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New comment by noAnswer in "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"

noAnswer — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:00:36 +0000

"easy to fix" is relative. This "new domain equals bad" thinking has spread in the IT security world. My corporate anti-virus blocks them too and I see it a lot while browsing HN on the job.

The only real solution, as a "holder of a young domain" is to wait 30 days before you use it.

New comment by noAnswer in "Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026"

noAnswer — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:43:29 +0000

Melodramatic mutch? The first new IDE HDD I ever bought died within a week. The first new USB HDD I ever bought was dead on arrival. My first server SSD became read only after a year.

Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s

New comment by noAnswer in "Base84 deserves a place in file names"

noAnswer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:55:27 +0000

Yeah, the innovation would be to not make everything in-band. Which implies proper file formats for source code for example. I know, that is blasphemy against 7bit ASCII.

It's like the telephone networks of old. They eventually realized that that is not so good. The computer world is still in its analog telephone phase. ;-)

New comment by noAnswer in "Base84 deserves a place in file names"

noAnswer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:11:38 +0000

It makes me sad that shells, operating systems and languages have basically made zero progress / had zero innovation in the last 60 years.

"Escaping" should be something some graybeard is mumbling about.

Yet here we are in 2026, still having to be on the lookout for a wild /../

Even PowerShell is boilerplate, boilerplate galore.

New comment by noAnswer in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

noAnswer — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:05:04 +0000

They also pull this off in the other direction too. You having earned money by showing ads? They claim there was click-farming ...and it's gone!

New comment by noAnswer in "Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs"

noAnswer — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:39:05 +0000

www.uceprotect.net does that for email. It's a DNS blacklist that puts hole networks on it, even if "only" a individual hosts SPAMs.

It's a double-edged sword. That is how you end up with most ISPs blocking port 25 completely. If your hosting provider is on the list you are collateral damage. You yourself can do very little to remedy the situation except to beg your provider "to look into it".

What do you expect the ISPs to do in this story? We are talking about TSL connections. Block port 80 and 443 and expect the costumers to use your HTTPS-Proxy. Than they could inspect and block individual actions.

New comment by noAnswer in ".name Termination"

noAnswer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:34:12 +0000

The ratio between people who lost their "free big provider" account do to arbitrary algo decisions and people who lost their domain because they ignored provider's invoice for over a month must be 1.000.000 to 1. :-)

I use a prepaid provider. If at the day of the renewal there is no money "in the bank" they immediately release the domain. So yeah, I treat their reminders with priority. I really should change providers...

New comment by noAnswer in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

noAnswer — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:27:56 +0000

It still works with regular mail servers:

Quote from https://providers.delta.chat:

"Usually, it just works, but for some providers, you need to adjust the settings. In this case, click on “prepare” for details.

Please note that push notifications do not work with classic providers and esp. large classic providers often have sending limits and overzealous spam rejections. This can worsen the chat experience, as messages are delayed or missing messages may even disrupt groups."

New comment by noAnswer in "I dream of quieter computing"

noAnswer — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:57:03 +0000

> I was unaware German Impressum applied to a natural person who is not running a business.

It doesn't.

New comment by noAnswer in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

noAnswer — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:15:40 +0000

> teachers somehow understood that I was one of these

Are you sure your parents weren't involved in the background?

> Extra time for someone who struggles to complete on time isn’t cheating - it’s allowing people to demonstrate what they can do.

For me it becomes cheating when its no longer allowed to be mentioned on the certificate that extra time was given.

New comment by noAnswer in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"

noAnswer — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:38:15 +0000

I don't care about the internal format. What I'm missing is an active component. Instead of re-downloading the same thing over and over it should work like POP3.

New comment by noAnswer in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

noAnswer — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:18:24 +0000

> But surely, latency is all about "placebo" and "vibes" and "feel" is it not?

Not sure if I can follow but...no?! My first TFT-TV had 2 seconds input lag. Impossible to play video games on it. That has nothing to do with feelings.

Already 10ms delay has a measurable effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qjSGEOEaXo

New comment by noAnswer in "Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets"

noAnswer — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:22:09 +0000

I know it's "just" AI but one could think there is a forkable project out there. I have seen like tenths of projects like this. OPs explanation is different though. Usually the line is "inspired by movie".

New comment by noAnswer in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

noAnswer — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:24:30 +0000

Asked your Clanker what a joke is.

New comment by noAnswer in "Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990)"

noAnswer — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:56:41 +0000

The industrial process behind that recently got optimized. They could become commonplace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSUHKLeyw4M

New comment by noAnswer in "OpenBSD 7.9"

noAnswer — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:55:21 +0000

They have binary updates by now. No more need to download the source from CVS and compile fixes.

You can update from one OS version to the next with manly only one command.

New comment by noAnswer in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

noAnswer — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:09:57 +0000

Don't make it public facing! Put it behind a VPN!!

New comment by noAnswer in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

noAnswer — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:47:50 +0000

They once had offerings for dedicated servers without hard drivers. They did network boot from NFS. So the costs where between a full dedicated server and a virtual one. Sadly it was very badly engineered. Small disk IO was so bad that you basically couldn't run MySQL. I did run a MX. For every mail postfix would complained that the filesystem did run a few secondes in the future. At some point they gave up and stuck a USB stick into every server.

It was dead by thousand cuts and put a bad taste in my mouth. But I have to admit that was a long time ago and I should probably give them another chance.

New comment by noAnswer in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

noAnswer — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:40:48 +0000

hm ok. Still, my misunderstanding helped me to write TI-Basic programs that no longer crashed. :-)

New comment by noAnswer in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

noAnswer — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:01:18 +0000

But isn't that just how the world works? As kid I got ERR:MEMORY allot while trying to create games. It was until I started to read a C book which said "We will not use goto in this book. It is a dangerous function that can lead to memory leaks. For example if you jump out of a function, said function will stay in memory because it never finishes." That was the light bulb moment for my TI-Basic problems.

For me the bad part is that the official TI-83 manual has a code example for the GETKEY function that is using GOTO to jump out of a loop.