Hacker News: tenderfault

New comment by tenderfault in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

tenderfault — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:57:21 +0000

Look. It works. I just spent 5 minutes reading the messages posted on your glorious chat app. If I'd be you, i'd plant an ad just above it. Why are you complaining.

New comment by tenderfault in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

tenderfault — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:35:04 +0000

all we want to know is how to grow our own mushrooms. I clicked with high hope.

New comment by tenderfault in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

tenderfault — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:06:57 +0000

They are! I actually watch this movie pretty often just to understand why the interfaces and the fonts integrate so well into the overall plot and visual flow. So glad to see two of my favorite fonts in your list, namely IBM Plex Mono and Berkeley Mono. But you should have a look at their newest TX-02, you will be pleasantly surprised. Do share your ghostty setup! Did you manage yet to render your terminal data through the Denabase interface?

New comment by tenderfault in "Show HN: A static, client-side tarot calculator for Brazilian Portuguese"

tenderfault — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:18:54 +0000

I like it when my tarot output agrees with my astrology chart output

New comment by tenderfault in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

tenderfault — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:58:27 +0000

I am actually sending some optional telemetry data as well, consciously. Telemetry I don't care about or smells it's disabled. I was referring more to some other type of creeping. I don't mind telemetry for a good cause.

New comment by tenderfault in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

tenderfault — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:01:00 +0000

I switched to Windows 10 as my main development machine few years ago after 25 years of continuously crashing Linux with an enormous pleasure. FreeBSD, well, there's nothing to crash there, that's the problem with it. Nothing. I didn't know almost anything about this Windows OS so I just started playing some sort of whac-a-mole game with it. I don't know what I did but right now I'm a happy (windows 11) user. I use Hyper-V with great success for driving my Linux and FreeBSD development. I like powershell and the dotnet platform and storage spaces and ntfs and many other. Good technologies, it feels good using. Windows terminal is almost OK. I stay away from crap like WSL and Code. I still use mutt for mail, not Office. And I can just play a game without any problems.

There's no Microsoft creep anywhere inside my daily flow. Actually, as of late, I feel more creep in Linux and FreeBSD than in Windows. Everything just works. Sometimes it tells me it has some updates for me. I let it install them and that's it. I'm back to my game, no weird stuff.

No account problem, no copilots, just my shit and myself and no Irene.

When I read about other users having trouble with it I get pretty sad. I wish I could say "do this and that" but I have no idea how my whac-a-mole game drove me to this happy situation. I must have (de)activated some (attack) vectors by mistake. But I whacamoled it head to end, from bios to wallpaper. I kept hitting and hitting, backuping, restoring, backuping,restoring, until i won. I'm on Windows 11 Pro in testing mode right now. Getting back to a linux desktop as my main? Nah, not right now. I have my i3wm running on a gpu partition inside hyper-v and sometimes I drop to it... I can't do all my arcane linux stuff in windows yet but i'm getting there. For now, I'm enjoying it. Been a while now. I just hope they don't notice me...

New comment by tenderfault in "Perlisisms (1982)"

tenderfault — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:36:44 +0000

76! Let’s do this!

New comment by tenderfault in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

tenderfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:56:20 +0000

I agree and I have the evidence needed to back up your claims. Stable home life? checked. Parent-enforced discipline? checked. High parental expectations? checked. Through some involvement though, to some degree: we as parents always show real and positive interest on what our children are doing and learning without really interfering unless they explicitly ask for it, and I believe this helps dearly. I learned by doing, trying at first to get involved too much - proved to be a mistake which he corrected it by himself, jumping from an IT career to chemistry in notime and shortly hitting silver at international chemistry olympics. I never try to interfere anymore but just be there, always ready to talk about it and offer the emotional grounding they so much need. Kids will flourish. My elder is on his way to what seems to be a strong, well built medical career and my 6yr old oh boy, she's ready set.

New comment by tenderfault in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

tenderfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:10:30 +0000

I just finished tapping 381 times, disabling (hopefully most of?) Apple Intelligence incursions in my life on a machine I don't really use. Was wondering what will I do next. Oh, look. More crap. That will keep me busy for a while.

New comment by tenderfault in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

tenderfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:06:34 +0000

[laughs in Gates]

New comment by tenderfault in "C++: The Documentary"

tenderfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:50:07 +0000

1. Find your hero

2. Meet your hero

3. Start an awkward conversation with your hero.

It always goes like this no matter what you try.

New comment by tenderfault in "C++: The Documentary"

tenderfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:44:36 +0000

So happy to see Andrei Alexandrescu was included in this documentary. His book on modern C++ design was a mind opener at the time I read it. Maybe still is today. Anybody else read it?

New comment by tenderfault in "C++: The Documentary"

tenderfault — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:32:24 +0000

funny, I think the same about rust.

New comment by tenderfault in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

tenderfault — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:41:42 +0000

I don't know Calbee snacks. We grew up with different chemicals in this area.

BUT. I must say, the packaging looks so much better in black and white.

It makes me think it's an honest product, whatever that means. Good feeling. Put your name on it, black on white. Sell it.

New comment by tenderfault in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

tenderfault — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:57:05 +0000

no comment

New comment by tenderfault in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

tenderfault — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:16:10 +0000

that’s not an error

New comment by tenderfault in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

tenderfault — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:28:49 +0000

amazing documentation for a product.

I wonder what font was used, couldn't tell.

New comment by tenderfault in "[dead]"

tenderfault — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:35:19 +0000

i don’t think you were in a relationship long enough to draw a conclusion. actually, it’s the opposite.

New comment by tenderfault in "Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio"

tenderfault — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:17:58 +0000

awesome stuff, YT has it and modli.rs is, well, up and running.

thank you!

New comment by tenderfault in "Obscure islands I find interesting"

tenderfault — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:36:47 +0000

are you an AI asked to introduce an existential crisis? no? no matter, keep writing, seed some urls