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gnuseron Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

Oh you know, just the most advanced mmometarpg in history.

gnuseron You’re a little company, now act like one (2009)

When you've been saving the entire company on the reg and get a 1k Christmas bonus and the sales guy gets your entire salary as a bonus, yeah, it causes some fucking resentment!

gnuseron How to Make a Longbow

In my family boys are taught this at about 8. This makes me want to do it again. I had my grandfathers bow stolen out of the trunk of my car and haven’t nooked an arrow in a long time.

gnuseron Strengths Are Your Weaknesses

Wow, I hadn’t thought of it like that before. I’ve recently been finding real insights in such reframing.

gnuseron Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

Gnu info for anything gnu, then man pages, then tools like tldr

gnuseron The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems

Pids and cgroups all the way down (also why the wise greybeards rejected docker)

gnuseron What to Do

Working on it. :)

Looking forward to showing HN one day.

gnuseron Google to buy Wiz for $32B

its like every problem slice Ive been solving over the decades as a sysadmin is a huge market opportunity

gnuseron The A.I. Monarchy

I’m taking it meta. Not only am I properly embracing high-tech, low-life in game world, my design is of a metaverse preemptively designed to learn the lessons to avoid a corporate dominated abusive version.

gnuseron If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

I suggest emacs org mode or asciidoc

gnuseron Recurring checklists using Org Mode in Emacs

use some of the gscript and api code

gnuseron More Solar and Battery Storage Added to TX Grid Than Other Power Src Last Year

In reality, the market will do it for them as the datacenter and energy boom requires more energy than green can provide and the money will flow anew to nuclear and fission.

gnuseron MMO Architecture: Optimizing Server Performance with Lockless Queues

Im at the stage where Im having dreams regularly about mmo architecture design and this is a good intro article to the topic. My big challenge is in the data size and speeds required for such a high tick rate with physics objects instead of just binary presses such as in most mmos. (in godot 4.4)

/goes back to thinking about the fastest in-mem DBs and how they might work in such a stack

gnuseron Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

Im annoyed at all the servile responses in defense of these bad companies.

Wanna hear my conspiracy theory?

Three letter agencies are using games as an intel gathering tool, and KLA is part of that. What if the CEOs are getting NSLs, etc?

gnuseron SELinux bypasses

GRSec is better imho but I’ve never convinced anybody to put it in prod so meh

gnuseron US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

I worked in 18 a wheeler automation unicorn.

Never rode in one once for a reason.

gnuseron Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

Taking my metaverse/game to alpha and crowdfunding.

gnuseron CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

dumb techbro c-suites: what, why would you have an issue with a proprietary closed source app that frequently self updates and sends tons of data to a third party while essentially being a backdoor? We said we wanted security and this has Security(tm) all over the literature! Look we even have dashboards for the gui-ninjas like the security team!

gnuseron SSH as a Sudo Replacement

Good stuff. Imagine this though: ssh as user access control using a multiuser system such as gnu/linux

byw everyone should be using ed25519 or at least 2048+

gnuseron Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta

When you think about it, farming is the perfect physical application of scaling.

gnuseron What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days

Add it port knocking and this is how I do it. nftables ftw

gnuseron Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash

All the replies ignoring the elephant in the room: three letter pressure. To me such large moves could indicate an event is in the near/medium future.

gnuseron Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? (2022)

Which is why my foss metaverse is gonna rock!!

gnuseron Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)

At the last “real” job I tried to help implement this as part of and later the manager of the ops team. It’s a great start, but in that case management wanted the idea of devops/sre but didn’t actually support it, and it really was a shit show. If you have a bad CTO and leadership on the board level, no amount of re-tooling will paper over their lack of support for the real principles.

gnuseron Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games

In godot (compile main daily) I am running 120 tick rate but have found some interesting optimizations happen there and above (240) and am seriously temped to just make 240 my default (but I need to do more server load tests as I’m planning to scale)

gnuseron Hymn for Walpurgisnacht

The plebs have no idea how bloody a day it is.

gnuseron Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)

love cDc but they drop more projects than google - people just remember the ones that stick/stuck

gnuseron UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

“Ceremonial” etc:

Behind Closed Doors: Oaths to the Monarch (who, by the way, was besties with necro-pedo-murderer Jimmy Saville)

Gtfo of here brits - the Irish were on the right side of history and it’s high time for a revolution and you know it’s true!

gnuseron A BSD person tries Alpine Linux

As a greybeard GNUlinux sysadmin: nftables raw ripping out iptables (newer gui/tui firewall interfaces support nftables) rip out NetworkManager, and use systemd-resolved to manage DNS. (On non-systemd systems like Devuan then this changes.) Use systemd units for powerful program and service control, including systemd-nspawn for containerization.