Hacker News: tomega2134

New comment by tomega2134 in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

tomega2134 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:17:33 +0000

Is this EU protocol so weak that it cannot withstand this attack, i.e. is duplicate age certificate use not detected or prevented?

New comment by tomega2134 in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

tomega2134 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:52:51 +0000

I wish this were somehow tagged with AI, so I would know that it's not about say, general computing or cost-efficiency (e.g. using an old xeon machine from ebay instead of new, in these cost-conscious times.)

As it is, the title is click-bait for me, as 1) it says I need at least a Xeon somehow and 2) as it doesn't say what I actually need it for.

New comment by tomega2134 in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

tomega2134 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:38:17 +0000

ZFS boot+root on Linux is amazing as well. It's kind of sad to see Linux Mint has moved away from supporting this in their installer, but it probably could still be done manually I guess. After upgrade, if something goes wrong? zfs rollback both to a snapshot made just before the upgrade and reboot.

I don't use freebsd full time, only in a VM, but all these things sound positive to me.

New comment by tomega2134 in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

tomega2134 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:38:16 +0000

It completely blew up for me as well (unbootable) during an update that included the linux-firmware package split from earlier this year. Fortunately this occurred during a testing period in a VM.