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Ripe atlas have thousand of endpoint that can ping/fetch.

altmindon Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Mikrotik released ROSE with arm cpu and 20 u2 for around $1800 this year. My excitement was quickly cooled once I learn they only support their mikrotik router os, no Linux.

altmindon Ktkit: A Kotlin toolkit for building server applications with Ktor

We had a great dev experience with kooby(jooby w kotlin)

altmindon Ledger customers impacted by third-party Global-e data breach

Again? They've exposed their customers contacts in 2020, getting targeted phishing since then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23984436

altmindon CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields

Are there any approaches to csrf tokens that don't require storing issued tokens on server-side?

altmindon 'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them

firing: its hard to sue a fed employee for doing their job. and its on the plaintiff to prove that firing was not a part of their responsibilities.

(there were cases of DOGE lying + access to protected data, idk if plaintiffs can prove personal responsibilities tho, maybe some)

altmindon 'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them

why would he? he had a hand distance from doge, and now his friend is no more. do the doge employees have dirt on DJT - unlikely.

a big round of pardons may come before new elections, it actually may be in 10K numbers, autopen'd.

altmindon Google is killing the open web, part 2

People who navigate ftp storage maybe? Like Linux repos?

altmindon Google is killing the open web, part 2

People are confusing obsolete with stable and feature complete.

altmindon Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)

Will you bench against techempower benchmarks?

altmindon Google is killing the open web, part 2

Do you remember that chrome lost FTP support recently? The protocol was widely used and simple enough.

altmindon XSLT RIP

You can do some cool stuff, like serving an RSS file that is also styled/rendered in the browser. A great loss for the 2010 idea of semantic web. One corporation is unhappy because it does not cover their use cases

altmindon LineageOS 23

Because aosp is basically useless on your phone - it lacks a ton of apps

altmindon Detaching GraalVM from the Java Ecosystem Train

| GraalVM for JDK 24 was the final GraalVM release licensed and supported as part of Oracle Java SE Products. Customers requiring further updates to legacy GraalVM versions should download them via Oracle Support.

Huh, that sounded to me that there won't be any new free graalvm versions? Sounds like a death record for a project.

altmindon Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager

Passkeys are the easiest way to lose access to your account.

altmindon Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

who are "they"?

altmindon Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

cancelling a scheduled press-conference without signing a deal is not major?

altmindon Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

Cahtgpt is quite good for known problems before 2022, since the questions got into the training set. It's quite bad for new interview questions though.

altmindon Wells Fargo clients report missing deposits as bank works on fix

Discover bank?

altmindon Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

Its not only news service. Few services are left under the Yandex INTL. What are the services - ... you gotta know... they haven't published a proper disclosure, only couple of press-releases, which is alarming for a still part-public traded co.

I remember some sources that they've sold ALL their media services, and the INTL is only left with services like taxi and delivery.

altmindon Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked

i've seen more comments in russian than in english. what's your numbers?

altmindon Why does calloc exist? (2016)

Would be nice to see how hugepages and THP affect performance too

altmindon Why People Hate Zuck

I don't see people hating bill gates, the whole premise of article did not make much sense to me. Hackers used to hate him but only because window's success eating the other computing environments.

altmindon Forgotten Audio Format: Elcaset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGMJBqZawA

altmindon Does my data fit in RAM?

a lot of people were scratching their heads on how to put optane to use. a fast ssd? or a slow DRAM? with a propietary api? and requiring support from the hardware platform? the whole product line was inconsistent as they use the same name for both storage devices and NVDIMM.

altmindon Shed a Tear for HEDT: Official Threadripper Pro Pricing Marks the End of an Era

> Wonder what would people suggest if one is looking into a long-term many-core Linux workstation setup as of today?

Well, ryzen 5000-family and threadripper 3000-family core count do not intersect(16v24). if you need more than 16 cores and dont mind spending twice as much per core, go with threadripper. otherwise, ryzen 5950x is an absolute beast when cooled properly and is only $480

altmindon GPSJam: Daily Maps of GPS Interference

Thank you for giving us a new way to discover impeding military conflicts. I'm surprised how you have found a way to creatively reuse the existing data.

altmindon Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?

they used too much php? now all i see is Warning: mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server

altmindon Roskomsvoboda statement on foreign companies’ sanctions against Russians [pdf]

quote: Roskomsvoboda is a Russian non-governmental organization that supports open self-regulatory networks and protection of digital rights of Internet users. The organization aims to counteract censorship on the Internet and to popularize the ideas of freedom of information and self-regulation.