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ectospheno··on High Performance SSH/SCP
> The rsync question is not a workable answer, as OpenBSD has reimplemented the rsync protocol in a new codebase

I thought openrsync existed solely because of rpki. Even OpenBSD devs recommend using the real version from ports.

ectospheno··on iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited
> It's unfortunate that Apple has taught me (and I assume others as well) over the last 15 years that the best practice is to never install a major OS update.

The sole reason I migrated from Android to Apple was to receive security upgrades for years not months. I am genuinely baffled by the take here on HN. People will (rightly) get up in arms about minor security issues across numerous domains then talk about never updating their phone. That has literally their entire life on it.

ectospheno··on Lot of software engineers don't understand basic networking
Regardless of any shortcomings in the article the general point is valid. Ask your new college grads any networking question beyond the C API and the answers you will receive will amuse and frighten you. I blame most CS curriculums basically dropping networking from required course load. One of the many learn on the job subjects for new hires is inevitably basic networking.
ectospheno··on Stop Breaking TLS
I have an ipv6 wireguard vpn from my iOS phone to my home network. It routes all traffic through my home isp. I use the wireguard iOS client. Battery life has been fine for me. One caveat is that background updates are disabled for almost every app.
ectospheno··on "He almost has to keep buying"
Full title is “‘He almost has to keep buying’: Why Michael Saylor’s Strategy is doubling down on bitcoin.”
ectospheno··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
If that meant free tier had WAF then sure, I’d enable that.
ectospheno··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Which 2015 kernel are you running?
ectospheno··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Free tier doesn’t get WAF. We kept working.
ectospheno··on Cloudflare was down
> So, what are the alternatives?

That sums up my gripe with the vocal cloudflare haters. They will tell you all day long to move but every solution they push costs more time and money.

ectospheno··on RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js
What does data in a program do apart from eventually modify behavior?
ectospheno··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Expose it on port 22 on ipv6 and it might as well be invisible. Cleanest logs ever.
ectospheno··on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Why dont providers offer dns api keys restricted to txt records?
ectospheno··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
I have 30 years experience working with computers and I get nervous running a three line bash script I wrote as root. How on earth people hook up LLMs to their command line and sleep at night is beyond my understanding.
ectospheno··on iPhone Air Flop Sparks Industry Retreat from Ultra-Thin Phones
Apple could reissue my two year old iphone with the same specs and a bigger battery and I'd buy it again. Still not sure why they hate thick phones. My pockets are ready.
ectospheno··on Bro boost: women say their LinkedIn traffic increases if they pretend to be men
Some men are reluctant to engage with a strangers post if they are female. Not every reason for this reluctance is sexism. Billing it as such isn’t going to drive engagement.
ectospheno··on I recorded a 2h meeting on my iPhone and got a full summary and PDF in 5 minutes
You linked to the App Store. This is just an advertisement.
ectospheno··on Trump's FCC: Internet Providers Can Monitor Their Own Cybersecurity Standards
The actual article headline is “Internet Providers Can Monitor Their Own Cybersecurity Standards, Says Trump’s FCC”. Please fix your title.
ectospheno··on The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
I’m pretty cloudflare centric. I didn’t start that way. I had services spread out for redundancy. It was a huge pain. Then bots got even more aggressive than usual. I asked why I kept doing this to myself and finally decided my time was worth recapturing.

Did everything become inaccessible the last outage? Yep. Weighed against the time it saves me throughout the year I call it a wash. No plans to move.

ectospheno··on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
An IPv6 allocation being static or dynamic has no bearing on its routability.
ectospheno··on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Thank god they also got consent from the non google people who sent the email.
ectospheno··on Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Replicate was far from a monopoly and cloudflare was arguably worse off in this space. Together they still aren’t anywhere near monopoly status for running models.
ectospheno··on Why use OpenBSD?
You do have to buy more powerful hardware than you otherwise would. I find it worth it to run code I can more easily understand. I agree on Debian as well. My router and laptop are OpenBSD but most vms on my proxmox are Debian.
ectospheno··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
Intelligent people can disagree on the meaning of similar is seems.
ectospheno··on Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
Similar trains of thought:

I can’t fix global warming by myself so I’m going to do nothing.

Politicians don’t listen to my age group so I don’t vote.

I can’t donate to every charity so I won’t donate to any.

Everyone else ignores traffic laws so why should I care?

ectospheno··on Valve is about to win the console generation
In my younger years I built gaming pcs. Old me has no time for that. I console game because it respects my time and I can play any major release. I’m interested in the new offering from steam as a way to play indie games I miss on console with a machine that doesn’t look out of place next to my tv.
ectospheno··on NetHack4 Philosophy
My experience is 30 years old so take this with a grain of salt.

I rushed goblin mines on every character. If I hit a bunch of food in town then the run was on. Store food you can’t carry every few levels. You only need to carry enough food to reach one of your stashes.

You learn good/bad food by watching pet. If your pet wants to eat it then you are good.

I have no idea how people manage vegetarian or foodless runs.

ectospheno··on NetHack4 Philosophy
I played nethack a lot in the 90’s when I was in college. The farthest I got was the plane of air. Despite never beating it I consider it to be one of my favorite games. I’m glad to see design goals are still in the same spirit. Perhaps I should pick it up again now that my patience has leveled up.
ectospheno··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
I don’t use them anymore, but the TP-Link EAP225v3 remains the lowest latency WiFi access point I have ever used. I occasionally miss them.
ectospheno··on DNS Provider Quad9 Sees Piracy Blocking Orders as "Existential Threat"
RFC 7706. Even has config file examples.
ectospheno··on Garbage Collection Is a Hack
Rust advertisements like this should really come with some kind of warning or safety label.
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