Hacker News: asteroidburger

New comment by asteroidburger in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

asteroidburger — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:00:52 +0000

It’ll work great if you can get the drivers all aligned properly. I’ve tried a few times to get my 12 year old Brother laser setup like that, and each time I end up throwing in the towel.

Maybe I’ll try it again someday with an LLM assisting.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

asteroidburger — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:04:19 +0000

The United States does not have a Secretary of War, and has not since 1947.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

asteroidburger — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:44:06 +0000

Sure, but that seems like quite a high gatekeeping bar for a test suite.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

asteroidburger — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:55:35 +0000

Not necessarily. Would you respond the same if the previous person said, "Was this built using an IDE" or "What qualifications do you have to write this software"?

Shit code can be written with AI. Good code can also be written with AI. The question was only really asked to confirm biases.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

asteroidburger — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:35:48 +0000

Does it matter?

New comment by asteroidburger in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

asteroidburger — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:34:13 +0000

I pay $25 for my backup 5G internet - but unlike a mobile plan, it's actually unlimited at 300mbps, and I don't have to resort to TTL shenanigans and such to use it for my whole network. It's just plugged into one of the ports on my router, and provides it with real public IPv4. Ran it for a few days when the fiber dropped out and consumed 200GB without complaint from either myself or the ISP.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Continuous batching (2025)"

asteroidburger — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:55:22 +0000

How long until “first principles” is a meme like “considered harmful”? Or are we there already?

New comment by asteroidburger in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

asteroidburger — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:41:03 +0000

It's good that MLT did cancel them, but there's still a ton up that way. Mill Creek, Lynnwood, Marysville, just for a few examples.

New comment by asteroidburger in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

asteroidburger — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:28:34 +0000

For me, s/FreeBSD/Debian/. Same reason.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls"

asteroidburger — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:58:05 +0000

Who is the "we" here? I've poked around a few pages on this fellow's site, and apparently haven't found the right one to answer that.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

asteroidburger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:43:20 +0000

Not necessarily; "read file" is very different from "execute command." The biometrics part is a substantial lift as well.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

asteroidburger — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:17:01 +0000

It's much safer to export a key one time and import it into a new machine, or store it in a secure backup, than to keep it just hanging out on disk for eternity, and potentially get scooped up by whatever malware happens to run on your machine.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

asteroidburger — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:02:32 +0000

You're not adding new features and such like that. Just patching security vulnerabilities in a forked branch.

Sure, you won't get the niceties of modern developments, but at least you have access to all of the source code and a working development environment.

New comment by asteroidburger in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

asteroidburger — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:28:45 +0000

The referenced Bluetooth bug on the Github readme seems like a pretty good reason. "We don't want to work around or deal with the bugs on other platforms" seems like a reasonable position.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

asteroidburger — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:01:14 +0000

The camera on the back of the phone actually helps quite a bit with said data entry.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Amazon targets as many as 30k corporate job cuts, sources say"

asteroidburger — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:26:20 +0000

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

asteroidburger — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:46:20 +0000

Neat idea, even if it doesn't end up going anywhere.

Out of curiosity, are you able to share what your source of data is? Isn't GeoIP data typically licensed?

New comment by asteroidburger in "Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras"

asteroidburger — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:11:32 +0000

There's a crowdsourced collection of ALPRs in OpenStreetMap. deflock.me/map has a display of that data.

New comment by asteroidburger in "How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi"

asteroidburger — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:50:54 +0000

I want to configure it myself because now I know exactly how it works. The configuration options I’ve chosen won’t change unless I change them. Disaster recovery will be easy because when I move the disks to a new machine, LVM will just start working.

New comment by asteroidburger in "Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework"

asteroidburger — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:21:05 +0000

XSLT 2.0 is Turing complete.