Hacker News: sathackr

New comment by sathackr in "sshole"

sathackr — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:47:00 +0000

They list OpenWRT as affected -- but by default OpenWRT runs dropbear not OpenSSH.

Dropbear is unaffected.

New comment by sathackr in "Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent"

sathackr — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:54:58 +0000

I'm sure this chip will be the epitome of security just like the Intel ME chip was and will be completely unhackable so it's okay to give this watchdog chip unfettered access to every level of the system.

Nothing bad will happen.

New comment by sathackr in "Running local models is good now"

sathackr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:05:57 +0000

The hardware, the power systems, the cooling systems. They need maintenance.

The OS needs updates, file systems get corrupted.

Fans get dirty.

All the things that you need to deal with in hosting your own server infrastructure you have to deal with when hosting your own AI infrastructure (which runs on servers...)

New comment by sathackr in "Running local models is good now"

sathackr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:35:53 +0000

The opposite of that has been happening for 20 years now with cloud compute.

It won't happen with AI models either.

It's almost ingrained in the American business model now. Outsource everything. Nobody wants to manage a room full of servers when they can spend 2-3x as much and outsource that headache along with the responsibility for it.

Same will happen with AI. Whether that means paying Anthropic that premium or paying AWS.

I'm in a relatively small business, we recently had an outage related to our local infrastructure.

I got pressure from the CEO saying it wasn't reliable to host our own infrastructure anymore even though our total internal down time over the last 5 years is significantly less than even a single of the larger recent AWS outages.

Everyone wants to shuck the chore and the responsibility.

New comment by sathackr in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

sathackr — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:58:10 +0000

The Mark of the Beast

New comment by sathackr in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

sathackr — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:24:32 +0000

Do you do consulting?

Please reach out to me if so.

My username at gmail

New comment by sathackr in "Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant"

sathackr — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:27:52 +0000

"They can't remove it without knowing who the warrant is for" is absolutely Flocks problem.

They're alerting on a license plate but yet somehow they can't turn off that license plate alert using just the license plate number? Fucking bullshit

New comment by sathackr in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

sathackr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:50:13 +0000

MEGA is now headquartered in Hungary...who until very recently was run by someone very much aligned with the far right movement.

New comment by sathackr in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

sathackr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:36:07 +0000

GrapheneOS still does this -- allows controlling internet access on a per-app basis.

New comment by sathackr in ""whole civilization will die tonight""

sathackr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:58:54 +0000

It's almost like 'shadow-banned'

it's not listed as flagged or dead, but it's also not on the first 4 pages despite https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-warns-a-whole-civil... being on the 4th page with only 23 points

New comment by sathackr in ""whole civilization will die tonight""

sathackr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:46:05 +0000

This absolutely demands the attention of every American

New comment by sathackr in "Honda is killing its EVs"

sathackr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:23:53 +0000

yes. it's an argument that since EVs are heavier than fossil-fuel vehicles due to their batteries, that they generate more particulate emissions (brakes/tire dust) than fossil-fuel vehicles.

it's a wrong argument, but it's still circulated in groups of factually-challenged people

New comment by sathackr in "Honda is killing its EVs"

sathackr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:22:20 +0000

ev particulate is identical if not less than fossil fuel.

same tires (actually a little harder due to being LRR tires) same brakes (that get used significantly less thanks to regenerative braking)

New comment by sathackr in "Tractor"

sathackr — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:35:43 +0000

Relevant -- Snowblower electric conversion

https://youtu.be/D8OJFHLiRxM?si=lUZwjFEMoxqveDb5

New comment by sathackr in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

sathackr — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:45:18 +0000

It's infinitely better than HDA2 at tracking and maintaining lanes.

HDA2 cuts out if there is a break in lines more than 50ft or so.

Openpilot can track the slightest of roads, even able to follow off-road the tracks in grass from a leading car.

It does basically everything HDA2 does and then some, and does it much better.

It has a driver-monitoring camera that you control, that monitors for inattentiveness which is much more effective than simple wheel-torque based sensors.

New comment by sathackr in "Splice a Fibre"

sathackr — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:02:03 +0000

The hardest thing about splicing fiber is not splicing fiber(at least not anymore)

It's cable management and routing to keep things from kinking and breaking while accounting for cable flexing, thermal expansion, and unforseen circumstances like another company lashing their cables to yours for vertical support.

All while maintaining future serviceability

New comment by sathackr in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

sathackr — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:54:11 +0000

Captain Steeeve thinks it was actually the starboard engine that also failed due to evidence of compressor stalls in some of the footage

https://youtu.be/CmXLQHhUtv4?t=499

New comment by sathackr in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

sathackr — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:25:48 +0000

Looks like the first $1000 goal is specifically for maintaining to he NTP website and maybe developers? While the other is a broader goal for the foundation

New comment by sathackr in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

sathackr — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:23:32 +0000

If you follow the "Foundations work" link at the bottom, you're taken to another page that shows $4,675 of $11,000 November goal.

New comment by sathackr in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

sathackr — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:20:56 +0000

That seems very low for such a high profile site/project

I donated an amount but the bar didn't move and is at the same level($395) as before my donation