holysoles

I've written a lot of powershell in my time..

PS is really powerful for Windows OS level concepts and enterprise software that have good modules (AD, IIS, Citrix). However it has so many semantics that can burn you; non-strict mode, implicit type conversion, ordered null checks [1], not to mention the amount of boilerplate in a module and the runtime overhead. At a certain scale/complexity you need to graduate to using C# and .NET.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/utility-modules...

Looks awesome, had I had something like this a year ago, I wouldn't of bought an nvidia shield. The Tizen home screen is so busy..

My nook was lightly sticky to the touch, I actually wiped it down with some cornstarch on a dish towel, it made a noticeable improvement. I do think if its too far gone though you'd be out of luck.

The kobos do look pretty nice, I might switch to that whenever my nook kicks it.

I almost bought an xteink the other week but held off due to lack of a frontlight option.

I instead resurrected my nook simple touch (2011) with this project [1] from XDA forums, its made it infinitely more usable and still has good battery life.

[1] https://xdaforums.com/t/nst-g-the-phoenix-project.4673934/

+1 on battery life, though it has been improving: my idle battery usage is a lot better than a year ago.

While I agree with the concerns raised in this article, I did not enjoy the writing style of it. Almost all of it feels AI generated, and is written in a very combative tone.

The thought of this didn't even cross my mind until yesterday. I previously figured the hype was primarily around marketing, but after watching this Primagen video, I have the same suspicion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGOKd4jqEk

Almost bought cisco shares today, glad I didn't.

A workplace that values job security is such a motivating factor for employees that I don't think is recognized enough. At a company that conducts layoffs, it feels like you're just waiting for the next one.

If anyone is looking for a tool to actually send traffic to a tool like this, I wrote a Traefik plugin that can block or proxy requests based on useragent.

https://github.com/holysoles/bot-wrangler-traefik-plugin

Looks like the Firefox team is requiring clearer, higher quality security reports, presumably due to AI assisted submissions. Hopefully this will be enough to not require more significant barriers for submissions.

I'll plug a similar project that I found last week, its an emulated TV Tuner (HD Homerun) of your Plex/Jellyfin content. Its great having an easy option to throw something on for background noise.

https://tunarr.com/

I'll plug that Chainguard has been maintaining a fork for awhile and seems to have a history with supporting forks like this: https://github.com/chainguard-forks/minio

For a web GUI, I had been using this project: https://github.com/huncrys/minio-console

I switched to rustfs this week though and am not looking back. I'd recommend it to others as well for small scale usage. Its maturing rapidly and seems promising.

The Verge had some good coverage about this, but TLDR: probably. Flagship phones may not raise in price to fully reflect it. They might cut costs elsewhere like keeping the same camera, or eat some of the cost increase in their margin.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/880812/ramageddon-ram-shortage...

They discussed it on the decoder podcast as well.

Yeah this doesnt seem like a unique or new issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40195410

Paywall bypass: Set your user-agent to "Googlebot"

For those curious, the federation roadmap is here: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...

I'm watching this pretty closely, I've been mirroring my GitHub repos to my own forgejo instance for a few weeks, but am waiting for more federation before I reverse the mirrors.

Also will plug this tool for configuring mirrors: https://github.com/PatNei/GITHUB2FORGEJO

Note that Forgejo's API has a bug right now and you need to manually re-configure the mirror credentials for the mirrors to continue to receive updates.

I very much think its possible to use LLMs as a tool in this way. However a lot of folks are not. I see people, both personally and professionally, give it a problem and expect it to both design and implement a solution, then hold it as a gold standard.

I find the best uses, for at least my self, are smaller parts of my workflow where I'm not going to learn anything from doing it: - build one to throw away: give me a quick prototype to get stakeholder feedback - straightforward helper functions: I have the design and parameters planned, just need an implementation that I can review - tab-completion code-gen - If I want leads for looking into something (libraries, tools) and Googling isn't cutting it

I always say I'm opting out as loudly as possible, many people don't even know that you can opt-out. The signs are often small and out sight.

Fascinating find and investigation. While there isn't a solid conclusion from it, glad it was written up, perhaps someone will be able to connect more dots with it.

The mullvad apps do offer obfuscation options (shadowsocks, etc) but i agree it would be nice if something was baked into wireguard itself. I recently went through setting up shadowsocks over wg for my homelab and it was a good bit of effort

Continuing to add new features for my traefik plugin that manages bot traffic: https://github.com/holysoles/bot-wrangler-traefik-plugin

Also working on getting Nix setup on my devices, including a PR for the official installer to support OpenRC + BusyBox distros. Hopefully will get merged soon :)

In general I have a pretty negative view of private equity. However I did see this awhile back that seems at least partially positive: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/private-equity-giant-kkrs-an...

There more sources if you google, but someone leaked a Cellebrite meeting.

https://www.androidauthority.com/cellebrite-leak-google-pixe...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which...

Both my current org and previous org (large) have mentioned it many times as an option, but both ended up choosing other commercial alternatives: HyperV and XenServer.

I think the missing datacenter manager was causing a lot of hesitation for those that don't manage via automation

If they keep it MIT licensed, if/when things come crashing down, I think its reasonable to think Bun would continue on in some form, even if development slows pace without paid contributors.