Hacker News: wildylion

New comment by wildylion in "Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time"

wildylion — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:35 +0000

Storm troopers, but not the kind you'd expect.

New comment by wildylion in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

wildylion — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:28:12 +0000

Only if it's Australia.

New comment by wildylion in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

wildylion — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:05:00 +0000

Try to get a middle hop somewhere at a russian datacenter. Sometimes these have DPI censorship boxes disabled (?) -- I know one that lets me forward simple Wireguard from mobile routers to a EU server with a few SNAT/DNAT rules, even though ordinarily that would get blocked at first sight.

(Sadly, it's just Mikrotik gear that can't use any fancy censorship evasion protocols).

New comment by wildylion in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

wildylion — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:01:43 +0000

That'll eventually get detected and put a massive target on the back of anybody dumb enough to use it. Sorry to burst your bubble.

New comment by wildylion in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

wildylion — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:00:18 +0000

This is the literal job of state security. Besides, most of those $#@$###s get in not by pretending they've been persecuted, but simply because they already have deep cover and hold passports of other countries.

And I sincerely hope that you will never have to know what it's like to flee your own country, first hand. Peace.

New comment by wildylion in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

wildylion — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:56:12 +0000

Fuck you. I have many people here (many of them queer) who had to leave everything and become forced emigres or asylum seekers.

Have a bit of compassion, would ya?

My childhood crush is in Ukraine (I mean, he's Ukrainian), my dear friend (Ukrainian) had to leave everything and seek refuge in NL. My friends (Russian) are under a constant threat of getting imprisoned for 10+ years because they still help support queer and trans people in Russia.

Compared to them I feel very privileged, because I was able to GTFO on my own. But if you think that all Russian citizens must be deported, you're either a troll or a madman. Besides, this is exactly what, for example, Stalin did to Chechens, or think about what the USA did to the Japanese.

Did it help someone? No. Did it ruin millions of lives? You fucking guess.

upd: made it all clearer, and sorry for all the profanity

New comment by wildylion in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

wildylion — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:51:26 +0000

I'm considering even creating a dial-up (yes, V.34 modem!) line somewhere near to Russia, to offer a side channel with text browsing, news, IRC and email. For when things get really, really bad (they will ...)

Before you ask: yes, dialup works on modern networks if the codec is G.711 (uncompressed). Most public phone network is this way because fax is a thing, but some bulk carriers or some enterprises use compressed codecs.

New comment by wildylion in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

wildylion — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:51:49 +0000

Side question, but what happens if there's a technical error with the service provider that leads to double spending?

Example: we bought tickets worth 300 EUR from Deutsche Bahn, they were hit by a DDoS and couldn't complete the transaction.

We got charged *twice* (i.e. 600 EUR and not refunded yet. AND no tickets!!!

Now they claim all they can do is to give us 600 EUR in vouchers (that are not even transferrable).

Would a Chargeback work in this case?

And my friend (who's ordered the tickets) has a very traditional bank that only gives a statement monthly, and probably accepts claims on every 29 of February, between 7 and 8 AM and only by fax (IYKYK those German companies...)

New comment by wildylion in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

wildylion — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:41:52 +0000

> and send them electric impulses in their sleep. So, it's like Lovense, but for dreams?

Sorry, I know it's horrible, but I couldn't resist.

New comment by wildylion in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

wildylion — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:44:54 +0000

There actually should be a push for an EU-wide legislation banning this kind of silent, precise location data collection. If anything, Germany is obsessed with Datenschutz but in many cases it's just laughable security theater.

New comment by wildylion in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

wildylion — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:53:23 +0000

Maybe get some Star link if you can... (Cringe worthy because of some musky husky guy, but at least it works for now).

New comment by wildylion in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

wildylion — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:48:15 +0000

I'm so afraid that my landlord (a big company) will use ANY excuse to rob me of my deposit when I move out... lol, even though I'm a member of Mieterverein.

The same landlord whose workers outright forgot to install the water heater in the kitchen the day I got the flat, and __painted shut__ the bathroom window. LMAO.

Though I can only second this -- use transparent fiber and be creative in where you route it -- and nobody will be able to tell you did something 'naughty' in your rental.

New comment by wildylion in "Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?"

wildylion — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:10:14 +0000

Get a dial up line into Europe. Maybe somebody like MiCT could help with setting up a modem pool.

33kbps is enough to get on IRC and spread the news.

New comment by wildylion in "Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global"

wildylion — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:54:27 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.ph/pTp0A

New comment by wildylion in "Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos from Going Global"

wildylion — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:53:56 +0000

Learn from the Ukrainians: to avoid jamming, the Dishy can be buried in a narrow trench so that only the sky is visible and it's not radiating outwards.

New comment by wildylion in "If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?"

wildylion — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:10:26 +0000

Then why aren't we totally losing it when immersed in incredibly powerful magnetic fields inside an MRI machine? I'm pretty sure, that 1.5-3T field will totally down ANY useful signal.

New comment by wildylion in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

wildylion — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:14:31 +0000

Fuck yes. Our 2022 Latitude 5420s have the worst lithium ever -- and Dell is actually offering to get you good batteries for twice the price, as an 'extended service life battery'.

This, and literally all of them have paint chipping off the chassis at the slightest provocation. I have like 50 at work.

edit: we have now a mix of MacBook Airs/Pros (most of workforce), Frameworks (specialized tech roles running Linux and resource-intensive software) and HP ProBooks (run-of-the-mill Windows machines, or just where you don't need anything special at all).

New comment by wildylion in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

wildylion — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:59:57 +0000

And these mofos complied to the request to block VPN apps on iPhones in Russia. Think about companies that cooperated with the Nazis.

New comment by wildylion in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

wildylion — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:57:20 +0000

Might be. If the reactor was recently defueled, especially, might there be more junk floating in the water?

If said junk was alpha- or beta-emitting, it could be enough of a danger for cancer.

New comment by wildylion in "Starcloud"

wildylion — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:31:01 +0000

Oh, cool... I have only one question (that is not cool at all): how are they about to exhaust 5GW of waste heat?