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gempir··on Buggy animation in Atlassian Bitbucket is wasting half a CPU core at all times
This article is filled with misinformation and seems unnecessary hostile.

I think the only reason it got so many points is because it's a hate on Atlassian thread.

The implementation seems perfectly normal, I would guess 90% of all developers would implement an animation this way.

gempir··on Home Assistant 2023.11
That's a feature not a problem. It's free software you can run it anywhere you like. And they give you some advice and "ads" which stuff to buy which it runs best one.
gempir··on macOS Sonoma Broke Grep
VMware is a highly complicated piece of software relying on a lot of internals of how macOS works. I think it's reasonable to expect that it won't "just work"

I don't say you have to update, but in time security updates will no longer come for your version of macOS and in addition to that you will won't even get new features, like in the new macOS Version the openssh version is newer and now almost fully supports yubikey ssh keys stuff like that.

gempir··on macOS Sonoma Broke Grep
This is really weird thing to complain about.

When your partner builds her entire dev environment against a very specific version, packages etc. and then you expect it to just work next macOS Version? If you don't put any effort into using containers, vms or even just basic setup scripts then yeah this will not work out.

I've worked with a few physicists and they are scientists first and developers second. Which is okay, but will lead to janky setups that you cannot simply upgrade the OS under.

I want actual updates of my OS and don't want to be stuck forever on some specific version of openssh because some Astrophysicist decides to built her dev environment against it.

So either build a reproducible dev environment or don't complain that you cannot update without issues.

gempir··on Better HTTP server routing in Go 1.22
As I commented[1] I think the syntax is flawed in the proposal.

You need to weirdly create a magic string to define your handler. Why not make it an actual argument, then using already existing constants is easier.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61410#issuecomment-16580...

gempir··on Raspberry Pi 5
Ironically Apple uses detachable USB C Cable on their power supplies for their Macbooks
gempir··on Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
I am aware. but the browser engine itself is not the issue. The UI is. I use firefox on my iPad quite a lot and it has the issue of randomly going fully blank when opening a link in a new tab. Or the UI being stuck for a few seconds.

Neither Chrome or Safari ever have these issues for me on iOS.

gempir··on Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads
I was a 10+ year User of Chrome. I loved that Browser and I tried Firefox maybe every 2-3 years for a day and was always unhappy.

Made the switch around 3 months ago to Firefox and it's been great.

I don't miss anything from Chrome and it's a really solid and fast browser. Mobile iOS could be a bit faster but it's okay.

Desktop Version is the best browser out right now (in my opinion)

gempir··on Ask HN: Why can't my old laptop be an AWS replacement?
This just totally depends on your country and ISP.

In Germany most ISPs don't even give you a dynamic IPv4, it's cgnat so you share with a lot of other people.

But there are ways around it. I use Cloudflare Tunnel and that way I don't expose anything (I could only do it with ipv6 but in the end Cloudflare Tunnels are easier)

gempir··on Hurl 4.0.0
Jetbrain IDE's also support these. So It's more of a standard than other things currently.
gempir··on Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
I own a Sonicare. All it does is vibrate and blink shortly after you are done brushing when it's time to "refill"

It doesn't even do that after every time you used the head "too much". Not sure how much it reminds you.

gempir··on Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service
Then I do that. I just misremembered the exact sizes because I haven't logged in in so long.
gempir··on Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service
It's not super random. They email your before at least. Mine has been shut down once in 3 months. Which I think is fair enough considering I run 2 machines with 8gb RAM each and 2 arm cores each. Insane value.
gempir··on Linux is Making Apple Great Again
Some things are heavily optimized to promote their ecosystem, I agree. But it's Apple software so it's expected they want you to use their ecosystem.

But they always provide an escape hatch. Yes random binaries are harder to run, but that's for the security of 90% of all mac users. The last 10% still have ways to run it anyway, it might be a few clicks more yes.

Overall I think it's still a very developer friendly operating system when you compare it with the competition, Windows. Which is spamming you with ads, also many Windows Defender warnings, random binary removals or refusing to execute them even when you allow it.

gempir··on Gitea 1.19
The issue is Forgejo doesn't really have the know-how or capabilities to drive this project forward.

In the past months all they have done is rebrand Gitea and some minor fixes, but upstream (gitea) has added a huge number of features and merged tons of valuable pull requests. So are they just going to continuously merge upstream into their fork and do nothing besides that?

The platform, Codeberg might be "well" funded but not to maintain another extra project and develop new features for it.

I think the outrage was a little too big initially. It's a big task to create a git host that needs to compete with Github and the likes and I think it's fair that you want to make some money on the side with that.

