Hacker News: tekchip

New comment by tekchip in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

tekchip — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:51:00 +0000

Edge cases? There's a long history of brand new triple A games running poorly or not at all on Windows. Evstablished games have plenty of problems. There are millions on millions of support pages, forums, and the deep dark recesses of discord stacked with Windows gaming problems. Just because some folks don't have problems with Windows doesn't mean the problems don't exist. The windows user base is so vast it's easy to think there's no problem just because an individual doesn't see it in their little corner of the world.

New comment by tekchip in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

tekchip — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:53:07 +0000

This! It blows my mind every bank doesn't have a sort of scripting language of some sort that let's me automate whatever I want to happen. I've seen a few services that supposedly enable this but their prone to breakage, don't support one bank or another, or are simply way too expensive.

New comment by tekchip in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

tekchip — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:21:49 +0000

For every purchase you make as a gateway there's a vendor account on the other end receiving that money and required to do accounting with it (like issuing refunds) which requires keeping a balance. These are the people having big problems when their account gets locked and their funds are no longer available. The blow back does potentially effect you if you return an item and then the vendor can't issue the refund because the account is locked.

New comment by tekchip in "Steam Machine"

tekchip — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:51:07 +0000

I think they think that's converted by streaming unfortunately.

New comment by tekchip in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

tekchip — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:10:14 +0000

Can confirm. I live in a US city and the only 9 involved is maybe the very first number. I've lived here just over a year and we've had 1 full day without power and probably 8 to 10 short outages between a few seconds and several 10s of minutes. I'm adding batteries and solar permitting be damned.

New comment by tekchip in "Family Mart Designed Cute Teary-Eyed Stickers to Combat Food Loss"

tekchip — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:42:45 +0000

Does symbolism elicit emotion? I hope that's sarcasm. Let's ask some folks about gold stars and swastika and and and...

New comment by tekchip in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"

tekchip — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:26:09 +0000

>I've been running my own mail services for close to 30 years now...

There's the rub. 30 years ago this was true. Old systems have been grandfathered in.

A combination of rising spam and things like fraud via email have caused especially large services to be so much more aggressive in blocking. If your email has been around forever it's generally trusted.

The company I work for has been around for 15 years and we spent the first 5 or so getting yahoo and live/hotmail/outlook to accept our mail reliably despite proper dns/dkim/spf.

Self hosted on residential IP today is near impossible. Your only hope is pay to not be on a residential IP and even then strap in for years of struggle to get the biggest free providers to accept you as legitimate. Exacerbated by their thorough lack of actual support contacts.

New comment by tekchip in "Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet"

tekchip — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:43:10 +0000

Seems like a lot of comments here are US centric. As if Canonical and Suse don't exist and aren't Europe based/focused?

Also a lot of arguments that MS provides some total package which is irreplaceable which just isn't true. That argument seems to conflate software dominance in the US (is that even true? Linux runs most back end) with some kind of hardware dominance. MS doesn't provide hardware beyond some limited set of desktop hardware which most businesses don't even use. Most business lease from the likes of Dell, HP, and Lenovo both front and back end. This should probably be the real discussion.

New comment by tekchip in "I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox"

tekchip — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:01:24 +0000

The benefit to folks who flash devices frequently is obvious. However, joe user, the other 3 billion or so users couldn't care less. Poking holes in the sandbox for those folks is negligent at best.

Perhaps the solution is a separate tool, maybe just a separate browser, specifically for this use case?

Flash Browser, heck it could even come with additional tools to help do this. Preconfigured white or black lists, bookmarks to the most common flashing tools, reference material. Make it an even better experience than bolting webusb on to the browser raw.

New comment by tekchip in "Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1"

tekchip — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:39:38 +0000

Not a new concept. If you aren't paying you are the product. Increasingly capitalism demands the product also pay. Buckle up, late stage capitalism continues.

New comment by tekchip in "Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian"

tekchip — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:51:57 +0000

Software support being hand hold-y is nice and all but entirely pointless if the hardware isn't performant enough to run the workloads you want/need.

