I understand the need for independent fiber ISPs. But are gigabit speeds really necessary? For me, a 300 Mbps connection is way more than enough for a four-person family.
The article says they're a 10 person family.
Readit NewsBlimpSpike commented on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LorenDB
BlimpSpike commented on Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023) learn.microsoft.com/en-us... · Posted by u/b-man
Kindof unrelated to the article, but I was recently wondering if it would be possible to detect and deny pointer cycles in a language in an efficient way, so that you could then use simple reference counting instead of full-blown garbage collection.
It probably wouldn't be usable for a general-purpose programming language, but for a special-purpose scripting language I could see it making the language implementation easier.
I worked on a linux distro some years ago that had to pull btrfs long after people had started saying thats its truly solid because customers had so many issues. Its probably improved since but its hard to know. Im surprised fedora workstation defaults to it now. I'm hoping bcachefs finds its way in the next few years as being the rock solid fs it aims to be.
I hadn't heard of bcachefs, but I looked it up and apparently Linus just removed it from the kernel source tree last month for non-technical reasons.
BlimpSpike commented on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better domenic.me/fsrs/... · Posted by u/domenicd
The author bashes other algorithms for being "arbitrary", but I don't see how FSRS is any less arbitrary.
BlimpSpike commented on “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps support.google.com/google... · Posted by u/pk97
Because that's worked so well for PCs?
PCs don't have sandboxing or permissions.
BlimpSpike commented on Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit whomtech.com/show-hn/... · Posted by u/uncial
How loud is it? Would it disrupt the whole office if I had it on my desk and occasionally played with it?
Very cool, I'll check back for the Kickstarter!
BlimpSpike commented on Why is this site built with C marcelofern.com/posts/c/w... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Well, I have in essence nothing against this post.
I agree with the notion that too many dependencies are not necessary. That we can keep lots of things simpler.
I have nothing against directly implementing this in C or just writing markdown files and have the auto-translated into HTML.
I just don't like his arguments about it must be fast to recompile everything. I am writing this comment, and this is going to take me a few minutes. After all, I am thinking about what I am writing, typing it out, thinking some more. And then, the deploy is the thing that go the author? Really? Time to server is an important metric?
Let's be real, nothing would be lost if it took 5 minutes. He would send it off and 5 minutes later, his phone buzzes, notifying him that it is done.
Alright, he found a way to do it in under 10 seconds. Cool. Good for him. Now that it is built, there is nothing bad about it. I just don't see how this was ever an important KPI.
Having the MD file and the website open side by side and being able to see immediate updates as you write is valuable.
Linux Landlock is a kernel-native security module that lets unprivileged processes sandbox themselves - but nobody uses it because the API is ... hard!
I built `landrun`, a small CLI tool in Go, to make it practical to sandbox any command with fine-grained filesystem and network access controls. No root. No containers. No SELinux/AppArmor configs.
It's lightweight, auditable, and wraps Landlock v5 features (file access + TCP restrictions).
Demo + usage examples in the README.
Would love feedback from the HN crowd!
Similarly to the bubblewrap comment, I'd also like to know how it compares to nsjail.
I think nsjail uses mount namespaces (CLONE_NEWNS) instead of landlock for filesystem sandboxing, but what would the practical differences be?
So instead of competing on merit by improving the value offered to merchants, your concern is to become connected enough to have the merchants switch to you in spite of "dubious value"??