Hacker News: xcdzvyn

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Nginx has moved to GitHub"

xcdzvyn — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:48:23 +0000

I feel this. Recently _some_ company, I have no idea which, has decided my IP is malicious and refuses to serve my requests. This has effectively banned me from a few websites, including a government service I pay taxes for.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "I'm blocking connections from AWS to my on-prem services"

xcdzvyn — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:52:23 +0000

I'm slightly ashamed to admit I don't know what RPZ, PTR, or SPF are, nor do I understand the asides about AI or reverse DNS.

What precisely is his problem with Amazon?

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Hacker Purity Test (1989)"

xcdzvyn — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:09:20 +0000

> 0x0D0 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space?

> 0x1B2 Have you ever set up a blind date over the computer?

Aged like wine.

Anyway, 0x83.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Python’s Preprocessor"

xcdzvyn — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 05:00:53 +0000

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

> error: internal compiler error: It looks like you're trying to break rust; would you like some ICE?

> --> src/main.rs:2:5

> |

> 2 | break rust;

> | ^^^^^^^^^^

> |

> = note: the compiler expectedly panicked. this is a feature.

> = note: we would appreciate a joke overview: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43162#issuecomment-...

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

xcdzvyn — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:27:26 +0000

Similarly I find I sometimes enjoy listening to the radio more than Spotify because I don't feel forced to min/max my enjoyment. I have to listen to whatever is on.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "RuneLite – open-source RuneScape Client"

xcdzvyn — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:03:31 +0000

I tried getting into OSRS a few weeks ago. I noticed the official Jagex client doesn't run on Linux, so I installed RuneLite. However Jagex recently mandated the transition of email/password logins to a fancy proprietary OAuthy thing that _requires_ their official launcher.

Apparently the kosher way around this is installing RuneLite and the Jagex launcher in Lutris or Wine, but I just gave up.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "NumPy-style broadcasting in Futhark"

xcdzvyn — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:45:02 +0000

I've seen Futhark on the front page a few times recently, has there been a resurgence of interest for some reason?

Exciting if so. I think it's a cool language

New comment by xcdzvyn in "KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features"

xcdzvyn — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:29:32 +0000

Fortunately Debian maintainers have a fantastic track record of writing ad-hoc patches for security-sensitive software.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "I before E except after C, except …"

xcdzvyn — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:25:32 +0000

I dislike that people interpret this adage being violated as an example of English's inconsistency. The clearer conclusion is that it just isn't true.

I could say "every word in English starts with ß" and then point out that every single word violates this rule. What a crazy language!

But that would be silly. Not because English is crazy, but because that obviously isn't true.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "The best way to have complex discussions?"

xcdzvyn — Tue, 07 May 2024 08:41:09 +0000

The communities are generally significantly smaller but yes. Двач, 8chan, lain, and sharty come to mind.

They're rarely "nice" places though (lain is fairly pleasant).

New comment by xcdzvyn in "I don't want to fill out your contact form"

xcdzvyn — Sat, 04 May 2024 15:50:33 +0000

Yeah, Canonical asks you how you performed in your high school English class as if that's something you're supposed to know.

Is that really a valuable metric for a software engineer?

New comment by xcdzvyn in "DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android"

xcdzvyn — Sat, 04 May 2024 04:50:00 +0000

I don't. Deliberately exposing people to risk for fun?

New comment by xcdzvyn in "As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs"

xcdzvyn — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:52:17 +0000

Why would I buy something that kills me the day after the warranty expires?

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat"

xcdzvyn — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:53:13 +0000

I don't want to spoil the surprise, but this is worth the read just for the "twist" at the end.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures"

xcdzvyn — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:16:53 +0000

This is fantastic. Great idea!

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)"

xcdzvyn — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:05:53 +0000

Not only did they choose to make their website worse for money, doing so encourages Google to continue doing this.

This all coming from "an anticapitalist tech blog" humoured me a little.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Dedoimedo reviews Wayland in 2024 and comes to sad conclusions"

xcdzvyn — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:21:06 +0000

Testing multiple DEs would be great but I think there's merit to calling Plasma more Linux-y (or hacker-y?) than GNOME.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model"

xcdzvyn — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:56:35 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Building a full Django project, starting with a single file"

xcdzvyn — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:04:56 +0000

I really wish there were something like this for Phoenix. I want to like it, but I feel a little inundated with all the codegen.

New comment by xcdzvyn in "Meta Horizon OS"

xcdzvyn — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:10:42 +0000

Yeah - while I've never dived too deeply, I have modded my 3DS a fair bit and didn't know what the OS was codenamed. I've always just seen it called 3DS OS, native firm, etc.