Hacker News: schlarpc

New comment by schlarpc in "Pi 1.0"

schlarpc — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:45:06 +0000

Totally agree with this sentiment. On your plugin point, I recently did a PoC of QuickJS in wasmtime with a restrictive sandbox (10 syscalls total) for running untrusted plugin code and it was great. Took maybe 3-4 days to pull together and performed more than adequately for the kind of thing this class of software needs, with a security posture that beats pretty much anything widely deployed. When this level of engineering excellence is so cheap to achieve, we really need to bully companies that refuse to do it.

New comment by schlarpc in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

schlarpc — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:26:02 +0000

That ribbon got slammed full of advertisements at some point, last I knew.

New comment by schlarpc in "Everything I own, owned"

schlarpc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:28:07 +0000

I suspect the bar will raise for some devices, but most will continue to be made cheaply and with poorly-defined requirements and threat models, and "it works" will continue be the only bar they're measured against before release.

New comment by schlarpc in "Everything I own, owned"

schlarpc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:22:20 +0000

Personal plan, but yes, my day job is being a security engineer for big tech.

New comment by schlarpc in "Everything I own, owned"

schlarpc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:10:13 +0000

I have CVP access, which removes the external refusals for Opus 5. I submitted my LinkedIn and Github and got approved in less than 10 minutes.

New comment by schlarpc in "Everything I own, owned"

schlarpc — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:46:51 +0000

I understand what it does, I think the alert is annoying. It takes at least five minutes and automatically runs when the monitor is off. I’ve had it for a few years and have no burn in issues despite not doing this every eight hours on command.

Everything I own, owned

schlarpc — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:41:04 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260823225933/https://schlarp.c...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413320

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New comment by schlarpc in "The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press"

schlarpc — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:49:41 +0000

Doesn’t work for livestreams as far as I know. There’s an open PR: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/6498

New comment by schlarpc in "Mosh Mobile Shell"

schlarpc — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:55:29 +0000

Interesting that it can’t reestablish the connection, as the application level protocol should support it just fine. The client should notice the GRE (game rules engine) TCP socket is broken, and reset everything. When you reconnect, the front door service should notify you to a GRE session still in progress, and the client should be able to rejoin that. At least, that’s how it works on desktop.

New comment by schlarpc in "Hidden interface controls that affect usability"

schlarpc — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:20:14 +0000

And thankfully you won’t be looking at it much longer

New comment by schlarpc in "Why We're Moving on from Nix"

schlarpc — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:12:39 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for nix2container. I’ve been using it to do some deploys to AWS (ECR) and my iteration time between builds is down to single digit seconds.

New comment by schlarpc in "Deploying Containers on NixOS: A Guide"

schlarpc — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:07:50 +0000

Thanks for the link, I've got a bunch of hacky code for running Immich's compose under Nix that this might be able to replace.

New comment by schlarpc in "Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art"

schlarpc — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 20:26:47 +0000

I have a similar display, and also use blue noise dithering. Mine is driven in the backend by a web browser, which means I was able to abuse CSS and mix-blend-mode to do the dithering for me:

  ha-card::after {
    content: "";
    background-image: url(/local/visionect-dither.png);
    background-repeat: repeat;
    position: absolute;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
    mix-blend-mode: multiply;
  }

The dithering texture used is 128_128/LDR_LLL1_10.png from https://github.com/Calinou/free-blue-noise-textures

New comment by schlarpc in "Special-Use Domain Names"

schlarpc — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 23:50:57 +0000

Whoa, .alt is finally a proposed standard with a real RFC number. Really happy about this, it's sorely needed in some spaces.

New comment by schlarpc in "Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu"

schlarpc — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:06:03 +0000

Another option for NixOS is bootspec-secureboot, I'm using it with no real complaints: https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/bootspec-secureboot

New comment by schlarpc in "The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill"

schlarpc — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 02:41:40 +0000

There kind of is, but it's not really made for that use case so there's a bunch of caveats (it's read/write, has a limited max number of attachments, io1/2 required, can't be the boot volume): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-volu...

New comment by schlarpc in "Downfall Attacks"

schlarpc — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:06:52 +0000

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi....

New comment by schlarpc in "You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email"

schlarpc — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:29:40 +0000

This was considered a feature back in the day; it was called MASE - Multiple Account, Same Email. I'm pretty sure you can just change the email on one of them to get out of that state.

New comment by schlarpc in "Easy HTTPS for your private networks"

schlarpc — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:30:08 +0000

Somewhat related - I made a bridge server [1] that lets ACME clients use standard RFC2136 to solve DNS-01 challenges for internal names without them needing credentials for the actual DNS backend (Route 53 in my case).

[1] https://github.com/schlarpc/rfc2136_bridge/blob/main/src/rfc...

New comment by schlarpc in "Heisting $20M of Magic: The Gathering Cards in a Single Request"

schlarpc — Fri, 05 May 2023 04:19:47 +0000

If anyone's interested in poking around a little bit more, here's a half-finished client for the MTG Arena wire protocol: https://gist.github.com/schlarpc/a58f2f647ee2a640baa62c23a51...

There may be something else more complete out there since I last worked on this, no idea.