Hacker News: sulandor

New comment by sulandor in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

sulandor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:06:33 +0000

It's a somewhat preoccupied and privileged pov.

There absolutely are 10h+ workdays in europe where ppl are not treated well.

New comment by sulandor in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

sulandor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:58:03 +0000

tbf there are reasonably priced bare metal hosting providers that don't have maintenance or other regular outages.

New comment by sulandor in "Download responsibly"

sulandor — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:48:59 +0000

bittorrent will make best use of what bandwidth is available. better think of it as a dynamic cdn which can seamlessly incorporate static cdn-nodes (see webseed).

it could surely be made to care for topology but imho handing that problem to congestion control and routing mechanisms in lower levels works good enough and should not be a problem.

New comment by sulandor in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

sulandor — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:40:04 +0000

although e2ee does raise the cost for an attacker, the perceived gain in trustworthiness of the system is unjustified

New comment by sulandor in "iPhone dumbphone"

sulandor — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:51:25 +0000

suggestion to install apps in a detox thread

New comment by sulandor in "How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook"

sulandor — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:09:20 +0000

sounds like the primary goal was better attestation

New comment by sulandor in "How to make metals from Martian dirt"

sulandor — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:45:06 +0000

lack of touching grass seems to be a prohibitive factor; besides the radiation

New comment by sulandor in "The AI vibe shift is upon us"

sulandor — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:18:41 +0000

the 'novelty of the ways' is usually not nearly as much a factor in adoption than if said change would contribute to the amassing of revenue.

New comment by sulandor in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

sulandor — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:17:56 +0000

maybe $author has contact information or even a donate button up somewhere

New comment by sulandor in "Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy"

sulandor — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:46:03 +0000

exit node is not really a colo.

though there are commercial residential-proxy services available

New comment by sulandor in "How to Firefox"

sulandor — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:48:18 +0000

> Firefox natively supports sidebar tabs now without needing hacky extensions

glad you mentioned it!

edge and opera do too

New comment by sulandor in "Be Aware of the Makefile Effect"

sulandor — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:30:54 +0000

well done, replying to continue a great thread

New comment by sulandor in "How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends"

sulandor — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:51:11 +0000

maybe spacebar heating is a reasonable requirement after all and the joke was just that it's easy to get it wrong

New comment by sulandor in "AWS data center latencies, visualized"

sulandor — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:32:26 +0000

ping is synonymous with echo-request, which is largely transport agnostic.

but you're right

New comment by sulandor in "How do merging supermassive black holes pass the final parsec?"

sulandor — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:29:47 +0000

supposedly not besides being a good shibboleth

New comment by sulandor in "How DRAM changed the world"

sulandor — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:18:36 +0000

can relate

though i guess the 90's are _the_ best tech era by far and for some time to come, because that's where capable and modular computing machines became a real commodity.

New comment by sulandor in "Leveraging Class E address space to mitigate IPv4 exhaustion issues in GKE"

sulandor — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:57:36 +0000

amazon (among others) is doing this for some time

rfc's have been written and forgotten, please calm down

New comment by sulandor in "One Square Minesweeper"

sulandor — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:42:52 +0000

probably also depends on the kind of flag

New comment by sulandor in "Captive Portal IPv6 Support"

sulandor — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:35:12 +0000

politics still clinging to the idea of identifying ppl by obvious traffic meta-data

New comment by sulandor in "Captive Portal IPv6 Support"

sulandor — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 06:30:22 +0000

seems easy to confuse % of plans with % of ppl. probably a lot of obscure use-cases in there