule — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:40:41 +0000

Does nothing on Firefox Android. You can't even see the error because of overlapping elements.

New comment by spacemule in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

spacemule — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:23:35 +0000

`sops exec-env`

I have an alias set for when I'm working with opentofu:

`alias tfenter='sops exec-env secrets.yaml "/bin/bash"'`

I encrypt with openbao's transit engine and backup age key kept in a password manager, so no secrets live on disk.

New comment by spacemule in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

spacemule — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:45:57 +0000

I would argue moving SSH to a non-standard port is security, but it's a different kind. By reducing the noise in logs, it reduces the workload on the human or agent reviewing the logs. So, you can detect an attack in progress or respond to an attack before it gets out of hand. With SSH on a standard port, the harmful malicious logs can blend in with the annoying malicious logs much better.

New comment by spacemule in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

spacemule — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:01:41 +0000

I can't think of anything that doesn't just work in that it's broken in some way. There are things that are different. I've been using MicroOS with Plasma for at least 4 years now on my personal machine and my work laptop. At some point they changed the name to Kalpa. There were some times in there where things were broken and it needed to roll back and pause automatic updates for a few days, but otherwise it functions just as expected.

A couple of annoyances exist. For example IDEs want to use the system's shell, so you have to make a custom entry to use your distrobox. Tools like python, node, tofu, etc are installed in a distrobox and then exported with `distrobox-export -b $(which $BINARY)` so that you can call them from the IDE.

For me, it's worth those few rough edges. When I install an OS for non-technical people who just need a web browser, I install Kalpa. It looks close enough to Windows to be easy to use, and it's never broken in a way I can't explain over the phone or a text how to fix.

It even passed the wife test in our house. It took a few years of marriage to convince her that her laptop shouldn't take 30 minutes to boot and open Chrome. She let me switch her over to Kalpa (it may have still been called MicroOS Desktop then) a few years back. That old laptop is still kicking and fast enough for her needs. Had she stuck with Windows, it'd be a brick now because of the requirements for upgrading to W10 and 11.

New comment by spacemule in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

spacemule — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:14:28 +0000

The meaning of the percentages is still unclear.

Show HN: Oauth2-Proxy-Injector

spacemule — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:48:53 +0000

A few weeks ago I could barely code in python, and I could not code a single line of go. After seeing claude handle a work project impressively, I decided to try using it to teach me to code. I asked it to scaffold projects, write todos above the functions, and tell me a reasonable order to work in. This doesn't teach software design, but it really helps get over the hump of learning the ecosystem and standard libraries.

Now, I still can't program unassisted, but I feel confident enough to read others' code and maybe even submit a small PR to fix a bug.

This is my first attempt at a generally useful project. It's a mutating admission webhook. This is still a WIP, but it's working and I'm using it on my own k3s cluster. It adds oauth2-proxy to pods that need authentication. On the cluster, I replaced Authentik with Zitadel, and I needed something to fill in the role of Authentik's proxy provider.

Since so many people are using and becoming frustrated with AI now, I hope this can be some inspiration to use AI as a tool to learn something new instead of as an assistant. Hopefully the more experienced programmers here can let me know what about this looks like slop (I assume it does). I'm afraid if I keep this up, I'll learn to program too much like claude.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779287

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New comment by spacemule in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

spacemule — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:47:05 +0000

Bouncing signals off of the ionosphere is most definitely not an option here. The bandwidth of the signals that Starlink needs in order to provide service are far wider than the range of frequencies that bounce off any layer of the ionosphere. If you could get a 10GHz signal to bounce off of the F layer, you'd have a lot of very excited amateur radio operators who would start using that instead of the moon as their reflector.

New comment by spacemule in "Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage"

spacemule — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:03:09 +0000

The cookie consent banner here is the ultimate dark pattern. No deny all option, and the options are impossible to determine. Is the first toggle to turn on or off? I assume on, but that's not labelled anywhere. Based on convention, I'd assume to the right is enabled, but it's entirely against their interests to have it default to off.

New comment by spacemule in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

spacemule — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:44:55 +0000

Almost the same situation here. The only thing I used was Kafka, and I only used that to allow horizontal scaling of Argo Events sensors. Moved over to jetstream, saved a bunch of compute and memory, and realized I didn't need to scale Argo's sensors horizontally. Really, Bitnami's decision made my life easier in the end.

