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meitham··on Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead
This is true on ext4 but don’t use swapfile with ZFS or btrfs fs.
meitham··on GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
I practically live in the terminal but can’t live without a mouse. I’ve been using Vim (now Neovim) exclusively as my sole editor and everything in tmux including my email. I agree with the power of the keyboard but a properly configured mouse is a truly powerful terminal utility.
meitham··on Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
Claude comes with very nice hook-api you can use it to customise notifications and allow tmux window to blink or to come to the front when Claude needs your attention
meitham··on Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
Normal GUI runs local. I have mosh running from Blink on my iPhone to my server and I can continue months long session of AI
meitham··on Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
I've taken a look at herdr and I am confused, what does it offer over using Blink terminal from iPhone and tmux on the server?
meitham··on Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login
This echoes my experience too! You write one thing that can be misinterpreted as offensive to someone somewhere and suddenly you are an enemy of the Reddit state
meitham··on Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus
I am satisfied with pve and qm commands on proxmox, but I wish there was a nix answer to pfsense where my network and firewall are defined declaratively
meitham··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
Perhaps we could even make the file the port itself, perhaps calling it a “socket”? A “unix socket” would be a great name. If we could place all these files behind a local reverse proxy then we could use localhost/jekyll or localhost/fastapi. It’s just a dream
meitham··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
I read somewhere that Spotify initially seeded their db with pirated music! Now they go after anyone following their suit! It’s like a mafia’s boss that became mayor and is suddenly tough on crime, without acknowledging his past history!
meitham··on Top laptops to use with FreeBSD
I’m sorry to hijack this thread but can you run Ai agents like Claude or Cursor on BSD? I’m considering making a switch for development environment
meitham··on The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life
I haven’t come across lesswrong before! Great site and this caffeine article is great presentation of data.
meitham··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
Agreed. Minus the nuclear and air defence, Iran is more advanced than US and Russia in many other weapons capabilities.
meitham··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
The global Shia’s population is even larger than Russia’s population, and more willing to fight the US/Israel. Russia is of course superior to Iran technologically but Iran has the larger support worldwide.
meitham··on From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab
The article promotes the value of UI for the infrastructure by touching on ZFS. But in this age of Ai, what I’m really looking for is a good api or cli one can let LLM drives. I basically care more about using my infrastructure than how to create it. I know proxmox can do this, but I wish there was a nixos like system where all my VMs are in one file I can verify between LLM making the change and deployment
meitham··on Having Kids (2019)
As a father of 3, nothing is more satisfying than raising kids.
meitham··on Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
It’s not just about the seat they must lose their “lord” title
meitham··on Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
Could you please tell me which forum this was posted on
meitham··on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names? In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!
meitham··on Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)
erm, I think they're now called "sex workers" but self-employed or digital prostitutes is more correct now, given the inability to tell if you're dealing with a person or AI hologram!
meitham··on Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)
This ban targets children, prohibition covered adults! This more like requiring proof of id when you purchase alcohol
meitham··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
Thank you!
meitham··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
Madness! How do I harden my network against that?
meitham··on Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
I like how Apple introduced the CMD key, with copy/paste linked to it in the terminal, leaving CTRL to work as intended. Even outside the terminal basic emacs key binding work as intended, such as c-k c-u etc
meitham··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
The author of Kitty, Kovid Goyal, calls running tmux on local sessions an “anti-pattern” in the linked GitHub issue. I can’t help but find that a bit ironic, because the very first time I tried Kitty, I was in the middle of work when I discovered Arabic support was broken - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/536 . I simply launched the macOS Terminal app, attached to the same tmux session, verified my Arabic text rendered correctly, and then closed Kitty. Without tmux, I would’ve been forced to recreate my entire workflow from scratch.
meitham··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
The benefits it works everywhere, even on the blink app on iPhone when you suddenly have to pull out your phone in an emergency, connect to your tmux session away from your usual workstation.
meitham··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
Absolutely! You also have full control over the history size, along with powerful search capabilities. You can move panes and windows seamlessly across sessions, and even share those sessions with other users. My yank script integrates with tmux buffers, so copy/paste works flawlessly, even in vertical splits. I strongly disagree with the article; I simply can’t imagine using a terminal without tmux.
meitham··on Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
Totally agree! If you don’t want AWS turning your project into a paid service without giving you a dime, you’ve got to pick a license that stops that. BSD doesn’t cut it!
meitham··on Building my own solar power system
Thank you, I think that's the one!
meitham··on Building my own solar power system
forget the technology, what is that gorgeous snake-like plant in the picture by the blue stairs? I need that
meitham··on DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo
and just exited HK few months ago
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