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New comment by walrus01 in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

walrus01 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:45:03 +0000

The ISO 51200 would certainly explain the grain when viewing the image at 1:1 scale.

New comment by walrus01 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

walrus01 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:21:28 +0000

This is what happens when you have some sort of top-down directive from the C-level people to put "AI" in everything, and dozens of department/project managers who all have their own fiefdoms

New comment by walrus01 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

walrus01 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:14:36 +0000

No you are not crazy. It's silly to try to use a raspberry pi 5 16GB (or equivalent priced product) as a desktop workstation with a GUI on it when much better actual x86-64 based workstations exist. Ones with real amounts of PCI-E lanes of I/O, NVME SSD interfaces on motherboard, multiple SATA3 interfaces on motherboard, etc. In very small form factors same as you'd see in any $bigcorp office cubicle.

New comment by walrus01 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

walrus01 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:11:28 +0000

Unless you're really using the GPIO pins or other weird I/O, I really fail to see the purpose in having an 8GB or 16GB RAM Raspberry Pi (at a much higher price than it used to be) as a desktop workstation with a GUI on it.

The idea of putting sixteen gigs of RAM in a raspberry pi is nuts. The legit thing you want to use a raspberry pi (or a competitor) for as an embedded headless thing with no KB/mouse/display attached should run fine in 2GB of RAM or less, assuming an ordinary debian-based OS environment.

I would much rather have a used, ex-corporate/ex-lease, small form factor or ultra small form factor x86-64 desktop PC (Dell, HP, Lenovo, whatever) with 16GB of RAM in it and an SSD on a SATA3 or NVME interface. Whatever is the "best" SFF that you can buy via huge eBay used equipment dealers on any given month.

Despite being many years old, whatever you can buy on ebay for 200 bucks (at least before the recent RAM fiasco) with some recent-ish quad core core i5/i7 or Ryzen in it will run circles around a raspberry pi 5.

Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours

walrus01 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:21:51 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115866066884567356

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558794

Points: 64

# Comments: 11

New comment by walrus01 in "IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware"

walrus01 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:54:04 +0000

Would be more amusing if Microsoft resurrected the "Bob" name for something AI.

New comment by walrus01 in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

walrus01 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:10:07 +0000

Your math is far off. If you put 60kW (STC rating) of PV panels as quantity 100 of 600W premium panels on top, in Uruguay, it'll produce somewhere between 6800 to 8100 kWh per month if the panels are perfectly exposed to sun from sunrise to sunset.

If we say it's 7500kWh a month that's something like 250 kWh of production per day, which is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the amount of energy needed to charge the ferry.

New comment by walrus01 in "Tell HN: HN was down"

walrus01 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:41:41 +0000

Just out of curiosity, if HN is still running on one physical system, what does a daily or weekly traffic chart look like for the switch port facing it?

New comment by walrus01 in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

walrus01 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:10:30 +0000

> Many banks and government websites don’t even support it

Because their web developers are too lazy to write anything to proper standards. They're doing some kind of lazy "Check for Chrome, because everyone must be running that, if not, redirect to an Unsupported page".

I've yet to find a website that "refuses" to work in Firefox which doesn't work just fine when I use a user agent switching extension to present a standard Chrome on MacOS or Chrome on Windows useragent.

New comment by walrus01 in "GPT Image 1.5"

walrus01 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:54:47 +0000

I've already seen images on the MLS uploaded by real estate agents that look like this is the same concept as what they've been doing, generally, to bait people into coming and touring houses.

New comment by walrus01 in "I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop"

walrus01 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:56:00 +0000

Grace Hopper is the Nvidia product code name for the chip, much like how Intel cpus were named after rivers, etc

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&q=grace%20h...

New comment by walrus01 in "Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]"

walrus01 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:04:22 +0000

It's worth mentioning that the 'culture' you describe is also something that significantly aided and abetted various real estate scams and bubble related activity. Vancouver has all sort of shady shit going on in real estate.

New comment by walrus01 in "Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev"

walrus01 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:52:19 +0000

I was hoping for a full text dump of the SMART data from the drives.

New comment by walrus01 in "Afghanistan in total Internet blackout caused by Taliban"

walrus01 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:41:55 +0000

Everything except independent two way satellite (geostationary VSAT, Oneweb, O3B, Starlink, and Iridium). Which is very costly and rare for regular people to use, and requires a foreign method of USD/CAD/EUR/GBP billing.

Afghanistan in total Internet blackout caused by Taliban

walrus01 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115288230006300457

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419111

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by walrus01 in "When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail""

walrus01 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:16:24 +0000

What happens if your last name is Cummings and your home address is in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England?

Or perhaps in the quaint fishing town of Dildo, Newfoundland.

New comment by walrus01 in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

walrus01 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:34:40 +0000

Yes, there's already Ukrainian fpv flown quadcopters which are optimized to intercept, as a munition, common flying wing camera surveillance platforms. I've seen probably 20 or 30 different videos now taken from the view of the quadcopter, with detonator contact wires sticking out the front, diving into the rear of a large Russian flying wing UAV.

New comment by walrus01 in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

walrus01 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:25:23 +0000

> How do improvised bases offer protection, especially in a world where radar on satellites sees through clouds and certain vegetation?

If operating from an airfield that has been improvised out of a straight stretch of highway, the grouping of vehicles that contain all of the necessary ground support equipment and munitions resupply can be disguised to resemble an ordinary civilian cargo box truck, or tractor trailer combo.

Unless the attacking force is willing to begin with the resources needed, and repercussions of airstriking everything that looks like a civilian cargo truck moving in the region, it would be extremely difficult to eliminate the group of vehicle and men that compromise the ground support equipment element. Particularly when you might have multiple groups of such roaming randomly around an area.

New comment by walrus01 in "American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms"

walrus01 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:32:27 +0000

From an infosec perspective here part of the problem is the many employers' corporation policy on work from home laptops. These laptops were either rigged with one of two things:

A) remote desktop software such as anydesk

B) a kvm over IP device providing a virtual video, keyboard and mouse session to a remote user over html5/tls1.3

If it's option (b), unless this laptop farm operator had in their possession some special DPRK provided unit that identifies its USB manufacturer ID and device ID as something innocuous, this is a problem.

People are not using sufficiently tight endpoint security policies and logging to identify USB devices that identify themselves as kvm over IP bridges. Or just permit listing a certain set of allowed external USB keyboards and mice (company provided).

New comment by walrus01 in "A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns"

walrus01 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:10:16 +0000

> I wish this article went into more details on what the "National Information Network" is.

It's AS12880, the state owned telecom company which all ISPs are obligated to be downstream of. It operates Iran's international links to other global scale ISPs via Turkey and other paths.

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/12880

https://bgp.he.net/AS12880

And its also government run counterpart, the "TIC"

https://bgp.he.net/AS49666#_asinfo

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=AS12880+i...