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isodudeon Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

The rule: one cable per bag! At least in my case.

isodudeon Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

I had an lightning cable connected to a charger, turns out the connector was a bit broken and it started to spark, in the sofa where the end was.

Luckily our fire alarm on four legs quickly alerted us.

Don't keep busted cables. It's not worth it.

isodudeon I resigned from Anthropic today

I am watching Person of Interest[1] and it's scary how well it fits with reality if you squeeze your eyes a bit.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/

isodudeon Hello, me. It's been a while

Sometimes I put my headphones on, just to forget to also put music on. Hours later I realize that it helped me focus anyhow.

isodudeon Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

Too bad they missed the opportunity to read it, very, slowly.

isodudeon The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

I don't have any experience myself but they do seem to be effective. Yeah, I think you'd have to compare it to a holiday, or how much time that would mean in a Solarium.

isodudeon The brain was not designed for this much bad news

I have noticed that the same amount of people down voted as up voted the comment. I wonder how they reasoned.

isodudeon The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

Have you looked into UVB lamps?

isodudeon Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents

"awlays" should almost always be "always"

isodudeon Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

https://www.svt.se/text-tv/100

The same as it was on tv when I grew up.

isodudeon The brain was not designed for this much bad news

On reddit i have seen multiple threads that are positive through and through with topics like, "What are you up to today?", "I just finished school and starting to work", "I am lonely and feel dreadful". I read the comments and was met with level-headed and honest comments/interactions.

As in reality it's important to have walled gardens where people can utter opinions and voice their distress or just say that they are happy. Without getting lynched. These global silos of social media is nothing but deserts where the only way of getting through the noice with any means neccessary.

isodudeon Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

I wonder if the investors used Claude to see whether they should invest or not hmm..

isodudeon A case against Boolean logic

My wife does not care whatever excuse I have to why the kitchen is not in order when she comes home.

I failed her anyhow.

Should I tell her that boolean logic is not applicable on my intentions?

isodudeon AI slop is killing online communities

I saw your genuine post and upvoted since it seemed unfair.

I am mostly against all usage of LLM because the treadmill is moving too fast. But if it's thoughtful usage and a lot of tinkering I might change course. As such that includes other things than LLM obviously.

isodudeon I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

It depends on how you register things.

* Given that you can easily start up your own CA in a test bed, just use different domain names.

* Or use IP addresses directly, given that IPv6 i pretty abundant it's easy to just listen on many addresses at the same time. A nice thing is to just put the port number is the last octets: fd01::9000, fd01::0003:5565. If it's HTTPS you always use port 443, if it's another protocol, use another port. With iptables/nft you can translate all port 443 traffic towards a /96 to a single IP.

* Firefox does not seem to understand unix domain sockets, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941552. I'm assuming that you have a gateway in front that handles that aspect.

* Proxies in Firefox seems to understand that though, which means you can have a proxy that translate to unix sockets locally. That means you can basically run it to a namespaced application, using only http://<service>.localhost.

isodudeon I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

Why not resolve everything with UNIX sockets instead, that way you can have them named and scoped instead, hiding behind port 443, since it's mosly HTTP anyway.

isodudeon Nerd meets crazy nerd in random comment section

What are they up to now, I wonder.

isodudeon Slashing agent token costs by 98% with RFC 9457-compliant error responses

So now you can send a malware markdown to just agents.

isodudeon Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

nitpick, it should be `touch a c & mv a b & mv c d` as `&;` returns `bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'`. I always find this oddly weird, but that would not be the first pattern in BASH that is.

`inotifywait` actually sees them in order, but nothing ensure that it's that way.

  $ inotifywait -m /tmp
  /tmp/ MOVED_FROM a
  /tmp/ MOVED_TO b
  /tmp/ MOVED_FROM c
  /tmp/ MOVED_TO d

`stat` tells us that the timestamps are equal as well.

  $ stat b d | grep '^Change'
  Change: 2026-02-06 12:22:55.394932841 +0100
  Change: 2026-02-06 12:22:55.394932841 +0100

However, speeding things up changes it a bit.

