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New comment by idatum in "If IPv4 were land"

idatum — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:38:49 +0000

And Windows 11 now supports CLAT.

New comment by idatum in "The phenomena that brighten dawn and dusk (2016)"

idatum — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:04:13 +0000

We're approaching that time of year in the PNW in the US where the spigot turns on and we get layers of clouds for days. This article reminds me to take the time in the next few days to appreciate both sunrise and sunset.

New comment by idatum in "OpenBSD 8.0"

idatum — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:03:13 +0000

Zero configuration conflicts/issues the whole time?

New comment by idatum in "OpenBSD 8.0"

idatum — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:57:27 +0000

I have a Lenovo laptop running OpenBSD 8.0.

What I really appreciate about it is I started with OpenBSD 7.6. Using sysupgrade, I went through every release (and syspatch) and just now successfully upgraded to 8.0. It still works great!

New comment by idatum in "What do you do while waiting for a prompt response?"

idatum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:13:28 +0000

Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/303/

New comment by idatum in "My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps"

idatum — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:21:24 +0000

Somewhat related: Something I learned about South Korea is that a non-Korean service can't export detailed location data, so Google Maps doesn't work there. No turn-by-turn. Navar Maps is a local one to use if you're there.

They are still technically at war with the North, so some strange things like this come up. Awesome place to visit generally! Seoul is an awesome city, and Busan is gorgeous.

New comment by idatum in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

idatum — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:06:54 +0000

In the end this made news about how the surveillance economy works and should further freak people out about it. This helps long term I think.

New comment by idatum in "Yongsan Electronics Market (Seoul)"

idatum — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:31:05 +0000

I recently visited Seoul for the first time and learned about it while there. I only had time to briefly explore the first floor of building 21, unfortunately.

Yongsan Electronics Market (Seoul)

idatum — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:35:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongsan_Electronics_Market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761694

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

New comment by idatum in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

idatum — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:56:18 +0000

Recently visited Seoul, Korea, and took the subway to Yongsan station and walked over to what is left of the Yongsan Electronics Market (building 21).

1) It still exists. Cool. 2) What's left: Nobody taking their boxes of cables away!

New comment by idatum in "Research carried out using NetBSD"

idatum — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:58:56 +0000

The cross build tooling, specifically around build.sh, makes the process of building a kernel + userland straight forward.

Use your best build hardware to build for your test hardware.

New comment by idatum in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

idatum — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:03:38 +0000

What I've found beautiful about -J is the host you jump through requires no privileges on the final host. Only my laptop has the SSH key to access my home server, not my cheap VPS.

And this allows me to have zero open ports on my home internet. I do a reverse tunnel to my VPS from my home server (in a FreeBSD jail), and that port is what my laptop client jumps through.

New comment by idatum in "Ten Basic Clouds"

idatum — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:26:04 +0000

Living in the PNW it's good to have an interest in types of clouds and weather generally. Helps keep ones sanity during the rainy season.

New comment by idatum in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

idatum — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:53:06 +0000

But you can just use any cloud blob storage provider (including the big ones) along with the rclone utility. rclone supports many.

I even use rclone to sync photos to OneDrive I can then share with family/friends.

New comment by idatum in "Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices"

idatum — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:41:48 +0000

I have 2 listed: HP-35 and HP-41CX.

Still use an HP-11c.

Will die on that hill defending RPN!

New comment by idatum in "OpenBSD 7.9"

idatum — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:00:44 +0000

Runs well on my Lenovo T-490. I use this as my main non-Windows laptop.

New comment by idatum in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

idatum — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:27:25 +0000

My 2016 Golf GTI also lost its 3G modem service in the US. Perfect.

New comment by idatum in "Ti-84 Evo"

idatum — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:07:07 +0000

Bring back the HP-10c. RPN with "scientific calculator" label. Pure and simple, and approved for testing that forbids any programmable devices.

EDIT: oops, conflated with HP-35, from a decade earlier. 10c was programmable. HP-35 was not.

New comment by idatum in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

idatum — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:59:14 +0000

> 'If you don't want the government to have your location history, you just flip that off. You dont have to have that feature on your phone. so whats the issue?'

> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-location-tracking-data-w...

Can someone catch me up on how the settlement against Google where turning off location on your phone didn't stop them from collecting location data, plays in this Supreme Court case?

Isn't this like cell tower data, where the user doesn't have a choice if their location data is collected?

New comment by idatum in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

idatum — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:19:49 +0000

My wife is on a business trip and so it's just me. Some learnings to share on how the house works:

- Weirdly, the kitchen sink is almost exactly the geometric center of the house; hence, equal probability for odors to travel.

- And that reminds me: Need to download PDF for dishwasher operation.

- Day 2 (Friday) of my wonderful better half's travels, I started laundry. I remembered less then 2 days later that I need to transfer the clean (??) clothes from the bottom device (water/soap) to the upper "dryer" -- this device produces some serious heat. Kills odor causing bacteria, and stuff. Will call that a success.

- I find my clothes are scattered on the floor randomly. Seriously high entropy -- reminds me of CloudFlare's lava lamp application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

- Yep, total regression to the mean of bachelor-self and loving life..and the miracles of modern technology, where like the water automatically fills in the washing device. But not the soap.