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nonamesleft··on Jolla Phone Pre-Order
No keyboard, enormous bulbous camera. (Was just dreaming after unihertz said it doesn't deliver to my EU country (after taking my money), guess i'll stick to my featurephone for now).
nonamesleft··on Accepting US car standards would risk European lives
G-klasse W465 is shorter than the equivalent medium sized sedan (E-klasse W214, and even shorter than my W212), and the hood is nowhere near as high as those overseas pickup trucks.

The monstrously large (5.8 meters) G63 6x6 is considerably rarer (i have never seen one in person).

nonamesleft··on Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years
Ran synapse for a few months, figured out all the tui clients are either abandonware or broken (originally thought i could use bitlbee, and did the install before realizing it was unusable).

Looked at current tui offerings now some years later, situation seems to be unchanged, the only client that ran back then was gomuks, and that has received a rewrite that hasn't reached feature parity yet.

I am probably the type of person referred to in the last part of xkcd 1782.

nonamesleft··on Ultima VII Revisited
Nuvie, the Ultima VI engine recreation (also runs SE and MD afaik) is what scummvm absorbed.
nonamesleft··on Ultima VII Revisited
I also remember churning enough butter to fill backpacks in Ultima VI. (don't recall offhand whether bread was doable)
nonamesleft··on Strap Rail
Strap rail seems to be often found in older abandoned mines in North America (source: watching hours of TVR Exploring and Mine Explorers -videos on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/@TVRExploring/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxhNU-gNyPq2lXA7JhLB90Q/vid... )).
nonamesleft··on Google is down in Eastern Europe
Search works fine, nordics.
nonamesleft··on Poll: Which terminal emulator do you use?
xterm
nonamesleft··on Pope Leo XIV says advancement of AI played a factor in his papal name selection
My meatbound pattern recognition suggested Golem XIV (Stanisław Lem) as the factor (naturally with incomplete information on the actual reasons) before even opening the link.
nonamesleft··on [dead]
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser):has-text(/\bbschmidt.*\b/)

Is what mine is, altho a simple :has-text('bschmidt') might work.

edit: news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing.comtr:has(a.hnuser:has-text('bschmidt'))

might work better, it seems mine also had the same problem as yours..

nonamesleft··on Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
Patch localization/en-US/browser/browserSets.ftl in your browser/omni.ja (a .zip with a weird file extension), it contains stuff like: close-shortcut = .key = W

See: https://github.com/SebastianSimon/firefox-omni-tweaks how it can be done.

I do this myself as ctrl-n has to be new tab for me, forever, and firefox broke the old keyconfig extension years and years ago. (I had ctrl-n create tabs with an external window manager back in netscape 4 times and opera (pre-chrome-fork one) after that.)

nonamesleft··on Who uses Accept-Language header?
Indeed, google never behaves for me, always hands me language localized to my ip, even though my Accept-Language contains "en-US,en;q=0.9" (the local language is my native one, but i find using services or software that are originally in English translated to my (non-PIE) language awful, even anger-inducing).

For search i have had &hl=en added to the search parameters since forever.

nonamesleft··on What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days
A lot of these seem to use zmap (https://github.com/zmap/zmap) or masscan (https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan) for the initial scan.

Often with default parameters such as zmap setting ip id to 54321, having tcp initial window at 65535, having no SACK bit set and masscan with no SACK bit either, tcp initial window at 1024, tcp maximum segment size 1460 (which is strange to put below initial window size!), (older versions having fixed src port 61000 or 60000 from documentation examples and no MSS set), all of which are extremly uncommon in legitimate traffic and thus easily identified.

Even those so called "legitimate" scanners (emphasis on the "") seem to use these tools with little or no extra configuration.

With this setup the last time my high-port ssh (key-only) has got an attempt on it was 2023-07-26 (previous intruders get permanently firewalled).

nonamesleft··on Ask HN: Where have all the large monitors gone?
38"? ASUS ROG PG38UQ, 144Hz ips 4k (bought one recently as i wanted a >35" 4k ips with atleast then 120Hz), and from what i can gather it is the only ips screen those specs so far. (I am afraid of oled burnin as i tend to use my monitors for decade+.)
nonamesleft··on After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor
SBP9900 is the I²L version, found atleast in older M1 Abrams:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/reverse-engineering-a...

nonamesleft··on Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007)
I seem to recall that USRobotics Total Control (dialup servers, ISDN PRI E1 (E1 for me in EU) / T1) to ~30ish dialup lines/ISDN BRI used x86 in the form of 80386ex (386 without real mode).

Whether it was 386ex or just a 386 is a bit hazy as it has been 25+ years since i last opened one up.

I think each line card that supported analog modems up to 4x 56kbit per card had one, along with some DSPs.

