Hacker News: _bernd

New comment by _bernd in "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8"

_bernd — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:26:20 +0000

Sorry but that's plain wrong.

Neither has layer 2 LAG nor has layer 3 ECMP anything to-do with layer 4 MPTCP.

What's vulnerable is MPTCP.

New comment by _bernd in "Radio-in-a-box: Self-hosted internet radio with Icecast, Liquidsoap and Rust CLI"

_bernd — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:04:31 +0000

Vlc can relay a stream as a local multicast stream, if that helps?

New comment by _bernd in "Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria"

_bernd — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:22:34 +0000

Actually it's small wood pieces. They have found that in the caves. It's all good condition because of salt. Also tools, cloths, food... And lots of poo which starts smelling immediately when it gets in contact with humidity air.

It's covered quiet often in German television documentaries

New comment by _bernd in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

_bernd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:15:26 +0000

That's not how auditing works as I have observed it. Either your stuff is critical, or not. And when it is then everything which touches data sees an audit and no password policy incl. Shared and weak credentials is the first thing that would have been spotted. I would assume they buried some stuff to deep in a hierarchy and 3rd service partners that this company in the end got no proper audit.

New comment by _bernd in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

_bernd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:34:08 +0000

I'm on that side that it was not a good idea right from the beginning. Because this problem exists in small enterprises since ages and the workaround always was to use a domain you own. At home I use home.arpa since 10 or 8 years or something.

New comment by _bernd in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

_bernd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:32:37 +0000

Next time may narrow down the search space and look for those keywords combinend. The DHCP spec includes the search domain so it's not that hard to find and follow. Of course without any context this search would be not reveal anything useful.

New comment by _bernd in "Ethernet switch device driver model (switchdev)"

_bernd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:10:13 +0000

Switchdev is 12 to 15 years old. I can't follow you

New comment by _bernd in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

_bernd — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:30:54 +0000

Then use search domain and let your DHCP and DHCP6 server hand that out to clients.

New comment by _bernd in "Neanderthals Were Adept Woodworkers Too"

_bernd — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:01:42 +0000

I agree. To my knowledge we have also evidence of art made by neanderthals in France. Of course they would have known how to do wood work. They already extract tar(?) from birch and made smoke less fires to be able to explore deep caves.

New comment by _bernd in "Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator"

_bernd — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:52:09 +0000

My personal advise. Get your self a lot of small containers like from IKEA or just throw away take away food boxes. Start with small batches. Do large parts first. Sort by category, part and then at last if needed by color. I do this regularly on my boys collection and we are able to even build 1000+ pieces sets again and again. We have like 15 Ikea samla boxes (multiple for bricks, 3 for plates, vehicle parts, large parts, transparent parts, multiple boxes to sortminifigs and equipment and so on) and for really tiny parts extra little boxes like 1x1 plates. One for white black and grey and another for colors. I don't see an other way of stay sane even on small collections with just 10k+ pieces...

New comment by _bernd in "Barcodes are about to go extinct"

_bernd — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:39:34 +0000

Yes I do really like their self checkout too. Just throw 12 items in the box, quick check and recap but everything was recognized. Pay by card and leave. Its the only self checkout I've experienced which don't make me angry :)

New comment by _bernd in "Spain Announces Ban on Evictions"

_bernd — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:52:44 +0000

You've followed the case?

New comment by _bernd in "Making Tailscale Faster"

_bernd — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:28:55 +0000

Or use multicast routes...

New comment by _bernd in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

_bernd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:37:13 +0000

No. Sometimes you just want to make a reference without derailing the conversation. And all of you derailed happily.

New comment by _bernd in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

_bernd — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:55:25 +0000

Yeap :/

New comment by _bernd in "Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary"

_bernd — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:35:08 +0000

You could also be "volksdeutsch". Like slavik people from former German territory or at least German influenced. They could be proper Nazis but with for instance polish background. Don't ask me how it actually works out but you asked...

New comment by _bernd in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

_bernd — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:34:57 +0000

It's funny. I have lurked or followed the gas station anecdote of yours but from the other side.

After school I've worked at a gas station as well and we did not need to close because the shift swap was the same as over the day.

You exert your cashier(?) and the next one inserts the new. And you count in the office and take the time you need.

Half an hour incl. Some other minor takes was part of the shift. Simple as that.

New comment by _bernd in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

_bernd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:04:05 +0000

In the past I handled cash as an employee and as a volunteer. Like even a quiet night at a bar can sum up to a few thousand EUR.

Yes handling cash is not free. But compared to some charges or fees it's often quiet cheap.

Sure you need to think a head like how much small change money you will need or how much cash for change in general. You also need kind of routine and flow for counting and handling but even if I had to count up to 10k EUR in small bills t does not needed more then half an hour incl putting it into the safe or on the way home putting it into the banking machine... At least in Germany it's not that big of a deal breaker.

New comment by _bernd in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

_bernd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:52:31 +0000

IIRC then normal bank cards and debit cards can be charged with these future payments up to 500 Eur. So for small and normal cars this works.

I too have a real credit card to be able to rent for instance "bigger" cars like even an Audi A6.

Most often hotels also block 500 Eur, or they state upfront that you need a proper/real credit card and not just a debit card.

That's for me the only reason I have VISA and use it like 3 or 4 times a year...

New comment by _bernd in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

_bernd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:47:10 +0000

At least in Germany as far as I'm aware all banking cards are in fact "simple" visa cards who uses "V-pay", since 2012/2014?

Personally I "like" or prefer V-pay because it made payment in the EU more easily for me without the need of a credit card even 8 years ago. Since the pandemic, I only pay for a (real) credit card (with daily billing) because some goods or services can only be paid with a "real" card, like more expensive cars at a car renting company or sometimes hotel rooms and the like.

In general I try to pay with cash so nobody needs to pay extra fees. But more and more smaller businesses prefer electronic payments. Then I use the banking card with V-pay and to state it again, the real visa card is only used when no other options are available.