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byhemechi··on HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router
I can't speak for the more "entreprise-y" unifi stuff but the routing on the ubiquiti gear i've used is actually just FRR and if you SSH in you can do a whole lot more than is surfaced through the UI - for example, I have VXLAN running on my UDR7 right now.

It's not something I've tried but I imagine you could actually expose FRR directly and configure through that

byhemechi··on Show HN: Neil the Seal Game
i regret to inform you that we drive on the left in australia
byhemechi··on My ASN Journey series (2024)
Registering a company in Australia is virtually free. APNIC fees, on the other hand, are much higher than what you'd pay with RIPE. It's pretty hard to justify a minimum of $1300 a year + a $500 sign-up fee just to have a personal ASN that you don't need unless you want to run a full table.
byhemechi··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
You can buy the SIM but can’t activate it without going through ID checks.
byhemechi··on Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC
This is not a "feature", it's just a by-product of how iptables works. The alternative would be to have a proxy run in userspace, instead of letting the kernel forward packets
byhemechi··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
45% grey text on a 10% grey background set in a light serif font.
byhemechi··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
What exactly motivates you to AI generate useless replies?
byhemechi··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
Unreadable and useless vibe coded shit. Submissions like this are why I've all but stopped using HN
byhemechi··on Why Bcrypt Can Be Unsafe for Password Hashing?
I still don't see how that's an issue, yes a password using a series of ridiculously complicated family emoji will be truncated but the actual bytes still provide entropy, just because the data doesn't use pixels when rendered doesn't mean it doesn't increase the search space
byhemechi··on Why Bcrypt Can Be Unsafe for Password Hashing?
Does this really need yet another blog post? 72 characters is more than enough to be resistant to brute-force attacks, as demonstrated by thousands of data breaches containing bcrypt hashes that remain uncracked (excluding the obvious top 1k passwords/ credential stuffing). In my personal opinion calling it "unsafe" is just fear mongering, especially in conjunction with a recommendation of using Argon2 which is comparatively very new and is probably safe - but once again, does not have the proven record that bcrypt does.
byhemechi··on Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Yeah you definitely should not be paying that much. Throw your NMI into https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/ and it'll show you the most cost effective option from your actual usage. I'm also in Sydney and pay 29c flat/ 18c secondary circuit
byhemechi··on CSS for Styling a Markdown Post
I personally always use

  picture {
    display: contents;
  }
so that flexbox behaves in a way you would expect.
byhemechi··on Wireguard FPGA
Warp actually uses MASQUE (UDP/IP over QUIC) by default
byhemechi··on Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap
that's definitely a 3d model and the harbour bridge a few hundred metres away is still a flat line on the water
byhemechi··on Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap
This is pretty cool, but demonstrates why google/apple maps make heavy use of bespoke models vs just the map data, as is demonstrated pretty well by the sydney opera house and harbour bridge

This: https://shottr.cc/s/Qxhj/SCR-20250108-r6p.jpeg

Apple maps: https://shottr.cc/s/QWES/SCR-20250108-r69.jpeg

byhemechi··on Caltrain's new electric trains
As an Australian it's always a bit of a shock to see brand new European and American trains stopping at platforms no taller than a kerb, meaning you have to walk up steps.

I'd be very interested to see how much of a bottleneck boarding from the lower level of these trains is, in sydney we have double deckers where you board from the middle level from high platforms[1] and the stairs are already a flow limitation in the city section, I can't imagine how bad it would be with people going up two flights of stairs

[1] here's a pic: https://railgallery.wongm.com/sydney-trains-bits/F112_6364.j...

byhemechi··on Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
my guess is OVH
byhemechi··on iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
because you’re dropping it on tiles or pavement which are a lot less squishy than the grass it landed on
byhemechi··on Merkle Town: Explore the certificate transparency ecosystem
I'd imagine a large part of that would be because Cloudflare uses Sectigo for its "Universal SSL"
byhemechi··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Not on apple, at least

https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/nonprofits/

byhemechi··on Switching to Elixir
I often see people say static typing slows them down and I'd really like to know why that is because for me it's the exact opposite, I really don't like not knowing what format data is in. I'd much rather have to write slightly more verbose code and have a vast number of possible errors caught at compile time instead of having things go wrong in production when someone inputs something a bit weird with nothing so much as an error.
byhemechi··on Steam Deck OLED
It's certainly possible, I've managed to make the game run playably on a base model 2019 macbook, but that was completely vanilla on the lowest settings I could manage. Beat Saber (especially with mods) can get pretty damn hard to run (it often lags pretty badly on my 3700X/RTX 3070), especially if you're playing noodle maps or with high poly custom sabres.

I haven't tried it but I expect you'd have a very bad time running a quest due to the encoding step, and also probably wouldn't have fun on anything newer than a vive/cv1 because the resolution is too high.

byhemechi··on Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components
I am extremely tempted to write a vscode mode for this. I'll let you all know if I survive
byhemechi··on Now you're thinking with relays
ahh well, guess i should probably just stop saying anything at this point
byhemechi··on Now you're thinking with relays
Bimetallic strips are pretty slow, I can't imagine them being audible. I'd guess what you're hearing is almost certainly a relay, very likely driven by the bimetallic strip

edit: Replies have pointed out that they sometimes do "snap", so i guess i'm wrong there. I'm still pretty sure anything in a kettle/coffee pot/toaster etc would be a relay to avoid arcing

edit 2: i'm just going to shut up now

byhemechi··on [dead]
i think this is an extremely North America-centric view. As an Australian, the lockdowns were inconvenient at worst and were a key part in why we have such low mortality. from an outsiders perspective, US lockdowns were a shitshow and were too half-arsed to actually achieve anything
byhemechi··on Kagi is 80% faster and 70% less carbon intensive than Google
in sydney, kagi is certainly not faster than google, maybe this is just the US?

also, the carbon stuff is completely lost on me, turning my kettle on every morning surely uses more electricity than i if i made 10k searches

byhemechi··on More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
That's fair, but i'd argue that mods are a pretty essential part of the game for most people
byhemechi··on More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck
i doubt the steam deck has enough ram to handle cities skylines, i pretty frequently hit 20 gb on larger populations
byhemechi··on Westfield’s San Francisco centre mall lost 46% of its stores since 2020
They seem to be doing pretty well in Europe and Australia
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