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st3fan commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?    · Posted by u/stephenheron
st3fan · a day ago
I love all the benchmarks and numbers and what not but for us who switched to M* laptops it is all very obvious without any of that: longer battery life, more performance for disk/cpu/gpu, no fans spinning.

My M1 Air still beats top of the line i7 MacBook Pros.

st3fan commented on Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?   righto.com/2025/08/Cr2Ge2... · Posted by u/freediver
st3fan · 2 days ago
Folks need a linter, a compound checker, as part of their writing workflow. This seems like a simple idea that makes these errors show up with a squiggly red line under it.
st3fan commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?   lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso
Havoc · 8 days ago
> PoW is minor for botters

But still enough to prevent a billion request DDoS

These sites have been search engine scrapped forever. It’s not about blocking bots entirely just about this new wave of fuck you I don’t care if your host goes down quasi malicious scrappers

st3fan · 8 days ago
"But still enough to prevent a billion request DDoS" - don't you just do the PoW once to get a cookie and then you can browse freely?
st3fan commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first   github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
st3fan · 8 days ago
I like this but can we stop calling product telemetry “spyware” please.
st3fan commented on Using ChatGPT 5 to help undo a wrongful cancellation from the Scala community   pretty.direct/truth... · Posted by u/cbeach
st3fan · 13 days ago
This person needs professional help. Not ChatGPT.
st3fan commented on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol   blog.nginx.org/blog/nativ... · Posted by u/phickey
st3fan · 15 days ago
Basically the only reason I install Caddy instead of Nginx as a reverse proxy is the one-liner to get TLS & ACME going. Maybe this will change that? Not sure.
st3fan commented on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3
st3fan · 16 days ago
Why is nobody talking about how this software sends text to servers in china over an unencrypted connection?
st3fan commented on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3
st3fan · 16 days ago
> of course a dictionary program will include code to talk to dictionary-providing web sites.

It is funny to read this considering all the rage when say Siri does this.

st3fan commented on Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers   ergaster.org/posts/2025/0... · Posted by u/JNRowe
st3fan · 20 days ago
"I used the full disk with LLM, and set up disk encryption"

I know we're in the AI hype cycle but I bet you meant LVM there >:-)

st3fan commented on Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail   xcancel.com/mxroute/statu... · Posted by u/paul-tharun
jervant · 20 days ago
st3fan · 20 days ago
Author here .. I haven't run it personally in a long time since I moved to hosted email. It was always an unofficial hack :-/

u/st3fan

KarmaCake day7247February 15, 2008View Original