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mistertrotsky

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mistertrotsky··on PHP 8.2.35
HN should ban comments that are just Claude output
mistertrotsky··on Fastmail breaks UI in production
This doesn't actually work. The mobile app is just a wrapper around the web interface.
mistertrotsky··on Directory Opus – King of the Dual Panes
Directory Opus is the perfect example of an ultra-high-quality Windows application. I love it.
mistertrotsky··on Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers
My sites in Newark are up. The situation is not as alarming as the submission title would suggest. They've updated the status page to indicate that it is limited to an issue with DHCP.
mistertrotsky··on Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default
I use Firefox Nightly on a MacBook (Retina) and it performs very well with WebRender on and gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque set to TRUE. Faster than Safari even! Worse battery life though.
mistertrotsky··on Syscall Auditing at Scale
This is super great.
mistertrotsky··on My Raspberry Pi cluster
You can now get a PoE adapter for the Raspberry Pi: https://www.pi-supply.com/product/pi-poe-switch-hat-power-ov...
mistertrotsky··on Hey Look, It's Every Bootstrap Website Ever
I laughed.
mistertrotsky··on [dead]
This feels like an attack piece on Sanders in disguise.
mistertrotsky··on NAS Distribution Shootout: FreeNAS vs. NAS4Free
You're probably not going to have a good time trying to use a USB WLAN dongle as an access point. Even if you manage to track down a) if the driver supports AP mode, and b) put together a whole hostapd configration, you're still limited by the transmit power of the little thing, which I guarantee isn't a lot. Another thing is that acting as an AP is a lot more taxing on a piece of hardware than just acting as a client; there's a chance that the USB WLAN thing will be extra flaky and maybe even overheat.

Instead... just get something that will run OpenWRT. Check out this list: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start. Running and configuring it at the command line is way more pleasant than you'd expect, and the (optional) web GUI is functional if inconsistent.

mistertrotsky··on OpenZFS on OS X
Congratulations on the site launch! I've been using trunk builds in production for the last three months. Very few issues for pre-alpha software.
mistertrotsky··on The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
I would absolutely trust someone named Jeremy Cloud on this subject.
mistertrotsky··on SSL And The Future Of Authenticity
Fuck yeah, I wasn't aware of these projects. I thought the article was exceptionally good and I'm very pleased that there are people taking the initiative to actually do the hard work in search of resolution for the problems detailed. Thank you.
mistertrotsky··on FreeType Development and Maintainance
Wow, I didn't realize iOS used FreeType as its rasterizer. I wonder why Apple didn't just use the OS X subsystem?
mistertrotsky··on Lights
Really well-done! This impresses me a lot more than dropping a sphere in a box of water.
mistertrotsky··on The Significance of OS X Lion
If only I could have a FireGestures-type interface connected with the Windows desktop environment. I would probably throw out my MacBook.
mistertrotsky··on How John Perry Barlow gained enlightenment and lost his mind on acid
a) I didn't know this guy was both involved with the Dead AND the EFF! Fascinating.

b) I didn't know that such interesting business happened in Millbrook. Millbrook! Man that is like twenty minutes away.