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dpkirchner

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just some rando
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dpkirchner··on A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall
Trump himself said that he informed oil companies beforehand, so it really could be just about anyone.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-oil-companies-venezuel...

However his mind is so far gone it's hard to be sure he actually knows what he's saying.

dpkirchner··on Web development is fun again
Or maybe someone DJing instead of creating music from scratch.
dpkirchner··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Even if you get on the site you'll end up dealing with Cloudflare's BBBaaS (breaking back buttons as a service).
dpkirchner··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I wonder if we can attribute some $billion of the investment in LLMs directly to the toxicity on StackOverflow.
dpkirchner··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I don't know if this is still the case but back in the day people would often redirect comments to some stackoverflow chat feature, the links to which would always return 404 not found errors.
dpkirchner··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Steel-manning is always dishonest and never necessary. They can make their own arguments.
dpkirchner··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
We definitely didn't declare war if Congress isn't in session or otherwise able to vote.
dpkirchner··on Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
You need to be savvy enough to know how to deal with the inevitable "broken" site you run across (ideally by leaving and never returning, but sometimes that isn't an option).
dpkirchner··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
I need to know what IPs they might assign to my network, and then what IPs are to be assigned to my computers (or what I can assign statically).
dpkirchner··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
I try enabling IPv6 every year or so. The last time I tried IPv6 at home I couldn't figure out what my netmask was, nor the size of my allocation. Some folks say my ISP issues /60s, others /64. I couldn't figure out how to get my IP to remain static long enough to have long-running TCP sessions, either. It was a mess and not much better than it was 20 years ago when I first tried it (and had to disable it because it being on broke all sorts of things).

Maybe 2026 will be the year of IPv6. I kinda doubt it given I'm some jackass and dedicated network professionals still don't use IPv6.

dpkirchner··on TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy
I have my cameras connected to a N150 server running hostapd and dnsmasq and no IP forwarding. That server runs Frigate. I figured if I need a server anyway it might as well be the AP.

It's a little bit of a pain to set up the cameras because of the mobile app. I have to connect to the AP on my phone and as it doesn't have internet access my phone nags me, and this specific model doesn't have an external antenna. If it did I think it might be the ideal setup.

dpkirchner··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?
Where we're going... we don't need clothes
dpkirchner··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
It has to be us vs against us because that's what law is all about -- outlawing certain actions.

It's one thing to believe as you do, it's quite another to push for legislation that would (in your example) deny childless couples societal advantages, whatever that actually means.

If you're not in favor of a-or-b arguments the answer is to allow a and b, eh?

dpkirchner··on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
One answer I've seen to this (very legitimate) concern is using CNAME delegation to point _acme-challenge.$domain to another domain (or a subdomain) that has its own NS records and dedicated API credentials.
dpkirchner··on Elevated errors across many models
"If we admit to it we may have to compensate per SLAs, so dishonesty it is!"
dpkirchner··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Maybe they're one of today's lucky 10000, learning that other people are different.
dpkirchner··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Sure, and they should have that option. But in my experience business-folks ask techies to evaluate services all the time, and ideally we can just start out in the low-/no-touch tier to feel things out. If that tier isn't available, us techs might just try a different service.
dpkirchner··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
I'm not going to assume they are drugs, I'm not that weird. I'm confident our military could figure it out and share the evidence, though. They should be competent enough.
dpkirchner··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
You seem to have more proof of their alleged crimes than the government has offered anyone else, where did you get it?
dpkirchner··on US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
I have also seen people believe that those boats have drugs, it's wild. I mean if they had drugs we would gather proof and hold trials instead of just murder, murder, murder.
dpkirchner··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
I'm not convinced that anything short of prison for executives and board members would be enough.
dpkirchner··on Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions
Agreed, and I'd go further. If nobody is reviewing citations they may as well not exist. Why bother?
dpkirchner··on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
And it isn't always obvious when the commenter is the submitter (no [S] tag like you see on other sites).
dpkirchner··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
Unfortunately a lot of us do understand this, but our representatives (who definitely know this) don't care or are actively opposed to making improvements other than reducing taxes (which hurts more than helps, IMO).
dpkirchner··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
In that case they probably shouldn't be running a McDonald's. They aren't owed that and they shouldn't depend on their workers getting government support just so the owners can "earn" their own living wage.
dpkirchner··on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung
That's what VC money is for. When it comes to paying below a living wage, we typically expect the government to provide support to make up the difference (so they're not literally homeless). Businesses that rely on government to pay their employees should not exist.
dpkirchner··on Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass
We could simplify this further!
dpkirchner··on Atlas Shrugged (2024)
And a sub subtitle "I didn't read the book, btw".
dpkirchner··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Yeah, definitely not a proper fix.

Maybe a more serious fix is something like "read -t $N". If you think stdin might not be usable (like maybe it will close prematurely) this option won't work, but maybe you can open an anonymous FD and read from it instead.

dpkirchner··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
If you have curl (but not sleep) sure, but if not maybe you can use bash's wacky /dev/tcp. The microservice could listen on ports 1 through 64k to let you specify how many seconds to sleep.
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