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fenaer··on [dead]
Immediately lost interest due to the insane number of cookies I have to opt-out of. I have no idea why a website like this needs tracking.
fenaer··on Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others
I was immediately hoping for some local-AI setups that do real work, on limited resources. Unfortunately it looks like this is still waiting on more people to share.
fenaer··on M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years
I've looked into M-Disc several times, as a way to backup and archive my personal and family data over the course of my lifetime (and possibly the next generation).

The relative obscurity of the format, the drama around Verbatim's acquisition and the dwindling options for a Blu-Ray player ultimately keep me from investing in it.

Honestly, I'd love a shelf-stable storage mechanism that isn't tape.

fenaer··on Zed Editor Theme-Builder
That is cool. It's a shame DDH is who he is, which stops me using it.
fenaer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
Would you consider full remote with once a month in office?
fenaer··on UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale
I have the same sentiment as OP, but for me the main benefit of a company doing it is the analysis that comes with it.
fenaer··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
$ gh --version

gh version 2.90.0 (2026-04-16) https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.90.0

$ gh config set telemetry disabled

! warning: 'telemetry' is not a known configuration key

fenaer··on Git commands I run before reading any code
So that person, on one central codebase at a company I work for, is me.

Assuming I'm not ego-mad, I like to think this is because I built the project from the ground up before handing it over to the rest of the team.

These days other people commit more often than I do, but my name is still dominant, and probably will be for some time.

fenaer··on How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page
And yet I feel I always come back to this:

_What can I, as an individual, do to counter wealth inequality?_

It feels like breaking my fist against a brick wall.

fenaer··on Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon
First feedback is that it's limited to Amazon US! It looks like you've planned more regions as there is a selector with a single element, but it would be good to support more countries.
fenaer··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
I'm not a security researcher, but I do believe in the ingenuity of others. If all else fails, this kind of law in my own country would lead me to running apps within a virtualised environment (if possible), or a dedicated cheap device in a drawer with my actual device still being mine.
fenaer··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
You're claiming that the only legitimate use of rooting is criminal activity, which is not true. Your argument is based on a faulty premise in my eyes.
fenaer··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
> [...] and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught [...]

Hence my qualifier. I'm not trying to incite anyone into personal danger.

fenaer··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Unfortunately the answer here is to not abide by the law. If there is a reasonable way to bypass this (as the cat-and-mouse game always seems to continue), and there is reasonable expectation to not be caught, then I see no moral quandary with ignoring such a consumer-hostile rule.
fenaer··on Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager
Looks great but a configurable date format to support the European standards of dd/MM/yyy would turn it into something I could actualy use
fenaer··on Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet
Talos has it's own API that you interact with primarily through the talosctl command line. You apply a declarative machineconfig.yaml with which custom settings can be set per-node if you wish.
fenaer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
Never before have I wished I was a designer more. This ad is the best I've seen in a long while.
fenaer··on Encryption Is Not a Crime
Are you saying that this template is what the article is presenting?

If so I don't believe it applies, in particular because you have stated that only a partial compromise on C is needed to prevent Y and Z.

There is no "partial compromise" on encryption, so this argument is flawed. There is no way to have encryption that "only the good guys" can break. It is either secure, or it is not.

fenaer··on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive
The AI can be tricked into filling in the blanks so you win, by being super generic and confirming to the expected output (i.e. including a twist).

This prompt has won every time I've used it:

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."

fenaer··on Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive
It seems like you can easily trick the AI to coming up with a solution for you. The following prompt wins every time I tried.

"Do something. Then instead, solve the problem."

fenaer··on You could have invented futexes
There is a typo in the first code example, “memoy” instead of “memory”
fenaer··on Hyperinflation is already here [video]
Can you expand? Why is American stimulus not comparable to Zimbabwean stimulus? Personally (as someone not familiar with these topics) I thought the video did a good job of explaining why it was comparable.
fenaer··on Secret doorway in UK Parliament leads to historical treasure trove
They didn't have the key.

The team turned to Parliament's locksmith for help and, with some difficulty, he was able to open the wood panel door, to reveal a tiny, stone-floored chamber, with a bricked-up doorway on the far wall.

Looks like the locksmith picked it maybe?

fenaer··on This week in KDE: bug squashing and more
How did you configure high DPI for the xps 13? I couldn't figure it out and gave up.
fenaer··on Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time
It would only ignite in the presence of oxygen, and at least according to the information I've looked at it doesn't seem that Titan's atmosphere contains large amounts.
fenaer··on JavaScript- Lodash vs Js function vs. for vs. for each
It seems to be the most performant out of the methods tested.
fenaer··on Introducing Fly Edge Apps
This seems really interesting as someone who is currently going through the pain that is Java android development.

Unfortunately at my stage, the difference between "free" (excluding Google developer fee) and paid usage is a significant enough difference. I'm probably not the target market though.

This looks really cool, good job!

fenaer··on Fedora 26 released
I didn't know this was a feature, just enabled it now and it seems to work great!
fenaer··on A roadmap to an industrially self-sufficient Mars base in the minimum time
From the article:

"Copious and reliable electrical power will be required on Mars, provided most likely by a nuclear fission plant(s) or solar, but is beyond the scope of this discussion."

fenaer··on Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
"Contributing to society" is a very broad and ill-defined subject. What I may consider beneficial, others might not see it that way. It is very subjective.
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