Hacker News: martheen

New comment by martheen in "Mexico's President Sheinbaum Decrees Universal Healthcare for 120M"

martheen — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:42:21 +0000

Mexico have almost three times GDP per capita of Indonesia, who have a decent universal healthcare scheme. Indonesian implementation isn't perfect, but it's still far better than some countries that don't even bother to try.

New comment by martheen in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

martheen — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:24:49 +0000

This particular project imply a financial commitment (it's not like you can walk to the data center right now with random assortment of laptops to be setup today without reserving a rack for a month or so), using a free hosting mean they didn't even spend the minimum.

New comment by martheen in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

martheen — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:16:04 +0000

Granted, ccTLDs has been already going on for years before USSR change their pronoun to were. Mostly for email, no idea if ccTLDs found their use on BBS.

I can understand .su continuing because Russia pretty much took over everything that represent Soviet Union elsewhere (embassies, Security Council seat, etc) and other former Soviet states either support the continuation or indifferent. Yugoslavia continuation is more contentious topic.

NinjaDoH: Moving Target DoH Server with Hyperscalers and IPNS

martheen — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:29:50 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02805

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42082779

Points: 1

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New comment by martheen in "Can't trust any VPN these days"

martheen — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:02:54 +0000

If it's just DNS, yes. But more and more countries start using SNI filtering for blocking, which can be bypassed by locally running obfuscation tool, but at some point one can get annoyed enough and just use a VPN entirely.

New comment by martheen in "Can't trust any VPN these days"

martheen — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:59:25 +0000

It depends on the OpenVZ kernel, some later version can use WG. But OpenVZ is dying anyway so if someone use a still supported container technology, WG is probably available.

Depending on the ISP setup, sometimes WG can be less reliable due to MTU and/or UDP filtering, I remember an ISP from years ago where WG don't work only on certain hours, while OpenVPN running on the same server still work.

New comment by martheen in "Show HN: Privacy DNS – free, encrypted, no-logs, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSProxy"

martheen — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:53:20 +0000

The instruction for browser setup is faulty, you can't just enter the domain like Android's Private DNS, you need the protocol and path too, ie, https://switzerland.privacy-dns.pw/dns-query

The instruction for Apple devices ignores that Apple has DNS profiles that support both DoT & DoH, much easier to just include the mobiconfig for download.

Is serving Do53 even necessary today? Your servers are likely going to be abused for DNS amplification attacks. All modern OS, even Windows, already natively support DoH and/or DoT which is immune to amplification attack abuse.