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New comment by jasonjayr in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

jasonjayr — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:27:58 +0000

The problem arises when there are contradictory truths, and defenders of one or both sides refuse to dig deeper to both self-reflect on what they believe to be true, and perhaps come to a deeper more correct understanding.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

jasonjayr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:47:58 +0000

There's an XKCD for that, "Compiling" : https://xkcd.com/303/

New comment by jasonjayr in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

jasonjayr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:01:00 +0000

That's kinda what happens with DNA -- a random mutation will make the resulting organism 'incompatible with life' -- or it will create a change that gives a huge advantage for survival.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

jasonjayr — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:20:15 +0000

This is the leg of the cycle when we go back to mainframes & centralized computing? With all the datacenter build out; why wouldn't you want your services adjacent to the LLM processing centers?

New comment by jasonjayr in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

jasonjayr — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:21:29 +0000

I got a new lease on life for a bunch of old/slow MyBook WD Live NAS devices -- OpenWRT installs onto these PowerPC devices, rather easily.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

jasonjayr — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:06:49 +0000

I'd wager that in the next 96 hours, with a LLM, someone could create a translator that would 'pack' a nginx or caddy configuration file into the relevant code that zeroserve could use. Or even more simply, just pickup all the Ingress manifests in a kubernetes cluster and rebuild the pack. The point being, the interface between the tool and the configuration is just another API, system operators are already describing the state of the system at higher level constructs, and the specific bytes that make up the configuration are an artifact of that.

New comment by jasonjayr in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

jasonjayr — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:46:16 +0000

Don't want to go too far off topic; but the interface in question was a uniquely named internal network interface for a Hyper-V VM. Considering it's MS all the way down, I'd expect them to get it right.

New comment by jasonjayr in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

jasonjayr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:31:10 +0000

Also, thank you windows for not having consistent interface ids after reboot. I had to rewrite a configuration file every startup with powershell in order to tackle this case.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

jasonjayr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:16:37 +0000

MS got involved, and they are web servers that you send SOAP requests to, (to support MFC devices, of course) and the Windows stack uses UPNP to discover them, and register them by their UPNP names, and they tend to be sticky to their temporary IPv6 addresses, and often fail to rediscover when their temporary IPv6 address changes. Oh and the windows UI doesn't give you any ability to edit the 'port', failing instead with some incomprehensible "operation not supported" if you dare click the 'edit' on the port.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering"

jasonjayr — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:42:00 +0000

https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/en/4/user_guide/gl-mt300n-v2...

These devices have the wifi/ethernet bridge functionality being discussed, (as well as a bunch of other stuff) and are OpenWRT based. Built in openvpn/wireguard as well. We bought a bunch for our team way back when (IIRC they were < $20 USD then) Gl.iNet has other similar more powerful devices as your use case may need.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Why is Inkwell stuck in review"

jasonjayr — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:21:58 +0000

Amusingly, a bunch of series of teen shows used to use "Pear PC" to get around the trademark issue on all their on screen technology...

New comment by jasonjayr in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

jasonjayr — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:52:00 +0000

The killer app was conceived as early as the 1980s: an agent running on your computer, organizing your files, your schedule, your messages, your bills, bank accounts, etc. All the parts of your life that were routine drudgery should be able to be offloaded to a smart agent, based on your preference, to bring you the information you needed with natural language queries, contextualized to what you were doing at the time, when you need it.

What's being delivered now is, an agent running on someone else's computer, copying your data to someone else's database, with zero responsibility, or mandate to protect that data and not share with with anyone else (in fact, they almost always promise to share it with their thousand partners), offering suggestions and preferences based on someone else's so-called recommendations, influenced by paying the agent's operators, and increasing pressure to make using someone else's computers + agents the only way to interact with other people and systems.

There is no doubt that LLM's can do amazing things, but the current environment seems to make it nearly impossible to do anything with them that doesn't let someone else inspect, influence, and even restrict everything you are doing with with these systems.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

jasonjayr — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:45:11 +0000

It does need to know the public key. The AuthorizedKeysCommand does not provide a yes/no answer, it has to respond with a list of full public keys (or certificates) that are authorized to connect for a given user id. The SSH server then uses the public key to challenge the client to demonstrate it has the private key.

However, an easy attack in the same ballpark, is to accept the connection without any password or public key auth, and then accept agent forwarding, and ask that agent connection to authorize a connection to a target server, with the user's keys. Never forward your agent connection to an untrusted host. Though -- I imagine this pattern is common when setting up a new host -- trust the first connection, and forward your agent so you can pull resources (like git repos) from the new host to set it up ...

New comment by jasonjayr in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

jasonjayr — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:17:03 +0000

The crux of the problem is that their solution involves making themselves the gatekeepers of who is and isn't allowed. And that's a power that no one unaccountable organization should wield.

Given how important internet is to modern society, letting any one entity decide who should and should not have access is nearing a human rights issue.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

jasonjayr — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:42:01 +0000

A lot of people dismissed RMS's "Right to Read"[1] essay long ago. All the things it was warning about have come to pass, in spades.

1: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

New comment by jasonjayr in "Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign"

jasonjayr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:39:52 +0000

I rely on this too, but counting down the days android no longer lets syncthing touch another app's files :(

New comment by jasonjayr in "I am building a cloud"

jasonjayr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:34:28 +0000

Systemd seems to be moving in that direction, the features are coming together to actually enable this.

Though imagining the unholy existence of an init system who's only job is to spin up containers, that can contain other inits, OS images, or whatever ..... turtles all the way down.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

jasonjayr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:56:39 +0000

You can buy a battery operated portable bluetooth based printer to print barcodes from your phone, for less than $15. It'll even fit in your pocket.

I mean, you need to prepare having that printer on you, but it's not all that difficult to print on demand while in the store.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Sudo for Windows (2024)"

jasonjayr — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:33:34 +0000

Ah yes, the 'curl' alias in powershell, vs the 'curl.exe' binary that uses the traditional options. Always have to remember that trap on windows.

New comment by jasonjayr in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

jasonjayr — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:25:54 +0000

How did you get a RFP? Is there feeds that can be picked up ?