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ahdanggit··on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
and/or someone "renting" a bare metal server from such a provider too.
ahdanggit··on Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64
I appreciate you pointing that out. I've been curious about meshastatic and wondered how well the encryption was being handled.
ahdanggit··on Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
Rust doesn't run on all of their platforms so this is a good example of where git may not be viable for OpenBSD long-term (if they were to switch from CVS one day, which is a big IF)
ahdanggit··on Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
Rust doesn't support as many CPU architectures as C does (SH4 for example, though there's likely many more better examples.)

This might make a much more interesting case for GOT than before https://www.gameoftrees.org/

ahdanggit··on Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?
> The simple alternative is just around the corner: sprinkle vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed and don’t build your identity around a framework. That mindset is hard to swallow, though (especially when companies have spent millions convincing developers their stack is the only way forward).

I worked with a front-end developer (React) who needed help integrating with a payment processor. I looked at the docs and hopped on a video call with them to get them unblocked. I ended up having to explain how to POST hidden inputs via an HTML form to them, and their reply was something along the lines of "Oh, HTML is obsolete." They didn't understand the basics because they only new React.

ahdanggit··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
HARD AGREE!

It just takes the minimal amount of discipline, and some conventions. I know it can be done because I did it, lots of people did it just a few years ago (some of those apps are STILL running today.)

ahdanggit··on Use One Big Server (2022)
I used a colo once a few years ago at a small datacenter in the midwest, I was shocked at how unprofessional everything was, machines laying in the hallway, a guy was sleeping in one of the offices. They let me setup my server and was left unattended several times, I could have just poked the power button on a nearby server or moved a cable or whatever. It was a 1.5 hour drive away, and I wasn't running anything serious so I just went with it but pulled my stuff out after my 1 year subscription was up.
ahdanggit··on Use One Big Server (2022)
> until my girlfriend moved in with me

lol, why was this the defining moment? She wasn't too keen on hearing the high pitch wwwwhhhhuuuuurrrrrrr of the server fans?

ahdanggit··on Bear is now source-available
> We're entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing product only involves typing "Create a fork of this repo and change its name to something cool and deploy it on an EC2 instance".

I've been curious about how LLMs would impact open source, I have some theories and this is not the only one.

ahdanggit··on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
In the Philippines everyone uses Facebook because you can use Messenger for free without data charges.
ahdanggit··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
I really wanted to like Librem and almost bought a phone until I saw this video by Louis Rossmann: https://youtu.be/wKegmu0V75s?si=NzevsJgHD188bRkT
ahdanggit··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Got tired of this with a few extensions I made too. It felt like every year or so they'd completely break some API and I'd have to go switch to the new one, then they wanted a privacy policy, then justification for permissions, etc etc. Wasn't worth the trouble eventually and I just let them die.
ahdanggit··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
Roughly, yes. Customers (or more often, their IT department) runs our installer which installs the server as a windows service.
ahdanggit··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
The company I work for has a legitimate service that runs on the loopback (it provides our web apps APIs for some device integration) hopefully its just as simple as the user accepting the prompt else we'll be drowning in support. We had to go the path of the local service because they killed NPAPI. I've been thinking about using web serial as an alternative but Firefox doesn't support it.

That being said, I think this is an overall win, hopefully Firefox implements it in a consistent manner as well.

ahdanggit··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
my bank did this on the site they sent me to in order to activate my new card.
ahdanggit··on Setting up shop as self employed in the US
I would strongly suggest speaking with a human accountant. I did this recently after doing some contracting on-the-side for a couple years and I should have done it sooner. It cost me something like $50 for an hour of their time and had I done it sooner I'd easily have saved $5000 in taxes. They can help you understand things like how to pay estimated quarterly taxes so as to avoid the penalty of not doing so. What you can and can't deduct (there was a TON of things I could have deducted) and how to track and log it.
ahdanggit··on Ask HN: Are developers sad about AI writing more of their code?
I'm tired of getting thrown AI slop, but I think its a people problem not an AI problem.

"Hey, I made this doc, can you just make sure it looks OK, maybe add a couple things to it?" - Only to find out its completely useless AI slop and barely any details are correct and everything essential is absent.

Same situation with:

- "Hey, can you take a look at this script to see if it's ok"?

- "Hey, do you know why this code isn't working?"

- "Hey, I created that diagram..."

slop, slop, slop. Low effort people will put in low effort with these tools. I bet there's lots of people I work with that use AI and I don't know because they're high effort people.

And in all cases I've fixed the problems and helped them but I've realized two things and stop doing that recently:

When these folks use AI to generate artifacts, they take even less accountability "I dunno, that's just what the AI did..."

The also have no interest in learning. They get AI to do the thing they don't want to learn, then when that fails just try to get someone else to do it for them.

ahdanggit··on Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying
crates.io suffers from this on huge crates (e.g. the windows crate) the first time I experienced it I thought something was broken.
ahdanggit··on Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
I wonder if the increase has anything to do with the post-COVID lack of interest in commercial property?
ahdanggit··on Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
Using single family homes as an investment vehicle is the weirdest thing to me.
ahdanggit··on Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord
Been doing database per-tenant (MySQL though not SQLite) since 2012, app is still going strong.
ahdanggit··on CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system
Japan has their own thing too (since 2003): https://jvn.jp/en/nav/jvn.html
ahdanggit··on U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law
I am also wondering the same thing, how can they even hold him?

He was charged with a DUI (not even an ICE matter) other than that his crime seems to be that he doesn't speak English and lived in Mexico most of his life?

Also... shouldn't you be assumed to be a citizen (e.g. innocent) unless proven otherwise? Have we turned in to Nazi Germany (Papers please...)

Did they pass an executive order voiding birth right citizenship and I missed it? I know they were trying to...

ahdanggit··on WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
The _only_ thing I don't like about this is the automatic prefixing of '#' in header tags. Everything about this is freaking awesome.
ahdanggit··on Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
Something both this blog post and the Github Repo[0] do not point out very clearly is that the stock wireless card that comes with (if you choose it), at least, the AMD 13 isn't supported by FreeBSD[1]. Of course, you can swap it for a compatible one though.

[0] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/freebsd-on-framework

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Framework_Laptop/13_AMD_Ryz...