New comment by tekchip in "Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian"

tekchip — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:19:09 +0000

I assume that's an autocorrect for Proxmox. There is/was a Proxmox porting attempt out there.

I use Orange Pi 5 Plus in my home lab and I've found their builds of Debian are rock solid though a bit sus hosted in a Gdrive and pulling updates from Huawei repos instead of official. They do tend to be one or two kernel versions ahead of Armbian so it's unclear if the added stability is due to kernel version or some other patches and secret sauce. It has been quite some time since I've tried it. Ops 6.12 is well newer than the 6.7 or 8 last time I attempted Proxmox.

I've also found a lot of instability in what SSD you choose. Things are real bad on Samsung but after some research the Lexar nm790 is especially low power and this seems to have resolved my instabilities. There seems to be some kind of power handling issues on the oPi 5 Plus.

New comment by tekchip in "Software Design Is Knowledge Building"

tekchip — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:00:04 +0000

This is a general problem. Why's and how's. Or in project management, and what should be associated documentation, process and procedures. In this case code is procedure or how. The steps to do the thing. Which is great but it's hard to make meaningful and useful changes without understanding the Why, process, does the thing needing to be done and why, process, are the procedures or code doing the things they are in the way they are.

Presumably for code you would get enough why/process via comments but that seems unlikely. Perhaps coding needs to take some other tools from project management or something? Knowledge sharing/transfer is hard.

New comment by tekchip in "How do I pay the publisher of a web page?"

tekchip — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 12:51:04 +0000

Isn't this the problem Brave browser set out to solve? It's just that they did it with cryptocurrency so everyone shunned it. https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

New comment by tekchip in "Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia (2018)"

tekchip — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 02:48:29 +0000

This sort of thing is a dang nightmare. Perk your mouse in the wrong place or scroll and stop at the wrong place with your mouse over the page and all of a sudden you're not reading what you were reading. This is happening all over the place on the web and an apps. Sometimes it's moderately useful like this looks like it could be but sometimes it's just completely superfluous.

New comment by tekchip in "OpenWrt One router officially launched"

tekchip — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:10:23 +0000

GL-iNet's firmware is openWRT based, has added features, a system to manage many routers and a bunch of models with varying form factors and features. https://www.gl-inet.com/ and https://www.gl-inet.com/solutions/goodcloud/

New comment by tekchip in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

tekchip — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:48:29 +0000

Location: West Illinois US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: VMware, Proxmox, Windows Server, Linux, Bash, Docker, Python, SQL, SUAS Drone License

Résumé/CV: https://blog.brockh.at/resume/

Email: brockhat@fastmail.com

New comment by tekchip in "Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back"

tekchip — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:22:15 +0000

It only works when the majority of good actors adopt it as a standard. Effectively an agreement to abide by it. Or, as the article notes, it's enforced as a part of policy. In Europe it's being pitched as a method to help assure GDPR compliance. Of course that likely falls apart if what would be good actors don't agree to utilize or adhere to the standard. It probably needs to be picked up as a W3C standard or something to see broad use.

New comment by tekchip in "Why Not Bluesky"

tekchip — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:45:49 +0000

There seems to be some conflating of activitypub and mastodon here. Also perhaps a lack of distinction between mastodon.social and all other mastodon instances? There are hundreds if not thousands of individual mastodon instances each with their own hosts and admins. Then there's all the activitypub based micro blogging platforms that aren't mastodon, pleroma, diaspora, miskey etc. Finally all the wild and wonderful activitypub based not micro blogging sites like pixelfed, peertube, bookwyrm, anfora. So who's this "single leader"?

New comment by tekchip in "Mayor Adams' office directs NYC agencies to launch Bluesky accounts amid growth"

tekchip — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 06:23:07 +0000

Pretty tired of this rhetoric. Mastodon functions basically identical to email and damn near every normies has figured it out. Pick a server, sign up, share your handle(email address) with your friends. Type in box zoom zoom.

Content wise it's a timeline so you, by default, only get who/what you follow. Sure local server timeline and global is an option but then it's no better or worse than the random crap X's algo throws, uncontrollably, in your face.