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assusdan

84 karma · joined May 29, 2017

Backend engineer from Russia, currently working on API Management solution for large telecom operator.

I do not support Putin and his government.

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assusdan··on New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader
Russian version of this article, published slightly earlier AFAIU ( https://habr.com/ru/companies/pt/articles/863536/ ) does not look very AI-assisted, but still contains some of the weird moments you mentioned.

"discreet" looks like translation error, in russian version word "special" is used. PC/AT is still there, as well as Xeon example (latter does not seem "not quite right" to me)

assusdan··on $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating
Nivas (both classic/4x4/Legend niva and travel/chevrolet niva) are not based on Renault tech, they've been developed inhouse (with GM help on Travel one)
assusdan··on Poll: Do you use browser profiles?
I use firefox profiles, separate for a) personal use b) work and c) personal use with different network settings (as I need more than one VPN connected simultaneously, I launch this profile from Distrobox) to connect to geofenced / ISP blocked services.

I use different color schemes to visually distinguish them.

The only problem is that opening link from other apps do not automagically select right profile, so I have to manually copypaste it. Otherwise, it all works awesomely.

assusdan··on Busy Status Bar
It is mentioned at their "We're hiring" page https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2

"We are looking for a professional multidisciplinary designer to join our Busy Status Bar team and help bring the product to Kickstarter, generating excitement among future users."

assusdan··on AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched
IMO, 1st gen Epyc is not any good, given that 2nd gen exists, is more popular and is cheap enough (I actually have epyc 7302 and MZ31-AR0 motherboard as homelab). Too low performance per core and NUMA things, plus worse node (2nd gen compute is 7nm TSMC)
assusdan··on Russian TLD .RU fails DNSSEC validation
Yeah, I think major Russian providers just flushed caches by hand, as rollout was by-region, which is not smooth nor simultaneous

EDIT: rollout in some very large telecom here is still in progress, by region.

assusdan··on Russian TLD .RU fails DNSSEC validation
Basically, all ru. TLD became failing for all dns resolvers that use DNSSEC (which is the most of them)

As user, I am unable to visit any pages on .ru domains, as their IP would not resolve.

Reason is highly likely mistake (human side) in signing procedure, not something time- or hack- related.

Someone is most likely CC for TLD RU, aka АНО КЦНДСИ, official registry of .ru TLD.

assusdan··on Russian TLD .RU fails DNSSEC validation
That was scary. Fixed at about 16:55 UTC, total about 1hr of downtime.
assusdan··on Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code (2022)
January 17th, 2022
assusdan··on New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker
Actually, it is up-to-date (new features twice a year, some of them, e.g. virtual threads, are truly SotA) and not legacy (things like graalvm and helidon 4 are relatively new and are awesome). Do not avoid Java if your project would benefit from it.
assusdan··on Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address
That's true, however I've spent 17 years in a countryside and I'm regularly visiting it. Also, urban population rate in Russia is quite high (at 75%) and 1M+ cities are around 30% to 40% of total pop.
assusdan··on Hetzner is terminating contracts with all users who had a Russian postal address
That is not quite true. The majority of population is afraid/unable/not want to be vocal about their opinion in public.

Source: https://russianfield.com/180days (see aborted calls rate, and it is not the lowest i've ever seen)

Anecdotal evidence: I live in Russia and I know only a couple of people who supports P. Both pro-war and anti-war people do not.

assusdan··on A 6 channel GPS receiver from 1993
Could you please also stop bundling all russians together? Not all of us oppose "the west" and support our stupid invasion.
assusdan··on I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
Yet it is not available in some countries. VPN does not help, as valid phone number is required and its country code is being checked.
assusdan··on Bring your own key was a lie
What is the Slashvertisement?
assusdan··on MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
It's actually enforced by Habr rules https://habr.com/ru/docs/help/posts/
assusdan··on MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
Yes, unfortunately I did not found any blocklist setting to disable all translated articles.
assusdan··on MIT invents $4 solar desalination device
There is russian-speaking community https://habr.com/ which I found to be similar to HN (but less business-oriented).

However, I do not know any easy way to exclude all translated from english-speaking sites articles and news to read only local ones.

assusdan··on GitHub Is Down Again
1С (odin-es) as language is very popular in Russia. Quite a lot of companies uses 1С (as company) products, most of which are ERP systems. Their english branding seems to be Yellow ERP yellow-erp.com

Market share of 1С in Russia was about 40%, it may grow soon due to foreign vendors leaving russian market.

assusdan··on MasterCard suspends all services in Russia
Yeah, that's what I will probably do. However, this doesnt sound secure, and some providers do check if card holders equals to account owner
assusdan··on MasterCard suspends all services in Russia
It is partially banned/restricted for companies only. Personal transactions do work well. However, there 12% tax on buying currencies on currency exchange for both companies and personal accounts
assusdan··on MasterCard suspends all services in Russia
In Russia, all country-local Visa and MasterCard payments are processed by country-owned NSPK system https://nspk.com

So all local payments will work, but no abroad payments (and no foreign cards to pay locally in Russia). Probably, I will lost most of my cloud data and compute resources incl. VPNs. Fortunately, some providers do accept SWIFT payments.