Hacker News: ectospheno

New comment by ectospheno in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

ectospheno — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:46:44 +0000

You leave your key in the car? And you don’t run the air conditioner when you are inside?

New comment by ectospheno in "Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond"

ectospheno — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:50:48 +0000

That is cool. I use a gps NTP server on my home network and live with sub-millisecond time sync. I’d go PTP but the equipment is a bit too expensive if the only value add is better time sync and I don’t need additional bandwidth. Prices coming down would be nice.

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenBSD 7.9"

ectospheno — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:46:32 +0000

The sole set of wired headphones in my house is for my OpenBSD laptop.

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenBSD 7.9"

ectospheno — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:42:57 +0000

I use it for home router, my laptop, several vms for various services, and on one vps I keep around should I need to quickly set something up. I keep a proxmox server for anything I can’t or won’t run on OpenBSD.

New comment by ectospheno in "The Supreme Court just told every freight broker that they can be sued"

ectospheno — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:05:26 +0000

An article last year by him:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cvsa-2025-international-...

The writing style does seem a bit different.

New comment by ectospheno in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

ectospheno — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:17:49 +0000

Or it is just regular ageism.

New comment by ectospheno in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

ectospheno — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:55:09 +0000

It is amazing to me that people still answer their phone. If it isn’t my wife or kids then my phone has a silent ringtone. If your voice mail doesn’t successfully transcribe to text then I delete it without listening. I check my postal mail since mail fraud is the only thing still taken seriously by anyone.

New comment by ectospheno in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

ectospheno — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:08:43 +0000

I can only imagine this passing their “QA” because every dev there uses AI for every commit and therefore saw no issue.

New comment by ectospheno in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

ectospheno — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:02:38 +0000

The Bleeping Computer link below mentions a potential remedy until a patch is ready.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-cop...

New comment by ectospheno in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

ectospheno — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:18:04 +0000

Owing tax each year instead of overpaying solves this problem. As long as it’s less than $1000 you won’t pay any interest or fees.

New comment by ectospheno in "You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts"

ectospheno — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:32:45 +0000

Everyone is very, very wrong about something. By your logic we should ignore everyone about everything.

New comment by ectospheno in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

ectospheno — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:25:22 +0000

Worked for me just now on mobile safari. You get the cloudflare human test but I just clicked the box and was in. This was despite accessing the site while vpn’d from home and using multiple adblockers.

New comment by ectospheno in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

ectospheno — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:40:11 +0000

You can change the priority.

New comment by ectospheno in "IETF draft-meow-mrrp-00"

ectospheno — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:38:14 +0000

The ipv8 one required all traffic on a network comprising 4 billion ips to go through one server. It was far from sensical.

New comment by ectospheno in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

ectospheno — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:21:09 +0000

I’m going to guess no one responding to me has actually tried connecting to an IPv6 only network because it works without incident. Will your apps? Who knows - apple hasn’t always been great at enforcing that.

New comment by ectospheno in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

ectospheno — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:09:30 +0000

> Also, notice how Android and iOS don't support turning off IPv4.

You can trivially connect an iOS device via IPv6 only.

New comment by ectospheno in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

ectospheno — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:33:26 +0000

I think the article was wondering how many billion dollar bulldozers the world needs. My local hardware store sells a variety of axes. I myself am a happy ax user. I even replace them.

New comment by ectospheno in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

ectospheno — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:11:33 +0000

That is standard practice because you will need to cycle that marketing domain until the end of time as its email reputation sinks into the abyss. Because people don’t want spam.

New comment by ectospheno in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

ectospheno — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:09:32 +0000

I went decaf drinks only back in 2024. I was fine and thinking “what’s the big deal” until day three. I will never forget that day. So horrible.

Still decaf only. Has been a pretty positive change for me. Kicked the soda habit completely. Sleep is better. I find I’m even all day. I generally only get tired when I’m bored.

New comment by ectospheno in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

ectospheno — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:17:21 +0000

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_dev_account...

Microsoft response at the end of that article.