Compare these merged PRs:

Forgejo https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls?q=&type=all&sort=...

Gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose...

gempir··on Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers
That also just leads to the homepage after a short "security check"

Weird. It seems like they are reading the origin header or something and just redirect HN users to the root of the website.

Works fine if you copy the link and paste it in a new tab.

gempir··on Even the Pylint codebase uses Ruff
There are a lot unchecked boxes in that list. But I'm looking forward to the progress of this project.
gempir··on Tell HN: Gitlab Premium pricing increases incoming $19 to $29
You still don't have basic features like Syntax Highlighting in Diffs.

Yes yes, you are promising it soon in an Experimental Labs release, but it's been 11 years. It's laughable and who knows if that will tank performance again.

You had a solid PR tool on bitbucket server and somehow took that and made it 100x worse on Bitbucket Cloud. The File picker and the way you navigated between files with keyboard shortcuts were GREAT.

Bitbucket Cloud is just a copy of a really old version of the Github PR viewer, but with a lot more problems and no updates.

gempir··on Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
Will they ever allow chrome or other browsers to add PWA Apps to your Homescreen? That's what's missing for me.
gempir··on German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal
It's just very nice layer of abstraction. I don't want every shop I buy from to know which Bank I use or my credit card number, because that's sensitive information.

Also when my credit card number changes because my bank randomly decides I'm at risk for fraud I have to login to every service and enter my new CC.

In 10 year of Paypal usage I have never once had an issue with my account being locked. Yes there are some cases here and there of people, but personally I didn't have that problem and I just it a lot also for Craigslist etc. Never an issue. I didn't even have to contact Paypal support once.

And since it's very popular in germany almost everyone online has to support it or they are losing business.

gempir··on Just: A Command Runner
I don't see anything about including other Justfiles or just generally other file. Might be nice to split up huge projects.

The alternative Taskfile can do that https://taskfile.dev/usage/#including-other-taskfiles

gempir··on Humans.txt
I agree.

At my company we have a humans.txt that is not hosted in public and we only add first names to a list. So you kinda remember who was involved over the years.

I think that is a nice touch and has no privacy issues.

gempir··on GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
Reddit Moderators, Forum Moderators, Chat Moderators, Blog Writers, Open Source Developers.

The Internet is built on a lot of great people doing things for free. That doesn't have to be a bad thing if you are okay with it. But always make sure you feel good about what you are doing. If you get enjoyment or a sense of accomplishment (to quote EA) out of it then it's no worse than playing a video game or watching a tv show.

gempir··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
The idea is good, but I want a GUI.
gempir··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
This is what I wish all http clients could adopt.

Use plain text files (IntelliJ already introduced .http files, which work great) Sadly it will never work because that would break 90% of the incentives to pay, which his having a sync system. Because then I could simply commit my http requests and git would be my sync server.

Personally I don't like the IntelliJ Client, the UI is kind of ugly and requires a lot of actions each time I want to send and review a response. Insomnia is way better in that regard.

Good context might me my issue comment on Hoppscotch: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/issues/870#issuecom...

gempir··on Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote working rainbow?
I feel for you. I loved WFH at first for the first year. Then I noticed how much less I got to socialize and much less fun I was having fun at work in general. Every day felt the exact same.

To my luck my company decided on a more office focused approach now. We only do 1 day a week remote, I don't even take that 1 day usually.

But that's just me. I don't have a wife or kids at home that maybe increase the benefits of working at home. Everyone has their own situation. Currently this is what works for me.

I would just recommend look for companies that encourage working from an office, if you want to work that way. You can't demand your workplace suddenly implements Rust everywhere either, you should probably switch jobs if that is so important to you.

Check my profile and email me if you like ;)

gempir··on JSX Mail: Ending All Your Problems When Creating Email Templates
Funny a few years ago I built exactly this for our company mailings. We checked out several frameworks and those are great if you only need an Email to look somewhat good and not have too specific of requirements.

But our Emails had to replicate other teams designs 1:1 pixel perfect. So we mostly used the same code blocks.

I needed some sort of framework that would organize those code blocks and jsx was perfect. I generated twig templates out of the JSX and used php to send the emails.

gempir··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
As far as I understand the ruling they have to have a USB C port on their device that allows charging.

Removing the port entirely is not an option.

gempir··on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
I don't remember exactly but it isn't exactly named something related to Chromecast.

It was something about Waking the TV.

gempir··on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast
My sony xr-77a80j released in 2021 and at least sucks down 25W in Standby with Chromecast support on. I think it was more like 28W last I measured.
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