Hacker News: benjojo12

New comment by benjojo12 in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

benjojo12 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:36:11 +0000

As with many things, "It's complicated" but effectively, yes

Such system firmware is generally provided by AMI / Insyde / Phoenix and similar.

There are a few vendors who decide to go their own way (notably google using a fork of Coreboot for their chromebooks), but it's generally list of vendors that you can count on a single hand.

If it means anything I'm pretty sure AMI provides A/B updates on most products i've used with their stuff.

New comment by benjojo12 in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

benjojo12 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:08:13 +0000

As someone on the fighting end of scrapers, this is absolutely not true. If anything I should bais towards v6 as the traffic is on par better than v4

New comment by benjojo12 in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"

benjojo12 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:39:19 +0000

In a cloud provider situation there is no pure software solution to this, the hypervisor can always dump your memory pages / register states

New comment by benjojo12 in "Canonical Under Attack"

benjojo12 — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:12:56 +0000

https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview... is one example

New comment by benjojo12 in "PCI Express over Fiber [video]"

benjojo12 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:35:35 +0000

I mean yes, but you could also just place the entire computer out there as well

New comment by benjojo12 in "Is BGP safe yet?"

benjojo12 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:08:36 +0000

Because SCION is mostly said as a joke in the more serious carrier world.

SCION is practically speaking proprietary, and has 1 and maybe a half implementations. I have a laundry list of real problems with SCION but SCION feels like one of those entities that would get quite legal-ey if discussed publicly.

New comment by benjojo12 in "How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?"

benjojo12 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:33:59 +0000

Post author here

For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer

New comment by benjojo12 in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

benjojo12 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:33:18 +0000

I can't speak for the OPs case, but it's worth keeping in mind that not all languages that people are coming from have capital letters as a concept.

I actually didn't notice the lack of caps until I read this comment

New comment by benjojo12 in "IPv6 Adoption in 2026"

benjojo12 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:06:27 +0000

About 58% of all of the email my company sends out of it's outbound relays is to IPv6 MXs. I've never really had to deal with discoverability issues related to v6

New comment by benjojo12 in "Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated"

benjojo12 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:32:22 +0000

It is surprisingly common to find routers with " export firmware " installed out of the box, that do not have ssh support to avoid the interactions with US Cryptographic export licencing complications

New comment by benjojo12 in "Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators"

benjojo12 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:42:49 +0000

For those wondering if ejabberd Debian systems will be impacted, it seems like for now there no fix, the issue is being tracked here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127369

New comment by benjojo12 in "Email experiments: filtering out external images"

benjojo12 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:36:44 +0000

We must live in very different universes because most of my business is conducted over email!

New comment by benjojo12 in "UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s"

benjojo12 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:00:40 +0000

No, he gave two different examples of websites that is typically blocked in the United Kingdom

New comment by benjojo12 in "Consent-O-Matic"

benjojo12 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:33:34 +0000

I think in the last 12 months of using that unlock list I've only counted less than five times where sites have broken with that list enabled, I don't have to even disable the entire list. You just disable u-block for that specific site

New comment by benjojo12 in "It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs"

benjojo12 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:32:43 +0000

the ip address the this comes from is a OpenAI search bot range:

> "ipv4Prefix": "74.7.175.128/25"

from https://openai.com/searchbot.json

New comment by benjojo12 in "So you want to speak at software conferences?"

benjojo12 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:23:44 +0000

I feel like if you don't want videos (and I assume photos) of you online then speaking at a conference is probably not the aligned action to pursue that goal

New comment by benjojo12 in "Hyperoptic: IPv6 and Out-of-Order Packets"

benjojo12 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:40:44 +0000

I believe it heavily depends on what kind of infrastructure you are using with them.

If you are on their old legacy network (aka, you have a RJ45 Ethernet jack into your house) you will likely going to have more issues than if you are on their (X)GPON network.

I had IPv6 working for a while on mine, but realize that for some insane reason that there was basically only one v6 prefix across my entire distribution switch (basically the switch shared with a few 100 other properties). so anytime that i was going to get a v6 i was effectively stealing it from another flat/house.

unfortunately trying to get in touch with anyone from Hyper-optic is really tricky, so I just gave up

they have since upgraded some of the infrastructure in the path, mostly moving away from Huawei to Nokia, but I am not entirely sure that has improved the situation.

New comment by benjojo12 in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

benjojo12 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:49:28 +0000

100Mbit seems fine? I obviously don't have the full picture for what the OP is doing with their line on a day-to-day basis, but, saying that you're entirely out of options when there is an option that is just slower is a little odd

(I do get that Starlink is also quite expensive if it is not your only serious choice)

New comment by benjojo12 in "Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening"

benjojo12 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:36:35 +0000

The problem is that it is not entirely clear that the hyperscalers are buying DDR5, instead it seems that supplies are being diverted so that more HBM/GDDR wafers can be produced.

HBM/GDDR is not necessarily as useful to the average person as DDR4/DDR5

New comment by benjojo12 in "Dr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor"

benjojo12 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:11:36 +0000

Sure but to my knowledge you can call someone an asshole in the UK without being at risk of libel but calling someone a [pedophile/drug addict/similar] is (and IMO should) come with consequences if unsubstantiated