Hacker News: claudex

New comment by claudex in "A New Version of Our Oracle Solaris Environment for Developers"

claudex — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:17:56 +0000

Solaris and Illumos are available on x86

New comment by claudex in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

claudex — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:03:12 +0000

Wero bought Payconiq which allow to pay at the physical terminal with a QR code to scan with your phone. So, they can cover the physical payment without having to issue cards.

New comment by claudex in "EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push"

claudex — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:01:24 +0000

It's just a central marketplace so the governments can buy the unused capacity from these satellites with reduced negotiations with each states operating the satellites.

New comment by claudex in "Devuan – Debian Without Systemd"

claudex — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:19:29 +0000

The worst was editing an existing service for the distribution. With systemd you just need an override file, without, you have to patch the file and review it each time it is upgraded to check the differences.

New comment by claudex in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

claudex — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:16:57 +0000

> I am writing this comment in Chrome (produced by Google).

Which depends on a lot of code not produced by Google, like libxml2 which was on the news recently because the maintainer step down.

New comment by claudex in "Installing and using HP-UX 9"

claudex — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:49:07 +0000

I totally missed the EOL announcement. Not that I use it, but it is one on the few last big proprietary Unix. I thought their will always be enough paying customers to maintain it (even if sold to third party).

New comment by claudex in "Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control"

claudex — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:49:47 +0000

You can add your key to most UEFI system and don't require shim to have it to boot (or disable Secure Boot). You don't require a MS signed bootloader if you don't want to.

New comment by claudex in "The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions"

claudex — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:38:47 +0000

z/Processor is big endian

New comment by claudex in "RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization"

claudex — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:31:43 +0000

I don't understand why they want to put the RISC-V spec behind the ISO paywall. It will just complicate the access to the standardized version to confirm compliance with it.

New comment by claudex in "IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)"

claudex — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:42:43 +0000

From the link:

> At that point Windows XP 32-bit was the most commonly used variant, and while you could run XP 64-bit (and IBM did have native support for it on the IntelliStation 9228), XP 64-bit had so many problems so most users were stuck with 3.9 GB of RAM. Therefore if we were to assume that UNIX and said UNIX hardware offered way more memory, it starts to make sense

New comment by claudex in "I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D"

claudex — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:36:41 +0000

>And my stupid MSI board resets everything (every single BIOS setting) to MSI defaults when you upgrade its BIOS.

I had the same issue with my MSI board, next one won't be a MSI.

New comment by claudex in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

claudex — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:28:25 +0000

Maybe it's just that the cost to set up the production elsewhere is too much for the expected market. The shortage of the drugs doesn't mean there will be enough buyer to cover the cost (and make enough profit).

New comment by claudex in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

claudex — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:02:12 +0000

There are policies to prevent changing the password more than once a day to prevent that. I've encountered it in several places

New comment by claudex in "Cloudflare was down"

claudex — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:05:06 +0000

> Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency.

So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services

New comment by claudex in "The metre originated in the French Revolution"

claudex — Sat, 24 May 2025 07:28:31 +0000

Nohting prevent you to use the metric system and use 60cm (for example) as a base unit for your construction. So you can easily divide it by 12 if you want.

New comment by claudex in "Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

claudex — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:00:26 +0000

You can configure certbot to write in a directory directly and it won't touch your web server config.

New comment by claudex in "Sofie: open-source web based system for automating live TV news production"

claudex — Fri, 09 May 2025 19:46:36 +0000

>For audio, I think that would be a relatively easy lift with technologies like Dante. However, in most TV stations, you're going to need to literally plug upwards of 100 HDSDI video cables into a piece of hardware

I don't know the TV stations requirements, but you can maybe have 10 interconnected servers that manage 10 HDSDI flux each (and can send them on another if required for processing) ?

New comment by claudex in "Starlink User Terminal Teardown"

claudex — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:19:22 +0000

Each country regulator in the European Union have to set it's own regulation, but the BEREC (Association of UE telecom regulators) guidelines say that in most case, the free choice of router and modem is what's is required by the EU decisions https://www.berec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/docume...

New comment by claudex in "Starlink User Terminal Teardown"

claudex — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:04:03 +0000

>DSL tech is far simpler and it's always a combo unit so I could see a case where you would be allowed to bring your own DSL modem.

Not really, when you want to increase the bandwith, e.g. with vectoring[1], you need to have all neighbor modems to participate, which prevent free modem choice for the users.

>But it just doesn't work like that for DOCSIS or GPON where the cable modems or "ONT" router combo units these days do much more than just media conversion - SIP, PPPoE, IGMP, etc.

In Belgium, the ONT is just media conversion these days, SIP is done on the provider box, so you can have your own GPON SFP.

>so it's just not possible for the ISP to guarantee support for any random modem or ONT.

The ISP doesn't have to guarantee support to let you use your own hardware. It just have to give you the specs to use it and let you plug the ISP box if you can't configure vlan of dhcpv6 client.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#VDSL2_vectoring

New comment by claudex in "Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch"

claudex — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:09:30 +0000

I'm concerned that you want to open users /j