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New comment by wink in "The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27"

wink — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:16:21 +0000

Interesting. I've only been a (work) mac user for 2 years now and I don't really have anything against it, as long as I can move it to the side (looking at you, Windows 11) - I am not even hiding it.

I mean, sure, it's not i3 and I can't fully work without using a mouse, but alt-tab, and cmd-space and the occasional click work for me. Work as in: as a user with opinions on most software I am just now actively wondering why I never had problem with it :P

New comment by wink in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

wink — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:58:15 +0000

If you had asked me 10 or 15 years ago, yes. At some point I decided I am happy enough with a FritzBox (maybe also because of the included modem, so less devices) for home use - and then added 2 of the cheaper mikrotik devices.

I think there is a market, but it's small. I would absolutely not replace my setup now after spending some money just this year. Had this offer existed last year, maybe (but I have also thought about a Turris Omnia in the past...)

Disclaimer: I have used DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato and for the sake of this argument, they're interchangeable to me. Something FLOSS that I can configure, but I've not even checked what the market provides for many years.

New comment by wink in "So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes"

wink — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:13:55 +0000

I've heard just as many horror stories for the Apple app store. I don't think there is real improvement or downfall for either. You are lucky, or you are unlucky, and the two app stores trade places for your own problems every couple of months (or years).

New comment by wink in "Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account"

wink — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:57:01 +0000

Not sure how many weeks? or months? since I last visited it, but Firefox with UBO just displayed this perfectly. A low bar, I know.

New comment by wink in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

wink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:19:47 +0000

It's buried so deep between "ah yes, of course you know that if you ever used the feature" that I bet the majority of readers might have missed it (me too).

New comment by wink in "ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit"

wink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:14:58 +0000

Coincidentally I read this not too long ago: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/how-to-get-a-doi-for-your-b...

New comment by wink in "Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria"

wink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:58:16 +0000

for static sites... it's not that I would call them useless, but most are just not very critical. Clickjacking and any cookie attacks on a site without cookies is pretty useless most of the time.

New comment by wink in "Minimal Phone 2"

wink — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:11:53 +0000

I think if you ask 5 people what dumb (enough) phone meant you'd get seven answers.

For some anything after SMS is not dumb enough (ok, this still exists), others would be ok with just a browser, and you said Maps and WA/etc/.

I am not even sure I could give you a good enough definition, I'm kinda happy enough with Android and just ignore any dumb/minimal angle, because if I only take a phone with me I generally want to potentially use it as a computer replacement. There are really only 2 people I call regularly.

New comment by wink in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

wink — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:53:44 +0000

I've had this (first) work mac for 2 years and the upside is that every new version is usually only slightly worse than a new Windows version, which is generally a big step down.

For Linux I've been kinda indifferent for 15 years. Maybe it's me.

New comment by wink in "Java 27"

wink — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:46:38 +0000

One of the releases was that, though - either 9 or 11, with the package reorgs that broke everything. OK... it wasn't fast.

But Java 8 was stable (as in APIs, not judging its quality here) and since then it's gotten good again.

New comment by wink in "Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3"

wink — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:03:07 +0000

Because this is about having a local standin for S3, which (in a production deploy) often solves a different problem than a (local) filesystem.

This post does not even mention the S3 API as a replacement for a filesystem.

New comment by wink in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

wink — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:51:47 +0000

Just not being able to use one application is better than your whole OS going up in smoke every couple weeks. Yes, Windows 95A on the wrong hardware (and how would you know?) did that.

New comment by wink in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

wink — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:16:47 +0000

Apparently it was just so big and featureful that no 2 people can agree on their experience.

I only used it for half a year in 2003, didn't have anything to do with administration.

I could receive and send emails, and I think newsgroups (or was that not directly included?), I had not self-hosted email at that point, but of course used it for a couple years. It was better than Outlook at a job I had before that, otherwise I'm really indifferent.

New comment by wink in "Why I'm Not Excited About the Graphene OS and Motorola Partnership"

wink — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:10:15 +0000

Call me petty, but I bought a new motorola x4 about 2.5y after it came out (via gsmarena) and it never got a security or OS update, the date is still before my time of purchase. The hardware still works perfectly fine, I use it as a small tablet around the house but I've long stopped using any kind of account on it that I care about.

I will never buy a motorola phone again and I'll gladly tell everyone to avoid them.

New comment by wink in "Show HN: HomeCat – Design your backyard office"

wink — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:36:46 +0000

I mean the page is in English and they used $ for the currency, how many countries could they really target? /s

New comment by wink in "There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis"

wink — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:51:07 +0000

Things change. I'd been involved with some game wikis long enough ago that moving there was a good idea (if you had no one who wanted to do server admin and no hw/vps sponsors)

New comment by wink in "Site Is Closed on Sundays"

wink — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:27:39 +0000

I'm not sure it's really snarky. In large parts of Germany stores have been closed on Sundays for most of my life (and where I live also after 20:00) and yes, going into town or to IKEA on a Saturday is actually a meme sometimes.

Both things can be true - I can be indifferent or appreciative of stuff being closed on Sundays and I can also be annoyed that 90% of the people have their only free day on the same day and thus bigger shopping needs to happen there instead of being spread over two days, unless you take days off.

New comment by wink in "Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?"

wink — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:44:27 +0000

I have a lot more computers than family members, so that's only fair I guess?

New comment by wink in "Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history"

wink — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:55:25 +0000

I know just as many people who have that title foisted upon them by HR and leadership of their company than others who have taken it up.

So I think it sounds more than actual people who would be happy to be called software developers.

New comment by wink in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

wink — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:56:38 +0000

Then you were simply lucky, because I see myself 90% agreeing with the person you replied to - but of course it can vary between orgs and countries.