Hacker News: schlarpc

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.

New comment by schlarpc in "So this guy is now S3. All of S3"

schlarpc — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:46:57 +0000

Just created it yesterday. I don't think there's as much incentive to squat on the S3 namespace like there is for domain names.

New comment by schlarpc in "AWS Support able to access any S3 object due to permission change"

schlarpc — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:34:48 +0000

Kinesis Firehose uses an IAM role to deliver data, so delivery within the same account does not necessarily depend on permissions on the bucket. Removing s3:* permissions from that IAM role or adding an explicit deny statement to the bucket policy would stop the flow of data.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/controlling-...

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_p...

New comment by schlarpc in "Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite"

schlarpc — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:43:44 +0000

The Chrome update only bumped to 3.25.3, so it's likely a commit between 3.24.0 and 3.25.3:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/c368e30ae55...

New comment by schlarpc in "Molten: A modern Python (3.6+) web framework"

schlarpc — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:56:34 +0000

In Python 3, all classes are "new style", so omitting the parent is the same as inheriting from `object`.

New comment by schlarpc in "The MacBook Air: A Decade’s Worth of Legacy"

schlarpc — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:48:01 +0000

There's a couple recent products that hit similar niches:

GPD Pocket: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-lapto...

GPD Win 2: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-win-2-handheld-game-c...

Ockel Sirius A: https://www.ockelcomputers.com/sirius-a/

I have the original GPD Win, and it's a surprisingly competent PC for being roughly the size of a Nintendo 3DS XL. The keyboard is terrible for typing on, but that's kind of expected with its gaming focus.

New comment by schlarpc in "AWS Lambda Releases Go Support"

schlarpc — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:21:56 +0000

Looks like the "Go support" is just running a precompiled binary that starts a TCP listener (https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/blob/master/lambda/entr...), so might not be that hard to port...

New comment by schlarpc in "Show HN: An API to provision custom hostnames with SSL"

schlarpc — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:07:10 +0000

And when you use a role like this, you really should use an external ID to avoid confused deputy attacks.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_cre...