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ectosphenoon Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond

That is cool. I use a gps NTP server on my home network and live with sub-millisecond time sync. I’d go PTP but the equipment is a bit too expensive if the only value add is better time sync and I don’t need additional bandwidth. Prices coming down would be nice.

ectosphenoon OpenBSD 7.9

The sole set of wired headphones in my house is for my OpenBSD laptop.

ectosphenoon OpenBSD 7.9

I use it for home router, my laptop, several vms for various services, and on one vps I keep around should I need to quickly set something up. I keep a proxmox server for anything I can’t or won’t run on OpenBSD.

ectosphenoon The Supreme Court just told every freight broker that they can be sued

An article last year by him:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cvsa-2025-international-...

The writing style does seem a bit different.

ectosphenoon Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

Or it is just regular ageism.

ectosphenoon Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

It is amazing to me that people still answer their phone. If it isn’t my wife or kids then my phone has a silent ringtone. If your voice mail doesn’t successfully transcribe to text then I delete it without listening. I check my postal mail since mail fraud is the only thing still taken seriously by anyone.

ectosphenoon VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

I can only imagine this passing their “QA” because every dev there uses AI for every commit and therefore saw no issue.

ectosphenoon For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

The Bleeping Computer link below mentions a potential remedy until a patch is ready.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-cop...

ectosphenoon OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

Owing tax each year instead of overpaying solves this problem. As long as it’s less than $1000 you won’t pay any interest or fees.

ectosphenoon You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts

Everyone is very, very wrong about something. By your logic we should ignore everyone about everything.

ectosphenoon Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

Worked for me just now on mobile safari. You get the cloudflare human test but I just clicked the box and was in. This was despite accessing the site while vpn’d from home and using multiple adblockers.

ectosphenoon Why is IPv6 so complicated?

You can change the priority.

ectosphenoon IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00

The ipv8 one required all traffic on a network comprising 4 billion ips to go through one server. It was far from sensical.

ectosphenoon IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

I’m going to guess no one responding to me has actually tried connecting to an IPv6 only network because it works without incident. Will your apps? Who knows - apple hasn’t always been great at enforcing that.

ectosphenoon IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

> Also, notice how Android and iOS don't support turning off IPv4.

You can trivially connect an iOS device via IPv6 only.

ectosphenoon Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

I think the article was wondering how many billion dollar bulldozers the world needs. My local hardware store sells a variety of axes. I myself am a happy ax user. I even replace them.

ectosphenoon We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

That is standard practice because you will need to cycle that marketing domain until the end of time as its email reputation sinks into the abyss. Because people don’t want spam.

ectosphenoon The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life

I went decaf drinks only back in 2024. I was fine and thinking “what’s the big deal” until day three. I will never forget that day. So horrible.

Still decaf only. Has been a pretty positive change for me. Kicked the soda habit completely. Sleep is better. I find I’m even all day. I generally only get tired when I’m bored.

ectosphenoon Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_dev_account...

Microsoft response at the end of that article.

ectosphenoon Top laptops to use with FreeBSD

I use a Dell Latitude 3550 on OpenBSD. Never tried the camera but I’ve used everything else without incident.

ectosphenoon I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node

Update your DNS when it changes. Pretty trivial.

ectosphenoon Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

You can make a shared photo album with family members. It’s everyone else that is problematic with the feature enabled. In my case I only want to share with my wife and son so it wasn’t a detractor for me.

ectosphenoon Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

I’ve used it on my personal iPhone since the feature was released. The impact to my life has been minor. I can’t share some thing with my wife in the health app and my son can’t SharePlay with me in the car while I use CarPlay.

ectosphenoon Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware

Which is infinitely better than the cases we know about without the feature enabled.

ectosphenoon A Eulogy for Vim

Didn’t think I’d have to clarify what quotes mean in this context but using an LLM to help with coding is fine and people should get over it as it’s already everywhere anyway.

ectosphenoon A Eulogy for Vim

Plenty of people already submit AI code as their own change. I’d argue every open source program is already “tainted” in that way.

ectosphenoon Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

I live on the eastern coast of the US. I travel for work up and down the eastern seaboard. Sometimes I ride with a coworker who drives his Tesla. The experience turned me off of ever buying one.

Yes, chargers are everywhere here. But making multiple “stops” to charge that you wouldn’t otherwise make definitely isn’t saving any time.

The seats are horrid.

Watching the windshield wipers freak out over nothing is funny.

“Full self driving” is a bit of a joke.

ectosphenoon I love my dumb watches

Winding and setting a watch you haven't worn in a while is part of the charm.

ectosphenoon HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)

Indeed. The older I get the more I optimize for my time spent over almost all other factors. I want to enjoy life more.

ectosphenoon Honda is killing its EVs

At my current 6000 miles per year that would take over three decades. I’ve never owned a car longer than 10 years.