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chaz6··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
Nice job! Please consider providing an oci (docker/etc) container image (or if you do already, make it easier to find!)
chaz6··on Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Azure Linux is based on Fedora since version 4.0.
chaz6··on Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
Is it feasible to tie the grid frequency to an external clock reference, such as TAI?
chaz6··on Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India
Is one solution to this underground with tunnels?
chaz6··on Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland
I do not understand why anyone would want their email provider to be "E2EE". If I want end-to-end encryption then I will exchange public keys with the recipient.
chaz6··on reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops
I expect that once the infrastructure is in place then it will be co-opted by governments to enforce their control over the digital domain.
chaz6··on Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
You keep the hash of the request so that you can reject a subsequent request with a different body. This has helped me surface bugs and data issues in other systems.
chaz6··on How we run iSCSI over the internet
Do you support multi-pathing, for example, connecting using both ipv4 and ipv6?
chaz6··on 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
What's really insane is 40G - nobody wants it so you can buy kit for next to nothing. I got a 72×QSFP Cisco Nexus (with EVPN & VXLAN) for £50 inc P&P.
chaz6··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
I got an 8 port SFP+ managed switch from AliExpress for $100!
chaz6··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
This is the correct answer.

Something that confused me for a while was the path "docker.io" used for pulling containers. There is not actually a container registry at "docker.io" - rather docker and podman are hard coded to convert it to either "registry-1.docker.io" or "index.docker.io".

chaz6··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Have you considered Unified Attestation [1] which is an alternative to Google's?

[1] https://uattest.net/

chaz6··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Since you mentioned 4.4mm, thought I would chime in and mention pentaconn (the trade name) which is a TRRRS connection (which does include a ground connection as well as L+/L-/R+/R-. I still do not understand the purpose of the ground connection in these plugs since there's nothing to ground on the other end.
chaz6··on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
These are nice, but there is a risk if multiple units are plugged into an extension strip with a cord that is not large enough for the current.
chaz6··on PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
When I open a new query window, the AI tab is selected by default which is annoying. I just want to write SQL without having to switch tabs like I could before. Not only has it ruined my muscle memory, it's also more inefficient.
chaz6··on Show HN: I built an ISP infrastructure emulator from scratch with a custom vBNG
Thanks for sharing! I am happy to see open-source BNG projects taking off in the last few months. These are a couple of others to look at:-

https://github.com/codelaboratoryltd/bng-edge-infra

https://github.com/veesix-networks/osvbng

chaz6··on PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
When I got the update I looked through the settings and there appears to be no way to disable it. I do not want AI anywhere near my database. I only use it for testing/staging at least so I should hopefully not have to worry about it wrecking production.
chaz6··on TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
I am happy with this. Users should be under no allusion that their messages are secret. It just gives a false sense of security. If you don't want people reading your messages you should be using one-time pads. Of course this cannot prevent discovery of your messaging network.
chaz6··on DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
Great, thank you!
chaz6··on DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
Is it possible to create an ACME account without requesting a certificate? AFAICT is is not so you cannot use this method unless you have first requested a certificate with some other method. I hope I am wrong!
chaz6··on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
In the UK we are taught that you should not signal until you are ready to manoeuvre. If you follow the rules exactly this can put you in the unfortunate position of being penned in behind shower traffic.
chaz6··on Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop
Are there any passkey hardware tokens the private key is effectively irretrievable? That is why up to now FIDO U2F has been my preferred additional factor. The down side is that you have to register multiple tokens for each authentication service in case one is lost or damaged. I miss the days of openid when I could use my own idp with any service, but the walls quickly went up when the big players wanted to control the ecosystem.
chaz6··on Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG
Yes, exactly. BRAS is functionally the same as BNG.
chaz6··on UK consulting on bringing in social media ban for under 16s
I think this will be bad for the cybersecurity industry. I cut my teeth by hanging around on IRC networks back in the day. That said, I doubt these will end up being regulated due to their popularity and antiquity.
chaz6··on Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
Is there any option to self-host in an air-gapped environment?
chaz6··on CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
I would really like some kind of agnostic backup protocol, so I can simply configure my backup endpoint using an environment variable (e.g. `-e BACKUP_ENDPOINT=https://backup.example.com/backup -e BACKUP_IDENTIFIER=xxxxx`), then the application can push a backup on a regular schedule. If I need to restore a backup, I log onto the backup app, select a backup file and generate a one time code which I can enter into the application to retrieve the data. To set up a new application for backups, you would enter a friendly name into the backup application and it would generate a key for use in the application.
chaz6··on You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML
If I enter the following:-

    <p><p></p>
Should the second <p> be nested or not?
chaz6··on Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users
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chaz6··on Show HN: Mephisto – A RAM-only, ad-free disposable email PWA built with React
That makes sense, thanks!
chaz6··on RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
Having a shell script in the code path that processes router advertisements seems sub-optimal.
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