ectospheno

811 karma · joined June 4, 2018

ectosphenoon Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

I have a child who had an individualized education program due to a disability. I recorded many meetings with an iPhone in my front pocket while sitting. Crystal clear audio every time.

The new tech is likely just for noisy environments and/or to enable whispered voice control of the phone.

ectosphenoon Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

I switched to console gaming years ago. I can still play any major release while having whatever OS I want on my computers.

ectosphenoon Prism

I’ve been a Kagi subscriber for a while now. Recently picked up ChatGPT Business and now am considering dropping Kagi since I am only using it for trivial searches. Every comparison I’ve done with deep searches by hand and with AI ended up with the same results in far less time using AI.

ectosphenoon Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

I have a similar process. Internal repo where work gets done. External repo that only gets each release.

ectosphenoon Stunnel

I used it once with althttpd. https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md

ectosphenoon Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds

An equally valid headline is "Investors purchased $8B of US Treasury Bonds". Never really got the point of people announcing US Treasury sales like its a big thing. Someone else not thinking with their emotions can, and will buy them. Its like announcing publicly you are selling your Honda. Its your Honda bro, sell it.

ectosphenoon Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

I will never buy a wired headphone again for the remainder of my life. Judging from shelf space in stores I am far from alone.

ectosphenoon Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P

You block inbound to block inbound. Of course it doesn’t do anything for outbound. Acting like you can just turn inbound filtering off because of that is disingenuous.

ectosphenoon Fossil versus Git

I use it for the web interface. Worth checking out again if you haven't recently.

ectosphenoon Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

My problem with Chase and PNC is that their "fraud detection" seems to be random die rolls or monkeys throwing darts at my picture on a wall. I love the 5 minutes of anxiety after each and every purchase where I wonder if it will just randomly fail.

ectosphenoon “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

Ruby is a pretty natural fit for shell scripting.

https://lucasoshiro.github.io/posts-en/2024-06-17-ruby-shell...

ectosphenoon “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

Yes, the point was to show that nushell is pretty awesome. I totally punted on the file only part.

ectosphenoon “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

To be fair the example above is easier to remember than:

  ls -l --sort=size | head -n 5 | tail -n 4 | awk '{print $5 " = " $9}' | numfmt --to iec | jq --raw-input --null-input 'inputs | gsub("\r$"; "") | split(" = "; "") | select(length == 2) | {"s": (.[0]), "n": .[1]}'

ectosphenoon Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

I don’t compile from my phone but I do write code using it. I use fossil for version control. The in browser editor is good enough to get ideas down. It has great diffs which is also nice. I will check in code and move it to a branch then revisit it when I’m home.

ectosphenoon Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DNS

Can’t imagine they care too much given they themselves also run public dns servers.

ectosphenoon Dell is eating humble pie and bringing back the XPS brand

Dell Pro Max Plus 16. Cheapest I could spec one at 96 GB Ram on their website was just under $5k.

ectosphenoon The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

I believe openrsync exists just because of rpki.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605846

Most openbsd people I know install the real version from ports.

ectosphenoon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

I'm convinced half the ipv6 subreddit is made of people who don't actually like ipv6 and are trying to subvert it. The advice they give sometimes is just insane. "Just get a new ISP bro..."

I think a lot of people assume privacy addresses are required. You can just not mess with them. Privacy is dead anyway.

ectosphenoon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

I suppose I could have said how.

Windows in powershell:

  SetNetIPv6Protocol -UseTemporaryAddresses Disabled
  SetNetIPv6Protocol -RandomizeIdentifiers Disabled

Linux:

  sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.use_tempaddr=0

or in NetworkManager config file:

  ip6-privacy=0

OpenBSD:

  ifconfig em0 inet6 -temporary

ectosphenoon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

I had a much less annoying time with ipv6 on windows after I explicitly disabled all ipv6 tunnel interfaces.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...

ectosphenoon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

Turn off temp addresses. If your prefix changes then use ULA addresses.

ectosphenoon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

I run dual stack at home with dns64/nat64. I average 50/50 traffic v4/v6. Web browsing gets skewed v6 but large file transfers and some streaming pushed it back to 50/50 overall. My family would revolt if I went v6 only so I'm not sure I'd say its just there for holdouts. Major annoyances include any old device and my hue bridge.

ectosphenoon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

My ISP is xfinity. They say the same thing but my IPv6 address hasn't changed any more frequently than my IPv4. In my experience it changing isn't any more annoying than my v4 changing so I'm not sure why people still get up in arms about it.

ectosphenoon Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface

I use the following:

  $ cat passgen.sh                                                           
  #!/bin/sh
  export LC_ALL=C
  printf "%.16s\n" "$(/usr/bin/openssl rand -base64 32 | /usr/bin/tr -d 'lIOSBGZ')"

This way if it looks like a number then it is. I don't usually mess up q/g and u/v with my fonts but its easy enough to ban more characters.

ectosphenoon Clock synchronization is a nightmare

I gave up and just got a gps ntp server. If you have a wood house then you can even get away with an inside antenna.

ectosphenoon Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)

You take the original document and manually retype it into a different file format. Very hard to reverse that.

ectosphenoon Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat

Don’t “netstat -utan” and “ss -utan” show basically the same thing?

ectosphenoon I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)

Running a firewall with upnp enabled has always amused me. Might as well just turn the firewall off if you let any machine shoot any hole it wants in it.

ectosphenoon GitHub now charges for self-hosted runners. Where do we go from here?

I was going to say the same thing.

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/

ectosphenoon Tell HN: HN was down

I learn more reading the comments here than anywhere else. Thanks everyone for my addiction.