Given

  $ (
    set -eo pipefail
    for i in {1..10000}
    do
      printf '%d ' "$i"
      touch a c
      mv a b &
      mv c d &
      wait
      rm b d
    done
  )
  1 2 3 4 5 6 .....

And with `inotifywait` I saw this when running it for a while.

  $ inotifywait -m -e MOVED_FROM,MOVED_TO /tmp > /tmp/output
  cat /tmp/output | xargs -l4 | sort | uniq -c
  9104 /tmp/ MOVED_FROM a /tmp/ MOVED_TO b /tmp/ MOVED_FROM c /tmp/ MOVED_TO d
  896 /tmp/ MOVED_FROM c /tmp/ MOVED_TO d /tmp/ MOVED_FROM a /tmp/ MOVED_TO b

isodudeon Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

When will Cloudflare actually split into several totally independent companies to remedy that they bring down the Internet every time they have a major issue?

isodudeon Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

This did not age well!

isodudeon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I am trying to build a local setup where I spawn dockers (fetched via skopeo) as systemd-nspawn machines in userland (rootless), with network managed by a service that uses netkit devices to setup network in their empty network namespaces. I am looking at using Sommelier to manage wayland.

The end goal is to have a laptop with an easy way to build lab environments which is secure and rootless.

isodudeon How can I influence others without manipulating them?

Is it though? I would imagine the person wanting to change instead being forced. Where would you draw the line?

isodudeon How can I influence others without manipulating them?

Only give positive feedback when they are doing the thing you want them too. Absence of positive feedback is as effective as negative feedback, with the positive effect of extracting the change you want instead of placing the change upon the person.

isodudeon SystemD Service Hardening

I think that pledge[0] offers that functionality

[0] https://github.com/jart/pledge

isodudeon SystemD Service Hardening

A nice thing I found is that if you do (which I see they did not in the examples)

  # ProtectSystem=

you can do

  TemporaryFileSystem=/:ro
  BindReadOnly=/usr/bin/binary /lib /lib64 /usr/lib usr/lib64 <paths you want to read>

And essentially just including the binary and the path you want available. ProtectSystem= is currently not compatible with this behavior.

EDIT: More info here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33688

isodudeon ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

From the West here, but anyway.

> But the cultural stigma? Folks just call it laziness or blame "village people" (supernatural enemies).

Funny, my daughter just stops my explanations after circa one minute, abruptly, saying that her brain just does not listen anymore and there is no reason for me to continue. Which is blunt, but kind. I understand and stop talking, that's that. We can do that since we know our limits, I would assume that Africa in general is more attuned to accepting people as they are? For my daughter it makes a world of difference that she can communicate her ADHD symptoms. The medication are there to make ADHD people behave like "normal" people, but acceptance in the other direction could quite helpful as well.

With some luck and effort you can have some effect with diet. It would be nice to see a graph between the rise of white flour and the amount of ADHD in the world. I would love to step off medication, but it's not doable without switching to sufficient combination training and good diet, I have neither now :) As they point out in the article it can be great to find out your vitamin levels to address shortage.

> These types of complex carbohydrates are less likely to spike your blood sugar levels and help keep you feeling fuller for longer, which may help improve your focus and attention.

> By avoiding simple carbohydrates, like sugar and white flour, you may reduce specific ADHD symptoms. [0]

I just finished fixing my bike (Suntour Perfect) and have started taking it on smaller trips, hopefully that will be _my_ way to a more stable day to day. [1]

[0] https://add.org/adhd-diet/

[1] https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NxQAAeSwpg1odZbS/s-l1600.jpg (about the same bike)

isodudeon Square Theory

My first initial thought when I saw the game: spaceword golf.

Like any golf, you start with the smallest square possible and increase it with each level. You get less points for how perfect the the square is.

isodudeon I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs

There should exist something like memtest86, but for S3 and S0, that you can run on the laptop to identify hardware that do not suspend properly.

isodudeon I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs

TL;DR pull the the plug from the laptop _before_ closing the lid. That way it will not be sleeping thinking it got power from the wall.