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mmh0000on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking

Wow! Somebody with ChatGPT discovered the concept of browser headers, then for some odd reason made the verbiage really ... weird "We chose not to tell you"... okay...

Anyway, if you really want to know what your browser is sending:

https://browserleaks.com/

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

mmh0000on Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy

As always, there's an XKCD for everything: https://xkcd.com/1053/

mmh0000on Only 173? Tesla Cybertruck RWD Recall Reveals Low Sales

I'm honestly a little surprised that many people bought the RWD-only CT.

If you're looking to buy a CT and have the money for one, considering the price difference after taxes and other fees.

The RWD-only CT didn't make much sense when you could get AWD for a few thousand more, which increases range, torque, and speed.

mmh0000on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs

It very likely is, but someone is going to have to pay lawyers tons of money and wait for years for it to go through the courts to stop it.

mmh0000on File System Wars

The author's praise of ZFS fell 3 checksums short of acceptable.

ZFS is not a filesystem. It is a lifestyle. A covenant. A snapshot of the soul. Everything else is basically a USB stick with dreams.

I will be reporting this to the [author]ities, HR, and my dad.

/s for the /s impaired.

mmh0000on Trump's push to cut interest rates has echoes of 'banana republic', says Yellen

I'd like to sell you a brand-new sarcasm detector.

mmh0000on Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

Context, a few days ago, this was a very popular article on HN:

  Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

TL;DR: Spain blocks A LOT of CDNs during footy matches, including ALL of Cloudflare, thus breaking most of the internet. All in the name of stopping "pirates".

mmh0000on Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)

I love tmux! It's perfectly usable! You only need a 400-line custom-built configuration file[1]!

[1] https://doc.xn0.org/.tmux.conf

Disclaimer: I am being silly but serious. tmux is absolutely not user-friendly out of the box. It is, however, extremely nice after an absurd amount of tweaking, which is either an endorsement or a damning, depending on your perspective.

mmh0000on The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet

"War Crimes" only apply to the loser of the war and are prosecuted by the victor.

Meaning whatever horrors are done on either side, only the horrors committed by the loser will be "crimes". The inclusion of AI doesn't change that.

mmh0000on The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet

It's weird to me that this is "suddenly" an issue.

It has been known for decades that Red Hat Inc's largest customer is the U.S. Army[1]. It's a very large part of the reason why Red Hat took over development of SELinux and made it on by default in their distros.

And the Army isn't exactly known for handing out cupcakes...

[1] https://unixdigest.com/includes/files/Army-RedHat-Whitepaper...

[1] "Red Hat’s partnership with the U.S. Army spans 10 years starting with the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2002 and, to this day, the U.S. Army remains one of Red Hat’s largest customers by volume."

mmh0000on Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks

I thought you might be.

I just wanted to mention ZFS.

Have I mentioned how great ZFS is yet?

mmh0000on Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks

Filesystem/file level dedupe is for suckers. =D

If the greatest filesystem in the world were a living being, it would be our God. That filesystem, of course, is ZFS.

Handles this correctly:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/references/zfsdeduplication/

mmh0000on Sens Ask Gabbard to Tell Americans That VPN Use Subjects Them to Surveillance

To be fair… this has been known for a long time:

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

mmh0000on Age verification now required for DNS resolution

I know this is a joke. But, with the way the world is headed, this seems "likely".

My question is, say a law was passed that effectively outlawed unauthenticated and unlogged DNS access.

Could that be implemented today with something like DoH and client certificates?

I found this draft that seems to cover some possible future implementation:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-tjjk-cared-00.html

and:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1n5vji7/is_dns_...

This might be a fun weekend project for me... Ugh rabbit holes.

mmh0000on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

It actually works really well if you suck up to the AI.

"Please do x"

"Thank you, that works great! Please do y now."

"You're so smart!"

lol. It really works though! At least in my experience, Claude gets almost hostile or "annoyed" when I'm not nice enough to it. And I swear it purposefully acts like a "malicious genie" when I'm not nice enough. "It works, exactly like you requested, but what you requested is stupid. Let me show you how stupid you are."

But, when I'm nice, it is way more open, like "Are you sure you really want to do X? You probably want X+Y."

mmh0000on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

TL;DW: skip to 17m55s for the important bit

[1] https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?t=1075

mmh0000on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

The Clbuttical problem[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

mmh0000on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

Make a better system, and we'll consider using it.

A Terminal + Bash/ZSH is soooo sticky because they are VERY good at what they do once you learn the basics and quirks. And now with LLMs, CLIs are even better because LLMs talk in text and CLIs talk in text.

Microsoft tried with PowerShell to design a better system; it "technically" is better, but not "better enough" to justify the cost of switching (on Linux). The same is true of nushell; it is "better", but not better enough to justify switching for most people.

