Hacker News: chaz6

New comment by chaz6 in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

chaz6 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:09:24 +0000

Can anyone sign certificates with the compromised keys and submit them to a CT log?

New comment by chaz6 in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

chaz6 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:05:11 +0000

One company prints identity cards with a hologram to prevent copying. Another company puts on a dot with a crayon.

New comment by chaz6 in "AWS Lambda Web Functions"

chaz6 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:33:24 +0000

Being able to handle concurrent requests with one worker is nice. I hope this becomes available for Python too.

New comment by chaz6 in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

chaz6 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:39:05 +0000

It is not just DDR4; I know of at least one supplier sampling units with DDR3 for their ONTs.

New comment by chaz6 in "Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet"

chaz6 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:29:11 +0000

The article contains conflicting statements:

> anyone already pointed at any existing free CA can move to us by changing a directory URL, with no new tooling and nothing to re-architect.

> We will only issue to clients that support ACME Renewal Information (ARI), standardized in RFC 9773.

I do not think both can be true.

New comment by chaz6 in "Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK"

chaz6 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:51:41 +0000

There are a lot of places in the UK where you do not have the facility to charge your car at home (terraced houses, apartment buildings with no parking spaces). Running cables to buildings is risky. Even where there are houses that have a road in front of the front door, there is no guarantee that the owner is able to park in front.

New comment by chaz6 in "ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system"

chaz6 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:33:40 +0000

Can anyone verify if this works on a Lenovo Thinkpad? I checked the List of Working Motherboards [1]. They often have Thunderbolt but no way to enable ReBAR.

[1] https://github.com/xCuri0/ReBarUEFI/issues/11

New comment by chaz6 in "Reversing Factorio's RNG"

chaz6 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:32:29 +0000

I read another mention of Factorio today

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/bringing-correctly-ro...

It mentions how they had to use a custom math library to differences in results on different platforms causing multiplayer sync issues.

New comment by chaz6 in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

chaz6 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:15:59 +0000

I feel like for verified photography to be useful, it really needs a depth sensor so you can tell the difference between an actual scene and a photo of a photo. Granted, you could 3d print a scene from a photo, but at least for now it should be pretty obvious to tell the difference.

New comment by chaz6 in "How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret"

chaz6 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:17:30 +0000

Crimes on this scale warrant capital punishment.

New comment by chaz6 in "deSEC – Free Secure DNS"

chaz6 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:21:57 +0000

I was pleased to discover that a Terraform/OpenTofu provider is available.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/Valodim/desec/latest

https://search.opentofu.org/provider/valodim/desec/latest

New comment by chaz6 in "I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases"

chaz6 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:40:32 +0000

It is a shame they did not actually set up a SIP server and see if any of those requests turned into actual call terminations.

There is another schema called TRIP [1] - telephony routing over ip that uses a number format "1234*1455" designed to be entered on a standard phone keypad. When I registered my ITAD (internet telephony administrative domain, the RHS of a TRIP number) I was lucky enough to get one that matches my local dialling code!

https://tripresurgence.org/trip/history/ [1]

Deleted UK Government code repositories

chaz6 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:30:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/uk-gov-mirror/deleted-repo-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255394

Points: 2

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New comment by chaz6 in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

chaz6 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:06:18 +0000

When I read this I hear the voices of Tachikoma in my head.

https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Tachikoma

New comment by chaz6 in "Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge"

chaz6 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:38:04 +0000

A lot of people dunk on PPPoE, but it does have one redeeming feature: failover is a lot easier and faster compared to IPoE. With IPoE you often rely on vendor-proprietary mechanisms. The closest thing to a common standard is packet-triggered sessions. Normally, BNG's set up sessions using DHCP but you can rig it to do a RADIUS request for a non-DHCP packet without a known session. In this case, it will send the source IP as the radius username, rather than the configured value (this usually comes from dhcp option 82 which includes the customer-id and circuit-id). In an access network, the source address is usually untrusted so instead you would want to have your BNG attach the NAS-Port-Id to the request (which usually contains the SVLAN and CVLAN).

New comment by chaz6 in "Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network"

chaz6 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:18:26 +0000

The most common things I observe:-

- Installing a cryptominer or persistence tool

- Sending spam (smtp)

- Using pre-obtained credentials to log into various ecommerce/social media sites

New comment by chaz6 in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

chaz6 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:45:26 +0000

The very first link in the post is broken. The correct link is:-

https://github.com/servo/servo/releases/tag/0.4.0

Prior releases included a preceding 'v' in the version but not this one for some reason.

New comment by chaz6 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

chaz6 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:16:17 +0000

Perhaps a defence to this is ensure that a copy of the encryption key exists in a location outside the jurisdiction of the state.

New comment by chaz6 in "Humans haven't stopped evolving"

chaz6 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:06:18 +0000

Does anybody think that evolution just stops? A species only stops evolving when it is wiped out.

New comment by chaz6 in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

chaz6 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:35:53 +0000

Perfect! I wanted this without all the extras of atuin that I never use.