Hacker News: utrack

New comment by utrack in "Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE"

utrack — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:15:53 +0000

does it support encrypted /boot though?

New comment by utrack in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

utrack — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:16:57 +0000

3575EUR seems like a steep price for a znver4 processor from 2023 to be honest.

New comment by utrack in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

utrack — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:41:34 +0000

If you accidentally skipped it, go to Preferences -> AI Controls -> toggle on Block AI Enhancements, it disables everything.

New comment by utrack in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

utrack — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:53:07 +0000

Is there a good alternative option for their reverse tunnels/ways to hide my real egress that'll also block the bots?

New comment by utrack in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

utrack — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:44:23 +0000

They block the whole of Cloudflare R2, I believe the Docker hub is just (heh) a collateral.

When the La Liga match starts, everything that's proxied via CF (including zero access reverse tunnels) stops working.

There's even a website made for checking if the match is on: https://hayahora.futbol/

You can check if your host is affected: https://hayahora.futbol/#comprobador&domain=docker-images-pr...

New comment by utrack in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

utrack — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:44:42 +0000

https://xkcd.com/2347/ , but with `fortune -a` and `cowsay` instead of imagemagick

New comment by utrack in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

utrack — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:22:32 +0000

I'm glad I can choose the level of formality. https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=peepee%20poopoo&text=...

New comment by utrack in "Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]"

utrack — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:24:43 +0000

It's important though that Mullvad doesn't do port forwarding; you won't be able to seed effectively

New comment by utrack in "Recall for Linux"

utrack — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:09:06 +0000

I don't see any results on KDE Wayland; a (fairly old) open issue: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall/issues/10

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New comment by utrack in "996"

utrack — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:53:00 +0000

Exactly - I felt like the real work happened only 11-12 and 15-18, and maaaybe some meetings 19-20. Everything else was a fluff.

New comment by utrack in "996"

utrack — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:00:04 +0000

Not a lot of people know, but the 996 in Alibaba included 2 hour long lunch and sleep break, as well as 1 hour for a dinner at 6 pm.

New comment by utrack in "Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email"

utrack — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:31:30 +0000

Yep - I put that rule at the bottom so that everything I want elsewhere is sorted by some preceding rule. That's how unfuck works too, though.

My ruleset looks like this now:

To: tix@domain -> to Tickets

To: travel@domain | Subject contains (tickets|billete) -> to Travel

(some specific mailing lists by sender) -> to Reads - those are the newsletters I want to read

From: *@(domains of banks I have) -> to Banks - obviously

From: *@linkedin.com -> to Linkedin; it's noisy but sometimes useful

Header list-unsubscribe exists -> to Ads

That's about it. I don't remember the last time something I didn't want reached my inbox, however I go to the ads and do a mass unsubscription every couple of months.

New comment by utrack in "Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email"

utrack — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:17:32 +0000

To be honest, that Fastmail filter filters out almost every ad in any language.

{ "conditions": [ { "lookHow": "exists", "lookHeader": "list-unsubscribe", "lookFor": "exists \"list-unsubscribe\"", "lookIn": "header" } ], ... }

New comment by utrack in "Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client"

utrack — Wed, 28 May 2025 14:24:25 +0000

Is there any way to subscribe to be notified when the Linux package becomes available?

New comment by utrack in "Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns"

utrack — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:46:56 +0000

Jfyi, I'm doing exactly this (and more) in a platform library; it covers the issues I've encountered during the last 8+ years I've been working with Go highload apps. During this time developing/improving the platform and rolling was a hobby of mine in every company :)

It (will) cover the stuff like "sync the logs"/"wait for ingresses to catch up with the liveness handler"/etc.

https://github.com/utrack/caisson-go/blob/main/caiapp/caiapp...

https://github.com/utrack/caisson-go/tree/main/closer

The docs are sparse and some things aren't covered yet; however I'm planning to do the first release once I'm back from a holiday.

In the end, this will be a meta-platform (carefully crafted building blocks), and a reference platform library, covering a typical k8s/otel/grpc+http infrastructure.

New comment by utrack in "Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows"

utrack — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:41:21 +0000

https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX looks promising - I'm hacking away on an always-on transcriber for my notes for later search&recall. It has support for diarization (the speaker detection you're looking for).

I'm currently hacking away on a mix of https://github.com/speaches-ai/speaches + https://github.com/ufal/whisper_streaming though - mostly because my laptop doesn't have a decent GPU, I stream the audio to a home server instead.

But overall it's pretty simple to do after you wrangle the Python dependencies - all you need is a sink for the text files (for example, create a new file for every Teams meeting, but that's another story...)

New comment by utrack in "Android's theft protection features"

utrack — Thu, 16 May 2024 10:21:37 +0000

I mean, rubber-hose cryptoanalysis is still the easiest attack vector, but root exploit releases are frequent enough to be a valid concern :)

New comment by utrack in "Android's theft protection features"

utrack — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:09:57 +0000

It sounds great, but they could also block the settings' switches in the pull-down drawer first...

As far as I understand, this whole Find My/Remote Lock stuff will stop working when the thief pulls the bar down and activates the Airplane mode. Then all the data is one vulnerability away from being accessed.

This is the case on Google Pixel 8 Pro and it's been there for ages; I assume it's the same for other vendors.

New comment by utrack in "Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go"

utrack — Wed, 01 May 2024 12:32:47 +0000

IMHO it's not about the standards in your company, it's more about being able to parse any random library on GitHub etc with your eyeballs.

New comment by utrack in "XZ: Repo maintainer Lasse Collin responding on LKML"

utrack — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:50:10 +0000

I won't say it's the worst one (assuming the attacker's private key is not public), just one of the most interesting ones in regards to the social engineering, pressure applied, code hidden in the test files etc.

I would say it's definitely the most interesting one we know about so far :)