I believe we're at "peak input method" until someone invents Brain<->Computer interfaces.

mmh0000on A decade of Docker containers

Until recently, Podman used slirp4net[1] for its container networking. About two years ago, they switched over to Pasta[2][3] which works quite a bit differently.

[1] https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns

[2] https://blog.podman.io/2024/03/podman-5-0-breaking-changes-i...

[3] https://passt.top/passt/about/#pasta-pack-a-subtle-tap-abstr...

mmh0000on Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync

`-c none` hasn't worked in SSH for at least a decade.

The `none` option was for SSHv1 which was already quite old when it was fully removed from OpenSSH 7.6 in 2017[1].

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

mmh0000on Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

Dracut is used by default on:

Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, Alma, Arch, and Gentoo

Dracut is available on:

Debian and Ubuntu

That covers most common Linux distros.

Personally, I'm using this on Fedora.

mmh0000on Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk

This has been a "need" for a long time for home users with FDE. The go-to software solution for Linux has been:

https://github.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd

mmh0000on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

If true. And I put a big if on that.

I WILL be buying their flagship model.

My go to for Graphene has been used Pixels from eBay. Because I can’t give money to Google in good conscience.

mmh0000on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

"Surveillance Camera Man"[1] makes a good practical example of it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sVqKFkjiY

mmh0000on This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell

My first job was Call Center tech support for eMachines (through a random 3rd-party contractor called "Alorica") at a whopping $7.25/hr in 2003.

It had health insurance. Not great insurance, mind you, but insurance. It would cover ER-type emergencies and had something like a $100 co-pay for standard visits. It was basically "don't go to the doctor unless you're actually dying insurance," and if you're in generally good health, like I was, or the author of this article. It's "good enough".

My next job after that was sales-drone at CompUSA for a whole 7.65/hr. But they had slightly better insurance. Then they went out of business. And my job after that was as a phone agent at Delta Airlines, starting at $8.50/hr and rising to $11.77/hr when I left.

It wasn't until 2007 that I got my first real tech-job. And it was still customer service. But it paid $15/hr and had "normal" insurance.

I fully realize the insurance situation is f'ed. And those in less good health get quite screwed. But, this guy... This guy caused himself a lot of his own problems.

mmh0000on This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell

Wow. It’s scary to think this person votes.

A dude makes a series of terrible decisions. Decides to not learn from any them. Then blames society. Okay.

But my early story is eerily similar to his. Expect instead of just my dad dropping out to do drug, so did my mom. I grew up constantly moving between women’s shelters, random peoples couches and storage units.

And while he was in rural Oregon, I was in rural Idaho.

I ditched my parents as soon as I could. I worked basic non-silicon valley tech jobs. Moved from help desk ticket closer to actual IT career. No college, no money or time for it. Did alright.

Yeah life would have been a fuckton easier if I had supportive parents. But I’m in a good place and what I did wasn’t magic or luck. It was simply get basic job. Get shit apartment. Get slightly better job. Repeat.

This dude is deep in incel territory, which you can tell from the incel words he drops throughout his rant.

This dude says he never expected or needed any hand outs but several paragraphs earlier was complaining that the food bank didn’t provide vegan food. Ooohhh Kay. I have a lot of thoughts about both those statements. But dang dude. Maybe if you’re starving you should take any food you can get and deal with the rich people virtue signaling once you can afford to eat.

(To clarify on the above, being vegan is fucking great. It’s good to not kill animals… but you gotta take care of yourself before you take care of a cow.)

Yeah parts of the system are screw up. Yeah some people get a really unfair hand. But this guy was in generally good health, should have had health insurance through these crap jobs he was complaining about for his skateboard thing. (Which is another wtf that shows total lack of risk analysis. Who choses skateboarding as a hobby when you can’t afford a doctor. Jeez. Take up running.)

mmh0000on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

lol calling Python lightweight:

  ⟩ dnf install --downloadonly --installroot /tmp/yourmom python3
  …SNIP…
  Transaction Summary:
  Installing:        59 packages

  Total size of inbound packages is 33 MiB. Need to download 33 MiB.
  After this operation, 118 MiB extra will be used (install 118 MiB, remove 0 B).
  The operation will only download packages for the transaction.

Don't get me wrong, Python is a great many things. Easy to use, surprisingly fast for a scripting language, and well documented. But not lightweight.

(( The Windows version is 110MiB after decompression. ))

mmh0000on That irritating feeling France was right – US makes Gaullism respectable again

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

mmh0000on Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?

Yes. For one simple reason: As vi is part of the POSIX standard[1], it is gauranteed to be installed on all unix(-like) machines you may touch now or in the future.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

mmh0000on Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty

I generally use iSH[1] for my iPhone to Linux needs. Specifically, I like it because it's a standard Linux distribution with OpenSSH. Meaning all the things work like sftp, ssh, tunnels, and local clients like `mysql` tunneled through ssh

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243