Hacker News: lgierth

New comment by lgierth in "Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker"

lgierth — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:56:31 +0000

You don't need a management daemon running though, and get a complete virtualized kernel that can be customized if needed.

New comment by lgierth in "Go 1.18 RC1 is out"

lgierth — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:26:29 +0000

I'm pretty sure ~/sdk is only used if you install Go versions using `go install golang.org/dl/`

New comment by lgierth in "Cloudflare.com was redirecting to Clickfunnels.com"

lgierth — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:22:48 +0000

Looks like nginx vhosts or load balancing got screwed up? DNS is still all pointing to the normal CF hosts.

New comment by lgierth in "What’s the jankiest piece of tech you’ve seen a company depend on?"

lgierth — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:34:27 +0000

Oh yeah, man, FoxPro... for a year or so in 2008 I was responsible for a FoxPro database of music venues and artists for an agency. Felt really interesing to maintain a system that's older than me.

When we modernized all desktops in the office, I set up Win2k in Qemu on each of them, which loaded the FoxPro thing from a shared network mount. I'm just realizing 19-year-old me never checked if FoxPro supported simultaneous access. It surely did, at least I hope so :-)

edit: However, 19-year-old me was smart enough NOT to touch that Solaris or whatever-it-was server hosting the FoxPro thing.

New comment by lgierth in "IPv4 Waiting List"

lgierth — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:11:26 +0000

I registered with RIPE this year, requested an IPv4 /24 in July, and got it immediately. I guess RIPE's last blocks depleted in November?

Market prices on the other hand have exploded this year, $50 per address isn't uncommon anymore.

New comment by lgierth in "$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing"

lgierth — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 21:36:14 +0000

Zeke = ZK = zero-knowledge?

New comment by lgierth in "Firecracker MicroVMs"

lgierth — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:43:00 +0000

I build them using Buildah, then mkfs.ext4, mount, cp, umount. It's a little bit annoying that I'm still using root at least for the mount part.

OpenWrt's build system has a method of building rootfs ext4 and squashfs images without any root, it's somewhere in that large Makefile mess.

(sorry, reposting this as I first replied to the wrong parent)

New comment by lgierth in "Firecracker MicroVMs"

lgierth — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:39:46 +0000

Ignite looked intruiging when I checked it out recently - but I need to import rootfs tarballs directly, without going through any registries. Any helpful pointers are appreciated :)

New comment by lgierth in "Firecracker MicroVMs"

lgierth — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 19:37:48 +0000

No support for PCI devices at the moment, but I believe it's planned for some point in the future.

New comment by lgierth in "WireGuard for Windows now uses high speed kernel implementation"

lgierth — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:12:12 +0000

I think performance is just a top priority as security, I remember how in their first whitepaper they already talked about how they batch up packets and stuff like that. Also the whole approach of kernelspace instead of userspace is just for performance.

Actually, I think in the beginning there was even a "marketing chart" with throughput numbers in addition to the chart with lines-of-code numbers?

Edit: performance being a top priority also makes sense strategically: if you want people to use secure software en-masse, then the experience needs to be stellar in UX and performance as well.

New comment by lgierth in "Steam on Linux around 0.9% marketshare"

lgierth — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 12:24:07 +0000

I was in the same boat regarding polluting my development environment - nowadays Steam's Wine/Proton stuff is completely containerized and just works ("Steam Runtime").

New comment by lgierth in "Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO"

lgierth — Wed, 26 May 2021 16:32:50 +0000

Yep, Waldorf Frommer, and District Court Koeln, fond memories :)

New comment by lgierth in "Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO"

lgierth — Wed, 26 May 2021 16:32:17 +0000

Ah I did not know that, thanks! - My dozen or so cases have always had a court order attached. Worrying that there are ISPs that hand out data without one...

New comment by lgierth in "Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO"

lgierth — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:08:50 +0000

They do need a court order, see my other comment

New comment by lgierth in "Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO"

lgierth — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:08:16 +0000

They do need a court order, see my other comment

New comment by lgierth in "Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO"

lgierth — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:06:45 +0000

They need to go and get a court order, and with that they request the personal data from the respective ISP. The whole process is pretty steamlined and partly automated though.

Source: have been through many copyright claims and currently have a supreme court lawsuit pending.

New comment by lgierth in "US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show (2018)"

lgierth — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:48:26 +0000

Many people would, but I assume they wouldn't be considered CEO material.

New comment by lgierth in "Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble"

lgierth — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 22:43:07 +0000

It's actually up and running for a while, with large sums already staked, and the flipping of the switch on mainnet will very likely happen before end of summer. https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/

New comment by lgierth in "USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)"

lgierth — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:04:38 +0000

Yep, lots of interference with my bluetooth headphones. On Linux it gets a little better if you disable the wifi driver option for "bluetooth coexistance" (it's named slightly differently between the various drivers).

I don't actually use wifi, but I suppose it's got something to do with wifi and bluetooth being handled by the same mPCIe card.

New comment by lgierth in "Tell HN: Find anyone's email by adding .patch to end of a Git commit URL"

lgierth — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:20:14 +0000

It's the COMMITTER_EMAIL and AUTHOR_EMAIL as configured, this is working as intended. If you don't want to add it to your commits, set it to something like "nobody@localhost".