Hacker News: vluft

New comment by vluft in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

vluft — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:01:40 +0000

hey is there an option to get an OS without ads (oh sorry "promotions") included?

New comment by vluft in "Tailscale's Pricing v4"

vluft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:03:16 +0000

no worries :). I plan on remaining on personal plus anyway until such time as you stop letting me give you money (making this the second plan you'll have kicked me off of :P), but there's not actually any difference between the (now) state of that and the free plan as far as I can tell. (also is the plural of Tailscalar Tailvector?)

New comment by vluft in "Tailscale's Pricing v4"

vluft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:21:46 +0000

counts huh. well, I'm at 14 (which were previously just tagged "devices"), I guess at some point I get to find out what the hard limit is :).

New comment by vluft in "Tailscale's Pricing v4"

vluft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:08:23 +0000

does the "tagged resource" limit include services?

New comment by vluft in "Why I love NixOS"

vluft — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:57:04 +0000

nix & nixos are by far the worst way to manage system configuration, except for any other way that's been tried. imagine if there was something with declarative system configuration _not_ written in an insane undebuggable recursive nightmare of a language/stdlib? oh well, I'll keep using it, because what other options are there?

New comment by vluft in "Minimal x86 Kernel Zig"

vluft — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:08:34 +0000

well, not with efistub, at least, depending on how you define bootloader.

New comment by vluft in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

vluft — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:41:09 +0000

if an attacker is in the position to try to MITM TLS, they're in the position to just serve whatever they want on port 80 even if your server isn't doing that.

New comment by vluft in "Staying ahead of censors in 2025"

vluft — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:09:15 +0000

Maja R.

New comment by vluft in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

vluft — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:46:56 +0000

that is _purely_ netflix's decision; they have decided not to integrate. in fact, earlier this year netflix accidentally rolled out their internal version which has full integration with the APIs and then said "oopsie" and removed it again.

New comment by vluft in "Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one"

vluft — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:25:51 +0000

Good news for you, their local hub is available and I currently have fridge and freezer (and a few other sensors) hooked up to home assistant via it right now.

New comment by vluft in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

vluft — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:04:37 +0000

well, they'll be missed for sure.

New comment by vluft in "Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features"

vluft — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:13:59 +0000

that's not mostly what car enthusiasts care about, especially somebody buying a 150k porsche; they care about handling and road feel and a fat pig of an EV will never match a lighter car (well set up) on that; you can't beat physics when you're slinging that much weight; even set up as well as can be, a 5000lb taycan doesn't come close to the handling feel of a 3250lb 911.

New comment by vluft in "SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever"

vluft — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:06:23 +0000

What does that article have to do with Signal?

New comment by vluft in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

vluft — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:23:11 +0000

yup, I ended up implementing that myself via a coredns extension that does DNS for both tags and hosts. obviously not zero effort, but it ended up being quite straightforward, and has been working flawlessly since then.

New comment by vluft in "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking"

vluft — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:22:06 +0000

13-14 minutes at 75C (in shell), shock in ice water, crack into a slotted spoon to drain runny white. I realize this is not technically poaching, but the result is effectively a poached egg, and that's what people are referring to (afaik) when they're referring to poached sous vide eggs.

New comment by vluft in "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking"

vluft — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:18:17 +0000

I have an APO as well, and use it extensively, but I'd note that a) they have never released an API as originally promised (and eventually scrubbed all mention of the promise) and b) as of August of last year, new purchases will be charged a subscription fee for using the mobile app, which is necessary for most of the things you'd get an APO for.

New comment by vluft in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

vluft — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:56:10 +0000

https://www.seriouseats.com/what-are-the-best-eggs

New comment by vluft in "OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us"

vluft — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:54:33 +0000

man that's very concerning for wikipedia who is publishing it right there on the page linked above.

New comment by vluft in "Building Ultra Long Range Toslink"

vluft — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:20:15 +0000

On a related note, the excellent DIY Perks youtube channel recently replaced toslink leds with lasers to do a wireless surround system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4FuNAByUs

New comment by vluft in "Ghostty 1.0"

vluft — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:32:58 +0000

there's a flake in the official repo that works fine for me (nixos unstable)