Hacker News: tikkabhuna

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

tikkabhuna — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:51:02 +0000

Really? I've been very happy with how easy GitLab Runners are to manage. We were running 20,000 jobs a week on 6 bare metal boxes and we had tons of spare capacity. Simple Ansible script to deploy the runner and register it. Tags for t-shirt sizes to set the amount of CPU/memory allocated to each job container.

Maybe running on Kubernetes or some autoscaling solution is more painful.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

tikkabhuna — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:16:45 +0000

Isn't it a step in that direction? The first data centre in Europe shows a commitment and it will likely be easier to do the next data centre(s).

New comment by tikkabhuna in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

tikkabhuna — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:39:46 +0000

I share your disappointment. I just want a screen with a tuner. If I want any “apps”, I’ll pair it with another device which will probably be an Apple TV.

I’m starting to wonder if a monitor and a soundbar with an external tuner is possible.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

tikkabhuna — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:39:06 +0000

Do you have that the wrong way round? In the UK, you go to bbc.co.uk (and bbc.com redirects to bbc.co.uk). From memory, in the US you get pushed to bbc.com.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

tikkabhuna — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:43:05 +0000

Doesn't the "how to implement" determine whether to implement it? A poor implementation shouldn't be done, but a good implementation could make it simpler for companies to verify the ages of users, limit information passed to companies, offer a quality of life improvement for users.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

tikkabhuna — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:40:07 +0000

Why would an age verification app need to know your ethnicity/religion?

Governments likely already know your name, age, place of birth, so having an app with a standard API for verifying users isn't giving the government additional data.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

tikkabhuna — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:05:04 +0000

I think that's on you. I'd expect it to be on me. If I bought another physical product (a bike, football, scissors, knives), I'd expect to buy a replacement if I couldn't fix it.

That's definitely a perk of digital media.

And for the record, I'm not against digital media. There are a ton of benefits. I think there just needs to be better communication of the expectations between producer and consumers. Reading this thread and seeing that California requires the use of "License" instead of "Buy" is a good example of emphasising the difference between paying for digital media and physical media.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

tikkabhuna — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:51:00 +0000

Lots of leaseholds now start at 999 years.

It’s a weird system. The previous and current governments have been looking to modernise it.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

tikkabhuna — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:46:58 +0000

You can pay for services and you may use the term “buy”, but it is clear you’re receiving a service, and a service in its nature is temporary.

Buy a night in a hotel, dinner in a restaurant, haircut, shoe shine. These are all services.

Buying of digital services like games, films, and music is an evolution of buying dvds, cds or records. There is an expectation that you now own something. I can dig out my dad’s old records and play them and pass them onto my children.

If media companies want to sell a license that has an expiry date, that’s fine, but it has to be explicitly communicated. Consumers have to be well informed about what they’re purchasing.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS"

tikkabhuna — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:37:26 +0000

There’s no perfect solution here. Publishing to a separate registry can survive a Git repo rename, migration or deletion. Locking into a Git host seems undesirable. By separating VCS and registry they can offer different feature sets. There’s also nothing stopping someone from publishing to multiple registries.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Podman v6.0.0"

tikkabhuna — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:56:52 +0000

Yes! It put me off Podman for years. I do now think it has some clever ideas and if you’re running RHEL it’s a no brainer, but they should be more upfront that you will have to adapt. Especially if you’re moving from rootful docker to rootless Podman.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

tikkabhuna — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:56:03 +0000

The word “slop” was a good choice to talk about the mass of code generated by AI. I think it resonates with non-tech people and it conveys disgust. It’s clear that we should avoid slop.

“Technical debt” never hooked management in the same way and we have found it hard to convince them that it needs to be addressed. Debt in general is something that can be a problem, but doesn’t need to be avoided or addressed until it is a problem so the can is kicked down the road.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

tikkabhuna — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:22:50 +0000

Neither the automobile nor a gun can operate without a human. You could say “bull runs amok in a market” after it was released intentionally.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

tikkabhuna — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:35:55 +0000

Is that including or excluding bank holidays? In the UK, 25 days excluding the 8 bank holidays is pretty standard.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Apple WWDC 2026"

tikkabhuna — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:31:36 +0000

Is the end state that countries regulate app stores and approve apps? Apple has legit concerns. The majority of users would happily sell their own data for some tiny benefit. However, like you say, Apple has a perceived or real conflict of interest. Are Apple being benevolent or acting in their own interests?

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"

tikkabhuna — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:15:53 +0000

In the UK we have that scenario with people turning on kettles during breaks in TV programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

New comment by tikkabhuna in "India's surprise baby bust"

tikkabhuna — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:33:21 +0000

I don’t think anyone is going to be working at the hospital if they have to start dedicating their time to survival?

New comment by tikkabhuna in "India's surprise baby bust"

tikkabhuna — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:31:46 +0000

There is a huge gap between capitalism and communism.

Just like how pure communism doesn’t work, neither does pure capitalism.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

tikkabhuna — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:45:25 +0000

Yeah, this has been my experience too. I don't know how much easier it could be.

New comment by tikkabhuna in "Why is it called Kent House?"

tikkabhuna — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:48:31 +0000

It feels rather odd to see a local place on HN. On a tangent, Diamond Geezer posted about their 15,000,000th visitor[1]. HN came in 4th for referrals and was noted “Hacker News are an American aggregator portal who've only sent people here a dozen times but in such huge numbers that they're fourth”.

[1] https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/fifteen-million.h...