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commandersakion macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

Why would anyone compare market share of a desktop OS and include server / mobile / embedded?

commandersakion macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

So you're upset an operating system that is called macOS is not in fact Linux. Gotcha.

commandersakion macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

Yeah Tahoe has been mostly fine. I have all the liquid glass stuff turned off (via reduced transparency). The grab handles for window corner is annoying, but it doesn't mean the rest of the OS is not good.

There's bugs in the OS, like pretty much every OS, but I rarely interact with them should they manifest.

commandersakion The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics

I use cmd-tab/cmd-` on macos, and alt-tab on windows. I feel they're mostly equivalent, not sure what's wrong with task switching. The real issue is finding the right window/tab I want in my browser, but searching tabs is now a thing and works for me pretty much everytime.

commandersakion Why I love FreeBSD

This looks to be a theme in FreeBSD, specifically tweaking mbuf numbers because of exhaustion [1], [2], [3], [4] (and not to mention any posted on the freebsd bug tracker). The fact that you have options to tweak mbufs and limits in the first place just doesn't seem like a well thought out design -- in Linux you never have to specify skbuff (Linux's mbuf equivalent) numbers for any reason. I don't even know if my issue was hardware specific or just a FreeBSD-ism to do with mbufs, but it is a class of issue that just doesn't exist in Linux.

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/335461/pfsense-mbuf-full-w...

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394876/how-to-fix-m...

[3] https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/5553

[4] https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/hardware/tune.htm...

commandersakion Why I love FreeBSD

Or rather all hail u/cperciva for freebsd-update.

commandersakion Why I love FreeBSD

Ran a FreeBSD colocated server for about a decade that went through generations of hardware. I really want to like the OS, except it's most touted feature, the network stack, was consistently unreliable for me using Intel NICs on Supermicro servers. They would go offline usually after some load due to mbuf resource exhaustion. I never got to the bottom of it even though I posted to the bugs database and would diligently follow up and perform experiments. This also happened on different incarnations of server hardware, so it wasn't the same physical NIC having the issue, but different varieties.

Anyways had enough of the random downtime, I just switched to Linux which didn't have these issues.

I'd say the best part of FreeBSD though is freebsd-update which was a game changer from the previous make world shenanigans.

commandersakion Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

The performance story doesn't really make sense as both UTM and Parallels use Apple Hypervisor Kit which pretty much is the hypervisor running Windows. It should be identical.

commandersakion Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

That being said, Parallels may need to review its licensing with a budget tier in mind.

The budget tier is UTM. (Also recommend any users of UTM that find it useful should consider donating, preferably through Github sponsors.)

commandersakion Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

Having said all that, Apple could easily have made it 16GB cleaned up the market place and nobody would be talking about Neo being under spec’d. But Tim Cook has to be a Tim Cook and squeeze every last penny of profit. ;-)

I think this has more to do with binned A18 Pro SoCs which enables Apple to do this with economies of scale. A later version may get the 12GB variant of the A19 Pro SoCs.

commandersakion Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

This guy [1] that posted about his series of plastic laptops over the years is a telling indictment of what the PC/chromebook value range is about. Hinges easily damage, bits and pieces falling off, can't go from closed to open with one finger, etc. In my region in Australia schools require parents to buy a laptop and the choice is between PC and Mac (Chromebook not allowed); before the Neo getting a Mac would be a budget constraint, especially for their children, but now it is such an easy sensible choice.

[1]: https://xcancel.com/mweinbach/status/2032235367961694542

commandersakion “This is not the computer for you”

I looked at laptops around that price range in Australia, and they're all awful in one way or another. Either they're Chromebooks (yuck) or come with an ad-infested OS (gross) and/or with serious compromises in quality and finish.

commandersakion “This is not the computer for you”

I grew up tinkering with linux since 2.0.x days up until 2.4.x lamenting on how Linux needs to take over Microsoft. Then sudden (legal) blindness hit, and computers were becoming difficult to use. Took a punt on a powerbook 12" at the time, and learned the accessibility features and never looked back. I do 90% of things in a terminal on a mac today, but Windows / Linux is the real limited OS for me due to lack of accessibility features rendering them unusable.

commandersakion The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

I'm glad this exists, because it demonstrates there are ways to make a next-gen IP interoperable with IPv4, and that while IPng had interoperability has part of its assessment, it completely nixed it because they didn't want to go with the other proposals at the time which had some consideration for it.

commandersakion The MacBook Neo

Looked up more info on this laptop, my cursory thoughts:

plastic chassis: gross. keyboard with a numberpad: yuck no inverted-T for arrow keys: yuck limited size trackpad, not to mention a PC trackpad: yuck display looks good and is matte: nice fans: gross usb-c (charging) port is not the first port in the array: yuck supplied charger brick: yuck, why not something a bit more modern

But at least it seems to have comparable battery life to the neo.

commandersakion The MacBook Neo

Needs more javascript for native functions in the OS.

commandersakion The MacBook Neo

Ah the classic NIAKUN, what we expect from brand name quality: awesome keyboard layout (love a number pad that smashes into the arrow keys), great resolution (1920x1080 so good for 2026!). I'm sure the speakers are state of the art for the form factor, gets amazing battery life (love me max 4-5 hrs on moderate usage), and of course can't forget the plastic body.

