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New comment by happyPersonR in "France pulls last gold held in US"

happyPersonR — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:10:53 +0000

lol at all the finance folks

This isn’t reddit. This is a technical forum. We talk about cool tech stuff.

New comment by happyPersonR in "FreeCAD v1.1"

happyPersonR — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:26:37 +0000

For a lot of stuff, you might have better luck getting it to generate something like cadquery

New comment by happyPersonR in "So where are all the AI apps?"

happyPersonR — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:08:32 +0000

This is going to cause people to react, but I think those of us that truly love opensource don't push AI generated code upstream because we know it's just not ready for use beyond agentic use. It's just not robust for alot of use common use cases because the code produces things that are hyper hardcoded by default, and the bugs are so basic, i doubt any developer that actually cared would push something so shamefully sloppy upstream with their name on it.

The tools for generating AI code aren't yet capable of producing code that is decent enough for general purpose use cases, with good robust tests, and clean and quality.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain"

happyPersonR — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:57:42 +0000

Tbh ipv4 and cgnat im hoping at this point will go the way of POTS and be something we force turn off. There are differences between how ipv6 works and v4 ….

But I’m not sure the cost of running these shims for forever is worth what they’re holding back.

The only question remaining in my mind is if the world is ready for ipv6 … but maybe it’s better if we at least set a date.

New comment by happyPersonR in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

happyPersonR — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:47:50 +0000

Im not 100% sure but I think for captive portal this would def work. For the authenticated wpa3 or whatever i think theyve actually added 802.1x

New comment by happyPersonR in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

happyPersonR — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:17:57 +0000

This is probably the biggest issue.

I turn WiFi mine off and use my own WiFi ap.

New comment by happyPersonR in "RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel"

happyPersonR — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:29:18 +0000

What would prevent this from working with something like Vlc or kodi?

Is it as simple as upgrading to a trunk based kernel?

New comment by happyPersonR in "AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation"

happyPersonR — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:37:37 +0000

Yeah this seems likely, but with all the LLM stuff it might be an outdated assumption.

Buy new chips next year! Haha :)

New comment by happyPersonR in "Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical""

happyPersonR — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:19:05 +0000

lol there’s no real technical details in this article sadly. Checkpoint has a better analysis.

https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/voidlink-the-cloud-nati...

Some kind of opensource ish malware framework the kids are running that can use eBPF …. In addition to limiting CAP_BPF or CAP_SYS_ADMIN you should also take other measures.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

happyPersonR — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:57:02 +0000

These companies abandon software? Does anyone really think this is going to end well?

New comment by happyPersonR in "How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication"

happyPersonR — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:47:59 +0000

Couldn’t you just use a broadcast address and get the same result ?

New comment by happyPersonR in "Learning to Boot from PXE"

happyPersonR — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:02:35 +0000

I’m glad a lot of server stuff has redfish. But something better still needs to be there for non-server stuff for sure. Raspberry pi style bootloaders would be amazing, ones we could configure to use a certain image before powering on for first boot would be even more amazinger.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Learning to Boot from PXE"

happyPersonR — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:00:01 +0000

Yeah in order to automate, you’ve gotta know something about what you’re automating. PXE is not different.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Heartbeats in Distributed Systems"

happyPersonR — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:29:05 +0000

Yeah broadcast with iPxe commonly has this issue, I’ve also run into it in my career more than once.

New comment by happyPersonR in "GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders"

happyPersonR — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:44:50 +0000

People overstate some of the secondary effects, but in a nutshell that’s more or less what they do.

New comment by happyPersonR in "The new calculus of AI-based coding"

happyPersonR — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:23:26 +0000

Idk it’s hard to say it’s called “Full Self Driving” and then the CEO says as much.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.)"

happyPersonR — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:59:39 +0000

One piece of modern software without which, modern society would not exist. People don’t realize there’s no real alternative.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria"

happyPersonR — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:10:17 +0000

That makes a lot more sense, otherwise the SNR from 90 meters away seems like it would be … enormous.

New comment by happyPersonR in "Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s: how are they doing after 4 years of use?"

happyPersonR — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:18:41 +0000

Hopefully there are drives that don’t have that issue?

New comment by happyPersonR in "Programming Deflation"

happyPersonR — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:54:33 +0000

In my experience if you look at what effect democratizing code actually has, this is exactly the case. People are generating code, but that’s always been the easy part. The mess this is going to make, gonna need a lot of mops.