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This is on one (or two) particular domain(s) where setting up wildcard DNS should be relatively trivial, if they actually cared enough about the UX of this product to make a special case in their code.

I don't understand how people can launch stuff like this.

lysaceon Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Install via brew worked. Getting the hostname to resolve took 30 mins of waiting. Have they heard of wildcard DNS?

lysaceon iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

I'm staying on Sequoia for at least one more year.

iOS 27 is pretty good though.

lysaceon US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’

The BBC article goes on with "He was flown back to the United States on a commercial flight, but their investigations are ongoing in conjunction with UK authorities." though.

lysaceon US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’

I suspect that I can't really understand this:

"A US embassy staffer accused of possessing indecent images of children, was detained at his south London flat and flown out of the UK in August, without being first questioned by British police."

Sure, I get the overall mechanics. "was... flown" - any brits here to help? What exactly does this mean in BBC English? It implies something, doesn't it?

lysaceon Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

Kinda agreed. Except I continued watching because it was kind of ...pleasant?

Jeff: please do better! :)

lysaceon 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

Only needed if you connect it to the network. Don't.

lysaceon Fastpotify

I worked with a few people (tech) that Spotify later hired. Sweden is kind of small.

The calibre went from extremely high to surprisingly average within a decade. Not bad, to be clear, but kinda mid. I think they scaled too quickly and hit the 'bozo effect'.

Yes, anecdotal.

lysaceon Fastpotify

You're remembering correctly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28203654

What's funny about having to rely on unauthorized clones to provide a fast native UX was that Spotify's original client back in 2008 started out as beautifully light, custom rendered native client.

Few Apps ever had that wow factor the first time I used it, it was so much lighter and more responsive than anything else of the day. I remember being perplexed at how I could search and skip to any part of a song quicker than iTunes could looking at a local library. Everything was latency-free and instantaneous.

We were building a Music Startup at the time, so we investigated how it worked. We we’re very surprised we couldn’t find any evidence of an established UI toolkit. It looked as though they had built their own custom UI renderer and optimized TCP protocol which sent back its metadata in XML. Their traffic looked like it was initially seeded from their own (or CDN) servers (for best latency) and then overtime we would see some P2P traffic on the wire.

Our QT/C++ client had decent performance but was noticeably heavier than Spotify's. I was disappointed to see their native client eventually be abandoned and succumb to become yet another Chromium wrapper. I expect it fell to the pressures of a growing startup adding 100s of developers (without the skill of their original CTO/devs) where a native UI couldn't be updated and re-iterated as fast as a Web App. I wish they maintained 2 desktop clients, and left their native client alone to just be an audio player and push all their new social features to their new flagship CEF app.

It's unfortunate the skill and desire of building fast native UIs are being lost to Electron and CEF wrappers. Seems the larger the organization the more likely they are to build new Web rendered Desktop Apps and we have to rely on unauthorized Indie efforts like this for fast, responsive native UIs.

(The comment is from a 2021 post about another Rust-based Spotify client.)

lysaceon The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

"Most people use GitHub and features for free"

Do you have a source for that factoid? (I suspect the vast majority of Github resource usage is paid. And we are upset.)

lysaceon Degraded performance for multiple models

Yeah, compared to AWS the lock-in effect is tiny. I'm sure there are highly prioritized plans to "improve" on this.

I guess they would need to control/"own" more of their customers data in proprietary formats. Not markdown/source code in English with agents running on customers' machines.

Something cloud/web-based, "preferably".

lysaceon The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

Yes. No Silver Bullet (1986) said that 40 years ago.

lysaceon A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

That "AI-generated fake magazine advert" for the VX-4 is glorious.

lysaceon All of Namecheap Is Down

Fine, I guess I'll finally learn how to transfer a domain.

lysaceon Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

Mach 3 by Loriciels (France) from 1987 is impressive in this regard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJrd9Kxbdw

It somehow sounds even better on an actual 80s PC, with the bass sound being amplified by the massive steel enclosure.

lysaceon Lovable raises $400M Series C

In general, people/companies attempt to hide their use of AI when building apps/services since there's an ongoing substantial effort from progressives to cancel that shit. That stated reasons vary, but the trend is very, very clear.

lysaceon Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Training Recipe:

https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron/blob/main/docs/nemot...

lysaceon German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

To be fair I also blame all of Germany.

lysaceon Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

Memories from '96: We had these beefy/expensive Sun computers at the university we called "cpu servers". At home we ran Linux with XFree86 (or sometimes Windows 95/NT with Exceed) on like a 486. In between a 10 Mbit/s Ethernet network. Everything had public IPs. Cleartext telnet was still the norm.

We ran some weird X11-based apps on these Sun machines required for courses that way. Web browsing was faster locally, even with a lowly 486.

lysaceon German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

Is the Chinese automotive software better than the German equivalent?

lysaceon German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

Gerhard Schröder, German social democrat/SPD and later Putin associate.

lysaceon German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

It is indeed an accurate description. I live in a neighboring country. Germany's energy failure costs me the equivalent of about an entry level Macbook Pro every year.

I don't have kind words for SPD/Die Grünen in specific, or, to be frank, Germany in general.

lysaceon SwiftUI After 7 Years

Somehow you being the GNOME co-creator made me curious about what the GTK/GIMP creators (Kimball, Mattis) are up to. CockroachDB, it seems. It's weird how it's so easy to miss these connections.

lysaceon Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

It's unfortunate that the Turbo Pascal (with inline X86 asm) source code of FT2 written by Vogue and Mr H hasn't been released after all these years. It's so seminal to so many people from that era.

If I were to guess, they found the quality of the code too embarrassing, years later - they were kind of kids when they wrote it. I did see that they (supposedly) shared the source with someone on Vogons for the purpose of minor updates/bugfixes.

lysaceon Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators that malicious cyber actors (MCAs) are conducting cyber attacks targeting Operational Technology (OT) devices, including Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), specifically MicroLogix 1100 and 1400 series. Since 27 July 2026, Water and Wastewater Sector (WWS) utility companies in at least seven states have reported incidents to the FBI, and some of that activity degraded water operations. While the FBI has only observed this behavior with the referenced Rockwell PLCs, similar considerations should also be made with other branded PLCs.

After remotely accessing internet-facing devices, the actors changed the IP addresses and passwords, resulting in a loss of monitoring and control functionality. To reduce the risk of compromise, the FBI and EPA recommend removing PLCs from direct internet exposure via secure gateway and firewalls, setting up strong, unique passwords, and utilizing an access control list (ACL) to allow only authorized communication between expected control system devices.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/malicious-...