Hacker News: chaz6

New comment by chaz6 in "reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops"

chaz6 — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:00:16 +0000

I expect that once the infrastructure is in place then it will be co-opted by governments to enforce their control over the digital domain.

New comment by chaz6 in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"

chaz6 — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:56:43 +0000

You keep the hash of the request so that you can reject a subsequent request with a different body. This has helped me surface bugs and data issues in other systems.

New comment by chaz6 in "How we run iSCSI over the internet"

chaz6 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:47:59 +0000

Do you support multi-pathing, for example, connecting using both ipv4 and ipv6?

New comment by chaz6 in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

chaz6 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:54:46 +0000

What's really insane is 40G - nobody wants it so you can buy kit for next to nothing. I got a 72×QSFP Cisco Nexus (with EVPN & VXLAN) for £50 inc P&P.

New comment by chaz6 in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

chaz6 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:01:58 +0000

I got an 8 port SFP+ managed switch from AliExpress for $100!

New comment by chaz6 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

chaz6 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:30:54 +0000

This is the correct answer.

Something that confused me for a while was the path "docker.io" used for pulling containers. There is not actually a container registry at "docker.io" - rather docker and podman are hard coded to convert it to either "registry-1.docker.io" or "index.docker.io".

New comment by chaz6 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

chaz6 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:45:05 +0000

Have you considered Unified Attestation [1] which is an alternative to Google's?

[1] https://uattest.net/

New comment by chaz6 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

chaz6 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:59:37 +0000

Since you mentioned 4.4mm, thought I would chime in and mention pentaconn (the trade name) which is a TRRRS connection (which does include a ground connection as well as L+/L-/R+/R-. I still do not understand the purpose of the ground connection in these plugs since there's nothing to ground on the other end.

New comment by chaz6 in "Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them"

chaz6 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:36:42 +0000

These are nice, but there is a risk if multiple units are plugged into an extension strip with a cord that is not large enough for the current.

New comment by chaz6 in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"

chaz6 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:42:17 +0000

When I open a new query window, the AI tab is selected by default which is annoying. I just want to write SQL without having to switch tabs like I could before. Not only has it ruined my muscle memory, it's also more inefficient.

New comment by chaz6 in "Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG"

chaz6 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:20:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing! I am happy to see open-source BNG projects taking off in the last few months. These are a couple of others to look at:-

https://github.com/codelaboratoryltd/bng-edge-infra

https://github.com/veesix-networks/osvbng

New comment by chaz6 in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"

chaz6 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:21:51 +0000

When I got the update I looked through the settings and there appears to be no way to disable it. I do not want AI anywhere near my database. I only use it for testing/staging at least so I should hopefully not have to worry about it wrecking production.

New comment by chaz6 in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

chaz6 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:04:26 +0000

I am happy with this. Users should be under no allusion that their messages are secret. It just gives a false sense of security. If you don't want people reading your messages you should be using one-time pads. Of course this cannot prevent discovery of your messaging network.

New comment by chaz6 in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"

chaz6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:15:34 +0000

Great, thank you!

New comment by chaz6 in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"

chaz6 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:00:08 +0000

Is it possible to create an ACME account without requesting a certificate? AFAICT is is not so you cannot use this method unless you have first requested a certificate with some other method. I hope I am wrong!

New comment by chaz6 in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

chaz6 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:06:02 +0000

In the UK we are taught that you should not signal until you are ready to manoeuvre. If you follow the rules exactly this can put you in the unfortunate position of being penned in behind shower traffic.

New comment by chaz6 in "Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop"

chaz6 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:15:23 +0000

Are there any passkey hardware tokens the private key is effectively irretrievable? That is why up to now FIDO U2F has been my preferred additional factor. The down side is that you have to register multiple tokens for each authentication service in case one is lost or damaged. I miss the days of openid when I could use my own idp with any service, but the walls quickly went up when the big players wanted to control the ecosystem.

New comment by chaz6 in "Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG"

chaz6 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:37:20 +0000

Yes, exactly. BRAS is functionally the same as BNG.

Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG

chaz6 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:29:53 +0000

Article URL: https://markgascoyne.co.uk/posts/ebpf-bng/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735179

Points: 94

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New comment by chaz6 in "UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s"

chaz6 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:37:29 +0000

I think this will be bad for the cybersecurity industry. I cut my teeth by hanging around on IRC networks back in the day. That said, I doubt these will end up being regulated due to their popularity and antiquity.