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New comment by icedchai in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

icedchai — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:05:46 +0000

Are you talking about A/UX? That was one of the first Unix systems I was exposed to.

New comment by icedchai in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

icedchai — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:29:21 +0000

I agee, the keyboards are terrible. The last time I felt the MacBook Pro had a "good" keyboard was in 2007. It's been the flat chiclet-style "island" keys for a while now. I'd pay for more for a thicker MacBook with a real keyboard.

New comment by icedchai in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

icedchai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:24:13 +0000

I once had a freelance gig to upgrade an environment that hadn't been touched in years. One server had a 1500 day uptime and I could find no evidence of any in-place upgrades. They made me watch a bunch of IT security / process videos before starting the project, though. This was a decent sized organization with 100's of employees and 100's of millions in revenue.

My job at a "near unicorn" "we're still a startup 10 years later" was no better. Distros that were no longer updated. Obsolete python versions. Servers that hadn't been rebooted in years. All environments in a single AWS account. I could go on...

New comment by icedchai in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

icedchai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:02:24 +0000

How much of Hombre is myth-and-legend? Given how little progress with made with OCS->ECS->AGA, it seems unlikely they could even have built an Amiga SoC, nevermind designed a new 64-bit chipset.

New comment by icedchai in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

icedchai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:59:04 +0000

Coherent was the first Unix-like OS I ran, on a 386SX box. I think it was Coherent 4.x.

New comment by icedchai in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

icedchai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:24:05 +0000

A good percentage of cybersecurity has always been theater. If their model helps to separate the wheat from the chaff, maybe it'll be an improvement.

New comment by icedchai in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

icedchai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:49:18 +0000

Yeah, and it took ~7 years to make those marginal improvements over the earlier Amiga chipset! I'm ignoring ECS, since it barely added anything over OCS for the average user.

New comment by icedchai in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

icedchai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:03:24 +0000

Yep. 486DX/2 was when I started seriously looking at moving on from the Amiga. I wound up with a DX/4 100 sometime in 1994.

New comment by icedchai in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

icedchai — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:50:24 +0000

Same. I've been running it on a "pet" server since the mid 90's, for shell, web, email, etc. I started on FreeBSD 2.x and has been through many upgrades and migrations! I also worked at an early ISP and FreeBSD was our go-to for email, NNTP, and DNS.

New comment by icedchai in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

icedchai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:17:10 +0000

Not really reasonable. That would 1) Make routing inefficient because routers have parse an additional, non-adjacent, non-contiguous header to get the source and destination addresses. 2) Break compatibility because there would exist "routers" that do not understand ipv6 headers. They receive your ipv4 with v6 packet and send it somewhere else.

The result is basically the same situation we are in today, except much more hacky. You'd still have to do a bunch of upgrades.

New comment by icedchai in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

icedchai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:16:25 +0000

My comment still seems relevant? Do frequent commits to correct mistakes imply more "value" than infrequent, but well tested, commits, or what? I don't think it is a reliable signal.

New comment by icedchai in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

icedchai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:33:30 +0000

I think we'd be surprised how much address space is actually wasted, not announced or routed.

I have my own /24 that I registered back in the 90's. It is, in fact, routed and announced globally. I know several "early Internet" nerds with the same.

I know three local companies with /16's that aren't even announcing their blocks! Perhaps they use them internally.

New comment by icedchai in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

icedchai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:20:00 +0000

I wouldn't trust "commit counts." The quality and content of a "commit" can vary widely between developers. I have one guy on my team who commits only working code that has been thoroughly tested locally, another guy who commits one line changes that often don't work, only to be followed by fixes, and more fixes. His "commits" have about 1/100th of the value of the first guy.

New comment by icedchai in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

icedchai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:29:43 +0000

Yes, I agree, it's not apples-to-apples... but we're talking orders of magnitude in CPU, RAM, and "GPU" power.

New comment by icedchai in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

icedchai — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:33:37 +0000

The bloat is pretty incredible. Consider my Amiga 500 could resize windows without lag on a ~7.1 mhz 68000 and 512K of RAM, almost 40 years ago.

New comment by icedchai in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

icedchai — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:09:56 +0000

I've been using SSH since 1996 and I've never once seen anyone actually verify a public key manually like that. If they can MITM your SSH server, why can't they MITM your internal web site? In common practice, TOFU is type "yes" and YOLO.

New comment by icedchai in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

icedchai — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:04:45 +0000

I remember almost all of mine, including /24 and /16 blocks from several former employers!

New comment by icedchai in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

icedchai — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:26:22 +0000

What about device like those Chromecasts which don't even have firewalls? The only real solution would be to bring your own hardware firewall / access point and connect it as a client off the hotel wifi. Who is really going to do that?

New comment by icedchai in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

icedchai — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:57:16 +0000

I don't even bother with split-horizon. My internal hosts are in public DNS under a subdomain.

New comment by icedchai in "Is BGP safe yet?"

icedchai — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:54:42 +0000

It sounds like that one may have been the result of a "lawful intercept", so perhaps not necessarily BGP hijacking. If you have legitimate control of the ASN/network, it's not a hijack.