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BenjiWiebeon How to turn anything into a router

If you write the large write-up explaining those rabbit holes, let me know. I'd like to read it.

No. The OS's software doesn't individually read each instruction and decide what to do with it.

It passes it off to the hardware (CPU) which runs the instructions.

BenjiWiebeon Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

Canbus is much slower than single-pair Ethernet. So you can get more data (more modules connected) over a single pair of wires if you switch to Ethernet.

BenjiWiebeon My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

IMO if "fantasy" tries to explain things as being technology, it's (soft) sci-fi. If it describes it as magic, then it's fantasy.

BenjiWiebeon My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

They're a lot more real than CG/AI. It's very rare and maybe not even possible to have a "true" astrophotography photo. At those light levels, eyes and camera sensors work very differently and even a "plain" astro photo has either been processed a lot, or else doesn't look like what our eyes would see.

BenjiWiebeon GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Native browser in-page search is working for me, on Firefox. Is this a browser-specific change or is it a staged rollout coming my way soon?

BenjiWiebeon Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

Feel free to not post on here, if you're concerned about privacy.

BenjiWiebeon Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights

The lack of cigarettes on a plane isn't due to the fire hazard.

BenjiWiebeon Neighbors Say SF Tesla Supercharger Lot Has Become Urine Dumping Ground

It was pretty rough for me driving through downtown Atlanta - nowhere seemed to have public restrooms.

Around my home every business will have a public restroom, or a not-so-public restroom that's still available if you ask.

BenjiWiebeon FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

It may depend on the milk quality and the dairy. There's definitely a taste difference between our raw milk and our pasteurized milk, and neither one is bottled.

You can even sniff the pasteurizer and smell if it's the raw milk or if it's been pasteurized.

Also when making cheese, the naturally occurring bacteria and enzymes in raw milk make quite a large flavor difference (from a cheesemaker's perspective anyways).

BenjiWiebeon FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

The yield is determined by the components (fat, protein, and other solids) in addition to the process the milk has underwent, and the cheese recipe. In our cheese making there's not a noticeable reduction in yield on pasteurized cheese, but we do a lower/slower pasteurization.

BenjiWiebeon FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

In the US, if you're actually seeking out raw milk cheese, watch out. If the milk is pasteurized but not legally pasteurized (inspected, licensed, documented) it must be sold as raw milk cheese. Even if you boiled it for an hour first.

Then there's also some raw milk cheese that is heat treated for less than the requirement for pasteurization, but still much hotter than required for the cheese process.

BenjiWiebeon FDA links raw cheese to outbreak; Makers "100% disagree," refuse recall

When I make raw milk cheese (small commercial, USA) the milk gets only about 1-3 degrees (Fahrenheit!) above the cows body temperature.

Also our family has been drinking raw milk all our lives, and there are a lot of people who come to our farm and get raw milk to drink.

I'm not aware of anyone ever getting sick from our milk (unless lactose intolerant/allergic of course).

If you are heating your milk to 85C, I'm sorry, but that's not really raw milk cheese anymore. When I make pasteurized cheese the milk is heated to only 63C (albeit for 30 minutes).

BenjiWiebeon SSH Secret Menu

So you're saying 'fish' intercepts it on the far end? The ssh server on the far end shouldn't be sending it to 'fish' until it knows what's coming next.

Is this a current-ish version of OpenSSH or some other client/server?

EDIT Interesting! I tested it with fish and it does indeed intercept it! Wonder how that works.

BenjiWiebeon The 49MB web page

Is the page actually done downloading 0.3 seconds after it starts? Or is it just (your Internet speed) / 49MB = 0.3 seconds?

BenjiWiebeon $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor

No, he's thinking of the "CoCom limits". It's built into the receiver.

BenjiWiebeon Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

Clearly the mark of the beast.

BenjiWiebeon Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

So does your boss expect you to go without a driver's license once it expires?

BenjiWiebeon SSH Secret Menu

It'll still work. OpenSSH doesn't care about output (for ~ stuff), only input, so if you type <enter>~. it will close the connection.

BenjiWiebeon Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional

Are the speed limits set unreasonably low? Otherwise one could always try abiding to the speed limit.

BenjiWiebeon Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol

Well AFAIK the core seamless roaming in Unifi is using hostapd, which is the same AP software you use on OpenWrt. See 802.11r Fast Transition.

I think it should even be possible to get seamless roaming between Unifi and OpenWrt with correct configuration of hostapd.

BenjiWiebeon Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery

Some carriers also require your phone to be on their whitelist - for example AT&T.

And Verizon claims they don't do it that way, but we had a phone that worked on Verizon with an old SIM card until Verizon caught on, and then suddenly it wasn't compatible with their network and couldn't be used on Verizon.

BenjiWiebeon PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

You can use ohms law - let it draw power through a 10k resistor, and put your multimeter across the resistor. Every .01 volt is 1 uA. This also means that if you're powering it with 3.3v and it browns out at 3.0v, you'll only be able to draw 30uA before browning out.

You can use a different resistor according to the power draw and how sensitive your volt meter is.

You'll probably need to power it up with the resistor shorted, and only remove the short once it's in sleep mode, to measure the current.

BenjiWiebeon 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

We have 5 computers running Firefox. One computer has regular Firefox crashes. I've done some memory testing that didn't detect anything wrong.

I've tried all kinds of things software-wise but keep getting random crashes.

I wonder if I should do a longer memory test, maybe some CPU stress testing at the same time...

BenjiWiebeon Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage

That would be the thousands of lines of JS that they are complaining about. Except if it depends on jquery, that's even more lines.

BenjiWiebeon US set to lose measles elimination status after cases soar

In my opinion, anti-intellectualism is the cause of antivax, and commonly goes along with conservatism, but isn't the same thing as conservatism.

BenjiWiebeon Latency numbers every programmer should know

According to Wikipedia, the Power Mac G4 was the first mass produced computer with gigabit Ethernet - in 2000.

So now in 2025, 12.5 doublings later, we should have a mass produced personal computer available with a 1 gigabit times 2^12.5 = ~5 Tbps NIC.

We're not there yet. Not even close.

BenjiWiebeon A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

If a platform decides to require an account to post, or requires your message to pass an LLM sniff test before publishing it, you can break all the rules you want but your message won't be visible to others on said platform.

BenjiWiebeon Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."

Open a new browser window just for that tab. Presto, that tab is always active, even if that window is underneath another window.

In Firefox you can drag'n'drop a tab "out" of the tab bar, which will move it to a new window. Might work in other browsers too.

BenjiWiebeon New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

Are you familiar with the 'Compose' key/xcompose?