QuantumNomad_

>> I use it with ... most of my external disks with macOS

> How do you personally deal with the terrible macOS default SAMBA client

I almost never use SMB. The external disks in question are drives that I connect via USB3 or USB4/Thunderbolt to the MacBook Pro, including a couple 5-bay multi-drive DAS enclosures that have USB4/Thunderbolt.

Thanks for making Docker :)

Prior to the creation of Docker, did you have experience with other containerization technologies like Solaris Zones and FreeBSD Jails?

Did you at some point, either prior to or after making Docker for Linux, consider building something like Docker on top of FreeBSD Jails?

As a user of both Linux and FreeBSD, running Docker containers and Jails on each of them respectively, it would be interesting to see what FreeBSD Jails could be with something like Docker built on top of it while also taking advantage of other features on FreeBSD like fully using ZFS snapshots, ZFS send/recv, ZFS clone, vnet, and so on. Such that spinning up a container would under the hood receive ZFS snapshots from the “Docker registry” equivalent server, and it might clone the snapshot locally before starting up a container instance so that multiple container instances would be using the same locally available ZFS snapshot that was received once from the “Docker registry” equivalent.

I absolutely love ZFS. I use it on FreeBSD for all disks on the whole system, including the ones that FreeBSD itself is installed on, and I use it with some disks on Linux and with most of my external disks with macOS.

In an alternative universe, Mac OS X would have gotten ZFS shipped with the base install back in 2007, and presumably we’d then still have that to this day. In our universe that ended up not happening even though it was supposed to :/ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/28/revisiting-zfs-for-mac/

I really would have loved to have the whole of macOS running on ZFS. But at least using ZFS from homebrew on macOS to have ZFS on external disks is the next best thing after that, and which we do have.

Probably misread 2026-10-02T19:14:35Z by glancing at it too quickly and thinking it said 2026-10-19. With 19 coming from the clock hour after T.

I think the main point is mostly the same regardless of that though. 3 days ago or 20 days ago it’s a very recently created site.

Successful as in they completed building the game, or successful as in lots of copies sold?

My guess before clicking through was that the title was going to be “A New” way to play.

Definitely agree that “The Best” is clickbaity to put in headlines almost every time.

> Way to Play

I knew this was going to be another case of HN title filtering!

> People are going to buy their products anyway.

My iPhone 14 Pro 1TB finally broke down too much to remain usable a couple of weeks ago.

The screen shattered when the phone hit the floor. White and green lines on one side, making reading things more difficult and also straining on the eyes to look at at night. Since then, cracks in the screen cut my fingers ever ever so slightly on each touch. Not enough to make wounds, but enough to be discomfortable. I tried to use it still but over the next couple of days I dropped the phone on accident multiple times and now the touchscreen is not reacting as it should either. Some parts of the screen do not respond to touch at all, other parts still work, and others yet misregister where the touch is.

I investigated replacing the screen at third party phone shops. But it doesn’t make sense to pay to repair the screen. I was already living with a battery that was due to be replaced. And beyond that some hardware issue is preventing NFC from working since a year ago, so I can’t scan my passport NFC to renew my national bank id on it anyway either. Apple Pay doesn’t work, probably also because of the broken NFC. Finally, for whatever reason whenever I try to update iOS it fails saying it can’t verify the update after having downloaded it. Paying ~$200+ to replace the screen and battery and still having these other issues (NFC broken, and stuck on an older iOS version than it should) just wouldn’t be worth it.

I’ve been thinking long and hard about what phone to buy next for quite a while. And now that the screen broke and I was forced to make a decision I decided to not buy the latest greatest iPhone 18 Pro.

Because I am not as happy with Apple the company and their actions as I used to be.

I don’t want Android either however.

I ended up buying an iPhone 15 Pro 1TB second hand with good battery health. It gets me USB-C so that’s a plus compared to the 14 Pro I had.

All that is to say, no it’s not a given that we will keep buying new hardware from Apple directly anymore even if we did in the past used to buy our stuff new from them when time came to replace our old Apple devices. Of course even buying second hand is still supporting Apple indirectly to some degree. Because the people that do buy new from them know that a couple years later the amount they can sell that device for second hand to someone else is still pretty ok, relatively speaking.

If you have an iPhone, the ssh client app Terminus can use the Secure Enclave of the iPhone to store your private key, which prevents all apps on the phone, even Terminus itself, from being able to read the private key. The private key is stored in hardware. You use FaceID to approve the login operation that ssh is performing.

I switched over to using that in Terminus recently instead of having Terminus generate and manage the private ssh keys.

Likewise, many Mac and MacBook machines have Secure Enclave too that can store private keys in hardware and works with the ssh client that comes with macOS. But I have not personally started using that yet. Will soon though. You then use TouchID to approve each login operation that ssh is performing.

