Hacker News: mawalu

New comment by mawalu in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

mawalu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:35:31 +0000

I used them in the past (many years ago) and was very surprised when my DNS was affected by a cloudflare outage. Turns out (back then) they relied on the cf network for DoS protection against their resolvers[1]. I was surprised to learn that and honestly thought that if I already take a dependency on cloudflare I might as well have them host my zones directly for free.

[1] Not completely sure but I think this was the incident https://blog.dnsimple.com/2020/07/incident-dns-resolution/

New comment by mawalu in "macOS Containers v0.0.1"

mawalu — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 08:45:04 +0000

AFAIK GitHub action runners all use VMs and not containers

New comment by mawalu in "Element X Matrix client now on iOS early release"

mawalu — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:09:34 +0000

Thanks for you work! I'm hyped for a faster mobile client and definetly need to setup the sliding-sync proxy for my HS.

Can you already say something about encrypted search support in Element X? I really like how transparent encryption works for DMs nowadays in Element but for non-powerusers it is often really confusing why the can't search their chats (on the current gen mobile clients at least). I fully understand that this is a difficult problem and less state on the client definitely does not make it easier.

Also since you mentioned it, is multiaccount support something that we can realistically expect to see in Element X someday (maybe even in a v1.0?). If I remember correctly for the previous iterations of the clients the status was mostly "maybe one day" or "the architecture does not really support it".

New comment by mawalu in "Brave New Trusted Boot World"

mawalu — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:21:10 +0000

The TPMs are already in our machines because Microsoft requires them and CPU vendors include them in their chips. They aren't used by default and don't hinder us from doing anything. If I'm already trusting ubuntu to ship me an OS why would I have a problem with having them sign it as well.

Secureboot is a scary technology but as long as we can disable it and provide our own keys I don't see the problem. And if we lose these abilities than I'm certain it won't be Poettering or systemd to blame

New comment by mawalu in "Intel A770, A750 review: We are this close to recommending these GPUs"

mawalu — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:37:59 +0000

Has anyone read about GVT-g support (or something similar that allows attaching the GPU to multiple VMs) is supported by these cards? Last time I checked Nvidia & AMD only support this on their enterprise / datacenter cards and it would be cool if Intel would be more open.

Fitting Everything Together

mawalu — Mon, 09 May 2022 17:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://0pointer.net/blog/fitting-everything-together.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31316867

Points: 46

# Comments: 11

New comment by mawalu in "Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?"

mawalu — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 09:32:57 +0000

ledger hardware wallet, invisionapp.com and my public github email

New comment by mawalu in "Yggdrasil P2P mesh E2EE IPv6 network"

mawalu — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:24:34 +0000

Your IPv6 address is the hash of your public key

New comment by mawalu in "I got pwned by my cloud costs"

mawalu — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 09:40:17 +0000

Hetzner Cloud(!) only has 20TB/Month included in the monthly costs and states that you have to pay for any additional traffic. I never reached that on one of their cloud boxes so I don't know how it looks like but it definitely isn't all up front. But yes the dedicated machines come with no additional traffic charges whatsoever

New comment by mawalu in "Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC"

mawalu — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:41:47 +0000

A bit of topic: I recently got a Pi 4 and tried to use it to play 4k content on a TV. I could not get hardware decoding working and found a lot other people online with similar problems. I honestly was a bit disappointed because the Pi is often touted (in this thread as well) as having great software support, much better than all the other ARM single board computers out there.

New comment by mawalu in "Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network"

mawalu — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 11:27:31 +0000

After reading this I checked my own logs. I seem to get hit by masscan every few days and at least once per week:

  "2020-08-31T05:55:15.314510181Z"
  "2020-09-07T04:31:10.32778784Z"
  "2020-09-12T07:37:23.354113494Z"
  "2020-09-14T04:48:22.862297069Z"
  "2020-09-14T10:31:45.331617062Z"
  "2020-09-21T01:03:47.198615685Z"
  "2020-09-21T04:04:12.142308436Z"
  "2020-09-28T04:40:15.616859176Z"
  "2020-09-30T14:21:35.844867635Z"
  "2020-10-02T23:05:58.837039985Z"
  "2020-10-03T03:18:33.945424629Z"
  "2020-10-03T14:02:51.344484887Z"
  "2020-10-03T16:47:59.941939178Z"
  "2020-10-03T16:54:16.67585357Z"
  "2020-10-04T03:40:37.740594379Z"
  "2020-10-04T09:12:23.443293148Z"
  "2020-10-04T23:07:21.37800867Z"
  "2020-10-05T06:06:11.452526929Z"

New comment by mawalu in "BitTorrent v2"

mawalu — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:15:30 +0000

You mean beside being responsible for ~50% of the global internet traffic in 2009? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

New comment by mawalu in "Lemmy a federated, open-source and privacy alternative to Reddit"

mawalu — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:57:24 +0000

It's important to note that this is critique against the instance run by some of the developers and not the software itself. The point is that anybody can run their own lemmy instance with different content and moderation

New comment by mawalu in "Small mail server best current practices"

mawalu — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:23:36 +0000

The RAM intensive elements of mailcow are search and clamav, you can disable them both if you don't need them

New comment by mawalu in "Small mail server best current practices"

mawalu — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:17:47 +0000

I use mailcow and it does both a) and b) very well. You can either selfhost or pay the developer to host it for you: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized

New comment by mawalu in "Show HN: Gitern is a Git host for hackers"

mawalu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:09:32 +0000

I'm not really looking for a new git repository hosting service but this seems cool. I was a bit disappointed that I had to download a cli tool after signing up. It would be cool if you could do all the management non-git operations via ssh and without any additional client software

New comment by mawalu in "NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client"

mawalu — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:30:28 +0000

No. The ads are separate video files that get played after each other by the browser or youtube app. Since this app is complete independent it just choose to not play the video ads

New comment by mawalu in "Automattic invests in Matrix"

mawalu — Thu, 21 May 2020 12:42:48 +0000

But keybase still has their server software that people depend on and that isn't open source. Worst that could happen with New Vector is that they stop paying developers to work for the Matrix.org foundation but that would not prevent anyone from continuing to use the existing software

New comment by mawalu in "Bundeswehr will switch completely to Matrix messenger"

mawalu — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:56:42 +0000

As far as I know the French government used a riot fork for their users but the changes are getting upstreamed. I think its not unrealistic that the Bundeswehr will go a similar way

New comment by mawalu in "Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?"

mawalu — Thu, 07 May 2020 20:05:40 +0000

Why would mattermost solve that?