Hacker News: voltagex_

New comment by voltagex_ in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

voltagex_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:27:22 +0000

Great idea, pity about the slop.

New comment by voltagex_ in "How to turn anything into a router"

voltagex_ — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:16:51 +0000

I am more curious that OpenWrt doesn't set these (demux) settings. It feels a bit like looking for advice on ZFS tuning and finding out 10 years later that what you were told was completely wrong.

New comment by voltagex_ in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

voltagex_ — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:11:01 +0000

When we need to archive GitHub when it shuts down, I wonder if I'll need to exclude 30 billion lines of slop.

New comment by voltagex_ in "Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD"

voltagex_ — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:56:09 +0000

Yeah just let me buy my coffee while travelling... waiting for confirmation... sorry still waiting. Shit, I missed my flight (who don't accept cryptocurrency)

New comment by voltagex_ in "Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?"

voltagex_ — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:41:03 +0000

$200-300 in Australia, so I'll just keep hoping emulation improves.

New comment by voltagex_ in "New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs"

voltagex_ — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:50:43 +0000

I dunno, software seems to be getting worse, hardware is getting more expensive and both Microsoft and Apple are distracted by AI, not to mention NVIDIA who seem to have bet the farm on Deus Ex Shovel

My Red Hot ADHD Programming 'Affliction'

voltagex_ — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 01:00:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneems.com/2024/11/21/my-red-hot-adhd-programming-affliction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241640

Points: 4

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New comment by voltagex_ in "Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis"

voltagex_ — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:32:12 +0000

lol. lmao even.

New comment by voltagex_ in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

voltagex_ — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:47:40 +0000

Those Linux systems that aren't getting updates must be the ones sending Mirai to my Linux systems, which are getting updates (and also Mirai, although it won't run because it's the wrong architecture).

No malware? Only if you have your head in the sand.

New comment by voltagex_ in "HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash"

voltagex_ — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:23:13 +0000

Why? With what proof? With what statistics?

New comment by voltagex_ in "HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash"

voltagex_ — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:21:20 +0000

Would you like to elaborate somewhat?

What other countries?

What problem?

New comment by voltagex_ in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

voltagex_ — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:36:25 +0000

I'll bite.

Official documentation from who? For which audience? For which use case?

Making a bootable image for what kind of system? My Ryzen PC needs a very different image to my aarch64 router.

Where have you not seen info on "installing a bootloader to a target disk"? This is what every distro installer does - this can range from putting a kernel in an EFI partition and setting a variable to building a uboot image and setting variables in NVRAM

Lastly, what do you class as a "decent installer process"? Things have moved on from Slackware's installer. You've got everything from the Debian installer (which hasn't changed much) to Anaconda (let's run the install UI in a browser) to Ubuntu Server (everything is a container!) and many things in between.

New comment by voltagex_ in "Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop"

voltagex_ — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 01:28:50 +0000

I think the protocols for those are reasonably well understood, but e.g. you can only print via USB from a Mac, Bluetooth was only on a phone AFAICR

New comment by voltagex_ in "DIY Wi-Fi thermostat from scratch with ESPHome and Home Assistant"

voltagex_ — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:41:26 +0000

You don't need the AI generated picture at the top of that article.

New comment by voltagex_ in "CitizenX: Invest in Citizenship"

voltagex_ — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:07:02 +0000

Ew.

New comment by voltagex_ in "Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?"

voltagex_ — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:33:56 +0000

ITT: people repeatedly making the same mistakes, misunderstanding archival and also ignoring glaring problems with converted output

New comment by voltagex_ in "Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?"

voltagex_ — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:27:55 +0000

With what command line?

Figuring out what to ask qemu to do (without libvirt!) is half the battle.

(Thanks though, I have something to play with tonight)

New comment by voltagex_ in "Proposed top-level domain string for private use: ".internal""

voltagex_ — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 11:40:28 +0000

What broke?

New comment by voltagex_ in "Czech republic sets IPv4 end date"

voltagex_ — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:38:11 +0000

Windows ping.exe supports both.

New comment by voltagex_ in "Czech republic sets IPv4 end date"

voltagex_ — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:37:37 +0000

I have had IPv6 on every ISP I have been on since at least 2012 (http://web.archive.org/web/20120217204742/https://www.intern...)

It's fine. The only breakages I've had are when the ISP's v4 DHCP goes down (v6 websites keep working) or when IPv6 delegation fails somehow and my machines lose v6 (v6 only stuff breaks).

Your mobile phone probably already uses IPv6 (especially if you use VoLTE) and it's fine, too.