Hacker News: turminal

New comment by turminal in "Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop"

turminal — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:25:30 +0000

This sounds like a great way to lose data when the machine dies unexpectedly.

New comment by turminal in "Debian's Git Transition"

turminal — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:24:25 +0000

For lots of software projects, a release tarball is not just a gzipped repo checked out at a specific commit. So this would only work for some packages.

New comment by turminal in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

turminal — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:40:20 +0000

In other words, for the user, it's not a step forward. It doesn't matter if the spec is perfect.

New comment by turminal in "Seconds Since the Epoch"

turminal — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 05:43:50 +0000

But most software that would need to care about that already needs to care about timezones, and those already need to be regularly updated, sometimes with not much more than a month's notice.

New comment by turminal in "MNT Reform Next"

turminal — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:14:19 +0000

As I'm sure many of the customers can tell you, the company and the products are very real. And they come in very real milled aluminum cases, the case in the images is 3d printed because it's a prototype.

New comment by turminal in "Systemd replacing ELF dependencies with dlopen"

turminal — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:00:26 +0000

I don't understand the initial motivation for converting regular dynamic library dependencies to dlopen dependencies. How does that help with reducing the footprint?

New comment by turminal in "Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset"

turminal — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:28:54 +0000

Except for the users.

New comment by turminal in "So you think you know C? (2016)"

turminal — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 15:34:47 +0000

If char is signed and ' ' * 13 is bigger than CHAR_MAX, you get UB by signed overflow.

New comment by turminal in "Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop"

turminal — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:21:34 +0000

That would imply WAF gets to see unhashed passwords, so not good at all.

New comment by turminal in "Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop"

turminal — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:12:23 +0000

The funniest part of this is that they don't even check for all of the banned strings.

Source: I'm a student there and tried it out of curiosity.

New comment by turminal in "So you think you know C? (2016)"

turminal — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 23:43:34 +0000

> The first 4 are implementation defined rather than undefined.

Third and fourth are only defined in some implementations.

New comment by turminal in "Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)"

turminal — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 02:09:02 +0000

Oh, this is about last names, that makes more sense. Should have read it more carefully.

New comment by turminal in "Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)"

turminal — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:36:51 +0000

Did I read this correctly, there is a mandatory suffix to names of all female Lithuanians, required by law?

New comment by turminal in "Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear"

turminal — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:31:40 +0000

Also probably going to speed up language extinction :(

New comment by turminal in "Musings on the C Charter"

turminal — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:01:40 +0000

"Code" refers to whatever software written in C. "Implementations" refers to implementations of the language - C compilers and runtimes.

New comment by turminal in "Problems on the Galaxy Store"

turminal — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:01:59 +0000

Yeah and they're both hostile to the user.

New comment by turminal in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

turminal — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:55:33 +0000

Unless Google Alert gets shut down by then.

New comment by turminal in "GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories"

turminal — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:24:04 +0000

A similar thing exists for Plan 9: https://orib.dev/git9.html

New comment by turminal in "A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees"

turminal — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:30:31 +0000

Wow, I didn't know about this correlation, where can I read more about that?

New comment by turminal in "Terraform Cloud Pricing Changes Sticker Shock"

turminal — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:23:38 +0000

The "task" changes from time to time as well. Creating crazy new things, then figuring out they're too complex and then reinventing them simpler is another endless cycle, much older than software development itself.