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I use Nextcloud Office all the time with others. Prior to that, we used OneDrive/Office and Google Drive.

With tight deadlines, there frequently isn't the time to not be working concurrently on the same doc, especially when it comes to anything technical.

hammyhavocon Ableton Extensions SDK

If you ever take another stab at it, would love to hear about it. me@hammyhavoc.com

hammyhavocon The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign

The statement being made is not "HN doesn't love blogs".

The statement being made is "Very anti-HN thinking to be posted here."

Rather than present useless analogies, engage with what's actually been presented. I didn't ask about your grandmother.

hammyhavocon ProofPage – a mini-landing page to avoid proving your skills to every new client

Is this not just reinventing the utmost basic portfolio website of quarter of a century ago? Are people not already doing this with cheap or even free turn-key templates? Could probably have an LLM excrete one in minutes.

I get daily outreach from fly-by-night operations in other countries using LLMs and templates to crap out the above, complete with client logos and project examples that don't belong to them. Where is the "proof"?

If you're aiming at devs, why would they use this over the likes of GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages?

hammyhavocon Tell HN: macOS Time Machine will no longer support Time Capsules

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/104170

Probably ongoing support. It was no iPhone in terms of units sold.

hammyhavocon Ask HN: A hassle-free chat-style email app

I'd be content with even a browser extension in LibreWolf to style specific email threads, and past and future emails from specific senders as chat bubbles. Would need to strip the signatures of course. I find email threads really laborious to parse with lots of short messages from family members in group threads versus skimming through chat bubbles. Each sender would need a user-configurable chat bubble colour too.

I'm sure someone could probably vibe code a FOSS repo for this in an afternoon if it's as capable as the average comment here seems to claim (hasn't been my experience, but would love to solve a problem and be proven wrong).

hammyhavocon Just graduated, got my first SEO job, my boss thinks I'm useless:(

How long have you been working on their SEO?

hammyhavocon How to Speed up WordPress Site in 2025

That's a lot coming from someone who posted a link to a blog post that isn't even publicly available.

hammyhavocon Digital Memory Holocaust': Meta's AI Purges 3M Accounts/Month (Leaked Data)

As a Jew, I take great issue with calling this a "Holocaust" as not only is it inaccurate, it diminishes the meaning of the word for describing the state-sponsored murder of 6m+ Jews alone—and that's without even getting into the Romani Holocaust, disabled, gay community et al who were also murdered.

hammyhavocon CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution

Experiences?

hammyhavocon Study mode

Ah yes, the thing that told people to administer insulin to someone experiencing hypoglycemia (likely fatal BTW) is nothing like a library or Google search, because people blindly believe the output because of the breathless hype.

See Dunning-Kruger.

hammyhavocon Study mode

Why not do the research yourself rather than risk it misinterpreting? I FAFO'd repeatedly with that, and it is just horribly unreliable.

hammyhavocon Study mode

No wonder there are so many confident people spouting total rubbish on technical forums.

hammyhavocon Study mode

There might not be any stupid questions, but there's plenty of perfectly confident stupid answers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/s/Wqc8XGKT5h

hammyhavocon Why not Matrix (2023)

Make the LLM bulletpoint output seem more human that it is?

hammyhavocon The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign

Whatever you think HN is, it isn't. People are not represented by a subdomain of an accelerator.

HN also drank the crypto-crap and NFT Kool-Aid. It's nice to see people able to not follow the groupthink.

hammyhavocon AI Labubu

Does this site have a license to use the Labubu brand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labubu?wprov=sfla1

hammyhavocon The Promised LAN

NetBird is also worth a look—FOSS and can be self-hosted.

hammyhavocon The Promised LAN

I didn't think there were others doing this out there, but yes, do this for sure. It's a lot of fun. Write about it too. I'm going to write up ours.

hammyhavocon The Promised LAN

CRTs implode—and then glass flies out at high velocity.

hammyhavocon Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

Not infrequently, someone being smart in one field doesn't necessarily mean they can solve problems in another.

I know some brilliant people, but, well, putting it kindly, they're as useful as a chocolate teapot outside of their specific area of academic expertise.

hammyhavocon The future is not self-hosted

"The future" is relative and contextual. Different tools for different tasks, different solutions for different problems.

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

I've been using HN since 2018, and whilst I'm a bit rough around the edges, I generally interact with the best of intentions as long as my blood glucose is within range (which, with a CGM, is more than at any other point in my life).

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

Thanks!

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

Now explain ZFS being added as a feature in Unraid 7. I'll wait.

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

Hit the comment depth limit again, but yes, SSDs!

Yes, Unraid can crash-and-burn in quite a lot of different ways. Ask me how I know! Why I'm all-in on ZFS now.

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

Hit the comment depth limit (so annoying), but the comment about repairing blocks means that you can repair bitrot/corruption/malicious changes/whatever down to the block level of a ZFS dataset if you have a redundant replicated dataset.

The magic of ZFS repairs isn't in RAID itself, IMO, it's in being able to take your cold replicated dataset, e.g., from LTO, an external disk, remote server etc, and repair any issues without needing to resilver, stress the whole array, interrupt access, or hurt performance.

RAID can correct issues, yes, but ZFS as a filesystem can repair itself from redundant datasets. Likewise, you can mount the snapshots like Apple Time Machine and get back specific versions of individual files.

I wish HN didn't limit comment depth as these are great questions and this is heavily under-discussed, but it's arguably the best reason to run ZFS, IMO.

Another way of putting this—you don't need a RAID array, you can do individual ZFS disks and still replicate and repair them. There's no limits to how many replicas or mediums you use either. It's quite amazing for self-healing problems with your datasets.

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

> If a drive fails, you rebuild it from the parity.

But if the file system is corrupt then you're hosed and end up with a `lost+found`. It sounds great until it fails, and then you realize why ZFS with replication makes sense. Unraid doesn't do automatic repairs from replicated ZFS datasets yet either even if you use individual ZFS disks within your Unraid array.

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

No, because you have a cache pool and calculate the parity changes on a schedule, or when specific conditions are met, e.g., remaining available storage on the cache pool.

The cache pool is recommended to be mirrored for this reason (not many people see why I find this to be amusing).

hammyhavocon NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module

If you have a redundant dataset (#1 reason to use ZFS replication) then you can repair a ZFS dataset.