I'm sure a similar story can be said about the HP.

If you didn't detect the sarcasm, a laptop is much more than cpu, memory, and storage; it'd be short-sighted to only fixate on this trio. PC laptops compromise on pretty much everything and usually do everything poorly, including CPU (since apple silicon Macs are much better performance per watt).

Then there's the whole aspect of Apple support for both hardware AND software, something no PC vendor can provide.

commandersakion MacBook Neo

That's exactly why they will kill Chromebook. Better software ecosystem.

commandersakion MacBook Neo

It's a shame it isn't the A19 series with MIE.

commandersakion MacBook Neo

So in Australia this is $749 after education discounts.

I looked at OfficeWorks and I found some really cheap Chromebooks at the $300-500 level.

I picked two $500 Chromebooks:

- HP 14" Chromebook N200 8/128GB with usb-c + usb-a (quad-core).

- Lenovo IdeaPad 3i 15.6" Chromebook Laptop 8/128GB Celeron.

Looks like both are 1080p displays.

First at simple tech spec glance they're below the entry level Neo except they both have larger displays, but obviously as Neo costs $250 more.

But the question then is what do you get for that $250 more. I think once you take into consideration the finish, keyboard, webcam/mic, speakers, display, and even Apple's support which can be sometimes pretty decent, you're looking at a pretty strong contender.

The problem I expect though is that people tend not to be educated consumers and don't look into the other aspects outside of specs or cost, so Apple is really selling on branding, word of mouth, and probably through their salespeople at the stores. But also, if we start seeing these one the shelves of JB-Hifi, Officeworks, etc. (for US your local Best Buy and Walmart I guess), then it could penetrate the market well.

Assuming the Neo embodies Apple's signature quality and reliability, I hope it does well for first time laptop users / early education market.

commandersakion Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours

It is used to exchange goods and services without the consent of the owner. Kind of like picking up a wallet full of cash off the ground (with or without) identification.

commandersakion Welcome (back) to Macintosh

You need to make sure Files is being indexed, I think the Documents directory indexing, for the clipboard history to work.

commandersakion Notes on Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials

In the Polynomial Interpolation Theorem, you have r(x) = p(x) - r(x), but I think it should be q(x) = p(x) - r(x).

commandersakion Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

I stayed with Terminal.app for quite awhile. Until very recently (not when Ghostty was released) it didn't have 24-bit colour support. It also didn't have shell integrations such as triple click to select all output of the last command. The configuration system is arse and is kind of a lock-in as it is in all plist form, so I had a hard time extracting the colours I used for my terminal and using them elsewhere.

Now that they've updated it recently, it is a better terminal, but otherwise Ghostty has a few bells and whistles that make the experience nicer.

commandersakion 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

Price increases are always annoying, but I will stay the course.

I don't see myself switching to free competitors like Apple Passwords or Google (doesn't do E2EE). While I am pretty much in the Apple Ecosystem, my family members who use 1P are not, you won't get the same support, it doesn't autofill entries with custom fields, you need to use separate apps to store notes and documents/images, etc. It is just a barren password manager that Apple provides for free and doesn't get the same love as 1P does.

As for competitor cloud based password managers, most of them just don't have a tight security model compared to 1P, and I'm including some of the newer entrants like Proton Pass. 1P made a really smart decision of having a separate password and secret key and using a PAKE to authenticate. I don't think anything has come close except maybe Enpass with its notion of a keyfile. For me, the security story is of utmost importance. Also a lot of the status quo can't seem to get the basics of encryption right, a few still supporting non-authenticated encryption, bleh.

As for Keepass or local (FOSS) password managers, I would rather just write in an encrypted plain text file instead and store everything there. I don't need to be forced into using a database for that.

commandersakion 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

Migrate to what exactly? And what happens when the thing you migrate to also increase prices?

commandersakion Show HN: Implementing ping from the Ethernet layer (ARP,IPv4,ICMP in user space)

RFC815 [0] for a nice efficient data structure and algorithm to reassemble fragments; shouldn't be much for an LLM to read and construct the data structure if inclined to do so.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc815

commandersakion What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)

It seems to me that if you lie and get the clearance, it is better than being honest and getting NACKed. Maybe morally dubious, but there's financial incentive and motivation for having a clearance.

commandersakion Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

No. Just tried it and it doesn't.

commandersakion Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

Hm I feel gypped with the mosh aspect. I was expecting to be able to mosh into a server, context switch, and resume the same session later. It doesn't resume, it just requires you establish a new session. Meh.

This is not explained at all on their website.