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bauruine

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I manage one of the larger Tor relay families https://tuxli.org/

contact: hn@tuxli.ch

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bauruine··on Tor Browser 15.0
Tor uses the ESR (Extended Support Release) version of Firefox.
bauruine··on Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one
It would be completely wrong for peak demand. I had to learn this the hard way. While the small fridge I bought only uses 80 W while running the compressor uses 800W+ for a second on startup which was too much for my off the grid inverter.
bauruine··on Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser
You don't have to run an exit. A middle node is as important as an exit. And running a non-exit relay is pretty hassle free. You will get blocked by some sites, especially banks and governments unfortunately so be aware of that if you want to run one at home. There is a list for ISPs that allow Tor nodes [0] but diversity is important so if you know an ISP with generous traffic allotments that's better. Just check the TOS that they don't explicitly forbid running a relay. Or you could run a bridge to help censored users connect to Tor.

There is also some information on the community site about running and setting up all kinds of relays or bridges [1]

[0] https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/g...

[1] https://community.torproject.org/relay/

bauruine··on Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser
No the relays are run by the community the Torproject doesn't run any relays. You could donate to a relay associations if you don't want to run a relay yourself.

https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/r...

bauruine··on Show HN: We priced basic needs in work hours (global ranking and CSVs)
It's made up slop. Don't waste any time on it.
bauruine··on Show HN: We priced basic needs in work hours (global ranking and CSVs)
You have 190 hours for Switzerland. The average full time job here is 42 hours a week at most. 4x42 = 168. Not a single person living here is working 190 hours to cover their basic needs. Sorry but your numbers are complete bullshit. No idea why this is on the front page.
bauruine··on Show HN: We priced basic needs in work hours (global ranking and CSVs)
You say the average Israeli has to work 288 hours a month. 288h/30d = 9.6 hours. You say average. If some need to work less others work even more. Sorry I don't buy this at all.

The average working hours is like 1900 hours a year. Thats like 6 months of basic needs according to you. This just doesn't add up.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...

bauruine··on Show HN: We priced basic needs in work hours (global ranking and CSVs)
The average Israeli works over 9.5h EACH day to cover basic needs? I call bullshit.
bauruine··on Heroin addicts often seem normal
It doesn’t translate to western societies because the vast majority of western societies thinks the death penalty is unacceptable at all. And getting the death penalty for drug possession no mater the scale is absolutely insane.
bauruine··on When Curl Works but IntelliJ Doesn't: The Ollama Connection Mystery
In this case it's possible that it would have worked if he had used mitmproxy.
bauruine··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Thank you for addressing this issue. Could you also provide feedback on the accusations that data export is only available for high-tier pricing plans and requires Slack's explicit approval?
bauruine··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
>On July 11, 2018, Broadcom Inc. announced it would acquire CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash.

I'm not surprised. That sounds exactly like Broadcom.

bauruine··on Meta Ray-Ban Display
I assume you couldn't watch the video because it's just a live stream of a guy standing in a kitchen and talking to his glasses. He's not on the stage with hundreds of people on the wifi and you can't see what the glasses are displaying at all.
bauruine··on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
I'm sorry but it really wasn't obvious for me. So like an online shop for groceries but they don't deliver it to your home but at this shared storage location?

Doesn't realy change the second part of my answer though. People could already keep some stock at home right now but most just don't. I don't see how such a shared storage would change that.

Also stock up for a few months is what the government is for at least where I live. [0] Personel emergency supplies are only for the time till the government can start distributing their own stocks.

[0]: https://www.bwl.admin.ch/en/we-advise-emergency-supplies

bauruine··on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
Or even better we could build cupboards in the aparments and people just keep their personal supply. /s

All my shelf stable products have been in my pantry for a few months before I even open them. You can do FILO yourself and have always a nice emergency supply and it can even cheaper because you can buy the stuff on sale most of the time. The problem is that many people just buy day to day and already have a problem when the shops are closed for a holiday they haven't anticipated because they buy just in time.

bauruine··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Bandwith isn't free for sure but at googles scale the costs are close to the cost you have copying data to your own NAS in your LAN. Multiple orders of magnitued below what AWS charges for bandwidth.
bauruine··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
They aren't a tier 1 but they also aren't paying for most of their bandwdith. They peered very liberally in the past so have zero settlement peering to most networks and if you're a big enough eyeball network you can request a caching server from them where you pay for rack space, power and network and google just pays for the server hardware. [0]

[0]: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809

bauruine··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
I guess it was something like [0] The Nigerian prince is now a deep fake Elon but the concept is the same. You need to send some money to get way more back.

[0]: https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/en/home/aktuell/im-fokus/2023...

bauruine··on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
You can also buy it if you want to support the autor. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548182/tor/
bauruine··on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
The list of Tor nodes is public so it's trivial to detect a user is using Tor you just have to check the IP.
bauruine··on You know more Finnish than you think
perkeleen vittupää! I need to use this the next time our junior wants to merge something copy pasted from an LLM that not only breaks something but doesn't even do what it's suposed to do.
bauruine··on QUIC for the kernel
OpenSSH is an OpenBSD project therefore I guess a Linux api isn't that interesting but I could be wrong ofc.
bauruine··on Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true
Jia Tan was the alias of someone that added a backdoor to xz that could be used to allow remote code execution on OpenSSH servers using the backdoored xz version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

bauruine··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
Not that I know of except from having a big cache and many users that keeps it warm. As I said you could run a local root zone but that only saves you the one time lookup every week+ of the tld name servers and the root servers are generally very close to you. There is a map of all root servers. There are 12 in .nz alone. A few cc tlds are providing their zone via axfr [1] so you could add that to your resolver to save some roundtrips but I don't think having .ch or .se locally will make a big difference and they are 1.2GB each and you would need to download them daily.

[0]: https://root-servers.org/ [1]: https://github.com/jschauma/tld-zoneinfo

bauruine··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
The root servers aren't the problem. They are heavily anycasted and i'm sure there are many in .nz. If that was the issue you could simply serve the root zone yourself, at least some of them allow axfr. [0] This info is also easy cacheable, they have big TTLs and you only have to do it once for each tld. The authoritative name server of the domain you want to access on the other hand are often just in the US or Europe and are the main issue.

Edit: How to serve the root zone locally with unbound. https://old.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/s43o8j/where_does_u...

[0] dig axfr . @k.root-servers.net

bauruine··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
How does DoH work? Somehow you need to know the IP of cloudflare-dns.com first. Maybe your router uses 1.1.1.1 for this.
bauruine··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
Why not use multiple? You can use 1.1.1.1, your ISPs and google at the same time. Or just run a resolver yourself.
bauruine··on Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide
Thanks. Maybe I'll do it the next time. That seems like less friction than having to write our representative / admim however you call the people that could add me to our subscription. But why do you put it behind that if it's free anyway?
bauruine··on Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide
I could ask for access I assume it's just a mail but I don't want to bother them because I can find a solution one or two results down from the redhat site anyway. I've worked with Linux and without a support contract for long enough that I know how debug and fix things. I wouldn't get direct access to support cases anyway. Our Linux guys provide a bash script to auto enroll.

It's not a login. It's a login with an active subscription. Are those article that valuable that they can't provide it for everyone with a @company.com address that has >n licences?

bauruine··on Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide
"You need an active subscription" is paywall for me.
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