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New comment by stock_toaster in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"

stock_toaster — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:51:43 +0000

Maybe just poorly run ones?

New comment by stock_toaster in "Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals"

stock_toaster — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:20:41 +0000

(tongue in cheek) It seems recent history has shown that zig can get you to working software faster, then you can port it to rust once you are acquired or find market fit?

Maybe at some point in the future zig could add a rust compilation target ( like with `-ofmt=c` )...

New comment by stock_toaster in "Codeberg Divides"

stock_toaster — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:32:45 +0000

codefloe[1] also runs forgejo.

[1]: https://codefloe.com/

Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

stock_toaster — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:47:09 +0000

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019

Points: 1660

# Comments: 967

New comment by stock_toaster in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

stock_toaster — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:05:55 +0000

I agree. It would be very interesting to see a forjego config-mode/fork/clone/alternative with AGit as the main (or _only_) contribution workflow!

New comment by stock_toaster in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

stock_toaster — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:55:41 +0000

> Yes there are ways around it if you have patience, but what the heck!!

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/

New comment by stock_toaster in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

stock_toaster — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:07:17 +0000

So like Broadcom?

New comment by stock_toaster in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

stock_toaster — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:57:13 +0000

Once dns-persist-01 becomes available/usable[1], it should make dns validation even easier.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01

New comment by stock_toaster in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

stock_toaster — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:54:56 +0000

> And the really insidious thing about this, is the fundamental asymmetry of effort between creation and deletion. Creating a Wikipedia article can take hours, days, or longer, of effort. Tagging an article as AfD takes a few seconds. The actual deletion (once whatever discussion happens) probably takes even less time.

Not really relevant in this case (that the article talks about), but I don't think that it is so cut and dry as "someone spent time on this so we have to keep it". Consider AI spam, or a company (or government!) paying, or forcing!, people to write articles with whatever focus/leaning/slant they desire. It seems like a hard problem!

Maybe people forget how things were before wikipedia existed? Like many things run primarily by volunteers, it is messy and imperfect. It's arguably still pretty great, and I'm glad it is around.

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

stock_toaster — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781196

Points: 262

# Comments: 407

New comment by stock_toaster in "Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made"

stock_toaster — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:44:06 +0000

Search for "ITO EN Mugicha Barley Tea".

There are other brands of course, but I enjoy this one and it is easy to get at my local asian foods market (as well as online).

New comment by stock_toaster in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

stock_toaster — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:54:16 +0000

Pepperidge Farms remembers...

New comment by stock_toaster in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

stock_toaster — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:39:07 +0000

I wish there was an EKS-like for Nomad!

New comment by stock_toaster in "Fox to buy Roku"

stock_toaster — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:52:28 +0000

Ah. I think I figured it out.

> FOX is acquiring Roku in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $160.00 per ROKU share. FOX will pay $96.00 in cash and 0.9693 shares of FOX Class A common stock for each Roku Class A and Class B share outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger.

So not a straight $160/share cash, but $96/share cash and some FOX shares. Roku trading below 160 means the fox stock is not considered worth (160-96) by the market.

New comment by stock_toaster in "Fox to buy Roku"

stock_toaster — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:49:52 +0000

I've always wondered.. Why would a stock (roku in this case) trade below the acquisition price (currently showing around 141)? (160 in this case)

Does the market think this sale won't be approved by the current administration for some reason?

New comment by stock_toaster in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

stock_toaster — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:23:44 +0000

Maybe time to pursue alternative implementations[1].

[1]: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-05-24-minimal-memor...

But It Happened [video]

stock_toaster — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQ7EoJDTQY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326511

Points: 50

# Comments: 1

New comment by stock_toaster in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

stock_toaster — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:54:59 +0000

Seems under-reported to me (as far as PDX goes).

For reference: https://www.datacenterjournal.com/data-centers/oregon/portla...

New comment by stock_toaster in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

stock_toaster — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:46:34 +0000

Or gleam if you don’t fancy elixir.

New comment by stock_toaster in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

stock_toaster — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:42:51 +0000

Unfortunately a lot of fiction (sci-fi/fantasy) ebooks are effectively kindle exclusive these days (amazon publisher deals exclusivity), due to the near monopoly amazon has… and since they have locked things down even harder lately, it is much more difficult to export purchases to other readers.