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DBeaver can show a relationship diagram between tables. It's the main reason I've used it at all.

https://dbeaver.com/docs/dbeaver/ER-Diagrams/

BenjiWiebeon All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample

I thought it was well accepted that viruses aren't alive. They don't eat, they don't have any sort of metabolism, they can't reproduce.

BenjiWiebeon State of Homelab 2026

I also used Ionos for quite a while as a wireguard endpoint to un-CGNAT myself. I think I paid a bit more than that but it was still really cheap.

BenjiWiebeon Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It

What about non executable backups? Backup data but not programs?

Not applicable everywhere, but I think it's applicable most places.

BenjiWiebeon Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them

Hmmm... I'm reluctant to pay for WordPress plugins because a bunch of them are also single purpose plugins from random developers, and of questionable quality.

BenjiWiebeon US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

Doesn't apply to beer anyways.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

This is kinda arguing semantics, but: The address doesn't use brackets.You include brackets to delineate the address, if the address-containing string could include colons already.

So any place that can only take addresses, not some sort of URL, should/can (of course, the program author can do whatever he/she wants!) accept addresses without delineation.

BenjiWiebeon Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

When we did it, it always went off on its own. It's been a long time since I did it, but I think the longest it took would've been on the order of 30 seconds. Really makes a person jump when it finally goes.

BenjiWiebeon CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

It helps. If I were a malware/backdoor author, I have the choice to make it lie idle for a couple months; this would help me get more victims, BUT it gives more time for someone to notice it BEFORE I get any victims at all.

Whereas if it is active immediately, I'm likely to get at least a few victims.

BenjiWiebeon CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

Linux package managers (the normal way to install software) use signed packages.

I don't know how easy/hard it would be to compromise that.

BenjiWiebeon Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

Toothbrushes wear down against your teeth anyways.

BenjiWiebeon Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia

Yes, they are referring to PFOA/PFOS; they're talking about PFAS which is the broad class of chemical compounds that includes PFOA/PFAS. And PFAS are not plastics.

BenjiWiebeon Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

I was at a High powered Rocketry event and saw these guys and their rocket. Talked to them a while. Very interesting.

BenjiWiebeon Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

I've blown up beverage bottles for fun. Hooking an air compressor to a 2L bottle and exploding it makes a satisfyingly loud boom.

*We had a valve on the air line so we could be at a safe distance when pressurizing. Be very careful. It's unpredictable exactly at which point they'll blow. Sometimes they hold full pressure for a couple seconds and then go.*

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

How do you plan to let IPv4 (32 bit address space) actually address and communicate with an IPv8 (64 bit address space) host? You don't have enough bits to identify the v8 host.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

My Verizon connection has a CGNAT IPv4 and a publicly routable IPv6 address. It's at least partly a success, if you're using a cell phone on Verizon in the US.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

Bind to '::' and you can get v4 and v6 traffic on one socket.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

It's a valid address, just not a valid _URL_.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

Can I have it on my home network connection for $2/month? I could do VPS+VPN, but that's another company to deal with, another bill to pay, and several more things to break. And more latency too.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

I'm curious - which mobile provider? I thought they were the ones that use IPv6 most, some even using 464XLAT so your device only has a v6 address.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 is the only way forward

Isn't that the first thing that IPv4 came up with as well? One publicly routable address per device that wants to access the Internet (or the network of universities or military installations or whichever network you were on pre-Internet).

BenjiWiebeon What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

But then you'd need the "somewhat specialized card" to turn a Linux box into a "CPE" - a fiber transceiver.

BenjiWiebeon What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

Yes, but then you'd need a "somewhat specialized card" to turn a Linux computer into a "CPE" - a fiber transceiver.

BenjiWiebeon What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

Really? They have buried Cat5/6 cable speaking Ethernet coming onto your property?

I've never heard of that before. How does that work? Your ISP would always have to have some infrastructure within 100 meters of your router then.

BenjiWiebeon Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

2.2-2.7 seconds of delay due to light speed alone (so maybe a few ms more for electronics and en/decoding).

BenjiWiebeon The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands

How often does plain 'kill <pid>' not work, but some other signal other than SIGKILL works?

Usually the process is either working correctly and terminates when asked, or else not working correctly and needs to be KILLed.

BenjiWiebeon IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember

I've been memorizing and typing IPv4 addresses too, but I have enough devices on the network now that I can't remember nearly all the IPv4 addresses.

So then I need to use DNS. At which point it could be IPv6.

I have 56 host entries in my dnsmasq.conf.

BenjiWiebeon DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

There is a risk of having a single large customer. As a small food manufacturer we've been warned about it, like to not sell to Walmart even if given the chance.

If one customer buys a majority of your product, your entire business is at their mercy. They can dictate terms, or quit buying from you which can end your business.

So even with RAM - if a company goes all in on RAM for an AI company, what happens when the AI bubble bursts, or the AI company spins up/buys their own RAM factory and quits buying? Did you make enough money to tide you over until you can regain your old customers that have gotten used to not being your customer?

BenjiWiebeon Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

Yes, more challenging. Ham radio fox hunting is usually VHF/UHF. Waaay easier to direction-find, since the signal isn't bouncing off the ionosphere, and also the much shorter wavelength means that you can get highly directional antennas that are small enough to be held, and don't need to be 50 feet in the air to work well.

BenjiWiebeon Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

I think there's some confusion in this thread. GGP talks about distributing the one time pad via the numbers station. GP (rightly) says that's a stupid idea.

The numbers station should be transmitting a message encoded with a one time pad. The one time pad itself should be physically given in person to the spies who you want to communicate with.