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New comment by waz0wski in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

waz0wski — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:59:15 +0000

That's the direction container runtimes are trending

Amazon has been doing it with Firecracker for a while and Kata containers is another popular one

https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

New comment by waz0wski in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

waz0wski — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:54:19 +0000

What a surprise, a brand new account that seems to only spew negativity and false information. Reddit might be more your style ;)

New comment by waz0wski in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

waz0wski — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:32:11 +0000

I just replaced a 2009 MacPro

It had many hardware upgrades over the years - upgraded CPUs, 128GB RAM, 4TB NVME storage, a modern AMD GPU, USB3/c, thunderbolt, etc

The only reason it got replaced is because it became too much of a PITA to keep modern OSX running on it (via OCLP)

Replaced with an M4 Max Mac Studio, which is a nice and faster machine but with no ability to upgrade anything and much worse hardware resale value on M-series I'll have to replace it in 2-3 years

New comment by waz0wski in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

waz0wski — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:16:43 +0000

Yes you can still update to 15.7.3 the usual way in Settings

It'll present you the Tahoe upgrade but underneath in small print it'll show other updates, which you have to then open and manually select the 15.7.3 update

And you really should keep up on the point updates because there's been a ton of major security patches since 15.4

New comment by waz0wski in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

waz0wski — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:57:50 +0000

What you call scaling up sounds more like monetization. Others (especially customers) might call it enshittification instead. Youtube is a great example of how bad it can get.

Why Mozilla won't let people financially contribute directly to Firefox development and continues to pursue these stupid monetization paths is a mystery.

New comment by waz0wski in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

waz0wski — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:07:37 +0000

HN hasn't focused on those topics in a long time, they rarely are on the front page. Skip the top 20 articles and you'll start to see some interesting content instead of all the VC & AI drivel.

Hackaday is a content aggregator site that usually has more content on these topics - https://hackaday.com

Or there are still some good old blogs out there with RSS feeds http://www.righto.com/ http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/ https://blog.ret2.io/

New comment by waz0wski in "Why use mailing lists?"

waz0wski — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:20:08 +0000

Possibly the most common open source mailing list software, mailman, has had configuration options to address both email address and header exposure for at least 15 years

At least with email, you're in control of what shows up in your inbox as well as message routing with filters of your choice

New comment by waz0wski in "macOS Tahoe"

waz0wski — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:41:04 +0000

Interesting to see this utilizes kata-containers project alongside virtualization.framework. Cool project.

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/

New comment by waz0wski in "How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?"

waz0wski — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:43:24 +0000

I keep a SPARCStation 20 around for some nostalgia

NetBSD still supports it, and a wide variety of other SPARC systems https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/

New comment by waz0wski in "Magic Lantern Is Back"

waz0wski — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:30:54 +0000

Agreed

cries in .x3f & Sigma Photo Pro

New comment by waz0wski in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

waz0wski — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:51:35 +0000

The gaming isn't quite like CS, more 'tactical' oriented, but the modding scene is good - Ground Branch

New comment by waz0wski in "4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

waz0wski — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:17:48 +0000

It's worse than that - SLS siply can't do what it was supposed to on paper even after 10's of billions, resulting in the secondary boondoggle of the Lunar Gateway which will waste billions more and still fail to achieve lunar-relevant

New comment by waz0wski in "Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments"

waz0wski — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 14:56:10 +0000

> can someone outside of NASA send requests to Voyager to change its code?

Unless you've got your own very-very high power transmitters and large dishes, you're not communicating with either Voyager satellite

"Newer" science & research satellites from the late 2000s onward do support a variety of encryption in transit and authentication from the ground stations

New comment by waz0wski in "iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes"

waz0wski — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:20:18 +0000

Surely the corporation that built the on-device scanning and recognition that runs on your opaque little computer box to find pictures of your dog wouldn't lie or "accidentally" keep the csam scanning running on the device too?

And certainly the corporation couldn't be be coerced by the government that's built the largest surveillance apparatus in human history to keep the csam feature running on billions of devices?

Yes, the corporation can be trusted.

New comment by waz0wski in "FreeBSD Jails Containers"

waz0wski — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:01:28 +0000

Depends on your workloads and needs. It's not as mature as k8s and there are rough edges but if you're into the Hashicorp ecosystem and can run your workloads in FreeBSD jails it's pretty slick - think golang & rust apps, web, gaming servers, etc

New comment by waz0wski in "FreeBSD Jails Containers"

waz0wski — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:56:26 +0000

A couple of tools which are both working on jail management & packaging

- bastille https://bastillebsd.org

- pot https://potluck.honeyguide.net

bastille is great for personal and small setups, pot is aimed at larger scale and meant to be used along with hashicorp nomad+consul

New comment by waz0wski in "Mycelite: SQLite extension to synchronize changes across SQLite instances"

waz0wski — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:01:32 +0000

At this point, why not switch to using a real database like mariadb or postgresql? These days you don't even have to run it yourself, every cloud provider offers it as a service and can handle backups, patching, replication for you

New comment by waz0wski in "AWS us-east-1 down"

waz0wski — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:29:31 +0000

the last big us-east-1 outage was ... DNS - and it's usually DNS or software-defined core networking causing these cascading failures

Loss of DNS causes inter-service api calls to fail, then IAM and all other services fail. Anything not built to handle those situations with backoff causes a 'stampeding herd' of failure/retry and exacerbate the outage

Review the AWS statements about outages here - https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/

New comment by waz0wski in "OpenWRT 22.03.4"

waz0wski — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:11:44 +0000

OpenWRT runs on some Ubiquiti hardware, check their compatibility list

New comment by waz0wski in "Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%"

waz0wski — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:46:08 +0000

Or stop using the crap YT frontent entirely - https://yewtu.be

Run your own alternate frontend - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious