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patjensenon The senior engineer death spiral

I came into this article with a closed mind thinking it was going to be a bunch of platitudes. It's pretty legit advice and tracks.

patjensenon Codex is flagged as malware on macOS

This Github post looks fake to me.

patjensenon A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm

This is easily solved in your source NAT configuration on pfSense. It's a single checkbox to not randomize ports on outbound flows. This will enable full cone NAT.

You can scope it to just your IPsec service, or whatever it is your hosting, or you can enable full cone for the whole subnet.

It is not DNAT, nor is it port forwarding. If you host a SIP proxy, SBC or peer to peer gaming, it will enable these use cases as well.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/outbound.html

patjensenon New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

10x more likely to use EM-dashes -- built in Rust?

patjensenon Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

Just wait for systemd-wayland.

patjensenon Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs

Great blog post. The Netware one was interesting too.

patjensenon OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

I can confirm it is fixed in the latest OpenBSD snapshot build. Works great.

patjensenon OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

The bigger news is that this also fixes the QEMU compatibility bug that makes OpenBSD hang out of the box on arm64 when starting X.

It started in 7.3 with the frame buffer changes and the only workaround was to disable the kernel driver.

Maybe more people will get to try out OpenBSD successfully now.

patjensenon Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

Clockwork Pi experience with the CM4 is not good. 10 months to ship. Horrible Wifi performance, can't hold a link, and it only has around 50 minutes of battery life. I regret my purchase and it's sitting in my rack next to a bunch of old ham radios.

patjensenon Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera

Hi, who just joined?

patjensenon Eye blink frequency variation and executive function enhancement from exercise

Could this inherently be a function to keep the water or sweat out of your eyes? Or to give you the continued ability to focus your eyesight on predators or long distance threats?

patjensenon Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved

Awesome move Debian! I'm super excited for this one.

patjensenon Novell – If at first you don't succeed

In the legal vertical, WordPerfect had a good strange hold with NetWare on the back end. It's interesting to see that the synergy of the Corel acquisition didn't really work out for Novell.

patjensenon Novell – If at first you don't succeed

Other then the occasional NLM crashing, running fixpacks and resellers trying to figure out licensing, NetWare administrators had a great quality of life during this era.

patjensenon Novell – If at first you don't succeed

I caught that timeline discrepancy as well. I was surprised to see Active Directory mentioned so early in the NetWare timeline, NDS had quite a bit of time to gain the high ground in market share.