New comment by spacemule in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

spacemule — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:22:09 +0000

The author's complaints about the various solutions hit home. My wife and I tried a bunch of solutions for shared tasks and lists. Finally I found vikunja, put it on my home cluster, and it's been a game changer. We never run out of milk due to a lack of communication, and I have no excuse to forget the chore she asked me to get around to last week.

There really is a sweet spot between helping productivity and overcomplicating life, and most of these applications go for the latter. Glad we finally found something that works for us. I'm just sharing here hoping it'll help someone else.

New comment by spacemule in "How to Network as an Introvert"

spacemule — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:55:10 +0000

I was thinking the same. When a person starts repeating what I said back to me, especially if it's nothing outrageous, it feels like I'm being interrogated. My response is to deny. E.g.:

> Me: Last week I went to the beach.

> Conversational adversary: You went to the beach last week?

> Me: No.

Maybe this explains why I don't have many friends.

New comment by spacemule in "CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app"

spacemule — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:37:09 +0000

I'm not familiar with it. Waze is such a standard that I've just gotten used to it, but I'm down to clown with anything new as long as I'm on familiar roads and routes.

New comment by spacemule in "CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app"

spacemule — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:36:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing StreetComplete. I hadn't seen that. My interests are usually around K8s, Linux, containerization, IoC, etc, so I honestly hadn't looked as deeply into OSM recently as I should. This looks like a fun way to contribute back a bit.

New comment by spacemule in "CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app"

spacemule — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:08:17 +0000

I tried to get into OSM a few years ago, and the barrier to entry seemed a bit high. Maybe I'll try again. For all I know, the lanes are properly marked, it's just a routing issue. In Israel, the bus lanes are a bit odd. A lane can be a turn-only lane for cars and straight-only for busses. So, it's a bit complicated. Even Google Maps can't handle it.

New comment by spacemule in "CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app"

spacemule — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:48:28 +0000

The biggest thing keeping me from using any open source routing or even Google Maps is that here in Israel there are roads that are illegal to drive on either because they're access to PA territory or they're bus/taxi only. No application other than Waze avoids these, so I'm stuck using Waze. I just checked this, and to get to a building down the street from me, it wants me to YOLO myself through the bus lanes.

New comment by spacemule in "Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls"

spacemule — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:05:16 +0000

This sounds interesting, but I cannot understand what you're saying. Could you dumb this down a bit for someone with no experience in marketing/sales?

New comment by spacemule in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

spacemule — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:02:27 +0000

I'm not understanding the issue. The article isn't so clear to me. Would you mind clarifying what problem they solved?

Per my understanding, there is a show with 14 episodes that the viewer wants to watch in every order possible. How is this not just 14 factorial?

I know this can't be the problem, but it's just not clear to me from the article.

Edit: I found this link that explains it to anyone else as confused as I was: https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1bvn1rz/...

New comment by spacemule in "The US island that speaks Elizabethan English"

spacemule — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:39:01 +0000

Are you thinking of Boomhauer?

New comment by spacemule in "The US island that speaks Elizabethan English"

spacemule — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:51:38 +0000

I was raised in Texas by yankees. Now I'm living in Israel with a British-born wife. I had no problem understanding that. It sounded to me like how some of my older friends in Texas talk plus a bit of slang. Maybe the exposure to British accent at home and a multitude of English accents at work and on the street helps.

New comment by spacemule in "US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication"

spacemule — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:33:58 +0000

I'm naturally inclined to be suspicious of people claiming pollution is the cause of a disease. It's certainly possible, and it certainly happens, but every individual case is a sample size of one, and the best we can say is it's likely an environmental factor played a part. On top of this, it seems the claimant has either through frustration or with malicious intent exaggerated or fabricated some of the claims. So, I'll agree with you to be highly skeptical.

On the other hand, it's entirely reasonable to assume that a large corporation would maximize its profits: it has a duty to. If the expected profits exceed the expected costs of breaking the law, guess what's going to happen. Probably the fairest outcome here is better enforcement mechanisms. Unfortunately, this outcome leaves both parties worse off in exchange for an improvement to society.