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pi-rat··on Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
I love that he’s still doing that - he did the same thing back then: selfies, lots of fun little notes on the packaging, stories about taking the package by bicycle to the nearest post office, and even assurances about his neighborhood’s political leanings (overwhelmingly anti-Bush).
pi-rat··on Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
Such a fun and enthusiastic guy. I’ve one of his klein bottles from like 20 years ago, think he still sells them.
pi-rat··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
> 1 loss sets you back 10-20 wins

Good old eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

pi-rat··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
The main issue with evaluating content for what it is is how extremely asymmetric that process has become.

Slop looks reasonable on the surface, and requires orders of magnitude more effort to evaluate than to produce. It’s produced once, but the process has to be repeated for every single reader.

Disregarding content that smells like AI becomes an extremely tempting early filtering mechanism to separate signal from noise - the reader’s time is valuable.

pi-rat··on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
High speed finance is msec and below. Fastest publically known tick to trade is just shy of 14 nanos.

Timekeeping starts to become really hard, often requiring specialized hardware and protocols.

pi-rat··on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
Built in KVM is not that important any longer, with all the new options for adding an external one. gl-inet comet kvm, nanokvm pro, jetkvm, etc.
pi-rat··on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
You can use more than one key you know.

Keep the private key you actively use in the secure enclave. The system you actively use is most at risk.

Keep a secondary offline private key as backup. You can generate and store it in a secure location, and never move it around. Airgapped even if you want. You could even use a yubikey or other hardware for the secondary key giving you two hard to export keys.

Distribute pub keys for both of them.

Best of both worlds?

pi-rat··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
I remember a few years ago when our niece came to visit. One evening, we started watching a movie on Netflix together.

We only made it halfway before bedtime, but since she was coming back in two weeks, we decided to save the rest for her next visit.

Two weeks later, she returned, bouncing with excitement to finally see how the story ended. We opened Netflix, ready to hit play - and lo and behold… the movie had vanished from the catalog.

Be a cool uncle, be a pirate.

pi-rat··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
No, it looks nothing like a reinvention of torrent.
pi-rat··on Larry (cat)
Norway has a penguin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
pi-rat··on Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements
Frankly, it’s so good I use emacs just for git even when coding in other editors.
pi-rat··on Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage
> I don't own an iPhone so I don't know for sure if old messages clog iPhones too but the article hints that this is the case. > Maybe Apple is happy to sell new phones with more storage to people that run out of space. Maybe iMessage is a tiny storage eater, maybe not. Photos, videos, vocal messages are on the phone forever too?

iOS has a built in tool that help you identify and clean up space hogs. It’s first recommendation is usually to remove large messages attachments. It will show you a list of all attachments (descending size), you select the ones you want to remove and hit delete. It also offers to automatically delete messages after some time. It’s a global option though, not per chat, not usable if you only want some to be ephemeral.

pi-rat··on Hetzner Object Storage
We had a fleet of dedicated hetzner boxes w/10 gbit, it’s just an option you get and pay a little extra for. Generally had good performance as well.
pi-rat··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
We got day or maybe even week of linux on the desktop at least :)
pi-rat··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
With a crowdstrike kernel driver, so technically not a microsoft/windows issue.
pi-rat··on C++ patterns for low-latency applications including high-frequency trading
Generally gets attributed with:

- Increased liquidity. Ensures there's actually something to be traded available globally, and swiftly moves it to places where it's lacking.

- Tighter spreads, the difference between you buying and then selling again is lower. Which often is good for the "actual users" of the market.

- Global prices / less geographical differences in prices. Generally you can trust you get the right price no matter what venue you trade at, as any arbitrage opportunity has likely already been executed on.

- etc..

pi-rat··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
Not that different for the prodesk/elitedesk small form factors IMHO. There’s a steady supply of cheap used ones available on most online marketplaces (there’s probably millions of them being cycled out of offices every year).

Get a new replacement one, swap over the NVME. Doesn’t have to be the same cpu, linux handles the rest.

pi-rat··on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus
I worked for a FX market maker, and we just used "yards".

Removes any confusion for european and american collaboration.

Got old roots dating back to cockney trading slang: "The Old Lady just bought half a yard of cable"

pi-rat··on Id30: An Identifier Scheme for URLs
Link to implementation: https://github.com/maghoff/id30
pi-rat··on Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
By following the same vague “can be used to grow piracy” logic, there’s a pretty big percentage of github repos that can be slapped with a DMCA and taken down..
pi-rat··on Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today
In what way is ZFS a good filesystem for lightweight devices like watches, phones, pads and single ssd/nvme laptops?

APFS and ZFS have very different design goals.

That said though, they could obviously have supported both, but from their perspective it makes sense to design for the 90%+.

pi-rat··on Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
There are m2 adapters that break out to 4-6 sata ports.

Ex: https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ey8htlr

pi-rat··on Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
I think maybe you’re overestimating the idle power consumption of modernish x86 (especially the last 5-6 gens of intel)? I’ve a i5 9600T system that’s drawing less than a Pi at idle. And cost me the same to buy.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18L...

pi-rat··on AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU
Whenever bazel prints that it’s compiling one of the rust parts of the codebase at work, then I mutter something about needing more faster better CPUs, and go fetch a cup of coffee..
pi-rat··on General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker
There’s been generic microcontrollers (usually single shot programmable) available for less than 3 cent per mcu for half a decade already. Check out Padauk and similar MCUs.
pi-rat··on The rise of batteries in six charts
Model Y RWD sold in europe is LFP
pi-rat··on My SBC Collection
Those were great. I turned one of mine into a 4G enabled garage opener some years ago, battery backup and everything.

Was a real pain to find an archive of the flashing utility and images.

pi-rat··on Let the terminal bells ring out
A guy at the office has a 3D printed contraption featuring a solenoid striking a bike bell for his terminal.. and there’s a cathedral nearby.. don’t give him ideas..
pi-rat··on Tesla FSD Timeline
See, it figured out that the fastest route when summoned "from a home in L.A., to Times Square" is via the air. Smart car.
pi-rat··on GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe
It will also use knowledge about the destination to prep the car. Heading to a charger? It will prep the battery so that it’s at the optimal temperature for charging on arrival etc..

That said though, there are route planners that can give excellent range estimation (both for online and offline cars), by taking into account the terrain/temperature/etc, like ABetterRoutePlanner - ABRP

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