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New comment by reanimus in "WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?"

reanimus — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 02:35:21 +0000

The problem is there are many middleboxes that monitor port 443 and will drop any traffic that they can't decode as TLS (which in this case means TLS 1.2 or below). The choice was between masking traffic as an earlier version of TLS or forcing the replacement of all of those middleboxes. It's a no-brainer.

New comment by reanimus in "WolfSSL sucks too, so now what?"

reanimus — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:14:20 +0000

I don't know, I don't think it's really a huge waste of time considering I just read the entire comment thread in a handful of minutes. And beyond that, failing to comply with RFC requirements is the bug here -- a workaround existing for a specific language isn't a fix.

New comment by reanimus in "Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents"

reanimus — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:09:11 +0000

The ruling itself even says that every case has to be taken in context, and that particular one was a known felon who has been accused of a crime fleeing in a vehicle. As a matter of fact, if you look at the decision [1] you won't find the word "defense" once, only "fleeing".

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1261.ZPC.html

New comment by reanimus in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

reanimus — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:06:38 +0000

> Electric cars are supposed to be simple. Give me something in a shape of a Civic, with the engine replaced with a motor and a battery good for 150 miles, and sell it for $10-12k new. Don't even need an entertainment cluster, give me a place to put a tablet or a phone and just have a bluetooth speaker.

I think this is more or less the pitch behind Slate (https://www.slate.auto/en), though it's more of a truck/SUV form factor.

New comment by reanimus in "Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help in 3 days"

reanimus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:32:43 +0000

Worth mentioning this isn't a port of the entire system, more a reimplementation that lacks MANY features of the real System 7

New comment by reanimus in "Ask HN: What is the actual state of Linux phones?"

reanimus — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:34:30 +0000

I'm still bitter that they never refunded me for my canceled pre-order, despite promising to at the time. It's been years and I never got any money back (or a phone, for that matter). I consider Purism to be an untrustworthy business as a result.

New comment by reanimus in "Drivers who appeal school speed zone camera fines almost guaranteed to lose"

reanimus — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:38:06 +0000

I've actually heard people argue against having lights on signage for this exact reason: people shouldn't be reliant on lights that may or may not work to modulate their behavior when driving. They had been referring mainly to pedestrian crossing signs, but I think it applies here too. I generally treat any school speed limit sign as in effect if it's before nightfall as a rule of thumb.

New comment by reanimus in "Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip"

reanimus — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:42:35 +0000

Where are you seeing devices without Bootguard fused? I'd be very curious to get my hands on some of those...

New comment by reanimus in "XenevaOS – Modern Computing Reimagined"

reanimus — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:49:15 +0000

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240265

New comment by reanimus in "High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++"

reanimus — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:33:44 +0000

Headline is a little misleading imo -- the vulnerability isn't in Notepad++ itself as much as its installer. Current users, I imagine, don't have anything to worry about.

New comment by reanimus in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"

reanimus — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:59:18 +0000

Buy your own DOCSIS modem, opt out of renting theirs. It'll pay for itself after a few billing cycles (the modem rental fee is $15 per month)

New comment by reanimus in "Obvious things C should do"

reanimus — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:39:19 +0000

> I am not making things up when I say that the very first question I had about how to use this module, either is not answered, or I couldn't find the answer. That question was "what regular expression syntax is supported?". This is such a fundamental question, yet there is no answer provided.

The main page for the documentation answers that question: https://docs.rs/regex/1.11.1/regex/index.html

It even says "If you just want API documentation, then skip to the Regex type", which is what you were linked to before.

New comment by reanimus in "Ghostty 1.0"

reanimus — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 03:12:09 +0000

> I hate things in "if you know then you know" category. This is one of them.

> Documentation? Reading a manual for an unknown thing?

Well. Yes? Maybe I'm assuming too much, but I feel like the target audience here (terminal emulator 'enthusiasts') either know about this already or are totally willing to go over to the manual to read what it is. The very first section upon opening the documentation explains it succinctly: Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

New comment by reanimus in "Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths"

reanimus — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:32:03 +0000

Add 'UK' to the search and you get a result pretty easily: https://themultibank.co.uk/

New comment by reanimus in "Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux"

reanimus — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:23:09 +0000

I think it's fair to say the majority of people don't really care about any of those things as much as having a system that just works -- which was part of their whole argument regarding why package maintainers love it so much and end users really don't tend to care.

New comment by reanimus in "'Megalopolis' trailer's fake critic quotes were AI-generated"

reanimus — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 21:33:54 +0000

Pretty sure it's entirely possible to find out what someone has said in a major publication about a major figure, actually.

New comment by reanimus in "'Megalopolis' trailer's fake critic quotes were AI-generated"

reanimus — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 21:30:04 +0000

What is with people treating LLMs like a search engine? All of this could have been avoided by just using Google.

New comment by reanimus in "Planet eBook: free literature for your device"

reanimus — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 04:40:02 +0000

There's something to be said for groups like this one and Standard eBooks (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) doing some work to clean up and beautify public domain books like the ones in Project Gutenberg. Even Standard eBooks mentions that their books are all sourced from Gutenberg.

This group seems much less complete than SE, and in my opinion, they're not nearly as nice looking. I think that's more a matter of personal taste though.

New comment by reanimus in "Funtoo Linux is shutting down"

reanimus — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:42:56 +0000

There are much more long-lived distros still around as well... But really, I meant more the danger of having the distro die without any clear plan for transition. In Funtoo's case it was less a matter of how long it would be around as much as what the plan would be if the BDFL decided they're done.

New comment by reanimus in "Funtoo Linux is shutting down"

reanimus — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:36:56 +0000

This sort of situation is why I've been hesitant to try smaller Linux distros in the past, especially for daily drivers or any sort of long term use. The allure of innovative features and modernity tends to be weighed against the long-term prospects and likelihood of longevity.

That being said, I did think funtoo would be around longer. I totally get the motivation; if a volunteer hobby isn't doing it for you, you ought to be free to let it go. I'm sure that the remaining dev/user base is perfectly free to fork off and rename to maintain the spirit of the distro too.