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New comment by cedricgle in "I don't like passkeys"

cedricgle — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:43:58 +0000

What happens with the Fifth Amendment when a platform imposes passkeys and you don't have a device with a pin (if that even possible to combine them) ?. Given you don't see the password, then you can't memorize it.

New comment by cedricgle in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

cedricgle — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:14:46 +0000

Does DigitalOcean still only propose up to 4 basic cpu as droplet maximum ?. All their compute capacities disappeared overnight 2025/2026 without any reason.

New comment by cedricgle in "Ubuntu 25.04 Advancing Performance of System76 Thelio Astra with Ampere Altra"

cedricgle — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:08:08 +0000

Looking at the hardware behind the post [1]:

    1. Do you have any experience with this kind of processors versus a traditional cluster of raspberry PIs ?: is it less/more stable, or a nightmare in term of executable compilation / compatibility ?

    2. Any recommendations for an EU based alternative ?

[1] https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure

New comment by cedricgle in "Review: A Dive into Mikrotik's Weird SmartNIC (2022)"

cedricgle — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:39:57 +0000

Does it support DPDK for fast packet processing or maybe SR-IOV ?. Given the price tag, I suppose it doesn't, but the documentation is sparse.

New comment by cedricgle in "What it’s like to dissect a cadaver"

cedricgle — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:57:15 +0000

Well don't donate your body to France [1]. Some witness even alleged the medical team played football with people heads.

[1] https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/french-academic-charged-over-mas...

New comment by cedricgle in "Spreadsheet Gaming"

cedricgle — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:59:58 +0000

Maybe something like Aurora 4X[1][2] ?

[1] https://youtu.be/kAAmcyk9bRc?t=200

[2] http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php

New comment by cedricgle in "Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking"

cedricgle — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:20:26 +0000

It looks to me that Vodafone attach an id to a flow by using the device network id (sim, imsi or maybe the MAIDs). Then the website, when generating the html page, can ask Vodafone this id and include a targeted ad.

Some info here : - https://mobile.twitter.com/Chronotope/status/151390041563242...

New comment by cedricgle in "Vodafone to introduce persistent user tracking"

cedricgle — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:10:23 +0000

Previous: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557492

^The twitter post is more informative.

It's an alarming trend against users. At least the ISP could propose a reduced subscription fee when TrustPid is used and an alternative "normal" price for users that opt-out when signing the contract, but it wont happen.

New comment by cedricgle in "Podman 4.0"

cedricgle — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:39 +0000

I am not sure what is Netavark about: are they deprecating the CNI convention and rolling anew one or is it some-kind of a new layer of abstraction ?.

What if I wanted to: keep using Cilium with Pod in the future, or having a chains of multiple CNIs ?.

New comment by cedricgle in "Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy"

cedricgle — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:56:32 +0000

I am perplex. Solar energy for example don't take into account the cost of renewal of the panel (every 20-30 year) and the cost of recycling / storing the toxic photovoltaic liquid [1]. The IRENA projects[2] they can fully recycle this toxic waste and recreate value from it, which is bold imo.

[1] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/23/solar-panel-waste-a-d...

[2] https://www.irena.org/publications/2016/Jun/End-of-life-mana...

New comment by cedricgle in "MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released"

cedricgle — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:29:40 +0000

There is some OS tooling in the SDN realm, like Stratum[1] for example, or a P4 board for the serious. But the hardware behind it isn't cheap.

I wish router for personal use were as "easily" programmable as an OpenFlow compatible equipment with a external controller. Even if you need some extra tooling to reach all the feature of RouterOS, like a compute node for the DNS. I don't know if this kind of evolution will ever reach the consumer space.

[1] https://opennetworking.org/stratum/

New comment by cedricgle in "Id Software Is Trying to Stop a Man Who Wants to Name His Band 'Doomscroll'"

cedricgle — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:12:08 +0000

I am not sure: did the word doom predate the game or did Id invented it ?. The word origin isn't very clear in wiktionary [1].

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doom

New comment by cedricgle in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

cedricgle — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:41:57 +0000

I guess no more project will dare to use meta in their name. They will fear either a copyright lawsuit or a fall in SEO.

New comment by cedricgle in "EU wants ‘Chips Act’ to rival US"

cedricgle — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:36:12 +0000

Eu can't have "nice" things. Eu has a long track on spending billions without any results: like the project to make an IaaS rivaling Amazon. The search engine to counter Google, the cpu to counter Intel and so on.

Meanwhile, the EU carmakers stepped in and successfully lobbied to have older (to very old) generation chips factories built. So it's a shift of taxer payer money to help carmakers in their short term goals.

New comment by cedricgle in "France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal"

cedricgle — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:55:56 +0000

Seeing how the Afghanistan war ended I don't think so. The last time the USA properly won a war was when they nuked cities and civilians, whereas China and Russia never went this far. Now given that USA is definitely the more belligerent of the 3, it might happen again.

New comment by cedricgle in "France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal"

cedricgle — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:35:16 +0000

I don't understand why France sticks with the USA/UK at this point as they treated as bull-crap. I am sure they could strike a good deal with the Chinese and be better off: like leasing land in the Caribbean Sea or making a joint venture in some weapon. France don't really care about the China Sea in the end.

They should be as "pragmatical" as the Aussie !.

New comment by cedricgle in "Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance"

cedricgle — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:26:45 +0000

If you want the go under the nanosecond there is the White Rabbit [1][2] project. The CERN uses it to control the magnets in the loop of a particule accelator. It is also based on NTP, Ethernet and FPGA.

[1]: http://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project

New comment by cedricgle in "25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build"

cedricgle — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 12:52:38 +0000

I wish P4 fpga boards weren't so expensive for hobbyist. You can do fun stuff with them and create a custom network pipeline. It's totally overkill for a home network (they are used to create datacenter fabric) but it's nice and shiny :)

New comment by cedricgle in "Consoles are no longer a safe space to play your games legit anymore"

cedricgle — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 23:40:42 +0000

I suppose they capture the video stream and detects pattern in it. I guess it was just a matter of time as the gaming industry went bonkers with the anti-cheat trojans and eavesdropping, pushing hackers to go for the raw video.

Sadly the side effect will be that the industry is going to push high bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) on every cables now.

HDCP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...

New comment by cedricgle in "Guix: Unifying provisioning, deployment, and management in the age of containers"

cedricgle — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:16:14 +0000

Guix use Scheme/Guile. It's way saner that the Nix custom language. The biggest pro/cons is that they are flexible dynamic languages. So when you define your deployment, you need to code very defensively because no type system will support you and find mistakes.