Hacker News: idatum

New comment by idatum in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

idatum — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:00:03 +0000

"Can you see my screen?"

grrr

New comment by idatum in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

idatum — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:19:55 +0000

Haywood reads anxiously! Memorable scene.

New comment by idatum in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

idatum — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:13:28 +0000

Can someone catch me up how FB et al are not the ones responsible for age verification?

Is it lack of something similar to PKI for identify verification?

New comment by idatum in "Lost Doctor Who episodes found"

idatum — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:07:47 +0000

Someone at the BBC with a degausser yelling "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

New comment by idatum in "Digg is gone again"

idatum — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:41:44 +0000

> Digg's founder who started the company back in 2004

Their plan is to make the internet what is was 22 years ago.

New comment by idatum in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

idatum — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:43:13 +0000

Is there really better confidence we could now detect a similar 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event?

New comment by idatum in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

idatum — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:50:25 +0000

IRL

> If I went to the store and asked for a pack of cigarettes

online

> and I have no idea if I can trust them with my info

Why did you trust how your ID was scanned (if carded)?

With security cameras present, where did that scanned data end up?

New comment by idatum in "Acme Weather"

idatum — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:39:38 +0000

After losing Dark Sky on Android, I discovered Foreca app. Works well in my area in the PNW.

One thing I learned is some post processing done by these services are better in some areas than others.

New comment by idatum in "Hilbert Map of IPv6 address space"

idatum — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:45:59 +0000

Will share this with my (IPv4-only) ISP. I'm sure it will help.

New comment by idatum in "A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)"

idatum — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:58:38 +0000

I couple years ago I read "A Mind at Play", Soni & Goodman, a biography on Claude Shannon. He grew up on a farm and the book mentions how he made extensive use of barbed wire fence telegraph (and if I recall telephone). Perhaps one of the early experiences Shannon had regarding information.

The MIT Museum had a display (last year) of Shannon's "toys", including the famous mouse maze. I don't recall any mention of his early days using barbed wire telegraph though.

New comment by idatum in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

idatum — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:34:28 +0000

I'm seeing Groups.io show up more for hobbies/interests I have. It seems email can be a way to slow down heated discussions. Perhaps at the expense of push-back on using more email?

Anyone have any experiences to share with moving their discussion groups from Discord to Groups.io?

New comment by idatum in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

idatum — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:20:42 +0000

I didn't even notice the Copilot button in Notepad until it was mentioned, "Even Notepad has a Copilot button."

New comment by idatum in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

idatum — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:22:54 +0000

> It's far quicker and easier to hit a toggle in JuiceSSH

termux via F-droid is far better now than JuiceSSH Pro. Termux:Widget let's you launch an SSH tunnel script with one click. I stopped using JuiceSSH Pro more than a year ago once I realized this.

New comment by idatum in "KISS Launcher – fast launcher for Android"

idatum — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:55:34 +0000

What is Kiss Launcher doing with all of my data it can search?

https://kisslauncher.com/privacy

    > Your data is your data.
    > KISS does not, and will never, have access to Internet.

Refreshing. Sold!

New comment by idatum in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

idatum — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:38:58 +0000

Discontinue use of your telegraph system.

Perhaps though you will still be able to continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected your power supply. [1]

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001679510&seq=40...

New comment by idatum in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

idatum — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:09:14 +0000

> Unfortunately I refuse to participate in the Facebook ecosystem so I can’t comment on if Facebook Groups is a suitable replacement

I really resent having FB pushed on me. I don't have an account and don't plan to, even if it's to be a member of one FB group. My HOA tried that and I pushed back hard. There are many other options over FB. We just use email.

New comment by idatum in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

idatum — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:26:44 +0000

In the past few years whenever I re-watch 2001 when Dave is shutting down HAL, I see a spaceship capable data center. And HAL sings "Daisy.." finally at the foundational, bare metal layer.

New comment by idatum in "Beyond the Nat: Cgnat, Bandwidth, and Practical Tunneling"

idatum — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:02:10 +0000

If you are already running a VPS, the SSH -J option is useful if you don't want to expose your SSH to your home public address.

You create an SSH reverse tunnel (-R option) from a server in your home network to your remote VPS. This gives you a localhost port on your VPS to your server SSH port. Something like:

    ssh -NT -R 2222:localhost:22 vpsuser@yourvps.com

From your laptop, use your your VPS address and localhost port in the -J option. Something like:

    ssh -J vpsuser@yourvps.com:2222 homeuser@yourhome.com

I only allow ssh key auth and only my laptop is trusted by my home server. The home server doesn't need to trust the VPS "jump server".

New comment by idatum in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

idatum — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:36:32 +0000

This is my experience as well. I have a couple PINE64 devices, a Rock64 (Rockchip RK3328) and a RockPro64 (RK3399). And an N150 device.

Both ARM64 devices run headless, make use of GPIO, and have more than enough CPU. In fact, these are stable enough that I run BSDs on them and don't bother with Linux.

The Rock64 runs FreeBSD for SDR applications (e.g. ADS-B receiver). FreeBSD has stable USB support for RTL-SDR devices.

The RockPro64 runs NetBSD with ZFS with a PCIe SSD. NetBSD can handle ARM big.LITTLE well. I run several home lab workloads on this. Fun device.

I also have an N150 device running the latest Debian 13 as my main home lab server for home automation, Docker, MQTT broker, etc.

In short: SBCs are cheap enough that you can choose more than one, each for the right task, including IoT.

New comment by idatum in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

idatum — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:21:28 +0000

Forgot the most important part of pf.conf!

    # NAT64
    pass in inet6 from any to $nat64_prefix af-to inet from ($ext_if)