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New comment by pbar in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

pbar — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:37:43 +0000

Unfortunately with SSH specifically, the dissectors aren't very mature - you only get valid parsing up to the KeX completion messages (NEWKEYS), and after that, even if the encryption is set to `none` via custom patches, the rest of the message flow is not parsed.

Seems because dumping the session keys is not at all a common thing. It's just a matter of effort though - if someone put in the time to improve the SSH story for dissectors, most of the groundwork is there.

Nix-mdbook: Flake for building mdBooks

pbar — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pbar1/nix-mdbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629087

Points: 2

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New comment by pbar in "The man who killed Google Search?"

pbar — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:02:47 +0000

Was it intentional to reply with another no true Scotsman in turn here?

New comment by pbar in "An electric new era for Atlas"

pbar — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:48:41 +0000

Ah, quick and painless then

New comment by pbar in "How I run my servers (2022)"

pbar — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 18:33:17 +0000

It’s all fun and games until your KDC goes down!

New comment by pbar in "Refurb Weekend: The Sega Dreamcast"

pbar — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:44:50 +0000

Interesting, what were some of those unique optimizations?

New comment by pbar in "Is there a maximum size for Windows clipboard data?"

pbar — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:41:49 +0000

It’s a spreadsheet world and we’re just living in it ;)

New comment by pbar in "Cloud Naming Convention (2019)"

pbar — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 17:46:52 +0000

To their point, S3 buckets must be uniquely named globally, across all of AWS

New comment by pbar in "Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta"

pbar — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:06:13 +0000

It’s always surprising to folks, but true, that Houston has a wealth of arts/culture/dining, and even a modicum of public transit (the metro rail, heh). Entertainment could be better, but the rest blow Austin out of the water!

New comment by pbar in "Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS"

pbar — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:10:46 +0000

Single responsibility - that same container is gonna get shipped to prod/etc. I would hope the database isn’t in the container there!

New comment by pbar in "Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS"

pbar — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:06:25 +0000

I get your point, and I disagree on opinion. I and many others have had success using containerized devenvs on projects both large and small, and have likewise felt some pain with respect to repeatability when not - especially with the Python stack. Containers are synonymous with repeatability. Your future self is just another collaborator, and they’ll appreciate it down the line when they’ve got a new laptop and new env, for example ;)

New comment by pbar in "Docker, Django, Traefik, and IntercoolerJS: My go-to stack for building a SaaS"

pbar — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 06:48:54 +0000

This kind of thinking is why engineering departments have tech debt.

New comment by pbar in "Minimal safe Bash script template"

pbar — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:38:30 +0000

Another counterpoint to readability: the benefit is diluted if the reader isn’t familiar with the dependencies. I know this goes both ways, though in some circles (say, devops) there’s more familiarity with Unix tools than Python. So the cognitive overhead of getting familiar with something you’re not IMO outweighs readability in either case.

New comment by pbar in "Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact"

pbar — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:11:57 +0000

In a similar vein, you also pretty well ;)

New comment by pbar in "Eleven Years of Go"

pbar — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:30:45 +0000

To each his own. There is an equally wide group of developers who choose Go for personal projects as it’s in line with their taste. The joy of programming is in the eye of the beholder.

New comment by pbar in "Dr. Leonid Rogozov operating himself to remove his appendix in Antarctica, 1961"

pbar — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:41:29 +0000

The frustrating part is, I definitely faint due to blood being drawn for example, but something about the sight of the procedure makes it hard to look away

New comment by pbar in "Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?"

pbar — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:42:46 +0000

The reality is that containers via `runc` really _are_ just bundles of processes with some sugar to control Linux namespaces. Using another runtime (kata, etc) would get closer to the tighter abstraction you mention, but it would truly be a VM, just a small one.

New comment by pbar in "H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC)"

pbar — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:34:07 +0000

That’s not edgy enough for HN ;)

New comment by pbar in "Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available"

pbar — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:02:05 +0000

And interrupt their mostly nontechnical employees’ productivity to learn a new OS, for a negligible cost savings? Good luck getting that past a board of directors.

New comment by pbar in "The Fermi Paradox and the Aurora Effect: Exo-Civilization Settlement"

pbar — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:52:53 +0000

We have to remember the Fermi Paradox is a Fermi estimation and only that