Hacker News: merbanan

New comment by merbanan in "Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games and needs contributions"

merbanan — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:44:40 +0000

Doesn't seem like they are digitising the media.

New comment by merbanan in "Excel spreadsheet caused network equipment's physical failure"

merbanan — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:04:46 +0000

I read somewhere about a home router that corrupted packets in transit. In this case it was a torrent that never completed because of this. IIRC something in the nat engine bugged out and replaced bytes in the data and not just in the ip header.

More or less everything is broken. Its just that most protocols are designed to handle it.

New comment by merbanan in "Roku devices don't support IPv6 in 2023 and it's costing ISPs"

merbanan — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 22:56:55 +0000

MAP-T/MAP-E moves the CG-NAT functionality to the CPE. 60x users per IPv4 address should be doable.

New comment by merbanan in "Apple Helps Asahi Linux"

merbanan — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:08:24 +0000

Well I think this falls right into the anti-competitive argument. With the option of booting unsigned code the platform is available for anyone. Microsoft did sign boot loaders so linux can boot, there would have been some kind of fallout if they had not. So the booting of unsigned Mach-O sunds like a minimal action to not let it become a public issue for Apple.

The addition of raw mode sounds like a stable abi for booting linux. The Asahi developers have found "stuff" with the hardware. Just that feedback will be of great value to the continued development of the Apple SoCs. So my guess is that the raw mode is a gift with the expectation to be able to see how the Linux folks solves other issues.

New comment by merbanan in "NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash"

merbanan — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:11:58 +0000

Broadcom arm-based devices should have it.

New comment by merbanan in "NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash"

merbanan — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:11:20 +0000

Yes, the clip-on adapter could not power the chip in-circuit. So I use the power from the board. As I said this worked fine on some boards but not others.

New comment by merbanan in "NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash"

merbanan — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:28:23 +0000

I never got a clip-on adapter working on later generation Broadcom devices. On previous ones I shorted the cs-pin to make the nand chip disappear from the SoC. Then you could flash the chip.

New comment by merbanan in "NANDcromancy: Live Swapping NAND Flash"

merbanan — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:17:42 +0000

Arm based devices have an early boot menu accessible by holding the "a" button. From here boot with fail-safe defaults.