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New comment by z3ratul163071 in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

z3ratul163071 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:25:51 +0000

It is not stupid. Your stated principle assumes the exposed OpenSSH server does not have pre-auth 0-days. Having open 22 exposes a lot of information about the machine already, not to mention possible banners. The mentioned method is an elegant solution to both risks.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

z3ratul163071 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:29:13 +0000

didn't that end with the cgi era? what is going on :)

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

z3ratul163071 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:46:57 +0000

is this for microservice scenarios where you gate access to the psql server through a connection pool thing? because if there is monolithic backend this is not needed. most decent backend frameworks have built-in connection pooling. that covers 98% of use cases for which microservices are not needed, nor recommended.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:31:52 +0000

> there's no shadowy cabal that materializes these laws out of thin air

that's really cute

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "GPT‑Live"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:33:16 +0000

I did a simar thing a while back... voice interface for Hermes with Kokoro and Qwen ASR.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:42:08 +0000

how exactly were the vaccines effective, if every single person i know who got them got covid?

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

z3ratul163071 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:17:42 +0000

this company is doing amazing things with their products

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

z3ratul163071 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:35:41 +0000

what a stupid thing to do. actually i did not have high expectations from them anyway.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Linux 7.1"

z3ratul163071 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:14:36 +0000

what about your carbon footprint

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:11:17 +0000

likewise. i'm bewildered throughout the years.

my suspicion is that it is the company culture: the hardware engineers are the real engineers. software is a triviality left for the lesser minds. the consequence is they mess up every product... everything they do needs software.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:07:39 +0000

"Industry quantum computing has made precipitous progress in the last few years":

the quantum industry in reality: "Using Shor’s algorithm, the largest integer factored into primes is 15" :)))

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:57:29 +0000

kennedy had a famous statement about "Splintering the CIA into a thousand pieces and scattering it into the wind". they murdered him afterwards though.

the statement is applicable to anthropic today.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:52:34 +0000

that you still had max after all their deceptions is amazing

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

z3ratul163071 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:46:45 +0000

thank god for firefox

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

z3ratul163071 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:28:30 +0000

this looks amazing

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

z3ratul163071 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:17:39 +0000

the least i expected the math dorks to be luddites

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

z3ratul163071 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:30:49 +0000

no quantum threat. keep ed25519 and rsa, they are fine.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

z3ratul163071 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:07:30 +0000

did not, you are right. however, i don't think it should be an issue:

- get trigger for sleep - save state to nvram - ack sleep - wake up the same way as normal power-up, state being already in nvram

if this simple protocol is not working in your scenario, you have a uc larping as cpu doing way too much.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

z3ratul163071 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:02:47 +0000

> Who do you trust, then? the existing algos

> If you do not have the expertise nor time to evaluate technical claims, how do you hope to arrive at correct technical conclusions? > > Surely, you'd trust experts in that case? Like the experts that were involved in a multi-year international standardization effort? Like the one that produced > ML-KEM and ML-DSA? > > Or do you just balk at experts and "trust no one" even to your own detriment?

what detriment? there is no quantum treat, it is made up. at least not in the discussed timelines.

besides, experts are cheap and compromisable, especially for the nation state level bodies like nsa and eu.

New comment by z3ratul163071 in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

z3ratul163071 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:15:32 +0000

nsa & eu pushing for something to change proven algorithms makes me personally automatically distrustful as both are highly rotten bad actors. i have no knowledge, nor time to eval. (and probably few people do)

all i am saying is there is no good reason to depreciate proven algs, especially not because those two institutions said so.