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maybeben··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
I still want the XiRCON source
maybeben··on FreeBSD Suspend/Resume
feel lucky. s3 suspend quit working on my thinkpad in -CURRENT some months ago after having worked for like a decade. i didn't notice until i pulled a molten hot slab of locked up laptop out of my bag
maybeben··on Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
Huh, interesting. Are you publishing the results of that testing somewhere?
maybeben··on Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing
Mac OS was awful. OS X was amazing. macOS feels like increasingly typical design-by-committee rudderless crapware by a company who wishes it didn't have to exist alongside iOS.
maybeben··on The fix for BGP's weaknesses has big issues of its own, boffins find
RPKI is obviously half-baked scareware, but why anyone cares what technology the US government, much less "white house" thinks should be used is beyond me
maybeben··on How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]
i mean, they also have one of the largest ceph deployments. anything is scalable with no budget.
maybeben··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
and still not funny
maybeben··on Cloudflare Network Issues Affecting Service Reachability
looking forward to a lengthy blog post blaming BGP and/or some other operator
maybeben··on Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 Workstation [video]
you can do two solid/high impact boards on indigo 2. each will be a separate X display
maybeben··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
maybe everyone in the world using the same handful of resolver addresses isn't so great for fault tolerance
maybeben··on Why Linux developers do not fix reported issues or ignore bug reports
I use this facility on FreeBSD (dcons) to do debugging. Works great. There's a knob to explicitly turn on DMA, though. It looks like Linux has something similar. Is that not sufficient?
maybeben··on TrueNAS Core: Soft EOL
Good ole BSDi, always doing great for FreeBSD.
maybeben··on Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
nothing from freedesktop.org
maybeben··on Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk's reputation dips
I have a cybertruck reservation that I think I'm going to pass on. I like Tesla the brand and the cars, but I have two now with batteries that only went ~70k miles before CAC imbalance is serious enough to risk getting stranded at a supercharger. Maybe if the $14-16k remanufactured battery they want to sell you (including core for your old battery) actually had any new cells in it I wouldn't be so salty, but as it is, I don't think I want another iPhone with wheels.
maybeben··on Who killed the network switch? A Hubris Bug Story
I look forward to scoring some beefy Milan boxes with weird rails for cheap on ebay because the firmware only loads OpenSolaris.
maybeben··on FreeBSD Status Report 2023 Q4
No mention of the planned end of 32-bit? Packrat looks interesting. Removing ports that build and work fine but are "unmaintained" is pretty irritating.
maybeben··on The Case for Rust in the base system
I thought the plan was to separate the toolchain from world. Building LLVM twice will suck.
maybeben··on Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40%
Oof, Aironet, too. RIP kings.

Seems like they're paving the way for removal of all 16-bit PC Card support like FreeBSD.

maybeben··on Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in the US?
Don't fall for the HE $400/mo rack deal is my advice.
maybeben··on Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders
The vast majority of spam we get that isn't trivially rejected (DMARC, malformed HELO, etc) is from real, actual gmail. But they sure do care about _incoming_ spam.
maybeben··on Ask HN: Is your Firefox blocked by Cloudflare in recent weeks? (e.g., Gitlab)
I get the CF deathloop if any of the options related to Referer are not default.
maybeben··on Gmail spam is out of control
For me, it's spam FROM gmail.
maybeben··on Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM
the shlib dependency stuff is pretty broken even in FreeBSD. apk is probably my favorite package manager experience. cool project, thank you
maybeben··on Tesla: Recalled touchscreens were meant to only last 5-6 years
Just turning off the enormous amount of crap written to syslog would probably have added years to the eMMC life. Why did it take them so long to do that?

If you drive a car with the Tegra CID and current software, you get the distinct impression that they really wish all those cars were dead.