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bibaheu··on PinePhone Modem SDK
Telco systems validate and may transcode voice data between phones, so the functionality is limited.
bibaheu··on Case study: fake hardware cryptowallet
You can generate the coin movement operation in the air gapped machine, write it down on paper, and then use a normal, connected computer to transmit it to the network. The private key never left the air gapped machine, with this method.
bibaheu··on UDP transmitter implemented with PIO and DMA on the RP2040
It can probably be a bit simplified by using IPv6, as that avoids the IPv4 checksum.
bibaheu··on Win16 Retro Development
What are those tedious reasons? Like when booting on very old hardware, you got a Vista-like splash screen on Win7?
bibaheu··on Everyone going to World Cup must have this app, experts are sounding the alarm
It still does, it's now called "Secure Folder". There's "Insular" from F-Droid as well.
bibaheu··on Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)
Hi, I do the BD M-Dics at home, with Linux, with 0 problems. What problems did you get?
bibaheu··on Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
Same here with Yakuake. It's always there
bibaheu··on Tech Compensation in Europe
I keep getting calls from recruiters offering 30k€ in North Spain, but they are hurting, as nowadays everybody is getting better deals thanks to remote work.
bibaheu··on Mptcp: Moving laptop from GBit to wireless without applications noticing?
>switching ISPs may throw your internal network addressing in disarray which can be either a pain or a massive problem

Those are what ULA's do. A local router that provides global addresses and ULAs solves all your problems, and that's the default behaviour of OpenWRT (and probably other routers). If you want traffic to not leave your local network, listen to your ULA (fd00::whatever) and call it a day.

bibaheu··on That time Sony installed rootkit software on thousands of computers [video]
Thanks for responding, it's quite interesting story.

> When a CD was inserted, it checked for a watermark and if there, returned pseudo random sectors of data.

So, if the driver was not running in the machine, the disc would be a standard Data+AudioCD? Nothing else to stop reading it as a generic music disc?

bibaheu··on That time Sony installed rootkit software on thousands of computers [video]
Can you tell us what the driver actually did? How did it "prevent" piracy, and what are your feelings about the allegedly bad software quality?
bibaheu··on Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?
ISP fibre -> ISP fibre terminating box -> Router Netgear R6220 running OpenWRT.

My home server and several machines are directly connected to the router via ethernet, and it also offers WiFi in the house. The router offers regular IPv4 NAT in a /24, and passes down GUA and ULA /64s. It also runs a wireguard VPN, DNS and DDNS, and acts as firewall.

My home server runs Ubuntu and runs a lot of stuff, like storage, Nextcloud instance, torrent, internet radio, UPNP media share to the TV, and more. Mostly docker containers and traefik for HTTP, managed with ansible playbooks.

Considering I got both of those devices from the recycle bin, I'm very happy how they work.

bibaheu··on Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
There's plenty of bluray drives still manufactured, mostly on each modern console. I hope I can find a working in 20-30 years, my PlayStation 1 is still working strong :D
bibaheu··on Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
I simply burn the photos in 100GB M-disc blurays. Then I bury them next to a tree in a zip lock bag.
bibaheu··on My troubles with MP3s
What's stopping them to just burn the files into audio CDs and get the same physical features?
bibaheu··on The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Probably IPv4 is on CGNAT and Sprint doesn't keep the logs of the translation. On IPv6 there's no NAT, and there might be a deterministic relationship between subscription and IP
bibaheu··on Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) allocator improves performance in 1000% in some games
And with DXVK you also get Direct3D for free too.
bibaheu··on Show HN: Why share your email address when you can hide it?
Firefox Relay is what you are looking for.