Hacker News: daurnimator

New comment by daurnimator in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

daurnimator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:10:48 +0000

seaweedfs: `weed server -s3` is enough to spin up a server locally

New comment by daurnimator in "Rwandan scientists develop local yeast for banana wine-makers"

daurnimator — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:52:07 +0000

Lambic beers prove you can do that

New comment by daurnimator in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

daurnimator — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:24:03 +0000

And if he isn't "annoying Steve" now he will be known as that soon enough :)

New comment by daurnimator in "LuaJIT PR: Add Support for RISC-V 64"

daurnimator — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:49:25 +0000

hmm? https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/54606a9d3fea9...

New comment by daurnimator in "Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu"

daurnimator — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:33:19 +0000

> It's not copy protection. It may change the structure and content of the page that is sent but that is not copy protection.

It is though!

Often news websites use the user agent to detect e.g. the google crawler, and allow google to index the contents of news articles; but then throw up a paywall when anyone with a normal browser shows up.

I recall some news websites tried to threaten people making browser extensions with the DMCA/CFAA as they considered it working around their copy protection to illegally gain access to their content.

New comment by daurnimator in "Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu"

daurnimator — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:02:09 +0000

Have you seen user agent strings?

Every browser pretends to be all the browsers before it to get around restrictions on who can see/render content.

New comment by daurnimator in "Global Encryption Day: Encryption's Critical Role in Safeguarding Human Rights"

daurnimator — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:18:08 +0000

A major goal of an email-like system is full decryption of the entire history of messages.

Same as it's a feature of my filing cabinet that items don't incinerate themselves whenever I move house.

New comment by daurnimator in "Global Encryption Day: Encryption's Critical Role in Safeguarding Human Rights"

daurnimator — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 01:09:20 +0000

Email is also an archive of communications with vendors, shops and government departments.

Signal doesn't let you migrate chat history to your desktop.

Trying to migrate between phones while retaining your Signal history is too hard for most people.

Signal is not at all a suitable replacement, and I believe that forward secrecy is an anti-feature for an email-like usecase.

New comment by daurnimator in "OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic"

daurnimator — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:49:43 +0000

I expect it would be far cheaper to scale up tempo/loki than it would be to even run an idle kafka cluster. This feels like spending thousands of dollars to save tens of dollars.

New comment by daurnimator in "Zig build system"

daurnimator — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 11:15:28 +0000

zig supports importing C headers via the special built-in `@cImport`. That feature requires a C language front end to operate. https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.10.1/#Import-from-C-Head...

New comment by daurnimator in "yq: command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV and properties processor"

daurnimator — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:11:42 +0000

I personally find the yq tool from https://github.com/kislyuk/yq much more useful: it has all the same options and formats as `jq` (as it's really a wrapper around jq). Rather than the `yq` in the OP here where only partial functionality exists.

New comment by daurnimator in "Poll: Do you use anti-virus software on desktop Linux?"

daurnimator — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 01:23:23 +0000

e.g. some anti-virus software requires a kernel module; this adds additional attack surface

e.g. historically anti-virus engines have had bugs where e.g. when they search inside of a .zip file; their .zip parser was susceptible to a buffer overflow that would have allowed a malicious file when scanned to run arbitrary code.

e.g. some anti-virus software has a daemon that runs on localhost with an exposed port. This port receives RPCs. websites in your browser have been able to make requests to the anti-virus daemon.

New comment by daurnimator in "6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked"

daurnimator — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:22:40 +0000

Just stay until you get arrested for trespassing and "escorted" out.

New comment by daurnimator in "Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut"

daurnimator — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:33:00 +0000

That seems to be at least a $22000 car. (cheapest one for sale right now: https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2015-nissan-leaf-az... )

How on earth is that worth it when a similar era e.g. mazda 3 is $13000?

New comment by daurnimator in "It's about time – Approaching bitemporality"

daurnimator — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 09:41:23 +0000

Note that Postgres has built in range types which makes much of this cleaner. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/rangetypes.html#RANGETYPE...

New comment by daurnimator in "Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com"

daurnimator — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 23:36:29 +0000

You might be able to find a solution in migadu (https://www.migadu.com/)

New comment by daurnimator in "D3wasm 0.4 – Doom 3 in WASM"

daurnimator — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:07:12 +0000

Fails to load in firefox 105.0.1 (64-bit ArchLinux) for me.

    WebGL warning: : WebglAllowWindowsNativeGl:false restricts context creation on this system. d3wasm.js:1:156185
    Failed to create WebGL context: WebGL creation failed: 
    * WebglAllowWindowsNativeGl:false restricts context creation on this system. ()
    * Exhausted GL driver options. (FEATURE_FAILURE_WEBGL_EXHAUSTED_DRIVERS)
    Uncaught TypeError: GLctx is undefined

New comment by daurnimator in "On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (2021) [pdf]"

daurnimator — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 01:00:16 +0000

While I don't disagree, a secure location with a trusted proctor is not simple or easy for all cases: students may be studying remotely/at home, which could be in a rural area with no accessible proctoring, or internationally with no trusted proctoring.

And that is not always due to their own wishes: covid lockdowns, unavailability of international flights or other governmental restrictions may be keeping them there.

New comment by daurnimator in "Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?"

daurnimator — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:46:49 +0000

> I'm guessing the town wants him to do very basic stuff to get the property up to code, and he doesn't want to.

It looks like he wants to but the city won't let him. e.g. https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1534754382885052417

New comment by daurnimator in "Wireless is a trap (2020)"

daurnimator — Fri, 13 May 2022 01:31:52 +0000

My Sony Z3 Compact back in 2014 had IP68 and a headphone jack.