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aspbee555

253 karma · joined October 5, 2024

designing and programming a wide variety of computing systems for over 25 years
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aspbee555··on The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network
usually lan devices do not talk to the router unless they need a resource outside your lan network

you can however isolate with vlans and a vlan capable switch, then it would be on the router to isolate traffic between lans (I do exactly this for my less trusted virtual machines)

aspbee555··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
I have been using vscodium for years, hasn't disappointed until recently (rust analyzer wont pickup changes, not sure if rust or vscode issue). I tried zed once, but just didn't do the basics I needed at the time. I'll have to give it a try again

edit: zed is working much better for me now and does not have the issue vscodioum was having (not recognizing changes/checking some code till I triggered rebuild)

aspbee555··on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
I have been running Deb 13 on my primary workstation for a couple months, just as stable as Debian 12 I was running for years on my primary. I am able to do all of my programming work, virtual win/mac for compiling and able to play every Steam game I try with zero problems (BG3, CyberPunk, etc), all from a $500 mini-pc. Even bluetooth has had zero issue (which is usually a problem/pita)
aspbee555··on I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
I stopped using Windows over 15 years ago and moved to Ubuntu that was running all the servers. Unfortunately Ubuntu decided to do the same garbage trying to shove their pro crap down my throat, made it impossible to remove (by making a desktop requirement) and resorted to the game of trying to re-enable it during updates

I finally moved everything to just Debian itself that never nags me and just works with everything I need, including games (thanks to steam)

Only time I boot a Win10 VM is to compile apps for for windows, otherwise it has zero use or need anymore

aspbee555··on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
I find myself not really trusting just tests, I really need to try the app/new function in multiple ways with the goal of breaking it. In that process I may not break it but I will notice something that might break, so I rewrite it better
aspbee555··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
unwraps are so very easy to use and they have bit me so many times because you can nearly never run into a problem and suddenly crashes from an unwrap that almost always was fine
aspbee555··on Responses from LLMs are not facts
it really can't be that difficult to have a llm reference a known factual reference before giving an answer. Its really good at figuring out what you want and what to say, not far off to check references
aspbee555··on Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space
no particles needed, we already have ion drive, just need electricity
aspbee555··on Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using?
I have been using local hosted gitea for years for all private projects
aspbee555··on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
Hire them for a day/week/month, see how they do the job. qualified? ok, job

bonus is you get to try different jobs, don't like it? you know you can get another one to try out easily. employer also gets to try different candidates easily with little vested resources. able to find canidtes that actually/really like/enjoy the job, better productivity

(of course this is not compatible with employer based healthcare)

aspbee555··on Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
this is why "think of the children" is always used in these instances, it gets right past peoples defenses and if you try to argue against privacy invasive/life invasive/completely useless regulations/regulations ripe for abuse (by design) then you are somehow the "bad guy"
aspbee555··on When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery
I was working through some ffmpeg timing stuff and the ai kept insisting on putting in sleep functions to try and "solve" it
aspbee555··on Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker
it really does allow easy setup with compose, multiple containers, different versions, etc. I have been setting up linux servers and desktops for decades but docker made it way easier for a lot of things

I still have email server setups I would never dare try to touch with docker, but I know it is possible

like a lot of things it has its uses and it's really good at what it does

aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
The mentoring was amazing when I started, but unfortunately the company was bought/sold and things unfortunately went downhill from there (corporate profits rarely coincide with providing actual help and is more designed to make paperwork/justify spending the precious numbers. I was great at the actual job, sucked at the medical paperwork)

I am thrilled I got to help some kids in need of help/understanding/acceptance at least and seeing the joy/results first hand is something I will never forget

aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
I have worked with computers for decades, I love it, and for me to not even want to look at a computer was impossible for me

I made it through the Army (decades ago), I ran my own company, handled employees, etc. I have no problem with hard work and stress. My joy for computers was destroyed for a while, and it had nothing to do with the work itself, it was due to targeted intentionally malicious discrimination from the top

aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
I have to admit it annoyed me for a moment, but it is an honest thing I have to have ask myself as part of my analysis of a situation, ie. AITA, in this instance, not at all
aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
overall I felt my biggest mistake was believing that I would be fired/let go if there was ever a problem with my work

I never realized there was such malicious people out there incapable of basic professional respect and tell me to f-off

aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
I did part time work as a mentor which was way more fulfilling than the IT work. I eventually found my way back to programming my own project
aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
overall it took time away from all that to recover, I also changed careers for a while to more fulfilling part time work

I have always had a passion for computing so I eventually found my way back with a project of my own

aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
the owner instructed everyone not to talk to me, I found out years later

if it was a me problem then they would not have let the then president of the company go for working with me

I was not the one with communication problems but people are really good at blaming me for their own problems

aspbee555··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that

I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of everyone else around me doing exactly what they were informed would cause problems instead of having discussions with people that actually knew how shit worked. I was endlessly picking up everyone elses mess and treated worse than a pile of shit all because people were incapable of having a speck of respect for other people since all their hatred for computers fell on me

I GTFO of the career of misery and took half a decade to finally start feeling better

I have now spent years and countless hours working on software and I greatly enjoy doing this work again and find I get even more done than I used to simply by doing life the way I need to instead of how some backwards/abusive control freak "needs it done"

aspbee555··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
aspbee555··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds "AI powered" earbuds
it is to ensure no discussion of Tiananmen square
aspbee555··on Why do we need DNSSEC?
because I can have my certificate authority in my DNS records and my app can verify the CA cert is from a trusted/verified source
aspbee555··on AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
this is also what I started doing, sometimes it will give an actual correct answer but it usually easy to just start a new session. I can even ask the exact same question and get a correct answer with a new session
aspbee555··on WebRTC for the Curious
I have been working on a quic/webrtc application for a while, webrtc capabilities are severely underrated since everything pairs it with TCP signaling defeating the power of webrtc
aspbee555··on AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
I am constantly correcting the AI code it gives me, and all I get for it is "oh your right! here is the corrected code"

then it gives me more hallucinations

correcting the latest hallucination results in it telling me the first hallucination

aspbee555··on Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
copies and replication

I have used Keepass since before lastpass existed and sync with multiple machines/locations via syncthing (originally synced with rsync)

aspbee555··on Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
cloudflare uses certificates with numerous other site names included on the certificate as alt names so your site name could have been discovered by any other site that happens to use that same cert
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