Hacker News: PokestarFan

New comment by PokestarFan in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

PokestarFan — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:12:32 +0000

You don't have to buy from them, you can get third party hard drives. Although those are expensive too

New comment by PokestarFan in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

PokestarFan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:57:46 +0000

Most modern equipment bans inbound traffic that doesn't match an existing outbound traffic flow

New comment by PokestarFan in "Dav2d"

PokestarFan — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:58:48 +0000

You can get around this by grabbing a wildcard certificate and then using a hard-to-guess subdomain.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Veracrypt project update"

PokestarFan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:05:49 +0000

MacOS has a good CLI if you need to use it. There are CLI equivalents for a lot of the system setting/administration stuff.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M"

PokestarFan — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:20:37 +0000

I think the dumb part is that it's not like decoding or encoding video becomes harder when there's more users. The effort to write code for encoding for a small service of 1000 users and a large service of 10 million users is the exact same. We really don't need middlemen extracting everything they can, which will drive up costs.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

PokestarFan — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:26:08 +0000

I'm shocked there isn't more government regulation about this. You can't ban Bitcoin, but if you make it a massive pain to invest in it and make it difficult to convert between physical currency that would drive down a lot of demand.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

PokestarFan — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:38:02 +0000

GitHub already has a program to scan for keys, since publishing Discord tokens by mistake used to get the token immediately revoked and a DM from the system account saying why

New comment by PokestarFan in "/dev/null is an ACID compliant database"

PokestarFan — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:52:03 +0000

I've been able to trigger a segfault in zsh with certain plugins, a directory with a lot of files/folders, and globs with a bunch of * characters.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

PokestarFan — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:12:28 +0000

It was obvious Apple was going to bend the knee with that gold plaque.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Libghostty is coming"

PokestarFan — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:39:06 +0000

They mention it's compiled to WASM.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration"

PokestarFan — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:35:29 +0000

If I had to describe it, Notion is if somehow managed to combine OneNote and Excel. Of interest is the fact that the "database" system stores each row as a page with the column values other than title stored in a special way. Of course, this also means that it doesn't scale at all, but I have seen some crazy use cases (an example is replacing Jira).

New comment by PokestarFan in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

PokestarFan — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:34:20 +0000

You probably want to check before you clear cache

New comment by PokestarFan in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

PokestarFan — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:12:10 +0000

GitHub was folded into Microsoft's "CoreAI" team. Not very confidence-inspiring.

New comment by PokestarFan in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

PokestarFan — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:18:00 +0000

NPM is owned by GitHub and therefore Microsoft, who is too busy putting in Copilot into apps that have 0 reason to have any form of generative AI in them

New comment by PokestarFan in "The Therac-25 Incident (2021)"

PokestarFan — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:56:15 +0000

I believe that for X-ray mode, the radiation was indirect, so it needed a lot more power. Furthermore, older revisions had hardware locks, and the intent of the Therac-25 was to make it cheaper.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

PokestarFan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:19:08 +0000

Does Broadcom do anything but get hate for their shitty decisions? They are becoming, if they aren't already, the new Oracle.

New comment by PokestarFan in "FFmpeg 8.0"

PokestarFan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:42:15 +0000

This is because blurays ship their subtitles as a bunch of text images. So pirates have 3 options:

1. Just copy them over from the Bluray. This lacks support in most client players, so you'll either need to download a player that does, or use something like Plex/Jellyfin, which will run FFMpeg to transcode and burn the picture subtitles in before sending it to the client.

2. Run OCR on the Bluray subtitles. Not perfect.

3. Steal subtitles from a streaming service release (or multiple) if it exists.

New comment by PokestarFan in "FFmpeg 8.0"

PokestarFan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:38:23 +0000

FFMpeg is probably not as up high since video processing only needs to be done on the servers that receive media. I doubt most phones are running FFMpeg on video.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)"

PokestarFan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:52:17 +0000

I just use match case as a traditional switch statement.

New comment by PokestarFan in "Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)"

PokestarFan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:45:02 +0000

You need to make that exclude match = ... since match can also be a variable name. This is because people used to write code like match = re.search(...)