Hacker News: commercialnix

New comment by commercialnix in "Alacrity to Federated Cryptography"

commercialnix — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:29:40 +0000

The cartoon dogs give me a clear signal I am not going to bother reading this page.

New comment by commercialnix in "Is Telegram, Ukraine's most popular messenger app, a Russian Trojan horse?"

commercialnix — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:27:28 +0000

It's amazing what stupid behavior you can get people to act out by putting some cutesy stickers and background wallpaper on things.

New comment by commercialnix in "Deterministic Replay of QEMU Emulation"

commercialnix — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:20:42 +0000

I like your thinking. Deterministic replay with QEMU is supplemental to the larger goal of reproducible builds. The communities concerned with the topic of reproducible software not only expect cohesive human-readable code that runs deterministically to produce binary reproducible results, but their originally stated goals require it.

Deterministic replay with QEMU is a "power tool" in the larger picture of these efforts.

New comment by commercialnix in "Top Chinese general tells US to stop colluding with Taiwan"

commercialnix — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:07:42 +0000

East Taiwan is best Taiwan. West Taiwan is getting out of control. Let's send more weapons to East Taiwan.

New comment by commercialnix in "Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (2012)"

commercialnix — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:43:51 +0000

When Wireguard first came out I wrote some scripts for myself. Later on I used SaltStack to configure Wireguard for customers with sets of laptops in the dozens or more.

https://Netbird.io is probably something you may be interested in.

New comment by commercialnix in "U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news"

commercialnix — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:10:03 +0000

"I am morally superior because I have the correct beliefs, as validated by the artificial applause on The Daily Show"

New comment by commercialnix in "Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (2012)"

commercialnix — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:06:45 +0000

Knockknock was one of my favorite things back in the day. I love Moxie's mindset. Nowadays I put Wireguard in front of everything.

New comment by commercialnix in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

commercialnix — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:04:56 +0000

You already posted one of the dumbest things ever posted on this site.

"no u" isn't going to change that.

New comment by commercialnix in "Attempting to Use GNU Guix (2019)"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:50:09 +0000

I am on a team that provides commercial support for our Linux based user endpoints. We do not deploy endpoints with WiFi cards that require closed-source firmware.

  https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/wireless-n-m2-ngff-card-v2-tpe-m2ncrd2

New comment by commercialnix in "Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:51:19 +0000

SpaceX values meritocracy first and foremost. Boeing, not so much. One of these companies has a very bright future.

New comment by commercialnix in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:17:25 +0000

> I've already got 300 people [..]

Given the style of writing and argumentation you have prevented here, no one with leadership experience in the software industry is going to actually believe you. Maybe they're lateral to you.

And, even then, arguing quantity of engineers over quality of engineers is a pretty bad argument, especially on this site. So, yeah.

New comment by commercialnix in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:15:20 +0000

We didn't replace the HTML with Rust, if that's what you thought you were getting at. We use HTMX.

New comment by commercialnix in "Pavel Durov has visited Russia more than 50 times since his "exile" in 2014"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:53:36 +0000

Anyone speaking, let alone behaving, like Telegram is "secure", ipso facto has won a Darwin Award. We won't see the results in the short-term, but yeah they have won it alright.

New comment by commercialnix in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:09:37 +0000

I write fullstack web applications in Rust, client-side too with a shim for interfacing with some JS for the DOM.

So, I can agree with you in the abstract, but I'm gonna have to see you as part of the crowd that "hasn't figured it out yet".

New comment by commercialnix in "Unlocking the Pixel 9 bootloader breaks some Pixel AI apps"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:06:53 +0000

I'll gladly finance at 4x the cost (so like around $5,000) to purchase an alternative Pixel for a fully open source bootloader with physically compartmentalized chips with open interfaces and a less sleek device.

I don't give a shit about Ai slop.

New comment by commercialnix in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:42:53 +0000

If you can post another contact other than LinkedIn, maybe Matrix or SimpleX, that'd be great.

New comment by commercialnix in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:32:15 +0000

Exploit their smartphone then email tidbits of their more outstanding Facebook chats, SMS messages, maybe some nudes, and recordings of their phone calls. You will see the "I don't care about security attitude" do a hard 180 real quick.

New comment by commercialnix in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

commercialnix — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 08:30:24 +0000

Did she also believe the "fine people both sides" thing was a hoax?

New comment by commercialnix in "Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business"

commercialnix — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:49:24 +0000

The more important thing is that I don't have to be. Multi-Sig is still far less risky, complicated, and/or costly than the capriciousness or really -- let's just call it what it is -- outright criminality of fiat institutions. Some could try to explain behavior of fiat institutions as incompetence, but then we're just back at criminally stupid (courts are consistently clear that negligence is a form of criminality).

By professional crypto groups and smart users, for high dollar accounts Multi-Sig with hardware wallets from diverse vendors are used. None of them are by Ledger, because Ledger's firmware is closed source.

For Ledger specifically, I already do not trust Ledger.

Trezor is fine.

New comment by commercialnix in "Accident Forgiveness"

commercialnix — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:44:08 +0000

The last time I was involved in this kind of thing (long enough but not too long ago), we ran Postgres and other databases strictly in K8s per a mandate by our CTO. Using reserved instances are great for avoiding a lot of cost.

I think for that particular firm, "K8s tax" measured in fiat currency is negligible and anything on the human side their people upon hearing "K8s tax" would respond with some ridicule along the lines of "someone doesn't know how to computer".

To be fair, most of the commenters on HackerNews should use something like Heroku.