Hacker News: realxrobau

New comment by realxrobau in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

realxrobau — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:01:14 +0000

Are there any that actually have a SFP+ port? That's all I want. No one wants to use 10g ethernet when DACs are cheaper than cat7, and you can just change it up to a $7 multimode when you need longer runs.

New comment by realxrobau in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

realxrobau — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:12:04 +0000

I hate to say it, but I'm somewhat in agreement. I don't know why there's a allow 3 days/allow forever option. That's the only thing that's suspicious.

Assuming the requirements are actually justified, this seems like a tolerable compromise.

New comment by realxrobau in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

realxrobau — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:52:23 +0000

Annoyingly, something is broken with their anti not stuff, as it keeps refusing to let me see the page.

New comment by realxrobau in "Finding Robert Bogucki, the man who disappeared on purpose"

realxrobau — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:08:39 +0000

Come to Australia.

New comment by realxrobau in "The Great Unracking: Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter"

realxrobau — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:40:16 +0000

Any company that switches from real hardware to "the cloud" is going to triple their compute costs. They're obviously making too much money. With them not even selling their old hardware, they are doing the equivalent of setting large piles of money on fire

New comment by realxrobau in "Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?"

realxrobau — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:07:18 +0000

This is your only post, and you haven't responded to anything in 4 days. Was this just a marketing ploy?

New comment by realxrobau in "Reconsidering Debian's Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware – A Call for Discussion"

realxrobau — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:26:31 +0000

I think the consensus appears to be summed up here, with the response from wraw at debian:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/03/msg00185.html

New comment by realxrobau in "The U.S. has tried to buy Greenland before"

realxrobau — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:33:24 +0000

Australia is the world's largest island at 7.9m km² ... Not sure why they're trying to say Greenland is larger.

New comment by realxrobau in "What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You"

realxrobau — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:34:31 +0000

There is no way a human wrote that.

New comment by realxrobau in "FreePBX is being destroyed by the current owners, and it's disheartening"

realxrobau — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:17:16 +0000

Thank you. You are demonstrating perfectly https://xkcd.com/2501/

New comment by realxrobau in "FreePBX is being destroyed by the current owners, and it's disheartening"

realxrobau — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:41:11 +0000

I was the original author of FreePBX, and it's gone through a few changes of hands over the past decade or so. Unfortunately, the current owners appear determined to destroy it.

It's a bit sad to see it being relegated to the sidelines like this. Luckily for everyone, I was one of the early proponents of the AGPL, and most of the code is already protected under a firm Open source licence.

I just hope that someone forks it and takes it over - maybe there's someone here who wants to?

FreePBX is being destroyed by the current owners, and it's disheartening

realxrobau — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:41:11 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/freepbx/comments/1hhi71t/the_saga_and_bans_continue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468825

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by realxrobau in "Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4"

realxrobau — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:43:51 +0000

It seemed like AI generated stuff from the second sentence 8-(

New comment by realxrobau in "I kept seeing all these posts about using a DB as a filesystem, so I wrote one"

realxrobau — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:13:24 +0000

This is a Laravel module, so it integrates transparently in an existing project.

I kept seeing all these posts about using a DB as a filesystem, so I wrote one

realxrobau — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:12:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xrobau/laravel-sql-storage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134085

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by realxrobau in "Australia to Block Internationally Purchased 4G/5G Phones as Part of 3G Shutdown"

realxrobau — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:49:10 +0000

It was a bug. If the phone was not making VoLTE calls, the carriers were panicking. Instead, the phone was just trying 3g first, it worked, so VoLTE was never triggered.

VoLTE is just SIP. There's no longer two channels, one voice and one data, it's just the same one (and for those that know the REAL technical stuff, please accept that this is a deliberate simplification!).

New comment by realxrobau in "Australia to Block Internationally Purchased 4G/5G Phones as Part of 3G Shutdown"

realxrobau — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:45:32 +0000

Australian telco guy here. No they won't.

Here's the law: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L01103/asmade/text

When a telco IS CERTAIN that a phone won't work, they are obligated to tell the person, and offer them a free phone to replace it (subsidised by the government, it's mentioned in passing in the act linked).

New comment by realxrobau in "Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance"

realxrobau — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:32:06 +0000

When the motherboard fails, everything is gone. There is no way around this.

You either accept that your data is irretrievably tied to your motherboard, or accept that your data can be viewed/modified by someone who can replace your motherboard.

New comment by realxrobau in "A heck of a wild bug chase"

realxrobau — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 06:41:55 +0000

So, in summary, because you added a whole bunch of stuff that didn't need to be there, it broke. Colour me surprised.

It sounds like this could be implemented almost completely without any of that, especially as you were using JavaScript for the data.

All I can hope is that you've learnt a lesson about unnecessary overcomplication.

New comment by realxrobau in "Axiomatic by Greg Egan"

realxrobau — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:20:34 +0000

This convinced me to (re) create my account. Greg Egan is a fantastic author, and lives in Perth - and probably Sydney at some point.

Read his books. He's also in the fediverse at https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF