Hacker News: g1sm

New comment by g1sm in "Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 appears to be down"

g1sm — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:56:34 +0000

This outage made me realize the script I was using to test my internet connectivity was depending 100% on cloudflare: I was both pinging 1.1 AND querying 1.1.1.1 using dig and, if both failed, the script would restart pppd.

New comment by g1sm in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

g1sm — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:11:49 +0000

Thread doesn’t depend on DHCP or DNS either.

New comment by g1sm in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

g1sm — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:27:29 +0000

The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't: https://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-s...

Discussed also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438

New comment by g1sm in "The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030"

g1sm — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:41:59 +0000

So how will this work, if this becomes law? Ok, I understand whatsapp and signal and whatnot will have to change their code inorder to be able to provide cleartext messages for the goverment.

But there are other, maybe less known apps. Will all github repos that try to achieve e2ee be shut down? Won’t such apps just move to Tor?

New comment by g1sm in "Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?"

g1sm — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:04:04 +0000

I’m selfhosting both miniflux (after being a paying customer for a while) and freshrss. Main reason for adding freshrss was to test the flaresolverr plugin. I haven’t been able to get it to work, but I kept using freshrss.

If you’re interested in how well-behaved your client is, you can read Rachel’s posts.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/27/feed/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/29/score/

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/08/02/fs/

New comment by g1sm in "Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB"

g1sm — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:41:12 +0000

This seems to be specific to Home Assistant:

> Note that while this component is named bluetooth_proxy, only BLE devices (and their Home Assistant integrations) are supported.

One specific use-case I have in mind is controlling a Chromecast over the internet. So a smartphone should have its bluetooth signal relayed over an IP network. I haven’t found anything that would allow me to do that yet.

New comment by g1sm in "Cuba's grid goes offline with blackout after a major power plant fails"

g1sm — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:08:11 +0000

> held nuclear missiles for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, essentially putting them incredibly close to our shores.

I think those missiles were installed (at least partly) as a response to US deploying nuclear weapons in Turkey (and, to a lesser extent, Italy).

New comment by g1sm in "Let the network tell you where you are"

g1sm — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:01:24 +0000

She mentioned she can’t rely on DHCP for deterministic address assignment, but if one can rely on DHCP and has a sufficiently smart switch, one can use DHCP option 82 to identify the end device based on which switch and switchport it is connected to. This then allows for all kinds of customizations without any “cooperation” from the end device.

New comment by g1sm in "Schengen ain't what it used to be"

g1sm — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:12:02 +0000

The only solution I can think of is for Frontex to take full control of the external EU border. The way I see it, Frontex officers guarding the border would answer directly to Frontex (NOT to some national authority), would be paid by Frontex and, in case of misbehavior, would be prosecuted by an EU prosecutor.

This approach would greatly reduce the smuggling of illegal immigrants (which, in my opinion, happens because many Southern and - especially - Eastern national borders are porous due to easily bribable border guards). Sadly, I don’t see this happening anytime soon.

New comment by g1sm in "The only tourist in Moldova"

g1sm — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 21:09:29 +0000

I’m guessing it’s actually răchie from pine cones, not needles. Either way, now I’m curious to try it.

New comment by g1sm in "VPN ban is strangling communication in Myanmar"

g1sm — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 23:38:16 +0000

Well, sure, but then any kind of encapsulation is less than ideal. However, here the context is VPNs and this means there’s always going to be some sort of encapsulation. And if the choices are between encapsulating something in TCP and encapsulating something in UDP, the latter should always be chosen.

New comment by g1sm in "VPN ban is strangling communication in Myanmar"

g1sm — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:34:46 +0000

As far as I know, TCP over TCP is less than ideal. I don’t see why UDP over TCP (or the other way around) would be bad.

New comment by g1sm in "DHCPv6-PD – First Steps"

g1sm — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:50:11 +0000

Yes, as far as I know, the order of preference is GUA > IPv4 > ULA. Which I guess basically means you either have to tweak the preference on each device in your network or you have to go IPv6-only.

New comment by g1sm in "Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure"

g1sm — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:15:03 +0000

> [0] IIRC the Netherlands is the only country left where you can buy SIMs without ID.

As far as I know, in Romania you can still buy and activate a prepaid SIM card without having to show your ID. There was an attempt a few years ago to make it mandatory to tie the phone number to an ID, but it was overruled by the Constitutional Court.

New comment by g1sm in "KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features"

g1sm — Fri, 10 May 2024 18:08:33 +0000

He wasn’t randomly messing with it, there was a bug report about this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953529

New comment by g1sm in "I don't think the cheapest APC Back-UPS units can be monitored except in Windows"

g1sm — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:43:56 +0000

Some discussions here [0] some months ago. Seems they are stuck in the design phase. I had high hopes regarding this project. Shame nothing came out of it.

[0] https://gitlab.com/esr/upside/-/issues/67

New comment by g1sm in "Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch"

g1sm — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:58:17 +0000

I’ve been using display-switch[0] for this for a while now. No problems whatsoever. Works on windows/mac/linux.

[0] https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch