Hacker News: BitPirate

New comment by BitPirate in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

BitPirate — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:37:14 +0000

zswap and systemd-oomd/earlyoom are your friends.

Microsoft Defender wrongly flags DigiCert certs as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A dha

BitPirate — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-defender-wrongly-flags-digicert-certs-as-trojan-win32-cerdigentadha/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007688

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

Dolphin Progress Release 2603

BitPirate — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:23:01 +0000

Article URL: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/03/12/dolphin-progress-report-release-2603/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348304

Points: 338

# Comments: 54

New comment by BitPirate in "Stop using low DNS TTLs"

BitPirate — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:23:35 +0000

Why do you need a low ttl for those? You can add multiple IPs to your A/AAAA records for very basic load balancing. And DNS is a pretty bad idea for any kind of failover. You can set a very low ttl, but providers might simply enforce a larger one.

New comment by BitPirate in "How I configure BorgBackup and borgmatic (2023)"

BitPirate — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:00:32 +0000

Borg 2.0 (unreleased) is moving in a similar direction with borgstore:

https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-2.0.html

New comment by BitPirate in "Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative"

BitPirate — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 06:52:20 +0000

Alternative: Stirling PDF

New comment by BitPirate in "Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative"

BitPirate — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 06:50:46 +0000

Took me a while, but I found the repository: https://github.com/VSRemoter/LuxPDF

New comment by BitPirate in "The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android"

BitPirate — Thu, 15 May 2025 04:49:53 +0000

The play store version isn't updated anymore. You should switch to F-Droid.

New comment by BitPirate in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

BitPirate — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:36:02 +0000

Asahi Linas explanation:

https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input...

New comment by BitPirate in "The QUIC API OpenSSL will not provide (2021)"

BitPirate — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:05:49 +0000

Yet here we are in 2025, with OpenSSL still lacking a QUIC server API and RFC9000 approaching its fourth birthday.

New comment by BitPirate in "I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up"

BitPirate — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:48:20 +0000

While the price of energy production is likely to continue to fall, I fear that this will be completely overshadowed by the necessary investment in the grid. Both energy storage and the need to adapt the grid to the more decentralised nature of renewables could lead to a plateau in end user prices.

Updates and Third-Party Integration with Bambu Connect

BitPirate — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:53:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-party-integration-with-bambu-connect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42767330

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by BitPirate in "403ing AI Crawlers"

BitPirate — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:15:41 +0000

That's why you should run a tarpit instead.

New comment by BitPirate in "Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets"

BitPirate — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:31:17 +0000

With RFC8441 websockets are just HTTP/2 streams.

New comment by BitPirate in "Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports"

BitPirate — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 08:04:35 +0000

Your observation doesn't contradict the use of firewall rules to accomplish this.

New comment by BitPirate in "Nginx vs. Caddy Performance [video]"

BitPirate — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:25:30 +0000

The benchmark is apparently a bit flawed[1]. I'd take the results with a grain of salt.

[1] https://caddy.community/t/nginx-vs-caddy-benchmark-video/261...

New comment by BitPirate in "Nginx vs. Caddy Performance [video]"

BitPirate — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:19:14 +0000

Reply by Matt Holt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42073885

Nginx vs. Caddy Benchmark

BitPirate — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://caddy.community/t/nginx-vs-caddy-benchmark-video/26189

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42073885

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Syncthing Android App Discontinued

BitPirate — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894385

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by BitPirate in "Router Security"

BitPirate — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 07:06:52 +0000

If we stopped using things that had vulnerabilities, we'd be using sticks and stones by now.

Other operating systems weren't affected, so it's not inherent in the protocol itself.