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mrbluecoat··on Iroh 1.0
Surprising you don't support golang
mrbluecoat··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
This.

Who needs social engineering NPM maintainers when there are thousands of freebie AUR ones.

mrbluecoat··on Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
Could have called it AIpaca, since many fonts would make it look like Alpaca.
mrbluecoat··on Expanding Project Glasswing
While I tend to be cynical with big tech, if this statement is indeed true we owe them some thanks for staving off a zero day tsunami.

> 50 initial partners ... found more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity security flaws.

mrbluecoat··on Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer
First thought: cool! Second thought: e-waste

(same reaction as single-serve coffee pods, circa 2023)

mrbluecoat··on Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC?
If I could find a 6GB Q6A in stock (or Radxa eMMC, or fan-powered case, or most Radxa products in general) I would celebrate this announcement but they seem to be in small batch mode right now.
mrbluecoat··on FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf]
A layperson overview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309492
mrbluecoat··on Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
For a more technical read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345822
mrbluecoat··on Dav2d
I came to post this as well. Until widespread, inexpensive hardware catches up to a 2018 codec, AV# will remain a niche ideal.
mrbluecoat··on Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism
AI is eating the world and it's only a matter of time until Catholicism joins the wave: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofiachierchio/2026/05/29/this-...
mrbluecoat··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
"Shift will break dishes for free to train future robots"
mrbluecoat··on Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
That's what I love about MTG - the flexibility. For example, here's a new format I created to help even the playing field with new players: https://mrbluecoat.blogspot.com/2026/05/new-unofficial-mtg-f...
mrbluecoat··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
> AI ... do some "learning"

Is AI plural or is that a typo?

mrbluecoat··on The AI Zombification of Universities
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139148
mrbluecoat··on CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
> The tsunami of AI-generated bug reports shows no signs of stopping, so it is likely that this process will have to be repeated again soon.

Welcome to the new world order.

mrbluecoat··on Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
How will they ban self-hosted VPNs? https://mrbluecoat.blogspot.com/2025/08/self-hosted-vpn-opti...
mrbluecoat··on Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks
Not affiliated, but Capital One Eno virtual cards work well for this purpose.
mrbluecoat··on Before GitHub
Similar (904 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
mrbluecoat··on HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
Duplicate. 904 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
mrbluecoat··on Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology
https://jumpstartsignal.com/reports/2026/04/24/

> No growth met the screening criteria on this date.

Our current economy in a nutshell, lol

mrbluecoat··on The end of responsive images
The author was waiting 14 years to excitedly share this?

<img loading="lazy" src="TrIZjHKy9-650.jpeg" srcset="GTrIZjHKy9-650.jpeg 650w, GTrIZjHKy9-960.jpeg 960w, GTrIZjHKy9-1400.jpeg 1400w" sizes="auto, (min-width: 1040px) 650px, calc(94.44vw - 15px)" alt="…">

IMHO, feels more like a polyfill than a final industry solution.

mrbluecoat··on Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Can .smolmachine be digitally signed and self authenticate when run? Similar to https://docs.sylabs.io/guides/main/user-guide/signNverify.ht...
mrbluecoat··on LittleSnitch for Linux
> The macOS version uses deep packet inspection to do this more reliably. That's not an option here.

Isn't MacOS just *nix under the hood? Genuinely curious about this difference.

mrbluecoat··on How Costco Won in Japan (2025)
Perhaps add (2025) suffix to the title
mrbluecoat··on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
Also: "Potential employees of employers use public data to figure out the highest salary they'll offer"
mrbluecoat··on Scientists are working on "everything vaccines"
I hesitate applying credibility to any article written on April 1
mrbluecoat··on Show HN: We're building an AI hedge fund
Glad I didn't put my money on Qwen. -35% ouch
mrbluecoat··on Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems
How would you replicate: rsync -avz -e "ssh" user@remote_host:/path/to/source/ /path/to/destination/

Something like this? fxcp snap export /path/to/source/ | ssh user@remote_host -t 'fxcp snap import /path/to/destination/'

mrbluecoat··on Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler
How do I see the table? Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I expected drag and drop from my hand at the bottom to the empty space at the top as the table, like TappedOut.net but it seems I have to tap the card, then tap Play, then all I see is a message saying "# Cards on table" but not visible anywhere.
mrbluecoat··on ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026
> Of course it BSODed a few times, but a simple reboot later I was able to continue.

Not sure what concerns me more, the "BSOD" or "Of course".

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