Hacker News: zacwest

New comment by zacwest in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

zacwest — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:40:38 +0000

The real downside to subdomain addressing is that very few other providers support it. I think Migadu is the only one I could find. If you do end up needing to leave Fastmail, you might have to configure each and every subdomain as a unique email domain somewhere else. I would avoid it if you're starting fresh.

New comment by zacwest in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

zacwest — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:25:11 +0000

Developers cannot issue refunds from the Apple App Store. Contacting the developer by physical mail doesn’t have any effect.

New comment by zacwest in "Verisign to delete .name 3LDs and email addresses"

zacwest — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:50 +0000

I could understand limiting new registrations, but permanently and irreparably breaking people's website domains and email addresses feels pretty hostile considering how little resources this must take up.

Verisign to delete .name 3LDs and email addresses

zacwest — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://domainincite.com/31699-verisign-to-delete-name-3lds-and-email-addresses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125694

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

2026 new gTLD round has opened

zacwest — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://domainincite.com/31680-2026-new-gtld-round-has-actually-opened

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975207

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

zacwest — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1066156/80d0f285132960fb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809278

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by zacwest in "A Decade of Docker Containers"

zacwest — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:57:30 +0000

The historic information in here was really interesting, and a great example of an article rapidly expanding in scope and detail. How they combatted corporate IT “security” software by pretending to be a VPN is quite unexpected.

A decade of Docker containers

zacwest — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:55:18 +0000

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289311

Points: 366

# Comments: 260

IPv6-Mostly Networks: Deployment and Operations Considerations

zacwest — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-6mops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47211683

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by zacwest in "Claude, the albino alligator, has died"

zacwest — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:15:08 +0000

Cal Academy released their own press release[1] about this, which included a nice gallery of photos and videos[2].

[1]: https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/claude-the-albino-... [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/i447nodpnda2agq00ekw1/AIhVA36...

New comment by zacwest in "Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd"

zacwest — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:52:05 +0000

They are working on an SDK, which they will use for their own Linux client: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-sdk-preview

New comment by zacwest in "Recreationally overengineering my location history"

zacwest — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 20:32:56 +0000

If you want to get location accuracy lower than 500m without significantly impacting battery life, you can use region monitoring. There's two paths:

1. Set up a region around the user's current location. If they exit it, note the location and set up another one around that location. This will give you around 100m accuracy, which is the minimum diameter of the monitored region.

2. Set up regions in various cardinal directions that nearly-or-just-barely overlap. If they enter one of those regions, note the location and set up another set around the current location. This can give you something closer to 50m accuracy.

For (2), this is how I did it in the Home Assistant iOS app, largely for zones that people wish to monitor which are smaller than 100m. You can find some of the annoying math here[1] (and there's tests all over for it), the logic for setting up regions here[2], and computing them here[3].

[1]: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/blob/master/Sources/Sh... [2]: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/tree/master/Sources/Ap... [3]: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/blob/2dfbe3c0e52a30417...

Understanding Mobile App Reviews to Guide Misuse Audits

zacwest — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:35:22 +0000

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/understanding-mobile-app-reviews-to-guide-misuse-audits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942536

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zacwest in "BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore"

zacwest — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 02:28:28 +0000

You then use `restic` telling it to use rclone like...

    restic ... --option=rclone.program="ssh -i  user@host" --repo=rclone:

which has it use the rclone backend over ssh.

I've been doing this on rsync.net since at least February; works great!

New comment by zacwest in "iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules"

zacwest — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:56:01 +0000

These are the changes that Apple was forced to make, specifically referencing 3.1.3 (Other Purchase Methods) and 3.1.3(a) (“Reader” Apps):

> 3.1.3: The prohibition on encouraging users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase does not apply on the United States storefront.

> 3.1.3(a): The External Link Account entitlement is not required for apps on the United States storefront to include buttons, external links, or other calls to action.

The bit about the (formerly required in the US) entitlement is:

> Reader app developers may apply for the External Link Account Entitlement to provide an informational link in their app to a web site the developer owns or maintains responsibility for in order to create or manage an account.

They required you use a trackingless, generic URL that was unvarying per user, so you probably didn't run into it super often. Offhand, the Kobo app did use it.

New comment by zacwest in "iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules"

zacwest — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:11:57 +0000

Except for 'reader apps' (those that sell digital content, basically) which Amazon is. Plus, Apple's rules are applied unevenly; Amazon is a giant WebView on Apple TV but it's disallowed for everybody else.

New comment by zacwest in "Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop"

zacwest — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:34:34 +0000

I've used Podlet <https://github.com/containers/podlet> somewhat successfully for this.

New comment by zacwest in "Podman Quadlets with Podman Desktop"

zacwest — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:12:45 +0000

You can do non-root systemd units, including Quadlets. See <https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...> under "Podman rootless unit search path."

New comment by zacwest in "Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS"

zacwest — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:04:15 +0000

I like the `rdap` cli from https://www.openrdap.org (in Brew, too: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/rdap#default). Very clean, concise output.

New comment by zacwest in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"

zacwest — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:29:44 +0000

Knowing focus status and being told live when it changes are public API. I think other apps just choose not to do it. Sample project: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...