Hacker News: Caligatio

New comment by Caligatio in "UK argued that excess death figures could lead to distress of bereaved relatives"

Caligatio — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:22:29 +0000

The HN title and the original sub headline are inaccurate per the published correction at the end of the article.

CORRECTION: In a previous version of this article, we reported that that the UKHSA had refused to release data that could link the Covid vaccine to excess deaths, as it argued that “releasing the data would lead to the ‘distress or anger’ of bereaved relatives if a link was found.” This was inaccurate; the UKHSA did not argue that the data could lead to the distress or anger of bereaved relatives if a link were found. In fact, it argued that the data could lead to “the families of the deceased being subjected to unsolicited approaches by the media and anti-vaccine campaigners”. This correction has been published following a partly upheld complaint to the Independent press Standards Organisation.

New comment by Caligatio in "Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America"

Caligatio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:27:56 +0000

Well, guess it's worth spending a little time looking at it.

It appears that it's the Cloudflare Security Center scanning service? This would also explain how my unpublished service was located as I use Cloudflare for my DNS.

New comment by Caligatio in "Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America"

Caligatio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:12:52 +0000

I haven't done any investigation but some scraper and/or bot configuration uses OS X as its user agent.

I run an unpublished service used by 1s of people and was hit by an influx of supposed OS X user agents that didn't correspond to my actual user base.

New comment by Caligatio in "OSS-SEC: 432 Linux kernel CVEs (in less than 32 hours)"

Caligatio — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:22:06 +0000

This is a confusing comment because Debian/Ubuntu/etc (you referenced apt) have separate security repositories that exist for this purpose. They have only security fixes and don't try to unnecessarily fix "other" stuff. I have not heard of the security repos pushing out a breaking update before.

`unattended-upgrade` uses only a subset of repos (ie security) and does this for you. If you actually wanted to schedule reboots, it can do that too.

New comment by Caligatio in "CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting"

Caligatio — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:57:28 +0000

EV drivetrains can specifically cause interference on AM frequencies so EV manufacturers have been wanting to drop AM support.

New comment by Caligatio in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

Caligatio — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:24:53 +0000

I am personally now drawing a clear delineation between projects for my internal consumption (e.g. ansible scripts) and projects that have potential use for the general populace. For the prior, I now host a private Forgejo instance. For the latter, I'll put it on GitHub but mirror it to my Forgejo instance.

I was pleasantly shocked that Forgejo is literally a single binary with a relatively easy config. All my internal services reference my Forgejo instance so, if I need to bail on GitHub, it's low friction for me.

New comment by Caligatio in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

Caligatio — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:01:26 +0000

You can disable the new right click menu with one registry tweak: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/disable-show-more-options-cont...

New comment by Caligatio in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

Caligatio — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:58:27 +0000

Which edition of Win 11? I've just disabled it in Win 10 and 11 via the GPO which may require some flavor of "Pro"

New comment by Caligatio in "What Happened to Egghead Software"

Caligatio — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:38:31 +0000

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and there definitely was an Egghead in my town.

New comment by Caligatio in "The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States"

Caligatio — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:31:23 +0000

SmarterEveryDay has a whole series[1] on manufacturing that covers how the US is losing/lost the ability to create tooling. I believe the "Smarter Scrubber" episode[2] is the one that explicitly talks about how not only has the US lost manufacturing capacity but it also lost the ability to spin up manufacturing. The tool and die episode also touches on it[3].

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHf9jaFs8XUZ3azgCNyawIQ5... [2] https://youtu.be/GDzBE6vz5r0 [3] https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY

New comment by Caligatio in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

Caligatio — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:19:59 +0000

I can't speak to any particular dam closure but there's a lot more to maintaining dams than one might believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiUOBdEUqjY (Practical Engineering - All Dams Are Temporary)

New comment by Caligatio in "Rival to SpaceX's Starlink Goes Dark After Failing to Account for Leap Year"

Caligatio — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:01:19 +0000

You should use: calendar.monthrange

New comment by Caligatio in "Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's"

Caligatio — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:03:53 +0000

Going this route then eliminates the free/included Google Assistant integration that comes along with using the bridge and app, correct? I really would like to ditch the hub but also want to use voice activation on a few lights.

New comment by Caligatio in "GrapheneOS on Pixels getting extended Android support"

Caligatio — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:34:46 +0000

As a point of clarification: all Pixel phones starting with the 6 were guaranteed 5 years of firmware support. Some phones only had 3 years of OS upgrades (vs 5 years of security patches). Now everything is getting 5 years of OS upgrades.

New comment by Caligatio in "Postzegelcode"

Caligatio — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:29:36 +0000

And like almost all things that are interesting, here's a Ton Scott video about the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c

New comment by Caligatio in "Microsoft forgot to renew their Office CDN certificate"

Caligatio — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:36:58 +0000

I have a reverse proxy that is in front of all my services (caddy) which uses a wildcard cert to avoid this very concern.

New comment by Caligatio in "Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone"

Caligatio — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:18:16 +0000

The US Government has been doing deficit spending and the national debt continues to grow at an alarming pace. To fix this, we can raise revenue and/or reduce spending. The easiest thing is to just improve enforcement of the existing tax laws (which are already agreed upon) via increasing the resources available to the IRS

New comment by Caligatio in "Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone"

Caligatio — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:02:11 +0000

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/07/18/tax-filing-...

Scroll down to the section that mentions Americans for Tax Reform and links to the presentation: Doing taxes keeps citizens aware of the tax burden imposed upon them by the government. A Return-Free scheme would allow the government to raise revenues invisibly

In case you're not aware of Norquist, https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...: The paradox for taxpayers is that visible, painful taxes are the taxpayer's best protection against runaway government spending and taxes.

New comment by Caligatio in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

Caligatio — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 05:19:08 +0000

The network config for out-of-the-box Ubuntu server has been stable for 6 years. You need to modify netplan's config: /etc/netplan/*.yaml (default is 00-installer-config.yaml). This renders volatile systemd-networkd configs in /run/systemd/network which, in turn, will configure systemd-resolved appropriately.

If you've opted out of netplan, then you need to configure one of systemd-networkd or NetworkManager manually (on server, NetworkManager is only present if you've installed it).

I personally used to be opposed to netplan but I had to do some very esoteric network configuration which was super easy with netplan.

New comment by Caligatio in "Mastercard Launches Its Biometric Retail Payment System in Europe"

Caligatio — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:18:06 +0000

I'm guessing MasterCard is viewing this as a payment mechanism that only needs the physical customer as the payment authentication. If it's 0 friction (which I doubt), I could see people opting to just look at a camera to pay rather than fumbling to get your phone out.

Fumbling with your phone sounds like a silly statement but so did fumbling with your wallet.