Hacker News: pmlnr

New comment by pmlnr in "Creepy Crawlies"

pmlnr — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:43:56 +0000

https://petermolnar.net/article/asn-blocking-freebsd-pf-ngin...

It's not the most sophisticated thing.

New comment by pmlnr in "Creepy Crawlies"

pmlnr — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:20:20 +0000

Fail2ban becomes a serious bottleneck at significant traffic. I've replaced it with a shell script and direct pf commands that run every few minutes.

New comment by pmlnr in "Glacier Mice"

pmlnr — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:44:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts

New comment by pmlnr in "What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)"

pmlnr — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:23:07 +0000

So did Edgar Allan Poe. As a non-native speaker, it's, to say the least, a challenging read.

New comment by pmlnr in "What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)"

pmlnr — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:21:22 +0000

    They're pathetically pretechnological or brilliantly post-technological.
    - Stargate Atlantis ep. 14: Sanctuary

New comment by pmlnr in "What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)"

pmlnr — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 22:15:46 +0000

> I don't like spending too much time in nature, I get hot and sweaty and itchy and bothered by bugs

To me, it sounds like you haven't been in nature at enough places to find the one that talks and belongs to you.

Travel more.

New comment by pmlnr in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

pmlnr — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:15:52 +0000

> The next session opens with a block so the Executive remembers what it recommended last month.

This is morbidly unrealistic.

New comment by pmlnr in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

pmlnr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:52:15 +0000

Github activity from 12 years ago should be an indicator: https://github.com/tgodier?tab=overview&from=2014-12-01&to=2...

New comment by pmlnr in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

pmlnr — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:03:39 +0000

Nothing.

People not reading back on history is still very much a thing.

New comment by pmlnr in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

pmlnr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:26:01 +0000

Claude Eulogy - the dreadful, dreary pondering that inescapably descends on all under heaven.

New comment by pmlnr in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

pmlnr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:41:05 +0000

The same social media that stores everything down to your keystrokes? Sure, the problem is needing a gov ID, sure.

New comment by pmlnr in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

pmlnr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:58:05 +0000

Nginx has per server, per path limiting options.

New comment by pmlnr in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

pmlnr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:46:46 +0000

Because the internet became a shithole.

New comment by pmlnr in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

pmlnr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:45:18 +0000

A phone, no. An internet connected device is another question.

One can always get a dumbphone without this.

New comment by pmlnr in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

pmlnr — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:47:21 +0000

Been there recently. Rate limit on nginx and anti-syn flood on pf solved it.

New comment by pmlnr in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

pmlnr — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:08:05 +0000

> Can I install my banking apps?

Choose a bank with viable web banking.

> Is there a Google pay equivalent?

It's called a debit/credit card.

New comment by pmlnr in "Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)"

pmlnr — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:49:08 +0000

XMPP can do everything you listed at a fraction of the resources. It'll also need stub/turn, like everything else for video and voice, but it works.

New comment by pmlnr in "Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)"

pmlnr — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:38:16 +0000

And it's the best widely available, accessible, battle hardened, omnipresent messasing system.

New comment by pmlnr in "Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)"

pmlnr — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:52:18 +0000

Email itself is federated. Sort of the original federated messaging.

New comment by pmlnr in "I'm tired of Hacker News slop"

pmlnr — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:05:55 +0000

Web 2.0 slop, das good shit.