Hacker News: pastage

New comment by pastage in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

pastage — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:31:20 +0000

A quick search say that this is a standard feature you cache the prefill and load it at PCIe bandwidth so it should be about 0.2s

New comment by pastage in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

pastage — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:42:13 +0000

That is a good question. The existing data center map above is commercial so creating a free version with a clear goal seems to align with why OSM was started. The social aspect of OpenStreetMap was more important than the technical part.

New comment by pastage in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

pastage — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:49:11 +0000

> proprietary data

It is just copyrighted data, that is harder to get a hold of. All the copies are available to anyone to use if they just read it. Copyright makes other uses complicated. I wonder if the whole Creative commons debate was a mistake, you can never fix copyright in a digital world.

New comment by pastage in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

pastage — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:15:51 +0000

You answer your own post, almost everyone saw the US as an ally. That is the reason for trusting you, and why these posts are worrying. If we break economic and military ties, the alliance grows weaker.

You are right that there have always been a hostility against these kind of actions, but now you are doing it against allies. So you are breaking the trust.

New comment by pastage in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

pastage — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:22:51 +0000

I do not think you understand, you have to start repairing things. You can not only be against something you have to stand up for something that is better. Your number of 90% support for Denmark and Greenland does not show in anyway.

New comment by pastage in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

pastage — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:05:50 +0000

The complete disinterest in international allies from the American public is troublesome. I recently was in a discussion about what kind of responsibility we can put on the residents of the US for this situation. A US lawyer answered "well the 25th amendment ties our hands, and we do a lot of protesting so no blame on us". The judgement on US citizens was pretty harsh.

You guys have to work a lot harder to fix your issues.

New comment by pastage in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

pastage — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:22:28 +0000

Physical attestations are hard to solve, I think it would be nice if all TPMs in laptops had this. Then the problem becomes how do you automate stuff that needs to be done.

New comment by pastage in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

pastage — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:15:54 +0000

> it is easier and works better

For me NFS is easy and works better, edit two files, enable NFS and update firewall. I had NFS running before SMB, and if I am at hobby level I prefer http if it is good enough. There are technical reasons to use SMB, HTTP, NFS or Ceph. The easy to use options is just a function of how much you know, what you have run into and what you NEED to do.

New comment by pastage in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

pastage — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:04:40 +0000

You could read about that in 1992 "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge. There is prompt injection in communication, in the book certain protocols for information communication can not be deterministic so if someone is too smart you get hacked.

New comment by pastage in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

pastage — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:16:30 +0000

NetApp has NFS support and is widely used.

New comment by pastage in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

pastage — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:37:53 +0000

While I have no problem blaming the rich. You are post here you are most probably part of those people who are skirting it at their leisure. Even I with a life long devotion to climate and environmental issues have a hard time to be a positive effect. The only way to not skirt your responsibilities right now is to be a Greta Thunberg.

> liquified dinosaur bones

I know this is a nice factoid that does not need to be true. When I was 13 I did believed it, so now days I try to not spread this factoid. We can talk about the fascinating history of millions of years of efficient carbon storage on our planet.

New comment by pastage in "How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll"

pastage — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:20:29 +0000

Modern datacenters use local power generation that means lots of bad pollution worse than most factories. There is really bad sound pollution from many of them. They are enormous and create barriers where people should be able to move around.

New comment by pastage in "How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll"

pastage — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:05:01 +0000

You do not want a modern datacenter near people.

New comment by pastage in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

pastage — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:01:25 +0000

You can solve this issue if you have one server with ipv6/ipv4 you can run NAT with Jool and connect ipv6 only servers to that. Like Android does.

I wish hosting providers would give you a local routed ipv4 on ipv6 servers with a default NAT server. It is not that expensive I move 10Gbps "easily" and they could charge for that traffic.

New comment by pastage in "Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces"

pastage — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:56:42 +0000

Reminds me of the interactive but non gameified demo.

https://static.laszlokorte.de/escher/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642601

New comment by pastage in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

pastage — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:32:08 +0000

Not backing up cloud is a good default. I have had people complain about performance when they connected to our multiple TB shared drive because their backup software fetched everything. There are of course reasons to back that up I am not belittling that, but not for people who want temporary access to some 100GB files i.e. most people in my situation.

New comment by pastage in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

pastage — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:57:26 +0000

The concept does not really exist it is a Windows thing. You could call Puppet or other config managements group policies, but Linux is not a monolith so it is more organic.

New comment by pastage in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

pastage — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:13:08 +0000

You are not required to accept anything other than digital ids. So from experience, whatever demands euid has will be what is required to identify you.

New comment by pastage in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

pastage — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:06:05 +0000

There are about 3000 deaths per year in Sweden attributed to position from cars, and 300 physical accidents. So it is a really big issue, but it is almost impossible to make people understand that their car use and modification mains people.

Modified cars can release 1000x more polution, on streets with 800 daily cars that will have an affect.

New comment by pastage in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

pastage — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:59:25 +0000

Agrred, but it is remote root access is the danger, they already have root access to the physical dangerous things.