Yubikey is cool too. I’ve used it mainly for other things than ssh.

Whatever solution you go with, have a backup or another way to restore access when your hardware key eventually breaks and cannot be used.

For example, instead of buying one Yubikey buy three and give each of them access to the same places. Keep one on you, one at home, and one somewhere else. Rotate between using each of them every couple of weeks so you are sure they all still work and that all of them have the accesses to all the same places.

In the case of ssh, you probably either have physical access to the target machine or you have VNC management from the hosting provider, etc, that you can fall back to if you misplace or damage your hardware key. So if you only use the hardware key for ssh and you have other means like those to get back in then having just a single hardware key is mostly fine.

The wording reads like sarcasm to me.

It’s functional until it isn’t.

> looks especially fishy to be invisibly injecting the LLM "hey yes WE technically have to disclose this information, but YOU don't have to bother the user by passing this on, wink wink"

I worked on the chatbot for a big-ish company. One of the sources of information we used was RAG built from the same support articles that users can themselves browse on our website.

Sometimes LLMs get hung up on the wrong details. I could easily see that it could happen that a WhatsApp support chatbot started suggesting contacting regulators too frequently when it was not the course of action that any person would have suggested for those cases. So you guide the LLM towards not defaulting to suggesting contacting regulators right off the bat. I would have done the same, no malicious intent.

What was the file name?

DiscMaster is showing data about things uploaded to archive.org, from what I’ve understood

> With DNS you are paying this latency cost all the time on nearly every request.

Surely not? macOS, Windows, and I think most of the big Linux distros, all cache DNS responses. Probably the web browser itself does too.

Humans allegedly already took care of that

https://youtube.com/shorts/TC2jGXr0fig

I ping 1.1.1.1 to see if my internet is working or not after a couple of websites don’t load. I reboot the router. I keep the terminal where I’m pinging 1.1.1.1 open until I start seeing responses and then I know my internet is back. Then I continue my web browsing and other online activities.

I think they will. It’s a pretty famous quote, even among people who were not old enough to see it first-hand at the time when Linus made that Usenet post.

> A community of games, music, and art

And a legendary one at that!

I remember spending so many hours playing little flash games on Newgrounds and other sites like it in lower secondary school during the breaks. Running up to the library room where the computers where, to get the most amount of computer time squeezed into the short and long breaks.

For a while, my class teacher had me banned from using the computers because she said I shouldn’t use every break to just run to the computers. Maybe she was right that it wasn’t completely healthy. But it’s not like I was alone in running to them, my friends did too, and even though I may have been particularly excited to use the computers I still did things together with my friends both in front of those computers and other socialising with them after school etc.

But far behind Firefox and Google Chrome.

With Gitea specifically or in general? A lot of different software has silently included security fixes in updates combined with other changes and then later revealed what security fixes were made or stayed quiet about it all together, since long before LLMs could analyze changes.

Security researchers and malware authors would reverse engineer software updates of proprietary software, and scrutinise source code changes of open source projects to find secretly shipped security fixes.

People told me I was supposed to be on LinkedIn but I found it too silly a place to make an account. Then again, I was laid off from my job a while ago and I don’t really have a “network” irl nor online through which to find a new job, so maybe I am the sucker after all.

Apple having shown that the same CPU they use in some iPhones and iPads, Apple A18 Pro, worked perfectly well to build a laptop around running macOS, the MacBook Neo, should take the logical next leap in making an iPhone/laptop blend.

Make an iPhone and corresponding docking station, where the docking station is a MacBook shell + screen + touchpad + keyboard + battery that you slot the iPhone into in order to use the iPhone as a laptop. The slot you push the iPhone into would be reminiscent of the PCMCIA slots of old, but having the dimensions of the iPhone and connecting via ThunderBolt 5. When slotted into the shell, no part of the iPhone will extend outside of the shell. To eject, you push it in slightly and it pops out same way you push on a microSD card to eject it from many devices.

All of the buttons and links on that page redirect to spam pages. Most of the times I clicked, it brings me to some site that wants to sell me a VPN.

Took me a moment to understand! Clever :)

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, anyone? :)

If the software has not been updated in the last 5 minutes, is it even maintained anymore? /s

> TB-303

I know Behringer has a bad reputation for a couple of reasons, but I wanted a TB-303 type hardware machine without shelling out the money I don’t have for an original TB-303 and ended up buying the Behringer TD-3-MO second hand for a hundred dollars. I sort of wanted the yellow case version (TD-3-MO-AM; “Amber”) the most, but my country is pretty small so I took the one I could find. In the end the color of the case doesn’t matter that much, and I can always pick up a yellow one later if I come across it second hand and sell the one I bought to someone else, while having time to do what actually matters in the meantime which is to learn how to use this thing and make some music with it :D