Hacker News: shishcat

New comment by shishcat in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

shishcat — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:44:50 +0000

To approve domain name registration requests, supporting documentation must include a Notarized Letter of Approval from the requesting Locality signed

says this if you try to get it from localitymanagement.us

New comment by shishcat in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

shishcat — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:27:21 +0000

The .io tld is going through rough times :pensive:

New comment by shishcat in "You can just tell codex to port the codex app to Linux (and it works apparently)"

shishcat — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:58:27 +0000

https://github.com/aidanqm/Codex-Windows

Windows script

New comment by shishcat in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

shishcat — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:08:25 +0000

how much latency would a minecraft server in space have?

New comment by shishcat in "Bye Bye Gmail"

shishcat — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:46:38 +0000

The issue tracker seems kinda dead... for the rest, it's a good provider

New comment by shishcat in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

shishcat — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:51:19 +0000

I agree with this dicussion, AI should be used for improving, researching, and as he says, do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries. BUT IT'S SATYA NADELLA SAYING IT! The person whose company owns Copilot, Copilot in Bing, Copilot for Word, Copilot for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain...

With all this useless slop, he’s literally arguing against his own point.

New comment by shishcat in "“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran"

shishcat — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:58:54 +0000

This behavior only works when the reverse proxy or CDN is configured like this:

Proxy/CDN: HTTPS (443) → Origin server: plain HTTP (80)

(example: Cloudflare in Flexible mode)

If the origin server uses any proper TLS configuration, even a self-signed certificate, this method stops working. It only succeeds when the upstream connection to the origin is unsecured.

If you want to test this on a random site without Cloudflare or reverse proxy in general on HTTP: curl http://www.digiboy.ir/boobs.jpg -v

New comment by shishcat in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

shishcat — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:00:15 +0000

Who?

New comment by shishcat in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

shishcat — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:21:58 +0000

Don't you have cloud architects and similiar figures already?

New comment by shishcat in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

shishcat — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:36:27 +0000

if it follows redirect, redirct him to a 10gb gzip bomb

New comment by shishcat in "Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules"

shishcat — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:40:24 +0000

Me when i can't use my phone in a bus because some fucker decided to block it's functionality when moving

New comment by shishcat in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

shishcat — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:16:25 +0000

This will waste your bandwidth and resources too

New comment by shishcat in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

shishcat — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:31:57 +0000

I have good reasons to believe this is hosted on Oracle's free tier. Apart from the fact that pinging pico.sh points to an Oracle IP, the 10TB limit is consistent with Oracle Free Tier's limit.

New comment by shishcat in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

shishcat — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:29:02 +0000

you can easily find entire VMs for 2€/month on sites like LES

New comment by shishcat in "WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being enshitified"

shishcat — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:28:43 +0000

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New comment by shishcat in "Fail2ban Sucks (2020)"

shishcat — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:13:54 +0000

I remember having a friend with an extemely sluggish server. Turns out the reason behind this sluggishness was that he set a permanent fail2ban bantime, which added thousands of records to iptabes; any packet, even not SSH, the server had to check the source IP against thousands of records. After purging the rules and switching the bantime the server was usable again.

New comment by shishcat in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

shishcat — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:44:01 +0000

60€ a month (tplink smart plug, calculated on the cost per kwh and other taxes). I try to pay most of it myself with money from side projects

New comment by shishcat in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

shishcat — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:39:40 +0000

I know, my smart plug reports around 60€ a month of costs. Most of it comes from the massive amount of hard drives, I try to pay most of it myself with money from side projects. Anyway, I couldn't find rentable dedicated servers with this much storage for less than 50€ a month, the upfront costs of new, energy efficient and powerful hardware is too much, and I truly enjoy running these servers myself.

About the noise, my room has a small mechanical room and that's where the servers are located, the noise can't be heard from the rest of the room.

New comment by shishcat in "Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms"

shishcat — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:35:23 +0000

I'm a 16 year old with a small homelab too :)

I used to have all of my services on cloud but since I got a 1G/1G home network and I found businesses decommissioning hardware and deals on local charity shops which source hardware from the landfill and give profits to charity missions, I decided to give it a go and try administering my own phisical servers. Currently running proxmox on 2 machines with one NAS and 14 spinning disks, with some Minecraft servers, personal programming projects, vulnerability scanners, telegram bots, VPSes for friends, android and MacOS building VMs, storage, some ML school projects with the recently added 1050ti, and hosting the infrastructure for my school CTF competition.

(Italy btw)