Hacker News: tryauuum

New comment by tryauuum in "WTF Ubuntu?"

tryauuum — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:47:58 +0000

Canonical isn't a publicly traded company

New comment by tryauuum in "Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)"

tryauuum — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:25:29 +0000

supposedly because USSR didn't care much about most of the students, they wrote hardcore books such that a talented student in a remote village will get the knowledge and contribute to building rockets in the future. No one cared for the remaining 99.9 percent of students and their pointless struggles

New comment by tryauuum in "US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves"

tryauuum — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:02:42 +0000

Sometimes it is eerie. I remember in 2021 there was a new standard for creating mass graves published, to come into full power on 2022-02-01.

https://meduza.io/news/2021/12/21/v-mchs-razrabotali-standar...

New comment by tryauuum in "Claude users say they were banned after showing Russian passports"

tryauuum — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:11:28 +0000

New comment by tryauuum in "Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2"

tryauuum — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:51:01 +0000

I don't expect my machine to reboot unattended. I immediately imagine the government prying it from my hands, booting it and then searching for vulnerabilities in lightdm / dumping the RAM (just checked and I have a line "TSME enabled" in kernel logs so dumping data from the memory sticks probably will be useless)

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I've never thought much about secure unattended reboots, thank you for suggesting

New comment by tryauuum in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

tryauuum — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:42:20 +0000

as long as it's not the government who is doing the censorship / content moderation then I'm OK

since the government is too powerful and can enforce its ideas with legal violence

New comment by tryauuum in "Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2"

tryauuum — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:06:37 +0000

I always struggle to understand the point of using disk encryption with TPM, as opposed to the disk encryption with LUKS + passphrase which you remember

With TPM you depend on it so much. What if it breaks? Should I backup the recovery key beforehand? My life has enough keys already Moving the disk to a new laptop also becomes pain

New comment by tryauuum in "OpenDE: Play Deus Ex 1999 demo in the browser"

tryauuum — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:03:46 +0000

man! I love the instant mouse movements in unreal 1 games

maybe my PC just sucks but it feels in modern games your mouse movements go via so many abstractions and it feels like your movement is constrained by some liquid

New comment by tryauuum in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

tryauuum — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:05:34 +0000

I used to run this https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet

New comment by tryauuum in "Postgres isn't slow your storage is"

tryauuum — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:55:55 +0000

yes, writing data to a local disk is faster than sending bytes over a network to your (redundant and replicated) network attached storage

New comment by tryauuum in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

tryauuum — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:02:50 +0000

run your own dht crawler

New comment by tryauuum in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

tryauuum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:42:12 +0000

man if you organize a group which can assemble in public like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees_of_correspondence#/... in Russia, you won't be coming home tonight

New comment by tryauuum in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

tryauuum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:56:11 +0000

Americans are so naive about the "turn on their motherland" part. It's not really a reply to you, I just remembered some american whom I met and he was treating us as kids, saying things as "alone you are weak but together you are strong!"

yes if you could magically organize 10_000 people they could overthrow anyone. But organizing is hard. Starting from a fact that they need some secure comminution channel, and the government fights VPN quite actively. How would you reach these potential people? You could do sort of broadcast a public message "if you don't like tsar let's take a walk tomorrow" but this signal would also be received by the police, so they can prepare. And we don't have the beautiful gun ownership culture of America.

And if you do something alone you just perish in prison.

New comment by tryauuum in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

tryauuum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:37:20 +0000

great question, I don't have a good answer. supposedly there are modern gpus in Russia, here you can rent a H200 (a GPU which was released after the war had started) https://selectel.ru/services/dedicated/hgx-h200/

But how many of them exist and how easy is to replace, I have no idea

New comment by tryauuum in "The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview"

tryauuum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:59:17 +0000

why are you mentioning roce and ml training? These are cpu-only machines with 10 Gbit uplinks shared between every virtual machine. I'm not super familiar with the helmet offering, but last time I checked their GPU servers were baremetal

Maybe calling the setup "suboptimal" is incorrect and it is optimal given their fleet and customers

New comment by tryauuum in "The Hetzner Cloud network stack – history and technical overview"

tryauuum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:54:19 +0000

a river crab? Is this a joke related to the chinese great firewall?

New comment by tryauuum in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tryauuum — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:28:23 +0000

- dht network crawler, to have your own index of torrents

- vpn exit node

- personal email server

New comment by tryauuum in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

tryauuum — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:44:42 +0000

it's a part of internet. To properly block it, you need to block it on the IP level

New comment by tryauuum in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

tryauuum — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:27:04 +0000

It feels like your treat the facebook as some common good, and censorship made by it thus preposterous, something which should be punished

But it's a multimillion dollar corporation in a foreign country, to me the idea they owe you something is strange

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Governments are still more powerful than corporations, this is why I am more afraid of the censorship of the internet by governments than of it by corporations

New comment by tryauuum in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

tryauuum — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:19:16 +0000

how do you block access to it without going to TCP/IP level? And when governments do that, everything goes to shit