Also old Lucent WaveLAN (802.11 era, possibly even the non-standard predecessor) access points had a x86 processor sbc in them.

nonamesleft··on Name My Tarantula
Sih
nonamesleft··on Ask HN: How can I filter certain domains in my HN feed?
uBlock origin custom filter:

  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(td.title):has(span):has(a:has-text(/(flirgleburk\.co|gringlepuff\.net)$/))
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(td.title):has(span):has(a:has-text(/(flirgleburk\.co|gringlepuff\.net)$/)) + tr
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(td.title):has(span):has(a:has-text(/(flirgleburk\.co|gringlepuff\.net)$/)) + tr + tr.spacer
Might not be 100% optimal filter but it has worked for me for quite some time.
nonamesleft··on Ask HN: Is AWS suddenly blocking all ping requests?
Works for me, EU to ap-southeast-2, network acls or security groups changed?
nonamesleft··on Ask HN: Your browser tab count
At home: ~700
nonamesleft··on Ask HN: How do you guys pick your usernames?
Normally i would use my first name (a rare Finnish male first name), but someone already used it. (Maybe it was me years and years ago, but forgot the password and i have no idea if any email account is associated with it.)

Therefore, no names left and it stuck.

nonamesleft··on Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure?
A bank in Finland: they try to push their authenticator which doesn't work on my phone (de-googleized android and too old),but they have retained the option of using an OTP code list + sms, previously it was just OTP code list, but due to some silly directives they added sms.

Authenticating with bank OTP also work for government and other stuff. (Common here as there is no state authentication system other than some failed id cards afaik.)

nonamesleft··on UN registers 'Türkiye' as new country name to replace 'Turkey'
Norsunluurannikko = elephants bone coast in finnish, likely direct translation from swedish or german.
nonamesleft··on People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?
Site settings, remove all cookies, then block all cookies.
nonamesleft··on Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)
I started getting this on our transactional mail relay some years ago, hotmail responded with "Not qualified for mitigation", therefore instead of spending pointless effort dealing with these miserable jollems i used o365 to counter it (my organization was already using o365, which also never did this S3150 thing to me) by:

Adding a relay user to the o365 then configuring all the domains i needed to send from on the o365 tenant (without changing the MX records naturally). (Using a normal o365 user account to relay is possible for me as our typical customer base is enterprise and education, not random end users) Adding distribution lists as the from-addresses that i needed to send from and gave send-as rights to the relay user, compiled a list of hotmail/outlook domains (which i've had to add to over the years but it is relatively stable for me by now), then configured the outgoing relay server that does all the dkim-stamping to route all outgoing mail to outlook/hotmail domains through o365.

When i see a S3150 in the logs i just add another domain to the list, i should probably make this pre-emptive by looking at the target mx records before sending, as its not trivial to make exim resend something that ended in a 5xx.

All other mail providers have removed blocks by simply asking, not hotmail. Also all our newsletter-like mail goes through separate services, these are all transactional mails (meeting invites, user account creation, password resets and such).

nonamesleft··on I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network
Did a similiar thing with ToneLoc in 1993 or 1994 (not 100% sure of exact year, but 1994 at the latest as i still had my 286) using an USR 14400 Sportster in Finland also, but my scan was limited to the 9800/0800 1xxxx set which seemed to cover most of the freephone numbers. (I believe 9800 and 0800 were mapped to the same endpoints back then, memory slightly hazy.)

I do recall getting far more modem pickups than your run, perhaps it was more popular back then. One that made me wonder back then was a modem answering stating it was a 'Cray Communications CMX', sadly now decades later i know that it has nothing to do with the supercomputer manufacturer.

nonamesleft··on YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
Seems to be video-dependent, tried the one you posted, and it seems to fail, but another one "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY4Gz_Axpew" worked with yt-dlp but not youtube-dl. Guess it's the beginning of the end of watching youtube for me soon.

EDIT: From an EU ip.

nonamesleft··on YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
But https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (fork of youtube-dl) can, so it shouldn't be a problem forever for youtube-dl either?
nonamesleft··on Show HN: HN reader that filters out COV**-19 and Coronavir** articles

  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(td.title):has(a:has-text(/(\bcovid\b|covid-2019|corona.virus|coronavirus|sars-cov|\bncov\b)/i))
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(td.title):has(a:has-text(/(\bcovid\b|covid-2019|corona.virus|coronavirus|sars-cov|\bncov\b)/i)) + tr
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(td.title):has(a:has-text(/(\bcovid\b|covid-2019|corona.virus|coronavirus|sars-cov|\bncov\b)/i)) + tr + tr.spacer
In ublock origin is how i have been doing it myself, naturally it isn't perfect.
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