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waynesonfire··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
it's only "difficult" because google, microsoft, etc have conivenced the community that self-hosting e-mail is not possible and for some reason, further propetuated by IT influencers that have drank that koolaid.

all complete bullshit; they arbitrraly occasionally block to protect their moat raping privacy. e-mail is the most rewarding self-hosting capability. like anything, there is a learning curve but at the end of the day: it's easy, stable, a pleasure to host. there are solutions that ease the learning curve. after a while, all the e-mail do make it through.

i'm so happy that my communications are not indexed by these hyperscalers.

stop listening to these pussies claiming how difficult it is. they're projecting their limitations.

waynesonfire··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Among a few things ive boticed one notable is devops has been less of a blocker / faster to address issues. Most of the time the asks are trivial but incompetent Devops couldn't figure it out. Now they can ask ai and through their elevated permissions quickly solve the problem.
waynesonfire··on I don't want the details
You, and this entire thread is missing the point. Nobody is wrong but, the point being missed is that "leaders" isn't one thing.. there are leaders at every height of the organizations hierarchy and even to the sides. As a basic example, do you mean the immediate manager? their manager? their manager? The CTO? Each operates at ever more abstract level of detail.
waynesonfire··on Small programming tricks
Won't work.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way - Mark Twain

waynesonfire··on Small programming tricks
What a silly observation.. of course they matter. This, among other things called experience, seperates senior engineers from bright young green minds. Good thing those same green minds have all this extra time to throw at the problem to catch up and appear senior.
waynesonfire··on Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead
It's a terrible idea to delegate swap, a capability that is expected to operate under severe memory pressure, to a subsystem that fails under such conditions.
waynesonfire··on Watch the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year When Spain, Egypt and More Go Dark
don't miss that can't-miss appeal!
waynesonfire··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
> the 662 MB used by the "Renderer" is shared between many Windows components

Fine, shutdown the weather and stock ticker apps.

waynesonfire··on That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
that seems very risky. it doesn't take much effort for the interviewer to spot a trickster, forfieting the interview. There is also no telling the second problem would be easier. I'd rather take my chances and hope i solve it or try to limp through with a hint.
waynesonfire··on 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
Cool story bro. I used a llm to help me name a variable.
waynesonfire··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
I disagree. Sony can't bring back Walkmans because a Walkman won't generate the returns Sony demands. Furthermore, they refuse to open-source it so it stays hidden in a vault.

Plenty of people would lose money, break even, or God willing, make a tiny profit, diving into this problem. Regardless, it would make society a happier place.

waynesonfire··on TLS certificates for internal services done right
Yes, you're describing a fundemental feature of DNS.
waynesonfire··on TLS certificates for internal services done right
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not quite done right.

waynesonfire··on TLS certificates for internal services done right
> because it is using the public ip instead of the private one.

For this edge case, the issue is not with DNS; it's that the router is not configured to allow internal clients to access the network through the public IP, vis-à-vis hairpin routing.

waynesonfire··on TLS certificates for internal services done right
> - Run two haproxy instances,

This made me consider my haproxy architecture. I use haproxy acl rules and the use_backend directive to enforce security policy and routing. It denies http requests based on source ip address per service (host header)

I think a good middle-ground is to use a single haproxy but two frontends; one binds to the public interface and one for private. haproxy is now no longer responsible for routing, the router is.

waynesonfire··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
because when crashing on a motorcycle, it's only the cyclists face that's turned inside out and in such a way that it's not a burden on society to treat a vegetable.
waynesonfire··on Iroh 1.0
Why? Because if you need to serve ads that are being blacklisted by DNS, you need something like this.
waynesonfire··on Iroh 1.0
why isn't your mental model to use DNS?
waynesonfire··on LLMs aren't conscious (and thinking they are is culturally dangerous)
Why would you think this ai slop suddenly breaks that barrier?
waynesonfire··on OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system
one day we'll get the equivelent of language server for build systems.
waynesonfire··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
very impressived with no LLM results. If I want LLM, I don't need to use a search engine to engange with it. That's a different product.
waynesonfire··on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
> My first and only layoff

Won't be your last.

waynesonfire··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
I was running Ubuntu 16.04; migrated to FreeBSD and I'm all in. Between 16.04 and the current version of Linux; the ecosystem shifted. It's values shifted in ways that did not align with me. This mis-alignment is what motivated me to boot-up FreeBSD. I'm glad I discovered it. I found my happy place again.

It's an incredible journey to take--whether you stick with it or not. Migrating to FreeBSD gives you new eyes into what Linux was, is, and the awesomeness of FreeBSD that is so hard to articulate; like describing the color blue. It must be taken as a whole to appreciate it; and I'm not just saying the OS, it's commands, kernel features, but, the end-to-end compute experience, over time.

If I could draw an equivelent, it would be like when Djistrka savagely destroyed the GOTO statement with a single, short, paper. It took a brilliant mind to articulate that and there has yet to be such a mind to describe the beauty of FreeBSD. So, the best I can do, is just to challenge you to try it.

waynesonfire··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
Of course it's robbery. I don't think anyone is truly arguing it's not. The issue is that, if we don't do it, China will. Game over.

I'm surprised I hvan't seen more economist scholars exploring this topic; it's a fastincating phenomenon. I've seen folks try and re-visit history and compare what's happening with AI to some historic event--but, we've never seen anything quite like it. As much as history repeats itself; at the forefront of innvotaion it doesn't.

I suspect that there will one day be an AI tax as society tries to reclaim the value of the theft; maybe even UBI of some form. Until then, buy the stocks and ride the theft wave. The economsits are certainly exploring the K shaped economy, and this is why.

waynesonfire··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Ah, this makes most sense to me, the details of the compromise must have already been published,

"The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far."

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2056949168208552080

waynesonfire··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Are they required to announce that they're being hacked in real time?
waynesonfire··on Iosevka + Berkeley = Ioskeley
Iosevka, a free open-source alternative to Berkeley Mono.
waynesonfire··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
> manager who's managing 15 people AND expected to ship

Notable is what they're not doing--annual reviews. This duty is now handled by the all seeing "intelligence" machine that can evaluate employees in real-time.

waynesonfire··on Ask.com has closed
Aol.com for me.
waynesonfire··on Commenting and approving pull requests
> new development task (i.e. on something like Jira), or it is completed before the PR merges.

You've never written an TODO comment? I find them useful.

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