pprotas's comments

On: Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

[pprotas]

Played Factorio for tens of hours using the Steam Deck touchpad

Best usecase for them (according to me) is top down strategy/base building games

Some people use them for radial menus, like selecting a weapon or pings or whatever

On: DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier

[pprotas]

Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 do the same thing through GH Copilot and Bedrock. I get plenty of "Actually the simplest solution is ..., wait no, actually I should do ..., the best fix is ..."

On: Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

[pprotas]

`bw list` shows plaintext credentials in the CLI https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/#list

I know this because I had the same surprised reaction

[martin- → pprotas]

No one is disputing that part. It's the "copied into clipboard automatically" part that sounds implausible.

On: Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

[pprotas]

The death penalty was intended for Palestinians, not Israeli bosses

[Muromec → pprotas]

It doesn't always go as intended.

[rurban → pprotas]

sure, but when the tide switches to a far-left government they might use it against them.

[tovej → rurban]

I do believe the law was specifically carved out so it could only be used against Palestinian prisoners. And there is no far-left in Israel, at least no far-left party that could ever be in government.

On: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

[pprotas]

A bribe

On: The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

[pprotas]

I'd go with nail technician, barber, electrician, mechanic, beauty salon, plumber, coffee shop, window washer, construction

I see these types of jobs flourishing in my community. My barber is fully booked for the next month, and a hair salon owner in my street bought a new property and started a second hair salon... In the same street! And the second salon is also fully booked.

On: Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents

[pprotas]

Can't wait for the free tier!

[yoavm → pprotas]

Workers AI had a free tier since it launched, I think? See the pricing page I linked to above.

[indigodaddy → yoavm]

So looks like the AI Platform free tier will have access to the open models only perhaps? And the 10,000 neuron thing? I don't see any mention of frontier models in the url you linked in the other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792538#47793142 )

On: Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

[pprotas]

I used tmux for quite some time, and just stopped using it one day. I realized that whatever tmux brings can be done better by a good terminal.

I also hated dealing with all the wrong colors, escape character support, missing chars and messed up terminal buffers

[cassepipe → pprotas]

Wezterm for examples has panes in addition of tabs and scriptable enough (lua) that you can session management:

https://fredrikaverpil.github.io/blog/2024/10/20/session-man...

[alwillis → pprotas]

Most modern terminals have a built-in multiplexing anyway. When you use tmux, you're essentially using a terminal emulator on top of a terminal emulator.

On: Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

[pprotas]

Yeah man, it's a grand scheme to skim 50 cents off you per year. All combined, that might be just enough to cover their website hosting costs.

On: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

[pprotas]

Samba share?

Old technology still works, even if it is old!

[axelthegerman → pprotas]

Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.

[pprotas → axelthegerman]

iOS has native support for SMB in the Files app

Turning on SMB is usually just a click of a button, even macOS supports it

Any user technical enough to be able to set up an S3 bucket, Syncthing, Nextcloud or this "Locker" tool from OP can also set up an SMB share

I was responding to the above thread, where sharing files on an offline network is being discussed. Backups were not mentioned as a requirement.

[whartung → pprotas]

Yea, boy, you’d like to think.

But sharing a folder on my Mac with my wife’s MacBook has been a Google diving, arcane command line headache.

I would have thought sharing the folder, and marking ‘everyone’ for all the read/write modes would be enough. But, no.

I guess with APFS it’s a lot more fiddly. It’s not intuitive, and not in the info panel.

[pluc → pprotas]

Samba, rsync, sshfs, even fusefs... but there's seemingly nothing that can keep your files yours across your own devices without extensive hacking/setup, suspicious EULAs, MitMs, etc. We can build it, but normies can't