Hacker News: ZWoz

New comment by ZWoz in "The dead economy theory"

ZWoz — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:32:48 +0000

Good managers are like firewalls: they shield from negative outside influences and let good or important information and tasks pass.

That includes representing department in stupid meetings, instead of wasting developers/engineers time.

New comment by ZWoz in "Why I love FreeBSD"

ZWoz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:44:46 +0000

I don't agree about that ZFS issue. Using whole disk isn't inheritantly wrong. When you have data pool separated from boot disks, using whole disks is better. No need to create partition table, when replacing disk. No worring over block alignment.

New comment by ZWoz in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

ZWoz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:39:48 +0000

MID-s are used by MUA-s for referring earlier messages, tracking answers and so on. So any software expecting dialog (messages coming back) needs to deal with MID-s correctly. Missing MID-s show that said communication is one direction, because broken dialog has not been problem.

New comment by ZWoz in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

ZWoz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:11:28 +0000

My take, as a postmaster for hosting company, who don't have any sympathy to gmail (that should be visible from my comments history): Message-ID is absolutely MUST in production e-mails. You can send your test stuff without it, but real messages always have it. Not having Message-ID's causes lot of fun things. All somewhat competent software is capable to add Message-ID's, so lack of it is good indication of poorly made custom (usually spamming) solution.

Rspamd and spamassassin have missing MID check in their default rules, I am sure that most antispam software is same.

New comment by ZWoz in "China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron"

ZWoz — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:45:28 +0000

Seems like supporting argument against governmental regulation. In this specific case, against sanctions.

New comment by ZWoz in "Tell HN: Archive.today Partially Inaccessible"

ZWoz — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:17:27 +0000

Testing with different ISP-s involved ISP provided resolvers and directly using archive.today nameservers. I know that archive.today has previously blocked common public resolvers, like 1.1.1.1. That case they replied with 127.0.0.4 or other loopback IP addresses.

Tell HN: Archive.today Partially Inaccessible

ZWoz — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:14:38 +0000

Since beginning of november, maybe since end of october, archive.today is being inaccessible in Estonia. Tested in different devices and networks. There is endless captcha cycle. Same happens with other archive.today domains, like archive.ph.

That issue isn't only Estonian related. Similar problem seems affect web.archive.org. Last time archive.today was successfully accessed (redirected) was 3 october. Manually archiving gives error "Cannot resolve host archive.today."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46014530

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ZWoz in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

ZWoz — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:19:32 +0000

There are few similar projects. neocities.org for example.

New comment by ZWoz in "Retiring Test-Ipv6.com"

ZWoz — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:59:03 +0000

You can't fit 128bit number in 32bit field. All suggestions I have seen are missing something or reinventing network address translation, poorly.

New comment by ZWoz in "Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025"

ZWoz — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:42:38 +0000

Thats true for several other speeds too. 100GE first generation was 10x10GbE, second generation was 4x25GbE. 200GE first version was 25GbE based and so on.

New comment by ZWoz in "Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers"

ZWoz — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:17:05 +0000

> It'll break

If you add additional piece to chain, chain becomes weaker, not stronger

> get AI-DoSed

Thats not that common. There are specific industries prone to DDoS, like gaming, but your average site don't get DDoS-ed. Then again CF free service really don't protect your site from DDoS. I have seen several times CF becoming source of DoS (not caching or denying malicious requests) and if back-end is on shared infra, CF goes to firewall.

> will have an expired cert.

Your back-end still needs certificate

New comment by ZWoz in "Ethernet at NANOG 92"

ZWoz — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 10:26:37 +0000

That name NDP looks little bit confusing. For example, wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbor_Discovery_Protocol shows NDP as Neighbor Discovery Protocol, even when RFC-s themselves don't use that abbreviation.

New comment by ZWoz in "Intel undercut a standards body to give us the PCI connector"

ZWoz — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:31:19 +0000

That article had weird statement about PCI-X: "It did not see wide use with PCs, likely because Intel chose not to give the technology its blessing, but was briefly utilized by the Power Macintosh G5 line of computers."

I don't know, what they meant with blessing, but Intel server motherboards had PCI-X slots and this was common bus for servers/workstations. Mostly used by SCSI and RAID controllers, high-end network adapters.

New comment by ZWoz in "Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com Domain as Spam"

ZWoz — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:15:06 +0000

Putting on my "postmaster at shared hosting company" hat: Used to be. Gmail is done lot of work to be worse than Outlook. At least MS idiosyncraties are somewhat known and stable. I would say that most customer complaints are related to gmail.

New comment by ZWoz in "GitHub Renamed Me (2014)"

ZWoz — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:08:08 +0000

Sure, Gate is somewhat common way to naming places. Not really related to trouble in article, but nice coincidence, we have Bishops and Gate.

New comment by ZWoz in "Ask HN: Why doesn't the EU yet have a dominant cloud provider like the US/China?"

ZWoz — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:02:34 +0000

What OP means by cloud provider? Cloud is overused term. That said, we have Hezner, OVH and Scaleway. You can ask other way: why US don't have cheap well known bare metal provider.

New comment by ZWoz in "GitHub Renamed Me (2014)"

ZWoz — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:52:05 +0000

I found amusing that IP address in one screenshot has following field in whois:

Address: 1800 Bishops Gate Blvd

Isn't gate common way to suffix scandals in USA?

New comment by ZWoz in "We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus"

ZWoz — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:28:18 +0000

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. If you start with their earliest work, like "The Land of Crimson Clouds", you can get vibe, how communist Sci-Fi looked. If you read later stuff, like "Tale of the Troika", then you get story humorously criticizing soviet bureaucracy. Then there is pretty serious stuff, like "The Doomed City" or "Ugly Swans". You probably know "Roadside Picnic" - this interpretations in films and gaming are known as "Stalker".

New comment by ZWoz in "USENET rises again?"

ZWoz — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:56:39 +0000

Most paid services have binary feeds. Those few, who offer text-only groups don't have big enough client base to make service cheap.

New comment by ZWoz in "USENET rises again?"

ZWoz — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:41:22 +0000

In the last few years some Usenet providers are closed their doors. Aioe.org was pretty popular and known, disappeared this year. One of few ISP-s still offering Usenet access for clients, Finnish Elisa, closed their usenet server 2021. Russian neva.ru was sadly closed (probably forced by goverment) 2021 (I group it with free servers, because it had read-only access open for everyone and some point allowed posting). Albasani.net disappeared 2020.

Some free servers are still around, but don't offer public accounts. Few places give account, if you ask. Eternal September is strongest-biggest still running and free service. Mixmin allows anonymous posting, but sometimes restricts it to fight with abuse. Google still relays groups to Usenet, though they have their own thing going and some servers are blocking posts from google.