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realxrobau··on Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain
Nick and I were at AusNOG when this dropped. Yes it was generated by AI, but it has evolved over time, and there has been at least three revisions of it.

The three different issues are a username called "-2", incorrectly parsing/validating certificates, and tftp paths.

There's also a dhcpd issue that was just fixed in a new release

realxrobau··on A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us
Can you please have a human rewrite this so it makes sense. Why does echo $SHELL mean that it's an AI?
realxrobau··on Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
Did you expect more from a website called Supercar Blondie?
realxrobau··on The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia
Well you're the one making the claim that a vaccine needs to block infections permanently, so I guess you do?
realxrobau··on The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia
It appears my wife (Australian, 49) may be suffering from shingles. So this was an apt time for this article to appear.

She's seen her Dr and swabs are being processed. She's on antivirals and painkillers and has a nasty fever.

Now I am horrified about how awful it can be, after reading all the comments in here.

realxrobau··on The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia
You're aware that the article you posted is full of sovcit antivaxers?

The reason the case was dismissed was because the requirement was removed.

The case was reopened on appeal due to the rules being temporarily re-established.

Anything else is nonsense. This is spelled out in the article but wrapped with a bunch of whatifs and maybes and possiblies.

If your hypothesis was correct, then NOTHING is a vaccine.

realxrobau··on NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation?
I'm not sure this is as clear-cut as the article implies, but there is certainly a whiff of people behaving badly.

The latest post to the list, as of this post, is supporting the anti-ecdhe side, with the reasoning being that there is no code written for ecdhe, which is obviously stretching the truth beyond reasonable doubt.

realxrobau··on Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
If it did PHP I would love to run it over WordPress. What would it take to add that?
realxrobau··on Uptime Monitor Shows green but visitors are getting errors
Am I missing something? There's just a text box with a non-a link somewhere else.
realxrobau··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Are there any that actually have a SFP+ port? That's all I want. No one wants to use 10g ethernet when DACs are cheaper than cat7, and you can just change it up to a $7 multimode when you need longer runs.
realxrobau··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
I hate to say it, but I'm somewhat in agreement. I don't know why there's a allow 3 days/allow forever option. That's the only thing that's suspicious.

Assuming the requirements are actually justified, this seems like a tolerable compromise.

realxrobau··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
Annoyingly, something is broken with their anti not stuff, as it keeps refusing to let me see the page.
realxrobau··on Finding Robert Bogucki, the man who disappeared on purpose
Come to Australia.
realxrobau··on The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
Any company that switches from real hardware to "the cloud" is going to triple their compute costs. They're obviously making too much money. With them not even selling their old hardware, they are doing the equivalent of setting large piles of money on fire
realxrobau··on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?
This is your only post, and you haven't responded to anything in 4 days. Was this just a marketing ploy?
realxrobau··on Reconsidering Debian's Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware – A Call for Discussion
I think the consensus appears to be summed up here, with the response from wraw at debian:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/03/msg00185.html

realxrobau··on The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland before
Australia is the world's largest island at 7.9m km² ... Not sure why they're trying to say Greenland is larger.
realxrobau··on What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You
There is no way a human wrote that.
realxrobau··on FreePBX is being destroyed by the current owners, and it's disheartening
Thank you. You are demonstrating perfectly https://xkcd.com/2501/
realxrobau··on FreePBX is being destroyed by the current owners, and it's disheartening
I was the original author of FreePBX, and it's gone through a few changes of hands over the past decade or so. Unfortunately, the current owners appear determined to destroy it.

It's a bit sad to see it being relegated to the sidelines like this. Luckily for everyone, I was one of the early proponents of the AGPL, and most of the code is already protected under a firm Open source licence.

I just hope that someone forks it and takes it over - maybe there's someone here who wants to?

realxrobau··on Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4
It seemed like AI generated stuff from the second sentence 8-(
realxrobau··on I kept seeing all these posts about using a DB as a filesystem, so I wrote one
This is a Laravel module, so it integrates transparently in an existing project.
realxrobau··on Australia to Block Internationally Purchased 4G/5G Phones as Part of 3G Shutdown
It was a bug. If the phone was not making VoLTE calls, the carriers were panicking. Instead, the phone was just trying 3g first, it worked, so VoLTE was never triggered.

VoLTE is just SIP. There's no longer two channels, one voice and one data, it's just the same one (and for those that know the REAL technical stuff, please accept that this is a deliberate simplification!).

realxrobau··on Australia to Block Internationally Purchased 4G/5G Phones as Part of 3G Shutdown
Australian telco guy here. No they won't.

Here's the law: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L01103/asmade/text

When a telco IS CERTAIN that a phone won't work, they are obligated to tell the person, and offer them a free phone to replace it (subsidised by the government, it's mentioned in passing in the act linked).

realxrobau··on Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance
When the motherboard fails, everything is gone. There is no way around this.

You either accept that your data is irretrievably tied to your motherboard, or accept that your data can be viewed/modified by someone who can replace your motherboard.

realxrobau··on A heck of a wild bug chase
So, in summary, because you added a whole bunch of stuff that didn't need to be there, it broke. Colour me surprised.

It sounds like this could be implemented almost completely without any of that, especially as you were using JavaScript for the data.

All I can hope is that you've learnt a lesson about unnecessary overcomplication.

realxrobau··on Axiomatic by Greg Egan
This convinced me to (re) create my account. Greg Egan is a fantastic author, and lives in Perth - and probably Sydney at some point.

Read his books. He's also in the fediverse at https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF