chabad360 (u/chabad360)

chabad360 commented on Show HN: A reputation index from mitchellh's Vouch trust files vouchbook.dev/... · Posted by u/rosslazer

chabad360 · 20 hours ago

I will admit that while I think the idea of Vouch is nice, I'm not a huge fan. But that is not really an issue here, the issue is that this seems to be very exploitable. There's nothing to counteract someone creating a bunch of repos just to farm some score (this gets worse once you add in star farming).

For the same price, what is a reasonable score to auto-accept? If I make a small contribution to a large project, I'd automatically get a much larger score out of the gate, vs. if I contribute to a much smaller project. That would incentivize contributions to larger projects, and disincentivize contributing to smaller projects, that doesn't seem good for the ecosystem either.

I'm not sure why a more page-rank style system wasn't used. Effectively, rank users based on the diversity of the projects they're vouched in. That would avoid the problem of people being able to farm, and encourage contributions across the OS ecosystem.

chabad360 commented on Clicks Communicator clicksphone.com/en/commun... · Posted by u/microflash

chabad360 · a month ago

This is very exciting to me, I have been reluctant to upgrade from my Pixel 4a because I've been looking for a small form factor phone, and those seem to have gone extinct. Now here comes a product that both provides a small form factor, and even better, is aimed at reducing distractions and provides features to that effect.

It's running regular Android with a custom version of Niagara launcher (which it seems I need to try), and seems like it's a product built by people who want to use it. Which makes me hopeful that a lot of care was put into designing it. It seems like they're aiming it towards people that want a second device for work, which -in my mind- means there might be some compromises, so I'll be waiting for reviews to decide if it can hold up as a daily driver or not.

It should be noted, they claim that the keyboard is touch sensitive and can be used for scrolling, so it might actually solve some of the usability issues that immediately come to mind.

TBH, I'm a little surprised by all the hate. This might not be a product for you, or it might not speak to you for other reasons. The fact is that this company has seen success with their phone cases (I don't get it either), and has now announced two new products that should reach more of the market (the other is a magsafe slide out keyboard, it's very cool). If you don't like it, fair enough, but that doesn't mean it's a bad product.

chabad360 commented on Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake? · Posted by u/hussein-khalil

chabad360 · 2 months ago

I'm working on a project in a very similar space, and we decided to add gamification. We don't want to harass our users or annoy them into using the app, and therefore our notifications will be easily manageable. But we believe that gamification is very helpful for encouraging users to learn consistently, and so we will include it. But at the same time, we are putting a lot of intention into it not being a distraction (both within the app, and outside it).

chabad360 commented on Default Methods in Go mcyoung.xyz/2025/08/25/go... · Posted by u/ingve

chabad360 · 6 months ago

I think the one really useful suggestion here is at the end of the article. Having some way for the compiler to know that a struct satisfies a particular interface, and thereby create a fast path that sidesteps reflection would be marked performance improvement (and avoid the need for caching).

TBH, anything that can make interface casting faster/more efficient in go would be a welcome improvement.

chabad360 commented on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3

chabad360 · 7 months ago

It should be noted, it is 100% possible to use Secure Boot with Linux and not be impacted at all. AFAIK, most (if not all) UEFI firmwares allow enrolling your own keys. Managing secure boot these days is as easy as installing sbctl and adding a hook to sign your kernel when rebuilding the initramfs. For the same price, as noted by the article, the key new key can be updated while the system is online without anyone being the wiser.

The FUD that gets spread around SB helps no one, and other than a small list of exceptions, you are always in control of your system.

SB allows MS to transparently enable Full Disk Encryption by default, which I think is a win for all users. It allows you to do the same on Linux. It lets server operators be sure their systems have not been tampered with. While there are many problems with UEFI, SB is not one of them.